Guild Wars 2

vesica tempestas.1563:

I spent 10k hours on 1 character on WOW, 1k in GW1, and maybe same in GW2 now so I have a reasonable outlook, and the only thing GW2 can learn from WOW, is how to not do things:

Gear = power, fall behind the gear race and you are inviable in pvp or raids (and abused for it)

People are getting abused in GW2 if they attempt to raid in anything but the expected full Ascended set.

vesica tempestas.1563:

Foul community, a mixture of jaded, cynical and the arrogant, partially down to a model where everyone tries to be better than everyone else (good old meters to thatnk for that)

Meters are already part of the GW2 raid scene even though Anet provide zero tools to make them accurate.

vesica tempestas.1563:

Skills are not wide and expansive, you MUST play the meta builds or get abused.

Same here, if you want to be accepted for raiding play the meta dictated by the min/maxers or get the kitten out.

Trinity – 3 basic roles, no variation, dull.

Oh my, GW2 hits it again .. for example Druid is a 100% trinity healer, it has no useful purpose outside raids unless you really want to play it regardless .. the Elite skills are entirely about adding trinity-friendly classes to GW2 for raiding.

Whatsmore the general viewpoint on wows own community is that the skills have been dumbed down to a ridiculous level.

Clearly GW2 can’t be accused of this since with only 10 (at the most generous) skills being available its hard to dumb that down .. unless you got to ESO I guess.

PVP utterly broken due to balancing issues.

Judging by the PVP complaints round here GW2 is very similar.

Phasing instead of downlevelling players.

No idea what you’re referring to here, I can’t think of any ‘downleveling’ in WOW .. however the upleveling in GW2 seems pretty lame (Fractals being the most obvious).

See, if you take off the rose-tinted spectacles and look at GW2 objectively there’s a LOT of similarities with WOW.

Third time today I get a DC right when a world event starts, last one being Teq.

Literally the event just started and DC, of course I lose my place in the map and get back in to one with a stunning 10 players, so have to wait for another 4+ hours for it.

Come on Anet kitten do something about reconnecting players to the map they’re on when the game DCs them.

Yes, it’s the game DCing not my internet connection, a second PC was unaffected by it.

Harathi, doing the zone event chain, in the final camp, no idea how many of us were there but the event was completed pretty quickly so figure 50+ people .. and the kitten ed “there aren’t many players” pops up.

If 50+ is considered ‘not many’ I despair!

ChrisG.1703:

It always bothers me when I see an unnamed pet. What does it cost you to name them?

If you changed your pets for different content you’d discover the pain people simply don’t see any point enduring.

Alternatively do what Blizzard implement from time to time to defeat the griefers, put an exclusion area around important NPCs the prevent their being blocked (accidentally or deliberately).

This also stops players being kitten and putting large characters like Charr and Norns wearing mega-sized gear and the stupid angel wings people seem to think are ‘kewl’ which also block NPCs.

Sheobix.8796:

Hayseus Christo… what the hell happened to GW2?

It became a 1990s group-or-die game called GW3.

piza.9310:

Even when you put ‘em all in the same place, it’s still not enough? XD

Sadly, so true.

Where in the world do you live? GW2 is available on the three Amazon sites I checked (US, UK and DE).

Vayne.8563:

Kerin.9125:

Vayne.8563:

Anet isn’t a 50 person company anymore it’s a 300 person company and those people do have to get paid. The cash shop is how that happens.

So 50 people made GW2, which was great, and it took 300 to create the meh that much of HOT is.

I suggest a large-scale deployment (outside Anet) is needed to put things back the way they were.

No 50 people made Guild Wars 1.

250 people made Guild Wars 2. Your facts are in error.

Okay, so the 250 that made GW2 great clearly aren’t the same that made GW3 a throw-back to the 1990s.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Possibly they don’t want people waypointing to a place a few feet away after dying in an event and making dying irrelevant?

You don’t think it’s possible to actually do that without blocking the waypoint for everyone? In any case, dying in an event IS irrelevant.

I agree with the OP, it’s a pointless annoyance especially on the mega-server where zergs can smash down open-world bosses in seconds and you spend most of your time chasing one completed event after another, especially if trying to do the daily 4 zone events.

Vayne.8563:

Apparently they’re going to be fixing the formulas so they don’t require events that spawn off failed events. You’re probably better off setting it to the side until they fix it.

Where did they post something as explicit as that?

I’ve not seen anything like that orund here, all I’ve see are vague comments about ‘looking at’ one in particular, basically.

ehjhey.1894:

Qugi.2653:

No.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Forum-s-search-feature-doesn-t-work-A-tip/first#post4612877

The problem is deep within the technology behind the forum structure itself. Yes, we had a search engine in the beginning, but it was broken by our forum contractor in the course of working on other things. We no longer have a relationship with that contractor or his company, and someone else is not able to step into the system and fix the search engine because (1) our programmers are tasked with other essential work, (2) the forums run on a web framework with which most of our programmers are not familiar and (3) we’re investigating other options for forums and it would not be prudent to pour money into hiring someone to fix this as a short-term solution.

