Guild Wars 2

I’ve gone through more than a dozen BL kits (received from dailies) salvaging runes off exotics for profit and not once have I gotten 4 or 5 ecto from a single item.

I’ve seen people go full nerd rage in game over costume brawls lol.

Side note: Mad King outfit is the best hands down you cant beat the fact that it spams fear and daze along with annoying repetitive jokes.

It’s about 50g to gems to get it now but last year it was about 10g.
It’s still worth it for the rofls.

Some of us have known about the borked queues for awhile now.

If they want to randomly pick from the “queue line” then we should just say kitten the queue line.

The “nose bleed” servers trying to guilt trip people back so they have someone to play with, awww. I hope it happens and I hope it gets over done and they face queues like some kind of SoS, DB, or Kaineng reborn lol.

A nostalgic look at the 1st GW2 trailer comparing then and now by WoodenPotatoes.

http://youtu.be/mX_Wp8SB_Co

Discuss.

It’s hard not to see GW2 as a Korean grind MMO when every now and then items drop with Korean text to remind you.

Monsoon.2589:

Sreoom.3690:

SoR and BG love to double team JQ. Makes ’em feel big and bad. :-)

- When JQ wins you claim its because you are not stacked and just better players
- When JQ loses its because the other servers are double teaming and pugs are blocking queues

and in between you look at yourself in the mirror…

Nah we (like everyone else) blame the achievement-whores for queue blocking our warriors.

“Dedicated players are left wanting more depth and polish.”

+1

Fungalfoot.7213:

The footfalls are ridiculously dumb looking. I find it funny how aggressive people are against the idea of using town clothes as armor due to that being immersion breaking and yet they’re totally fine with some dude leaving oil spills in his wake.

Haha yeah, wtf is wrong with the crazies that scream things are immersion breaking when this is a world where skeletons, elementals , and trees bleed out and get poisoned/blind along with people leaving sludge in their wake when they walk, not to mention fast travel from 1 big instanced area to another big instanced area.

synk.6907:

What do you gain by adding more levels?

Treadmill for 500 Alex.

These threads where rampant last year. Surprisingly this is the only one I’ve seen for this years Halloween event, looks like everyone learned their lesson XD. (Well most everybody.)

At least they give scraps now instead of only the weapons, some people spent several hundred dollars on keys and didn’t get a weapon last time I guess this is a little better.

Vol.5241:

Khal Drogo.9631:

Vol.5241:

Tamaki Revolution.3548:

Vol.5241:

If the game is as bad as you all make it out to be for this past year or so, then I must wonder what you’re doing still here.

Oh that’s right, it’s not as bad as you make it out to be.

Seems to be the same people, over and over again. If you quit a game, quit it’s forums too.

xephire.8324:

Don’t get the hostility for negative post =.=.

That’s all you seem to post :P

Yeah, I’ve quit games from WAR to Aion to Rift. I posted a lot on the forums too. I don’t make drastic statements threatening to quit or try to drag others with me. I just stop posting and don’t bother playing.

Sure, by all means make a thread that lists why you don’t find it fun anymore and what the devs should do. But complaining without offering a solution isn’t really helpful at all.

I think there was a few hundred posts long thread with 100000+ views on Ascended Weapons. I dont feel I am able to say anything new, especially when the devs are not apparently listening.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/10/15/flameseeker-chronicles-how-to-win-friends-and-influence-guild-w/

Oh I’m sure the devs are ‘listening’ to you. But does that mean they are going to make changes? Of course not.

They’ll have open ears, but they’ll never fully commit to an action unless its reasonable and suitable for this game.

Just cause you and thousands others are complaining about one feature doesn’t mean they are going to follow through with a solution.

You could relate the bold part to RNG/Luck, and precursors which makes it funny that you said it giving the fact that you are INCREDIBLY favored by it where as many many others are not.

The proof is even in your signature.

Imagine if they used 1 year of development time on: fixing clipping, adding tons of new armor skins, fixing bugs at the roots, adding new zones, furthering the actual story of Guild Wars.

Now think about what could have been, and what we got. Some people like the living story there’s no doubting that, but just take a moment to think about how much quality and greatness that time could have gone to.

Fighting this guy is pretty much a 2013 watching paint dry simulator.

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Adine.2184:

i hope not . its the sign of a sell out

Hearthstone is pretty fantastic, and far more fun than WoW ever was. At least in my opinion.

It is, however it’s also far more PTW than WoW ever was.

