Guild Wars 2

Anthony.7219:

How do you guys have time to keep up with this stuff? I don’t get the online community at all. However you’re managing to feed yourself, play this video game 40+ hours a week, and stay sane is beyond me.

ArenaNet better be working on some permanent content, because these updates hold absolutely no value to me whatsoever.

kinda off topic but ok,

i don’t understand how you cant? i work 40+ hrs a week and still do the content. You have 14 days, 336 hrs to play the content, i play maybe 8-10hr a week, mostly on weekends. that’s 20 hrs to play the content which only takes maybe 3-4hr tops? They have been moving to more permanent anyway wit the last 2 patches.

again, i see this alot, Look at rift. they tried this, it failed. Good idea on paper but when implemented it became, “QQ i cant quest in this zone anymore cuz of invasion and i need a full guild to clear but im a solo player, totally unfair” so rift had to make invasions DESPAWN after a while cuz casuals were zone locked. Ppl who played on odd hrs, low pop servers, they all had a gripe with the system. Trust me id def like to see this but there need to be alot of safety nets to accommodate everyone. (and that’s the part that sucks)

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

revodeel.2651:

Kingmutez.4931:

revodeel.2651:

SAB is like the McRib. Some people love it. Others hate it. Some are indifferent.

Some folks want it on the menu year round. Others could care less.

Anet is like Mcdonalds. They hope that through a periodic release cycle, the hype and excitement will be higher for the return of SAB/McRib.

XD

This . its marketing. it will come back. it was there for 30days.

PS: On this same note, pumpkin spice lattes need to be year round , rawr!

…and, for that matter, the Shamrock Shake! Rah!

you guys dont get it do you? The reason why the shamrock shake and pumpkin spice lattes are so good is because they only come around once a year.

If you had Shamrock Shakes for 4 months straight you would get sick of them. You cannot deny this fact because you know it to be true, you would be fooling yourself.

aye, that was what i was trying to get across with my pumpkin spice remark. maybe a /sarcasm would have been more accurate.

I see what your saying OP , but there’s alot of assuming going on there and we don’t know that they only rely on numbers to judge things. It could be just one part of a whole in which they base future content.

I still remain indifferent about about her. shes ok i guess. ill reserve my judgement until i see how this all pans out, otherwise it would be judgmental and cynical of me to make claims about things i don’t fully understand. (life lesson here)

RuneCrimson.7380:

Ok so This new content is only for level 50 and above as I have found out…so us lower levels are SOL when it comes to the content and finding out what happens at the end. The two spiders at the beginning kills lower levels with one to two hits so its relatively useless to bother with it. Sad though seemed like it might have been fun to do it.

dude you had a lvl 60 4 months ago… what have you been doing? Also exp isn’t split , neither is loot, you have had this discussion many many many times now. You say u hate grouping and feel forced but you make a guild and recruit? lol

revodeel.2651:

SAB is like the McRib. Some people love it. Others hate it. Some are indifferent.

Some folks want it on the menu year round. Others could care less.

Anet is like Mcdonalds. They hope that through a periodic release cycle, the hype and excitement will be higher for the return of SAB/McRib.

XD

This . its marketing. it will come back. it was there for 30days.

PS: On this same note, pumpkin spice lattes need to be year round , rawr!

I’m not even sure why this is here and not in suggestions. but ill chip in my 2 cents.
Mounts are if anything a very low priority, “if” they do add them it will probably be in the gem store as a cosmetic thing you think your riding but really not going any faster than walking (AKA the flying broom). I mean you can already Wp right? so you’ll just want the mount for looks and you travel along. Sounds like a perfect opportunity to have more gem store goodies. They could even throw in a few rare mount drops like precursors type of rare that look cool too.

sadly you cant make everyone happy, back in Jan it was once a month. Everyone did the content in 1 day maybe a week. Left and came back the following month for the next update. This was no good, they need ppl actively in the game making the servers look full and alive with ppl spending money on TP. Now the content is more permanent, ya the boss week achieves wont be here in 2 week but tech waddle owning everyone will. Yes the patches would prob be better with more time but like i stated before, you cant let ppl take too long of a break and only come during patches and leave.
On another note:
i don’t understand why ppl feel the game needs to revolve around their schedule? either you have time for the game or you don’t, either one is fine, there’s no fees, there’s no worries. The only thing making you aggravated is your own completionist attitude

Bugged at 50%, still was targetable, randomly went into battery phase at 25% but after that too off into air and we began beating on the floor. full credit. (side not we did beat him previously the time before and were making good time at downing him again)

ummm… sounds right no? 75%(blue), 50%(green), 25%(rare) Dead (Big chest)

I suppose I haven’t explained this clearly enough. We don’t have UI or tech to do this. The only thing we can do in the game currently is attach a short description to an object that is triggered by interaction (F to read, for example) or put that information inside a conversation tree. Those are our options. Neither solution is ideal for large chunks of text due to size limitations and usability restrictions. We’ve used both approaches on occasion to present details as you’ve described. But these current solutions are hard limited with how much we can display onscreen. They aren’t really appropriate for the amount of text information we’d put in proper books.