Though Anet (un)official reddit forum has search. Anet devs post there.

But if insist on search the official forum I use this page some person made that make google search for each part of forum.

http://www.palingenesis.webspace.virginmedia.com/Tim/GW2/GW2ForumSearch/GW2ForumSearch.html

Thanks for the link. Works great an I’ll save it. A shame anet didn’t get somebody in house to handle all their web coding

My experience of web ‘developers’ is that 99.9% wouldn’t have clue how to construct something like a forum system, most barely have a decent grasp of HTML and PHP/Python/whateverisflavorofthemonth.

Boysenberry.1869:

No need for search when it’s all complaint threads anyways. :

And certainly no point searching in the hope of finding any Anet dev posts actually discussing things with their customers like they do daily on Reddit, because there haven’t been any of consequence for a very long time.

Zet.9130:

So, what the OP wanted has been sorted out. The burning question is why? What possible rule infraction can be committed by spawning an NPC. (and it’s not that I want to do it – really)

When the spawner is deliberately griefing others by planting an object/NPC on top of something like a banker making it impossible for other players to target that ‘something’ because the game client only can ‘see’ the spawned object/NPC.

warbignime.4610:

Just wait until you reach champion points part. If people thought mastery was grindy, try ESO champion points, It drove me insane.

Champion points don’t gate content .. HUGE DIFFERENCE!

kuritsutian.2987:

Rebound.3409:

You must not have played other mmos.

Have played many, got bored of them… without giving names I am familiar with different styles of mmos, ..lol kinda have to give names here to explain myself but yeah… WoW (got bored of it after reached max level and got all the needed gear in no time), Tera online (eye candy fest), Final Fantasy (repetitive, no revolutionary idea), silk road (good for a fully free one, lacked updates)..Kotor(…just won’t talk about this) … Ragnarok online! (maybe my favorite after GW1.. nothing bad to say about this one), maple story (that’s a true $hop game!) and the list goes, …the point never felt spoiled on those games as I feel here and I like it. (Yet I admit there was a period of no content being added, but those days seems to be gone)

Rebound.3409:

You can not convince me an “almost exclusive cash shop” …….

Almost exclusive cash shop? you pay if you want, if you can’t live with what they offer you can just use gold you get for free by playing the content.

So let’s look at this objectively with reference to GW2:

WOW – your reason for getting bored with WOW applies equally if not moreso to GW2, where the BiS gear at launch was given to you at 80, once Ascended gear was added then it’s a huge grind, far moreso than BiS in WOW, and for a pitiful 5% increase in power whereas in WOW, for less time you could end up with significantly more powerful gear

Tera – ‘eye candy’, which is EXACTLY what GW2’s skin system is all about and largely end-game is about getting fluff like skins

FF – so ‘not revolutionary’ is now a reason to get bored with a game .. okay .. BTW, which FF MMO, there are two

Silk Road, Kotor – never played them so can’t comment

Ragnarok – a generic MMO of its type, not comparable to GW2 in several aspects IMO

Maple Story – yes, a straight-forward Store driving F2P of modern times.

Objectively GW2 is little different in those aspects you say caused you to get bored with those others.

provote .. would that be promote or provoke, I can’t decide.

And my comment about the mega-server tech answered you, your “in game observation” is basless since you can never have any idea how many exist apart from those in your particular map.

BTW, “subjective” and “actual” are contradictory.

Be literate more.

fireflyry.7023:

People are leaving this game, not doom and gloom forum kitten, but actual in game observation, subjective en masse.

Given the mega-server tech completely hides any idea of what the server pops are, and seeing as how Anet like everyone (even Blizzard from now on) don’t publish player numbers then this assertion of yours has zero facts to back it up.

So you’re going for looks instead of usefulness?

Also why not pick the one YOU like best and not rely on others to tell you which they think is ‘coolest’?

Personally looks barely matter, so I’d pick the one most useful for my character eanther than its pose value.

Vayne.8563:

Anet isn’t a 50 person company anymore it’s a 300 person company and those people do have to get paid. The cash shop is how that happens.

So 50 people made GW2, which was great, and it took 300 to create the meh that much of HOT is.

I suggest a large-scale deployment (outside Anet) is needed to put things back the way they were.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Get-rid-of-Orange-Adverts-at-top-right

This is how many MMO devs seem to work these days, and they continue getting away with it so they carry on doing it.

