Guild Wars 2

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

There are no ‘healers’ in the game, so I am unsure what it is you want to be ‘fixed’. There was much discussion even before the game launched that players would never rely on others for healing, but primarily themselves.

Here is an article about healing in GW2:

Heal: Don’t belittle the SUPPORT role by calling it heal. Healing is the least dynamic kind of support there is. It is reactive instead of proactive. Healing is for when you are already losing. In Guild Wars 2 we prefer that you support your allies before they take a beating. Sure, there are some healing spells in Guild Wars 2, but they make up a small portion of the support lines that are spread throughout the professions. Other kinds of support include buffs, active defense, and cross-profession combinations.

For instance, an elementalist can support his allies by dropping down a ground-targeted healing rain that rejuvenates allies in an area. He might also use Windborne Speed to help them chase down a target or escape out of longbow range. A warrior might shout “On My Target” to help his allies do more damage to a marked enemy, or use his warhorn to “Call to Arms” which improves the armor of his allies for a short time.

We use our cross-profession combos to fill in the rest of our support. An elementalist can create a Firewall or Static Field to improve the ranged attacks of his allies. A warrior can carry a Banner of Wisdom around the battlefield to increase the power of his allies’ magical attacks. An elementalist might cast an ice spell to freeze enemies, but that same spell might give his allies Frost Armor to protect them from incoming attacks. When you boil it down, support is just the friendly way for players to work together to accomplish a shared goal.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110815225732/http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/combat/healing-death/

Are you asking for the Developers to change the basic game design, and add healers?

I spec healing build. I have all sorts of heals and boons.

thats my role I enjoy playing.

But its not rewarding. Sometimes you dont get tagged on boss playing that way.

Triple Trouble needs to be nerfed for get a better scaling system for when not enough dps is there. the fungus isnt helping.

great thread here.

I say remove levels.

also why this thread on second page?

I support this idea

I would have liked the Shaman and his adds in the MAW to be stronger like Champions adds

Leveling in GW2 isnt fun.

It was a downer before. but now there is little reward for leveling.

Nothing improved for the lower levels, yet you say you dont want people rushing to level.

Why should I take my time leveling in your detailed world if its painful to level?

Porterhouse.6304:

My gripe is that these low level zone boss’s don’t seem to be designed for the level range they are in.

I noticed this with the Shadow Behemoth. This is a level 1-17 zone. I was there with my level 30 Engineer. It took 14 minutes to kill it and I was there from the beginning, putting all my firepower in to it.

I didn’t do enough damage to get a chest. That’s ****** up!

this really happening?

How to beat this fight.

I just finished playing this fight,
and I am not sure what is the numbers needed for this fight.

How many extractor runs are needed to get it full?

what else is there to the fight.

Any secrets and tips on how to beat this fight?

End Walker.9324:

Hey Anet,

Liking some of the updates but how do I transmute my stat and runes now? Great I can transmute skins but I am not buying another rune.

example:

I have gloves with power, precision, healing with a superior rune of undead. I decided I wanted to change it to power, vitality, condition damage. I bought the new gloves and went to transmute them so I have the new stats and my old rune, but I can’t. I either do not know how to with this new patch or the team did not consider this. I really hope it’s the first.

I am confused about the complaint. are you trying to change the look of your new item?
or are you trying to get a rune out a red item and put it into something new?

I didnt run crit builds. So I am not familiar with it.
But what is wrong with the new stat?

Ransom.1362:

Whelp after 5 level 80 characters and about a thousand hours of gametime I’ve decided I no longer want to play this game.

The last 5 months WvW has been the only thing to keep my interest and the constant 2v1’s are just killing the fun for me. It doesn’t matter if we’re on the winning or losing side and the latest update was pretty much the final blow.

I wanna say goodbye to all of you, and I hope whomever reads this topic that still plays has fun and enjoys the game longer than I did.

what ruined WvW for you in the recent patch?

I had all the elites except the two golem skills, and Tornado.

Which should I get?

I am saving my points up. I also dont have my new Heal skill.