In other words, we can’t put these short stories into game UI because none currently exists that would support it. I know that sounds odd since we’re essentially talking about showing text in a window, but it’s a bit more complex than that. There is a lot of design, programming, and art that goes into building a system like this.
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Your right there’s no large wall of text interaction in game that i can think of. Have you tried looking into the “my personal story tab”? i know there resides alot of text , illustration and even items that no one ever glances at. Maybe interacting with a book unlock a tab that contains the story of scarlet or etc. Im no game developer, im just brainstorming ideas on where i seen text and illustration before.
Taking this from old suggestion post:

Tachenon.5270:

Shifu.4321:

Why is Tequatl getting stronger when Zhaitan is already dead?

Maybe they called him ‘Tequatl the Sunless’ because he was always being overshadowed by ol’ Zhaitan. Now’s his chance to rise… and shine!

Then we come and beat the daylight out of him ha.
But yeah it also seems odd to me that they are having there livestream on Friday (4days after live) instead of the usual Monday.. humm

I think they have hinted they wanted to do something like this but working out the server side mechanics of it. The only bad thing that’s happening with scarlet invasion is that the champ farming is too good to bother actually finishing the event. I’m curious to see how they will fix that and not just nerf loot.

GoldenTruth.2853:

Hard to tell if the content is light or not. We don’t know how much the other world bosses have changed, nor the amount of story that will come with the patch. When people saw the Queen’s Speech page they found it lacking in content, yet, we got something completely different than the expected “speech”.

Rather than making speculation based on a content page it’s probably smarter to just wait and see.

I think this too. Im curious why they would have a livestream Friday vs on tues like they usually have done? Revealing something maybe?

Shifu.4321:

Why is Tequatl getting stronger when Zhaitan is already dead?

i think there’s more to the patch than it seems.

The only problem I see standing in the way is constant Living Story updates which have players focused on certain zones instead of the Open World PvE and just generally all the GW2 has to offer.
- However, I do believe that players will care somewhat more, since the rewards are some exclusive Ascended items, which only drops from him. Hopefully that will have players interested instead of leaving the world to rot (I rarely meet players out in the Open World, unless, like now, there is an update that some are just not interested in doing). It’s great to see some zones populated again, I actually met more than just a few people out in the world today.

- But yeah, it depends on how players will play the game.
Are they going to be in the game world and do the events (there aren’t enough to keep people interested, so more Dynamic Events is something I think they should consider implementing) and be the heroes that they were supposedly meant to be, or will they just not care in the end?
- I’m surprised at how many say they love the game, but I don’t really see anyone actually doing it? Maybe they just like certain parts of the game, which doesn’t seem to be what ANet said they’d do different (at least when it comes to PvE).

No i fully agree, i was just replying to the notion of why when we fail to kill Tequatal, he doesnt go around the map causing chaos or his minions don’t take over sparkfly. Tequatal will prob be in the rotation of dragon framing no doubt once players get the mechanics down.

rjnemer.7816:

I dont want to rain on everybody’s parade but nothing in the open world will ever be challenging. The two cannot co-exist. Challenging content can only come from an instance.

I GUARANTEE that tequatl will never fail. Everyone will just run around smacking things and it will die. Sad truth.

Quote me on this. Bookmark this page. Im willing to match any bet.

you need to troll harder.

and ofcorse it will be easy after a while, instance or out in the open world, once you know the mechanics and got it down, it goes on Farm, ANY BOSS, ANY INSTANCE. that argument is pointless.

its a Cath 22. Like in rift. IF u failed the event when the game launched, the invading forces started to take over the area, great… but then ppl started complaining that they couldn’t solo cuz huge chucks or areas were taken over by invaders who would pawn them. Rift being a very theme park heavy mmo made it worse since as ppl out-lvled the area, they never came back. As new ppl started playing they were left with invader infested zones. Rift had to take back that mechanic, now win or loose the invaders go away. yay casuals.

in any case its a good idea i wish to see implemented but there just has to be a balance or mechanic so it doesn’t get out of hand? idk

i doubt they will ever add a race change, its messes up the personal story too much, they could add a faction/order change. that should be more doable.

you can lower you culling setting to low or lowest, but for some reason anet still adds tags to the invisible ppl, haven’t figured how to fix that yet. But on your need, its in the video options.

It been said over and over again, Minis need i better place. I mean finishers got a better layout and there own tab! I think the same system would work for Minis too.