Kaz.5430:

Everything sold in the Gem Store AFAIK, has been created by a dedicated Gem Store development team, they are not stealing content developed for other parts of the game, they are releasing the content that they have created specifically for the store.

I have no sympathy with the P2W idiocy in this thread but looked at objectively, those items ARE being kept from the game, there’s no intrinsic reason they HAVE to be ‘store exclusives’ even if they were developed by the ‘store’ team.

It’s a business decision to make them exclusive, not a law of physics.

paintpixie.7398:

Wolfeng.3784:

It feels absolutely great having spent so many hours on a class, just to play a healer in the end.

I agree with this sarcasm.

I played a Ranger for three years. Haven’t played her since HoT. I play Mesmer now. I would love to go back to Ranger, but I don’t want to main a healer.

Just because the Ranger HAS a healing skill doesn’t mean you have to use it, I’m not, I think it’s moronic to give a ranged/pet class a healing skill with little relevance to the role the class has played since the beginning: the Druid should have been given to the Ele, seeing as how that class already had a healing variant.

It actually annoyed me the main class I play’s Elite skill is utterly useless for the playstyle that attracted me to it in the first place and why it has by far the most HPs of any of the level 80s I had when HOT launched.

Lite Ning Strike.5203:

Samnang.1879:

I don’t support this idea because adding a “lower” difficulty to anything in GW2 means literally NOBODY will do the “harder” difficulty.

Just look at Tangled Depths meta for example, literally nobody does them any more. Yet Auric Basin and Dragon’s Stand meta are always full on several maps.

I LIKE this one setting; because it forces people to do them, therefore I can find groups easily.

Aren’t you in a sense answering the call to have the content made easier? As you say if given a choice almost no one wants the “Hard Content” so they are forced to grind.

I guess by using this you are saying the majority of players prefer to not have to grind. Shouldn’t the majority be the group ArenaNet tries to appease?

That’s not how the hardcore elitists view the MMOs they play.

Anet have said many times the forum software was provided by a third-party who no longer maintains it and they [Anet] don’t have the skills or resources to do so.

His argument is a strawman, that isn’t what those disenfranchised small guild members are upset about, they’re upset because pre-HOT they worked and unlocked many perks for their small guild that HOT simply took away from them and gated them behind the GH many small guilds will never get.

If GW2 had started out with this mechanism then fine, clearly anyone not wanting to put up with large guild drama and having their access to such content at the whim of the leader would not have got used to having it, but GW2 gave them that ability which Anet then moved behind a paywall and gates.

Cyrotek.7019:

@OP: I aggree on everything but the hearts. I hate those stupid, annoying and boring hearth quests. Please never put them in again.

SO you prefer zones where the only way to get XP is endless repeating the same metas, and then relying on enough people to get them done?

Hearts means I don’t have to reply on others wanting to do exactly the same content as me in order for me to progress .. that kind of content should have been left in the 1990s.

Would likely help anyone thinking of contacting you to know which region you’re in, assuming you’re only in NA or EU.

If you were trying to buy 8000 gems then you could have hit the ‘security check’ CS told me about when I hit it and I’ve seen others report it too.

I was able to purchase 2 × 4000 but not 1 × 8000 to begin with. In my case no payment method worked for 8000 but PayPal was just fine with the smaller number, now I can use PayPal for 8000 if I ever wanted to, I don’t get the error.

Piedplat.3597:

Seera.5916:

Because ascended armor is account bound. Your ranger can open a chest of heavy armor and then pass it on to a warrior, guardian, or revenant.

But yes, you will have to contact support to see if there is anything they can do.

That is stupid and you can easily make the mistake. Why just giving you the option by giving you the armor type your class need or if you need that piece of armor for a other caracter, passing the chest to him instead? Seriously Iam sad, what I will doing with a heavy armor piece with my ranger?

I want my chest back please…

The fact you didn’t take a moment’s care to check what you were selecting doesn’t make it a ‘stupid’ system, the stupidity I would suggest is not at the game’s end of the interaction.

JustInuYasha.5908:

Seriously not joking, their accounts were suspended for 72 hours for using the Trading Post to buy Gem too much..

I find it very hard to believe it was that simple.

azizul.8469:

i’m not sure why people are angry when there is a new gem store item for sale. they have to make money to pay salary, bills etc. just ignore it if you don’t support purchasing gemstore item.

That’s the rational, adult approach, not everyone here fits into those categories it seems.

I only just noticed this a couple of days ago.

Usually I use the keyboard with my left hand while moving with the mouse in my right, works fine and ground targeting is far easier in many cases. But sometimes I’ll click on 6-0 skills if I’m not moving and I realised I was casting at my feet.

I’d assumed I’d simply lost target on anything but that wasn’t the case, now I understand what’s going on.

