Guild Wars 2

deity choice only changes (supposedly) things your character says, and places a priest/ess of that diety in your salma district home instance. and racial choice affects nothing besides what story you go through for lvl 1-30, what you look like, and how you sound. there are no special buffs/nerfs

hero panel preview is zoomed in, preview panel preview is zoomed out and offcenter, wish they’d fix these

i have a theory about the golem, that if you already obtained one at any point in the account’s existance, you don’t get a free one. on the older account did you ever get a banker golem? i also currently have this possible issue, but i know for a fact i have obtained the golem before (digital deluxe thingy, so every toon gets one). entirely possible this could be what causes it

TexZero.7910:

Branden Gee.2150:

Huh, I can see how it would be frustrating for it to restart the spinning. Perhaps there is a happy middle ground where it starts out spinning then once you move the camera it stops.

Or we can just not have spinning and let us have camera control.

Or an option to disable “puke imminent function on downed state”. I’d be okay with this too.

all i can see for this now is a flashing message on the screen “PUKE IMMINENT, PUKE IMMINENT, ABORT ABORT” XD

Invisible Pete.7290:

“There is a different free item in the promotions tab of the BLTC every day this week, so don’t forget to get yours.)”

Thanks for the Dye Pack from yesterday; however I just logged in today and nothing free in the Promotions tab.

I shared the news with my guildmates, and now feel like I gave them bad news, as “every day” seems to mean only one day.

the free item for today is the golem banker (2 weeks). however, for some players it isn’t showing up as free. personally, i think this is because it was already obtained at some point in those players game-lives, as i myself got the digital deluxe thing that comes with one of those for every toon i have, and i can’t get a free one. just a theory though, everyone i’ve asked about it when they say they can’t get a free one hasn’t answered me on if they ever got one before.

Saturn.6591:

JusticarArkiel.1564:

Shaogin.2679:

JusticarArkiel.1564:

he’s a pain in the kitten that can’t stop reminding everybody of the so-called great accomplishments they’ve gotten and acting like we all should know him (ironically, i’d never heard of him until i went on the forums and looked in the engi subforum……1 year into playing). he is also a very bad speller

Hey hey hey, it’s been established. Vee Wee is a she, not a he.

they can be an it for all i care.

Not possible, since Engineers don’t have any traps. ;P

(Just in case: If for some reason, someone finds this post to be offensive towards him/her/anyone, please PM me so we can talk about it, since it’s not meant to be offensive.)

well, that was set up nicely i guess, walked into that one XD

A continuation of my post on page 5, seems I forgot to mention another bothersome change, and forgot to detail what can stay as-is:

1. Final annoyance is the stat bursts and resulting slumps. A new player cannot reliably face an enemy even a level above themselves if the player is in one of these stat slump portions. Before, we could decide whether or not we wanted to take the risk, because our stats were usually pretty close to theirs. Add the fact that we have these stat slumps to the fact that we are often forced to fight enemies that are a few levels above us while in this stat slump, then the stat burst change is not a good one. I would suggest putting it back the way it was, as the only reason it never seemed “rewarding” was simply because we never got a message saying “Your power has gone up by X, your precision Y, etc”.

2. First keeper: level up rewards. I believe this is a good system, as before your only reward for leveling was a skill point (if over level 5), a new set of gear (sometimes), and a trait point (if the level achieved was one of those that give the points). Now you get relevant rewards based on each level, such as a rare aquabreather at some level (I forget which) and on-level weapons with good stats. This can be kept, with just the minor tweaks of getting rid of the “tutorial” unlocks at certain levels for veteran players. “Learning” I can use the trading post or guild bank after having 7 level 80s and leading my own guild is kind of annoying.

3: Another annoyance that I remembered: that blasted arrow for your heal skill that always appears. It’s annoying, it certainly shouldn’t be occuring on level 80s, it has glitched sometimes and covered my heal skill so I can’t click on it, and its likely to get you killed just because of the distraction of it. A healing skill isn’t really a new concept for MMOs, so new players for GW2 should be able to grasp the concept of the 6 skill being your heal. If not, make it part of the tutorial instance. When you enter, a box can appear (like for that dodge “tutorial”, which is equally annoying when it won’t stay away) that points to your heal skill and says “This is your healing ability, remember to use it so you don’t die horribly and with much pain”. Would be a better solution that having an arrow constantly pointing at the skill until you click on it for curiosity’s sake.