Smaxx.2318:

Paul Belz.7351:

There are 3 legendary creatures in the labyrinth and they each have their own event and achievement for defeating them. They are:

The Labyrinthine Horror, the Grand High Viscount of Candy Corn, and the Skeletal Lich.

And here I see one of the biggest design flaws of the whole zone (or “event” in general). I’m no professional game dev; only did some indie niveau development so far, but from my experience of playing MMOs for about 12 years:

• There are indeed three different bosses with their own little events, although all three are very basic: giant meat bags with different aoe damage effects being able to kill most characters in just a few wills. There is no special mechanic, nothing to figure out, just brawling.
• There doesn’t seem to be any incentive to go into the dungeon besides those three bosses and their achievements. Why? The standard events inside seem to be essentially the same you can find outside in the world. Why repeating content?
• There is absolutely no exploration: Nothing to add here; there are no secrets, there is no jumping puzzle, not even some gravestones with jokes on them or whatever (unless I really missed those). It’s just an area filled with ressource nodes and tons and tons of fast respawning monsters.
• The area isn’t accessible without a zerg. This point essentially belongs to the previous two points: There’s no content for solo players or people being in small groups. In addition to that, most (if not all) encounters are dumbed down to “just wait till it dies” events once a “critical mass” of players is reached.

One more point, but that’s more opinion based:

• There are just like 3 or 4 different enemies in different colors/variations. While this isn’t bad in general, I’m not a real fan of “candy corn elementals” or “plastic spiders”. Let’s be honest, this isn’t mad in-character or anything and it’s definitely not something I’d consider apropriate for an RPG. It’s just mad design wise, although that’s really up to interpretation. Skeletons are a welcome addition considering most other undead are just zombies.

To be honest, this really feels like the most lacking living world event so far (I started playing earlier this year during the Flame and Frost arc). I’m not sure what changed compared to last year, cause I’ve read multiple times that people were looking forward to it. The generic appearance of the new zone is nice and apropriate. I also like the clock tower. But the events, achievements (ugh? why always make a grind out of events?), and the monsters are just stuff people won’t remember (in a positive way). I’d even consider it boring.

It’s pretty much the exact same as last year with the exception of the prince. And believe me many many others just like you had the same thoughts last year also.

I salvaged my old MF set that had the runes on them, rather than change the stats to something I’d never use anyway. (No PVT and why have 2 sets of zerk?)

May be worth it if you have an out dated MF set laying around, and especially if you have a mesmer to put them on.

They could do what most MMOs do with pet class’ and reduce AoE damage to pets (only AoE damage) by 70% or more.

It could even work as a trait if not a standard QoL change.

Teq is a “ghost town”?
Really? Then why do I have to get in Sparkfly 1 hour before reset or be locked out of the main do to hard cap?

Personally I would revert the way loot was before November 2012, back when you could open world farm any and everything in Orr and get 10+ rares an hour every single hour to your hearts content.

Cheers to anyone that was around back then that still plays.

Wow.. Flashback thread. Haha just to think that I used to have only 200g omg. (9 months wow.)

Bottom post on page 1 of the link.

We “heard”, we “listened”, we ignored attitude throughout

^We know that feel bro.

/15 chars

The Eternal Grace.3157:

Eridani.8317:

Beast Sos.1457:

…10 man raid where u have to just fight one massive boss who takes a ton of organization and player skill. something not meant for everyone to be able to complete. its nice to have things like this in ur game to attract a bigger variety of players.

Really like this idea. Hope Anet is thinking along these lines in terms of challenging end game content.

Sorry, not happening. Anet already said before and recently that they don’t want anything above 5-man parties and no raids. Colin specifically said it was because it would then require more time to find a party and they don’t want you to have to wait to find groups ever (hence no trinity).

lol..

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1g0zqb/tc_fireside_chat_with_former_lead_producer_in_la/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/raids-and-housing-coming-to-gw2/first/

My only question is why is this information only on facebook..?

Chaotic Storm.2815:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Anet are fools for turning GW2 into a traditional MMO. It just means that when the next newer, and thus inevitably shinier, MMO comes out, people will leave in droves because there’d be nothing unique about GW2.

sad part is there already a number of players eyeing several MMO releases this year. Myself I got my eyes on Wildstar.

From what I saw on Wildstar at PAX it looks pretty good, too bad it’s another NCsoft funded game. They haven’t decided their payment method afaik but if it’s FTP/BTP we all know where the production value will go giving what happened to the Guild Wars franchise.

This thread makes it seem like people play for PPT lol.
JQ has the most T1 wins in the games history even though it’s a PvE server.

Strategic gameplay.