That ol noob.7083:

I want to see the marvelous world that ANET has sculpted better than ever before. I want to be able to use the full power of my system to make it sharp as it can be.

DX12 isn’t going to help you much then, it’s more a marketing exercise to coerce people on to Windows 10 than anything else.

I never touch the Control Panel, except to ensure the “use game settings” options are all set. Only time I ever fiddle is for some older games which don’t provide for some AA options or other more esoteric settings that are only available by the Nvidia software.

The worth thing about Scribing is that it implements the perks pre-HOT guilds worked to unlock. Anet took those abilities away and put them behind the HOT paywall and made it so that smaller guilds can’t reasonably expect to get a GH which of course the Scribing craft is gated by.

I still want to know how you’re supposed to be able to have two ‘legendary’ anythings, by definition IT is a legend there aren’t TWO of IT!

Yes, I know in an MMO everyone has to have the option of having IT and so there are many ITS in the world, but from a single player’s perspective there should only be ONE.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Please no more of this “leeching traders” crap again. It has already been discussed at length that free trade isn’t evil. It goes through the same song and dance over and over again.

You’re not eliminating free trade. It is a good thing, not a bad thing.

It’s open to debate whether ‘free trade’ is a good thing or not, that’s not the issue, the issue is the leechers are typical middle-men, they add no value but simply leech cash out of others’ work.

You may like the idea, you may even do it, I loathe it, I loathe middle-men!

I’m on EU so can’t take you up, however thanks for that information, I’ve never been aware there is a loot drop range at all I always figured if I hit it enough I’d get a drop even if I’ve moved a long way away for some reason.

Thanks.

A common complaint, several threads over the last couple of weeks:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Get-rid-of-Orange-Adverts-at-top-right

Qugi.2653:

Colin say if you argue about PVP esport hurt game and you should have shame.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3v24hg/the_reduced_visual_noise_changes_have_to_stop_gw2/cxk2o2z

If you don’t like it more power to you, don’t watch, but it’s absolutely helping our marketing folks make Gw2 a bigger game which I’d hope we’re all excited about. If you want to see the game fail I’m not sure what you’re doing here, but rooting against programs like pro league is basically rooting against Gw2 growing. When folks come here and rip on stuff like PvP, you’re basically hurting the games ability to grow – and personally I would say shame on you, if you truly love the game, be constructive and give awesome feedback and suggestions: but don’t knock it just cause it’s not PvE.

So if love GW2 must like PvP esport. If not you want GW2 fail and should have shame for that.

Agreed, it was a fatuous comment.

People arguing against e-Sports are doing so because it’s clearly a trivial minority (in the great scheme of things) who watch it ands ANY money spent could be better spent on content a significantly larger number of people enjoy: hell, even the raid is likely to be attracting more people that those who enjoy (!) watching other people play a video game.

I wish stuff bought off the TP wasn’t re-listable, I hate leeches that live off the back of others.

I can’t decide if the auto-loot option you get with Advanced Logistics is restricted to the same range manual looting with ‘F’ has or not.

Can’t find any comment on this one way or the other, can someone tell me please?

Ayrilana.1396:

I’ll also add that there’s 21 hero points on the HoT maps that can be done solo as they’re a commune or something that doesn’t require other players. On top of that, there are also a few hero points where you need to kill something but can most often been done solo because the boss mechanics are very simple and easily avoided.

But how many of those only become available once a zone meta completes? An HP capable of being soloed but only when a huge group effort is required to unlock it is worse by far than an HP that is designed for a couple of so players.

Tapioca.9062:

Manasa Devi.7958:

I mentioned it before somewhere.

The original Guild Wars gives a warning when you’ve played for 2 hours straight.

Now, in HoT, 2 hours straight is the bare minimum for full participation in a meta event cycle.

It boggles the mind that these were produced by the same company.

What I love is that they broke up Fractals on the rationale that the former structure required too much time investment and that wasn’t okay. Then they throw out the two hour long meta-event cycles. Why does it feel like Anet’s development team is never on the same page?

Given many of the devs of the original game don’t work for Anet any more, is it really a surprise the replacements have come in and done the content they liked, which clearly was WOW-like iLevel gear raid grinding.

anasantos.1263:

Sorry to much to read, Im sure you made a great point tho!

/sigh

The Twitter generation.

ICY.9382:

Friendly Raiding?.

Largely an oxymoron in most MMOs in my experience, I expect GW2 will be no different judging by the toxic replies in threads like this one:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-Normal-version-of-raid

Anyone else found this karka missing?

I’m under the bridge, just where Dulfy shows it and a YouTube video also shows it but there’s no karka there nor is there the clicking sound.

And, no, I definitely haven’t got this one yet.

Did Anet move it? Tried relogging and re-getting the quest, still nothing.