That’s all I got, combined with my earlier post on this thread. Hopefully this’ll help out with fixing the problems.

Edit: Also people, less rage on this thread. I’m angry too, but instead of raging at everything, I’m attempting to give them lists to work off of to fix it. If we all gave lists of what needs fixed, how it needs fixed, and what can stay, they can get the changes done quicker and correctly. The “I HATE ALL THESE CHANGES” posts aren’t helping.

Shaogin.2679:

JusticarArkiel.1564:

he’s a pain in the kitten that can’t stop reminding everybody of the so-called great accomplishments they’ve gotten and acting like we all should know him (ironically, i’d never heard of him until i went on the forums and looked in the engi subforum……1 year into playing). he is also a very bad speller

Hey hey hey, it’s been established. Vee Wee is a she, not a he.

they can be an it for all i care.

Esplen.3940:

Yes, we make flags that stretch when you run but not while you stand still. The that sounds like a very realistic cloth.

um…………..hate to break it to you………but cloth stretches when forces are put against it, like wind. the stretch is barely noticable anyway if you don’t like it.

he’s a pain in the kitten that can’t stop reminding everybody of the so-called great accomplishments they’ve gotten and acting like we all should know him (ironically, i’d never heard of him until i went on the forums and looked in the engi subforum……1 year into playing). he is also a very bad speller

i saw the capes in gw1, i infinitely prefer this backpack

Esplen.3940:

Just a warning on the new backpack, it stretches while you run and looks very displeasing. Also the stripes are unmodifyable and do not correspond to any of your guild colors.

i actually liked the stretching, to me it looks more realistic maybe. the unmodifyable colors though are a pain.

i support dying this thing, brown and yellow dont go with my guild symbol. different models in the store would be ok too, IF they allow those that bought them already to choose to keep the one they have already, or change to a new one. if not, just make them dyable

Deaths.9165:

The Mist backpack doesnt look like a cape and cant be a replacement for a cape. Nope still not something the playerbase wants just a ugly replacement.

i saw the capes in gw1………….i prefer my mist herald backpack thank you very much.

dat banner, so pretty

The changes to when our utility skills unlock is appreciated, that would have been on the upcoming list of mine if it hadn’t been fixed. Now on to the list:

1. Revert the story back to the way it used to be. The plot holes are huge, we want our epic fight with the legendary Eye of Zhaitain and our “last stand” to occur before we face zhaitain, not before we learn there’s multiple eyes, and pretty much everybody wants the greatest fear story arc back, including myself. Never did get to see the fellows losing respect one. And the final fight before Zhaitain always got me pumped to go kill that son of a ……..dragon >_>

2. Trait unlocks. The idea is ok, but how its gone about is really bad. The prices for simply unlocking them are very high, and the secondary method is difficult and terrible, as it makes no sense to unlock an adept trait by doing a very high level event. Make the prices lower on straight-up unlocks, and have the explore unlocks be more intuative, i.e. unlock adept traits with events/enemies lvl 40 or lower. Making them unlock account-wide would be a nice bonus as well, but probably asking for alot with that.

3. Weapon locks. The idea is nice, but maybe the weapon skills and ability to weapon swap/use offhand should come sooner. Instead of waiting until level 10 practically to be able to use every weapon skill, make each skill unlock each level, i.e. level 2 is weapon skill 2, level 3 is weapon skill 3, level 4 is weapon skill 4 and offhand use, etc. Weapon swapping can stay at its original position of level 7 with this method, or be moved down to level 6.

4. Finally, starting heals. Not a huge deal……if we could do skill point challenges whenever we want on a newer character. So really this is more about the skill points. Have it so we can do the skill points when we want, instead of making us wait until level 13 when our first utility opens up. This’ll make it possible to swap out our heal skill for something we’re more comfortable with (like Consume Conditions instead of the new starter Well of Blood for necros). Also, give us skill points every level again, instead of these skill point chunks.

Got all my primary concerns down here now, thanks for letting the community chime in and help change the whole NPE to be better for veterans and new players alike.

Edit: Oh, and the every 10 level gating of the story is a bit wierd……..livable with, but wierd, would prefer it changed back.