We could always use more rotten carrots that are painted orange.
XD

Perma Stealth.
/thread

laokoko.7403:

I’m not sure what DR is left in the game. It is mostly time gated 1 time daily event.

and they actually removed DR. you see the farmer train in frostgauge.

DR used to have no effects on mats, and it certainly doesn’t affect champ boxes.
Play a guardian with a staff during an invasion and you will see DR plain and clear; where every 15th kill awards a grey item and all the events you complete give 7xp and 3 karma.

DR is still as strict as ever even with way fewer bots in the game.

Mackodlak.7961:

Erm…. so as long as only like 5-10% of the players have issues with this game it’s ok if ANET doesn’t fix it?
Whoever uses this argument, I wish sth happens with characters you play and ANET doesn’t fix them EVER. How can you be such kittens? You all should request ANET to fix EVERY issue, not only the ones that affect majority of people. When Collin says “we have no intention of adding&+/fixing sth cause our statistics says there are only 15% of the players that use that race/class” there should be a bunch of "BOOOOO"s from the audience, not bunch of head nods in a sign of approval.

^This a million times this.

Anet needs to get it drilled into their heads that its better to have quality over quantity the game was rushed out the door and launched without being completed yet they refuse to polish the game on any real level (compare all of GW2’s patch notes with games like Rift or WoW, just 1 year)

Sure they “fix” a bug here and there but they never really make the game itself improve in minor areas that would show pride in their craft.

And the whole working by the statistics thing is ridiculous only 15% of players approx would play a charr/engi (I dont for the clipping reasons, funny eh?) so there isn’t a reason to polish them? Really? Look at all the polish legendaries have gotten even though only the 1% have them. smh.

You would randomly level up and toss enemies around you 40 feet in every direction on the ding for no kitten reason :P.

Burnfall.9573:

Infact, all of those GvG’s who insulted and humiliated that Arena.net staff should be forever banned.

There must be examples set for others to know and remember that insulting, mocking, belittling and disresepecting any ingame Arena.net staffs, must not be tollerated at any given time.

As the saying goes, “the way you treat others, so shall you be treated in return”

“show no Remorse, so shall you be treated without Remorse in return”

Embrace yourselves to be Repayed and Disciplined.

You want to start a mass leave movement banning entire guilds is the way to do it; is that your goal?

Yup its totally the players fault, lets just forget that they allowed free transfers for months after release.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Hi All,

I wanted to comment about the incident that happened recently in-game, surrounding some negative community interaction from a member of the ArenaNet staff.

Simply put a big mistake was made by one of our employees, for which he is both very upset and sorry. He allowed his personal feelings to affect his interactions in-game whilst representing ArenaNet, and this is absolutely unacceptable.

Like all players, we are human, and all have our opinions on the game. However these opinions should never disrupt other player’s enjoyment of the things they love. On top of this we have worked very hard to create a community that is respectful to one another, and for this behavior to have occurred while a developer is representing ArenaNet is doubly saddening.

We all cherish the opportunity to play with the community, and we absolutely rely on you all for in game feedback, and personally I hope that this incident does not hamper what has so far been an amazing relationship and opportunity for us all.

I would therefore like to sincerely apologize for this behavior on behalf of our staff member. We are taking steps to address the incident and for his part, he is very sorry for behaving in the manner in which he did.

Regarding Guild game play, please understand it is extremely important to us, and an area we are paying a great deal of attention to, so please do be patient with the developers who work tirelessly on making WvW the very best it can be, they have a great deal of respect for you all, and value your collaboration in pushing this pioneering mode forward. Also please note this member of staff is not on the WvW team.

Finally, World vs. World is a free-for-all battle. Our expectation of staff is that they should be playing, and enjoying the game like everyone else, and not being disruptive or disrespectful to others.

And in this spirit I hope we can move forward, and continue, what has up to this point, been a great community/developer relationship. One that I know our team massively values and loves.

Thank you all for your time and i hope you have a lovely weekend,

ChrisW

Reminds me of this lol.
http://youtu.be/9u0EL_u4nvw

And everything goes back to normal

It will never be fixed, this complaint has been around since the game went live. (Taking out culling made it far worse.)

@ OP Rift is FTP now, you’re welcome.
You must not have seen the outrage that happened with GW2 in November or you would not wish for VP :P.

Dragonar.1342:

Saw your link vol.
Ehhh i have been wearing full magic find since this game launched.. So….

But ok, what activities should i do?

TP flipping ofc.
550g is enough capital to start flipping, keep in mind the more you have the more you can make.