- same layout as finishers, you can active a mini that will stay with you all the time its activated, not in a innovatory, not in a collectible. Like a permanent buff.
- can switch, activate or dis-activate minis in the Hero tab like finishers.

This will make mini alot more popular and a increase demand to collect.

I agree, but cities will always remain non combat areas so what they need to come up with is social hub ideas to get ppl in the cities. Gladiator battles a la gauntlet style in the black citadel, Open the shooting range and bar brawl in DR, Holbrek already has keg brawl(need revamp), ect, interesting stuff like that do do in cities, but most importantly 2 things have to change to get ppl out of LA.

1-Asura gates in any city should be able to take you to any other major asura city gate.
2-Improve personal instance.(customizing,/housing/etc)

I’d like to address the troubling concern that your new player base is missing out on so much of the living story. At this new pace of pumping out new content every 2 weeks (kudos to the team for that) alot of the new players don’t know whats going on, and worse yet don’t know how to find out whats going on. My suggestion is the creation of a LoreMaster. There’s a wonderful library in DR, why not use it. Set him up there, give him his own little icon and let him tell the story of Tyria. This way new players or even returning players can talk to this guy and see what they have missed.

LoreMaster: (can make one in each city)
-Contain Information of Events that have gone about in tyria from the living story.
-Can give players books that contain cutscenes from the events like the one we were given for Dragon Bash.

PS: The “personal story corner”. You can also use him to get you out of the personal story corner you’ve backed yourself into. Alot of the world can’t move forward because of the tie in with the personal story that is already set in the game. Thou it will require alot of rework, you can have the LoreMaster tell of the battle of Zhaitan and the brave adventures that brought him down. From there you can let players play that story line thru the LoreMaster and throw Arah dungeon into the fractal. But this is long term expansion ideas, thus ill leave it for now. puts a pin in it

it was at first, ppl finished it in 1 day, logged off for the next 29. Thats why the decided on 2 week out puts insted

All they pointed out so far is scarlet seems to be behind the molten alliance, sky pirates, steam creatures and now the clockwork T1000’s. that in a way ties things together, her motivations and reasoning will surely be fed to use slowly as more living story is showcased. remember this is not the end, we just met our villain.

Agreed +1 have tons of what i think are inactive ppl. would like to know who hasn’t been on in months,

wait wait wait….. So BLC had crap stuff inside and completely random, but since ppl didn’t care for the stuff no one had a problem. ppl QQ that these chest are useless. OK. Anet added a nice drop for ppl who open BLC for the holiday week. NOW its OMG GAMBLING!!? cuz now u actually want the item inside and feel if u tried to cheat the system by buying tons of keys you’ll be rewarded 3fold. When this didnt happen, when YOU weren’t responsible enough to make the rational decision of yeah its a BLC so its RNG in not gonna wast my money, if it drops it drops. Then this is Anets fault? cuz its easier to blame others then yourself.. u guys are priceless.

mounts are not gold sinks, hence they not part of the big picture, but there IS a way to add them that i can still see profitable for Anet. rentals. yup, pay up in gold, karma or gems, get a mount for x days. bam, gold sink.

Whats funny is how ppl complain about this game and want things from wow, yet u go on wow forms and ppl over there want things from this game and complain about wow. All i know is i at lest i keep 15 bux in my pocket at the end of my month.

My theory:
60% WVW
20% SPVP
20% PVE
The game is not dead or failing, ppl are just doing the endgame content they enjoy, WVW being one of them.

when u have nightmares involving Ascolon ghost and blue fire….. “run squishy human for i shall 1 shot you!”

Well its a race in DR, which means it wont be so long of a race, and i have a few volunteers tailgating/recording the runners, since its 1v1 and 2v2 it will be easy to control cheaters. Since DR is full of side street and paths it also makes it more of a just run with buff, you have to know really what the fastest way, rooftops? allies? etc. I also had a Halloween one planned but would involve lot of ppl, i hope this catches on, since i see ppl complain that there no community in mmos anymore but then post like these are ignored. (>.>)

Agreed, if pvp was allowed it be much more of a battle race. but for now this is just a friendly event to get the server together.

Like in pvp every classes has there tricks or 2, most clases have some sorta boost or utility which buffs speed while other can use something like teleporting, i can tell u now, when we ran this as a guild a thief beat out a very surprised ele. Games involves a little more than just running with a boost :P come check it out if your on the server.

Not super sure where to put this post but this is a good place to start. Since community seems lacking at times i decided to open up a little guild event i usually run to the whole server (stormbluff Isle). If your interested in competing, send me a tell!