Otokomae.9356:

Also, the name of your server is freaking “Fissure of Woe”; did you really think things were going to be EASY over there?

^this has to be the best post yet, possibly ever, in this thread. maybe if it was renamed “Fissure of Rainbows”? ……. nope, the fissure part still kinda kills it

got stuck in a hostile smc, inner area, ended up being chased around the whole place by a dozen warriors. was using my rifle engi and just drew them up to the top floor of inner. whenever i could i just threw elixir s to stealth and launched a curious warrior right off the edge. took a good hour to kill most of them and shake the rest (and i only shook them because three of them worked together and used stomp, fear me, and kick to knock me off the edge) ,but it was certainly fun.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

do we know if the number of things you need to do will stay the same in the next 3 weeks?

what if…

• week 1: complete 5 events
• week 2: complete 10 events, capture at least 2 camps/towers/castles
• week 3: complete 15 events, capture at least 6 camps/towers/castles, spend 50 supply
  …

each achiev is already able to be looked at, and each is just complete 5 wvw events. it doesn’t scale up

Mystic.5934:

3) nope (search by armor weight)
4) yup (search by profession) – 400 gems

searching by profession would be searching by armor weight, as engi/thief/ranger only use medium armor, warrior/guard only use heavy, etc. searching by class and weight go hand in hand

Julie Yann.5379:

Here is an idea. Why don’t they give us the option to choose which default we want to use?

but………but………….that’s too confusing for new players, we can’t possibly be intelligent enough to understand how these new buttons work.

wvw for the tourney, but mainly destiny until they remove the blasted level caps and bring back the normal story steps (i want tonn and apatia back, and my epic fight with the legendary eye before zhaitain XD)

Vorch.2985:

The story change is fine.

This way makes much more sense and gives the story in chapters rather than 5 minute segments every 1-2 hours.

The gating of skills and functionality until level 40 on the other hand…THAT makes no sense.

JusticarArkiel.1564:

and look, no more dev response, they realized we have brains and realized we didn’t have to level up to do our stories before. and if konig’s right, the PS is screwy too. i loved having the epic fight against the legendary eye before going off to beat up zhaitain (or shoot at him with confetti cannons from a mile away -_-). if thats how it works now, don’t see a reason to even do the PS on any toon, any enjoyment i would get out of it is out the window. literally nobody likes these changes in their entirety

Statements like this is why they don’t respond in the first place.

i’d prefer a response in the way of removing this stuff and putting the old game back anyway. and if i didn’t say something about the dev, somebody else would’ve anyway

because formal and polite never gets the mods to come and let the devs know we don’t like what they’re doing

and look, no more dev response, they realized we have brains and realized we didn’t have to level up to do our stories before. and if konig’s right, the PS is screwy too. i loved having the epic fight against the legendary eye before going off to beat up zhaitain (or shoot at him with confetti cannons from a mile away -_-). if thats how it works now, don’t see a reason to even do the PS on any toon, any enjoyment i would get out of it is out the window. literally nobody likes these changes in their entirety

keeping this on page 1, remove skyhammer, nobody likes it

Ice.5162:

The game needs way more armor skins that doesn’t involve burning your wallet.

More leather pieces that are not kitten trenchcoats, more heavy leggings that are not tassets, more light pants that are not kilts.

Like, seriously. You can’t just do that. Add more skins, armor and weapon customization is probably one of the biggest things players care about, put your artists and modelers to work, and scatter new skins all over lower level zones, not just the kittening gemstore.

Seriously, the low level newcomers will love it.

if light armor legs were kilts, i’d like them more, they are currently dresses XD

Apparition.1576:

So by “stupid reasons” you mean you died from getting tricked into standing on a glass door?

Or did you die because your team failed to control the hammer? That just creates more strategy to determine how many resources (players) you need to devote. This is no difference from destroying/defending trebuechet.

Were you just outplayed and knocked off the map? Did you have stability? What class were you?