I am level 43, so I dont have many traits.

I am seeking advice on which of these skills to spin my skill points on right now.

I mostly do Trains and WvW zergs.

has Anet made a statement on this yet?

I want new Spirits.
I leveled my ranger to max level to experience full Spirit support build in which I buff my teammates while debuffing enemies in WvW.

But what sort of spirit could we get next? any ideas?

I want more spirit options on my ranger to choose from. Thats why I want more.

Its fun. Not good but fun. cant some of us play kitten for the fun of it?

Some of you act like you never played Dan in Street Fighter for this very same reason…

out of the current land weapons available, which of them we want next added to warrior class?

Myrnar.7960:

I wonder why we should play at all. Just give us end level characters fully equipped with BiS gear.

So we only have to stay around in one place and get bored…LOL

I hate when people use this as a counter argument, because thats clearly not what is asked.

Levels are meaningless grind that could be replaced with meaningful progression system.

Use tutorials for tutorials, not force us to grind levels as an excuse for tutorial.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

If they were sitting in your inventory, and you double clicked them, they went into your wallet. Like other currencies, they reside there now, so they don’t take up inventory space (hooray for that change!)

oh now I see. thanks

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I sort of like levels… I’m ok with having them.

I know if levels were removed I’d have at least 1 guildie that wouldn’t know what to do with herself. It’s literally all she does. She makes a character, builds it to 80, wipes it and starts over. The girl can’t set and focus on a long term goal even if her life depended on it, but she can roll and reroll a character to 80…. forever and ever. Its a little strange.

She/he could just play the game, complete task then wipe the character and start all over again. I dont see how removing levels prevent the same player from grinding content then deleting character over and over again if thats what they like.

How about try to get map completion then delete your character after you get that instead of level grinding.

All 5 of them are gone. Never used the transmute system.

what happen?

DakotaCoty.5721:

Knighthonor.4061:

DakotaCoty.5721:

I don’t know ANY MMO games that don’t use a form of leveling as a way of progression. Not one.

Many MMOs dont. the first MMOs didnt have character levels. it had other forms of progression.
Didnt need a number on your avatar to tell you your progression.

Yes they did.
Tibia: Skill and Level progression
TSW: Weapon progression and spell buildups
DCUO: Achievement progression to unlock more weapons
Aion: Leveling
Perfect World: Leveling

If an MMO doesn’t have some form of numerical progression, whether it be item refinery (Jade Dynasty), or character levels then it really isn’t filling up to that ‘MMO’ standard that we have today.

Leveling in guildwars is fairly easy:
- Crafting, now gives 12 levels instead of 10.
- Events
- Hearts
- Eye of the Mists is perfect for leveling, got my ranger from 20-26 in just 1 hour.

#TheMoreYouKnow.

Progression doesnt have to be character levels though.
Nowhere is it stated that a MMO needs to have Character levels in order for it to be a MMO. UO didnt have character levels yet was the first MMO.

DakotaCoty.5721:

I don’t know ANY MMO games that don’t use a form of leveling as a way of progression. Not one.

Many MMOs dont. the first MMOs didnt have character levels. it had other forms of progression.
Didnt need a number on your avatar to tell you your progression.

From now on maybe Anet should do public testing before patches..
World of Warcraft and Rift does this.

Wynne.3908:

I thought Guild Wars 2 would be getting content updates like Guild Wars 1. Now that isn’t/hasn’t happened and I feel like I’ve been tricked. Seriously… where’s the expansion?

Guild Wars 1 After 12 months:
- 240 new skills
-90 new Elite skills
-2 new proffesions
-1 new World map
-4 new guild halls
-13 new co-op missions
-5 new challenge missions
-2 new elite missions
-2 competitive missions
-200+ new quests
-New PvP Alliance battles
-New elite area Sorrow’s Furnace
-New elite area The Underworld
-New elite area Fissure of Woe
-New elite area the Deep
-New elite area Urgoz’s Warren

Guild Wars 1 After 18 Months: All of the above+
-350 new skills
-110 new elite skills
-2 new proffesions
-1 new World Map
-4 new Guild Halls
-20 new missions
-3 new challenge missions
-1 new elite mission
-250+ quests
-Heros!
-PvP hero Battles
-new elite Area Domain Of Anguish

GW2 after 18 months:
-Scarlet
-Southsun cove
-Fractals
-2 new heal skills
-1 new dungeon path

I probably missed stuff but you get the idea.