The Great Race (open to all) hosted by the Grim Brotherhood/The Gamer Rant
Ladies and gentlemen, boy and girls welcome to the great race. Today we will put players petal to the metal as they go head to head for honor glory and prestige as the guy that can really outrun a centaur, not to mention cash prize. The race will be recorded and on next weeks gamer rant. Thee will be food and drinks, as well as a box O fun, come join the celebration.

The rules are simple:
No teleport by waypoints
No assistance from the audience
And no potion/food/bltp buffs.

Location: Divinity’s Reach
Time: 8PM EST
Date: Oct 20th

Fee: waved (complements of Pirate Songshadow)
Winners: 10s each

SINGLES: (1V1)
Player 1:
Player 2:

Guilds: (optional 1v1)
Guild A:
Guild B:

TEAM: (2v2)
Team 1:
Team 2 :

Story mode should NOT have this level of difficulty. This is totally acceptable in explore thou, the rewards are already diminished to prevent farming so the buff to CM story was a little heavy handed. I ran it today, wiped 3 times but finished, its doable yes but leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

like others said even thou its a nice option, it divides the player base so ppl will start complaining there not enough ppl in Spvp down vs Spvp non down and so on. its why they removed lvl brackets in the first place. i agree that down state is a new annoyance in pvp, it might just need some tweaking.

On the one had we have ppl that don’t want LFD tools like in Wow and on there we have the ppl that do. Both have good arguments, its counterproductive to have to wait in front of a portal spamming “LF1MOAR” and traditional hot join dungeons breeds Trolls so lets make a whole new system to be the standard!? isnt that what GW2 is all about? Here are some traditional ideas and new ones.

Option1 (easy “band-aid fix”)
Global (server) LFG Channel – pretty self explanatory. chat channel the ppl can see anywhere to find others for events.

Option 2 (Simpler version of what they have now)
A LFG Lobby- have a dedicated button that opens up a LFG box with filters to see who is looking for party and what dungeons.

Option 3 (out of the box)
A bulletin board in every city (all connected) where players can post dungeons they wish to run. "LFG Explorer CM " they can limit the duration for say 1hr and even add a note to it. then they can go back to questing or w/e. When someone starts forming a group they will go to this board and see your available, clicking the Ask to join button , prompting the player with a “so and so wishes you to join him on CM Explorer, do you wish to join?” and you can take it from there, its kinda like the 1st two but a little out of the box from the norm.

well that’s my 2 cents.

not alot, i ended up with 25tokens and 34k? not 100% sure. The shotgun guy and the cave mobs are probably the hardest. u can avoid almost everyone else in that cave. just pull the right side. You MUST have 1 long bow user, its very helpful. As for the cave mobs, u can long bow and pull only the right side, focus fire , its probably gonna take a few times if u dont have good CC like guardian walls and smokes screens, traps, snares and so on.

I agree and had the same mind set as OP. On the one had we have ppl that don’t want LFD tools like in Wow and on there we have the ppl that do. Both have good arguments, its counterproductive to have to wait in front of a portal spamming “LF1MOAR” and traditional hot join dungeons breeds Trolls so lets make a whole new system to be the stander isnt that what GW2 is all about? Here are some traditional ideas and new ones.

Option1 (easy “band-aid fix”)
Global (server) LFG Channel – pretty self explanatory. chat channel the ppl can see anywhere to find others for events.

Option 2 (Simpler version of what they have now)
A LFG Lobby- have a dedicated button that opens up a LFG box with filters to see who is looking for party and what dungeons.

Option 3 (out of the box)
A bulletin board in every city (all connected) where players can post dungeons they wish to run. "LFG Explorer CM " they can limit the duration for say 1hr and even add a note to it. then they can go back to questing or w/e. When someone starts forming a group they will go to this board and see your available, clicking the Ask to join button , prompting the player with a “so and so wishes you to join him on CM Explorer, do you wish to join?” and you can take it from there, its kinda like the 1st two but a little out of the box from the norm.

well that’s my 2 cents.

guess im the only one lol.

its very apparent u might be new to the MMO world, references and terminology, I suggest you find a helpful guild that may guide you through some of the basics. It can be a little overwhelming at first but like everything practice makes perfect.

There might be a simple fix to this but im not seeing it. I had ordered the reg digital edition and linked my account with gw1. great. Then I was recently gifted a CE. What i had hoped was that the CE brought a code for the digital upgrades thus upgrading my reg edition and using the 2nd account for a friend. instead it seems the CE brought 1 serial code that has the CE digital perks bound to the account.

So i have 1 game that is reg addition but bounded to my GW1 account and 1 game that has the CE perks i want . I haven’t yet registered the CE in hopes that i can merge this stuff together but i put out a ticket maybe 7 days ago, its not top priority or anything I’m playing and having no issues on my reg edition but id like to actually use the CE at some point. Any guidance is appreciated.

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