All I see is just a lot of posts of people crying rather than any real concrete justifications of deleting a great map from PvP…

there is no outplaying, a fish flopping on the keyboard could get these cheap kills on this map. and as to no concrete justifications, you must be too lazy to scroll through the 20+ pages of people doing exactly that, giving perfectly concrete justification why this map should be tossed into a grave and buried. any map where you can use literally just one skill to rack up dozens of kills is not a good map, let alone a great map.

and since you’re too lazy to scroll through the list, here’s an example or two as to why this map needs to go away (the general idea behind the reasons, don’t remember them word for word):

1. it makes certain classes gods, which certainly isn’t balanced.
2. it promotes a toxic gameplay enviroment, which anet doesn’t like in anything else, why should this piece of garbage be different?
3. it causes people to afk for the entire match, so something clearly isn’t very right with it.

and don’t say something about “you can counter it with stability, l2p, etc etc”. engineer magnet pull doesn’t have a giveaway if they’re invisible, most thieves have their scorp wire flying the second the glass audibly breaks, and the troll groups work together to position you to get knocked off before you can pop stability. great map my kitten , remove this map.

the permanent total makeover kit has never been in the blc. the permanent hair stylist kit has been. should probably change the thread title

they’ll probably return again, i highly doubt they’ll just stick em in a warehouse somewhere to rot, especially since it seems alot of people want them, but missed out on getting them.

Firebaall.5127:

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

/applause
summed it up nicely

the move-back of when the state unlocks is kinda silly imo, i’ve seen plenty of lvl 1-4’s die. maybe just do like some other games do, have a forced death that allows you to explain the downed state, maybe during the tutorial instance one of the mobs gets to insta-down you or something

Roguefire.8174:

You access chapter 1 story as soon as you create your character, and it has tutorials built into it. There’s many reasons to believe that you unlock it at level 1 so players in this topic probably shouldn’t go around parading it as a confirmed fact.

The intro cut-scene leads straight into the prologue or chapter 1 part 1… part 2 is a tutorial that will be worthless at level 10. It works just fine as is, and no changes mentioned warrant that there will be any changes to the intro.

The concept that you must be 10 levels higher than the content to unlock it does not hold true to anything thus far in game and is impossible to be consistent with in terms of the level 80 content, as that is the cap level.

People keep saying China release is working just fine, and they are going to use that concept here. First off China’s release was and still is a painful thing to look at. And it would not be an easy thing to go in and change all 5 races intro, and push all that content back to level 10. It’s not a copy paste job. China’s GW2, is not GW2 in my opinion. It was manipulated by a China publisher that is well hated over there, and I’m sure they are getting their fingers sticky with every dirty gem purchase there.

Also in the process of leveling up to 10 you will likely overwrite parts of the tutorial in chapter 1 part 2, so that would need to be changed as well.

The idea that you must be Lvl 10 for chapter 1 (1-10) Level 20 for chapter 2 (11-20) Level 30 for Chapter 3 (21-30) Level 40 for chapter 4 (31-40) Level 50 for chapter 5 (41-50) Level 60 for Chapter 6 (51-60) Level 70 for Chapter 7 (61-70) and Level 80 for Chapter 8 (71-80) basically means all story content and rewards respective to the contents level will be obsolete… The content will all be a cake walk at those levels.

Limiting players to being a higher level than the content they are running is something they have not done ever and is not consistent. It would be a horrible move to throw new players out on a limb to have to farm to level 10 out the gate before giving them any sort of guideline, or even story to what is going on in their characters timeline and personal story… There is no denying all the facts I’ve laid out.

There is the possibility that they will remove the key from the story rewards, and I think that has a much greater chance of happening than them moving level 1 content to level 10. However giving new players that key after chapter 1 is the perfect time to introduce players to black lion keys so that they can begin buying them from the market. So I doubt they will remove keys as an early reward as that doesn’t make much sense either.

look, somebody who thinks. i commend you sir for actually being logical instead of throwing on a tinfoil hat. anet seems to be all about immersion, asura gates and waypoints are part of the lore even for god’s sake. they won’t utterly ruin immersion by making you have to level to 10 before you can do the story that occurs right after the events in the tutorial instance. and the keys is a correct idea too, its incentive for the new players to buy keys, they won’t remove them as a reward.

moiraine.2753:

JusticarArkiel.1564:

loseridoit.2756:

Ykfox.3825:

The irony of it all is that anyone can join TTS, download TS, and then get instant-successful Teq/Triple Trouble/Etc raids anytime they want.

tts is a very welcoming guild. They usually want a fresh instance because they cannot include enough people.