Edit: Use GW2Spidy and google up the GW2 google docs spreadsheet to keep track of listing prices you put up (It also does the taxes for you) these 2 things alone let you rake in 1,000s of gold without even playing but once in awhile.

Ignoring the balance problems; this game cannot be esports with the current asura animations being the way they are (in a game based off physical tells..) either remove them from pvp, make a generic model, give us visible cast bars, or make everyone an asuran lol.

People saying that everyone should give up their time to teach newbies should think about how frustrating that can become when you have to teach people the same basic stuff thats on videos/wikis/guides continuously.

If that is your only true argument against a more tuned LFG system then you yourself have clearly never been in a situation where you have to show people over and over and over what to do.

I’m all for helping people and I’m more patient than most but there is a threshold; almost a year ago I was running CoF path 2 constantly to get my 1st exotic armor set (this is all before DR on tokens, and even DR on drops) each run giving 25-30 tokens.

I used to see people saying “LFXM must ping a piece of this dungeons gear!” And I was totally against that kind of exclusion. As time went on and after dozens of dozens of horrible runs that needed thorough explanation every. single. time. And thats if people would bother to read the chat I was nice enough to type before each encounter. (You would not believe the amount of fail that used to happen on the bring bombs to Magg part, let alone the end boss mechanic..) I started to see myself doing the “Ping Gear for proof of experience” thing.

TL;DR – People like smooth fluid dungeon groups because of time restraints or to avoid the stress; teaching people is fine but it gets to a point… Well lets just say walkthroughs and guides exist for a reason.

I agree with the OP, I can however see the problems it can cause with the “don’t judge me/play how I want manifesto preachers”
Its simply a time saver because normally if you don’t meet the reqs for a speed clear then you’re going to get kicked out anyway this just saves everybody time and trouble.

Gravy.7589:

I have no interest in seeing Devon post, as he will merely dodge roll the overwhelming concerns brought up by this community. Dude must have unlimited vigor.

More like unlimited blind.

Make a small asuran warrior and use all the attacks for every weapon, then make a large norn warrior and do the same.
Now tell me the asuran animations aren’t jacked.

Keep in mind the particle effect spam that is the GW2 combat while looking at these animations.

OP nailed it.
Kinda scary how I and many others it seems feel these same frustrations day in and day out (when/if we play/played) and this is just now being addressed on a wide scale.

The amount of people thinking that skill lag is client side is astonishing. o_O

“It’s only just begun”
XD

Aberrant.6749:

Monsoon.2589:

Grav.3568:

Lol server pride. That hasn’t stopped half the entire game from transferring their way to tier 1 to date, now has it?

Oh well, I’ll just go back to enjoying my lag-free game then. Have fun with yours.

Again…if we all transferred to YOUR server then you would then have the same problems we are having due to Anets hardware. Then what? transfer again is your next solution? Don’t you see that you recommend a band aid instead of addressing the issue?

Or you could transfer and spread out to different servers, or you could spread out on the map…
Yes there are problems, but they arn’t getting fixed any time soon. Until then you can work around it or deal with it. It sucks but that’s kinda the reality of the situation : /

I’ve seen tons of posts about massive skill lag as far down as T3-4 servers, spreading out T1 would only make the entire game worse skill lag wise.

They could I suppose lower the overall size limit on maps, and to compensate the rise in queues that would cause they could make the auto-boot afk system more aggressive as it stands right now I can afk for 10 mins and come back to still be standing in a tower, maybe 2-3 minutes of no key presses or clicks would do.

Monsoon.2589:

Grav.3568:

Transfer down, problem solved. No skill lag in my tier.

This does nothing to solve the problem as once you transfer down you also clog that server if it is at capacity. Further more why would someone lose their server pride, friends and guilds just to go to another server that will then also get skill lag?

What you are in fact suggesting is to go do PVE instead of WVW as transferring down does nothing to change the fact that once two blobs get in SM the whole map lags to hell. You “solution” is a band aid that does not change the fact that the hardware is not made to handle that content Anet themselves has designed.

WVW is the endgame of GW2. At the moment it is unplayable in the top servers and now Anet wants to bring LEAGUES? Really?

This is analogous to organizing a car race on a highway that only has one lane and potholes. When a skill takes 30 seconds to fire you know something is wrong with the game and this is a PR disaster waiting to happen. One viral video mocking the fact that wvw is unplayable would be enough to make people jump ship to another mmo or not be interested in trying the game.

How Anet is unable to see this is unbelieveable

Wish someone would sticky this.
Seriously.
Its been the same thing said over and over, to the same “move down idgaf” responses.