Please stop reminding us.

Cant you see we are already mad about something right now. we dont need you making us more mad….

Fafnir.5124:

Fredgerd.3204:

Gardavil.1762:

Weylin.6478:

I know a lot of people are upset with some of the changes, but try and understand the reasons from the developer point of view and allow for some things to be readjusted as necessary.

some of the changes that people aren’t liking will possibly be further tweaked with hotfixes, just give it time.

The best you all can do is provide calm and detailed feedback like some have already been doing. It is possible that they had overlooked some things and all of you will do a better job at finding the issues than a small team would be able to.

Feedback:

Anet nerfed my characters into the dirt today by taking away almost all Traits my characters had earned. I am not a good enough Player to reach level 80. That’s right, I am not good enough at this game… but I love parts of GW2 enough that I had kept the game installed so I could return one day.
Well today I log in and my highest character, lvl 51 ELE has four traits out of the over 15 he used to have. FOUR. I was having a hard enough time as it is.

Anet doesn’t want People like me playing their MMO. Anet must want the Players that can breeze through leveling content to 80, which I admit I have had a hard time doing. Without those traits, and the benefits I each of my characters got from them, the game is now beyond my abilities.

These changes were great for the gazillion lvl 80s, but not good for Players that have a hard time with this game. Anet decided whom their preferred customers are and I am not on the list.

I am not rage quitting, I just realize I don’t belong here and there is no sense in holding out hope I might play GW2 again.

Feedback Given. Resigned from Guild. All Characters deleted. Game Uninstalled.

People think this game is hard???

I mean, there are some optional things (like soloing champions) that are pretty challenging, but just getting to 80 is not difficult. Hell, you can get there just by farming the zerg train and crafting.

I only just hit 80 recently and the biggest obstacle to me was just that my characters looked like kitten so I kept getting bored with them. When I finally bit the bullet and just accepted my character wouldn’t look the way I wanted till 80, it took me under a month to do. Some people have done it significantly faster by choosing to do more streamlined routes to 80. Now that styles are available to all character levels, that one is gone and I expect I’ll be leveling alot more characters up.

Maybe you should play Vulgarr the Viking or Holy Diver or something to put things in perspective.

PVE wise there are only 3 things hard in this game. Teq, Wurm and solo Arah everything else is a joke.

Leveling is also hard because its boring, and that makes it hard to focus on leveling.

Fredgerd.3204:

Gardavil.1762:

Weylin.6478:

I know a lot of people are upset with some of the changes, but try and understand the reasons from the developer point of view and allow for some things to be readjusted as necessary.

some of the changes that people aren’t liking will possibly be further tweaked with hotfixes, just give it time.

The best you all can do is provide calm and detailed feedback like some have already been doing. It is possible that they had overlooked some things and all of you will do a better job at finding the issues than a small team would be able to.

Feedback:

Anet nerfed my characters into the dirt today by taking away almost all Traits my characters had earned. I am not a good enough Player to reach level 80. That’s right, I am not good enough at this game… but I love parts of GW2 enough that I had kept the game installed so I could return one day.
Well today I log in and my highest character, lvl 51 ELE has four traits out of the over 15 he used to have. FOUR. I was having a hard enough time as it is.

Anet doesn’t want People like me playing their MMO. Anet must want the Players that can breeze through leveling content to 80, which I admit I have had a hard time doing. Without those traits, and the benefits I each of my characters got from them, the game is now beyond my abilities.

These changes were great for the gazillion lvl 80s, but not good for Players that have a hard time with this game. Anet decided whom their preferred customers are and I am not on the list.