If anything, tts are reacting to a problem with megaservers

welcoming, HAH. i joined 3 different iterations of them at 3 different times, the second i represented my own guild, i got booted. if thats welcoming, i don’t want to see unwelcoming

They have rules you know.While you raid with them you are bound to representing the guild.When the raid finishes you can switch to your other guild.If you don’t follow the rules of course that you will be kicked.You don’t even have to represent the guild 90% of the time.They ask you to do it only in those 10% when is the raid going on and if you don’t do it you will be booted out.I don’t see anything wrong here.

i wasn’t repping them when i was alseep, woke up and checked the morning after, kicked. nice to know sleeping is against the rules XD

loseridoit.2756:

Ykfox.3825:

The irony of it all is that anyone can join TTS, download TS, and then get instant-successful Teq/Triple Trouble/Etc raids anytime they want.

tts is a very welcoming guild. They usually want a fresh instance because they cannot include enough people.

If anything, tts are reacting to a problem with megaservers

welcoming, HAH. i joined 3 different iterations of them at 3 different times, the second i represented my own guild, i got booted. if thats welcoming, i don’t want to see unwelcoming

already too much stuff coming over from the china version, they better not change locations for the crafting material nodes

yeah, really wish i could wear a hood on my guardian ( and don’t speak to me of phantom hood and grenth hood, i want something like the light hoods). alas, until we get cross-armor class transmutation options, doubt it’ll happen

Edit: the look does look rather thief-y though, just not the stereotypical thief

i fix it manually by removing all armor and trinkets, makes me on par with my lower lvl-ed friends. depends on the area though, might just remove a few pieces of armor if its a higher area. very chilly in the shiverpeaks though, need some long johns or something

they said pretty early on that they would not set the personal story to be repeatable, simply because of your choices you made in the first place. it takes alot of coding to have it remember, hold onto, and keep the first choices, and still use the new choices in the repeat

people need to stop and think about this for a minute:
1. pretty sure anet has outright said they’re ok with key farmers, as they keep the trading post prices somewhat in check for skins.
2. the key at the end of the lvl 10 story helps net new players into the key system. they get a key, open a box, get shinies that they don’t know they can get elsewhere, and they want more.

if they get rid of the key reward at the end of the lvl 10 story, then they kinda shoot themselves in the foot and lose revenue anyway. also, there has been no confirmation that keys will be leaving the quest rewards, if anything they’re saying the rewards will be more rewarding.

nice screenshots, except you’re ignoring the fact that the scale up area is much larger than the immediate vicinity. yeah, there may be 4 guys right there, but 8 might have just run through the scale area, scaling it up. also, the extras in the last screenshot might have run in after the spawn, they don’t magically become champs after they spawn and more people come into the fight.

doesn’t matter if its rare to get the same stuff, it happens and this idea is still genius, do this anet XD

cesmode.4257:

See my signature. So true.

^ this to the power of a million XD

oh, was thinking the item that gives 1 skill point and can drop from champ bags, whatever that scroll is called…..oops, i stand corrected then

Fiorrello.8126:

kind of the opposite of the guardians shout “retreat” which should really be renamed since no one ever uses it to retreat.

it really should, maybe rename it “Bum Rush!” XD

skill point scrolls aren’t soulbound, can use them on any character on the account

the elements thing probably won’t happen, simply because elementalists exist, it’s too close to what they have. i would like to see dervishes from gw1 come over (though i didn’t play gw1, i like what i see on the wiki XD). would also like a class that punches things. for a new race……i just don’t see that ever happening

Warcry.1596:

Andred you’re right. I should have done that from the beginning. I apologize for not. Tomorrow I will screenshot every mob that spawns, I will be sure to do my best to screenshot quickly and as many angles as I can get to show the number of people around. I still have a firm belief that I am correct, but if I find that I prove myself wrong then its a lesson well learned and I will be glad I finally decided to post this.

yes, do this and stop ignoring people who have done this before, most likely have also done defense teams before, and know this can happen. and also, pretty silly to start a thread asking why, and then denying the answers for that question.

new legendary confirmed, The Cakenator rifle, fires flaming cakes at your foes, accompanied by cheerful birthday music

1. option to toggle hobosacks off

2. option to toggle off hobosacks

3. emote list that isn’t on wiki or google, along with more emotes

DOWN WITH THE HOBOSACKS!

keeping this on page 1, skyhammer needs to be flushed