I am not rage quitting, I just realize I don’t belong here and there is no sense in holding out hope I might play GW2 again.

Feedback Given. Resigned from Guild. All Characters deleted. Game Uninstalled.

People think this game is hard???

I mean, there are some optional things (like soloing champions) that are pretty challenging, but just getting to 80 is not difficult. Hell, you can get there just by farming the zerg train and crafting.

I only just hit 80 recently and the biggest obstacle to me was just that my characters looked like kitten so I kept getting bored with them. When I finally bit the bullet and just accepted my character wouldn’t look the way I wanted till 80, it took me under a month to do. Some people have done it significantly faster by choosing to do more streamlined routes to 80. Now that styles are available to all character levels, that one is gone and I expect I’ll be leveling alot more characters up.

Maybe you should play Vulgarr the Viking or Holy Diver or something to put things in perspective.

getting to 80 is hard because its boring.

this update made it even more boring to level up. lets not get things twisted…

bad decision indeed

Yuogtar.4892:

Hello. There is new champion train guide. it is multilocation We use 3 location
a) Frostgorge Sound
b) Malchor’s Leap
c) Cursed Shore
First! We Start at Drakkar Waypoint and do :
http://clip2net.com/s/7ezwF3
1) Champion Icebrood Fish
2) Champion Icebrood Kodan
3) Champion Icebrood Norn
Right now it is Group guest’s champion and their spawn time is 25-30 minutes (OMG ANET) – but there is reward if we will kill 3 champions in 10min after they will spawn we will get bonus chest called “Splendid Chest” – it contained a) 1 item from “green” to “orange” rarity! b) Bag of Coins – 4-9 silver inside c) Thimble of Liquid Karma = 1 000 karma.
For the reason long spawn time we need to build route where we can farm champ 30 minutes non stop. So next we go to the Dimotiki Waypoint:
4) Champion Undersea Ice Wurm
Than our rotation will be:
5) Champion Ice Troll (Earthshake Waypoint)
6) Champion Ice Drake Broodmother(Skyheight Steading Waypoint)
7) Champion Icebrood Quaggan (Skyheight Steading Waypoint)
Quaggan spawn time is 30 min too so we will do it every single route!
Okey we finished Frostgorge Sound It takes ~ 7-10 minutes. Now we are going to Malchor’s Leap:
8) Champion Mark II YF-Gold (Waste Hollows Waypoint)
http://clip2net.com/s/7ezCiK
9) Champion Risen Knight (Lights Waypoint)
http://clip2net.com/s/7ezDxH
Now we finished here it tooks ~ 5 minutes. After that we going to Cursed Shore
10) Champion Risen Archmage (Champion Risen Archmage)
http://clip2net.com/s/7ezEia
11) Champion Risen Giant (above Meddler’s Waypoint)
http://clip2net.com/s/7ezFbT
Okey we finished Cursed Shore it tooks ~ 5 minutes. AFter that we come back to Frostgorge and take down
12) Champion Undersea Ice Wurm
13) Champion Ice Troll (Earthshake Waypoint)
14) Champion Ice Drake Broodmother(Skyheight Steading Waypoint)
Total train 1 run took 25-30 minutes and give 14 champion lootbag(from champions) + 1 bonus
Totaly = 30 Champion’s lootbags per 1 h.

It is the same as queensdale train, but here you are killing hight lvl champ, you get here better lootbags(check wiki – lootbag from my route can give more exo and t6 mats) you get t6 mats. Also it isn’t such "zombie mode as it was befor.

Negative:
1)you spend a bit more for WP cost.

This route is running at Desolation. Come there as a guests. We did few runs with this route today. but there is not many people there right now + a lot of people doesn’t know what to do. I made that guide to advice you to join us in our trying to get TRAIN BACK!

What server is this?

WaveyDL.6945:

Mystic.5934:

islabella.1385:

I have a level 40 character. Just logged in and boom down to only 2 trait points.

each new trait point counts for 5 old trait points. so instead of 5 to get to next trait skill, it now only takes 1, and every 1 trait now gives as many stats kitten used to give.

And now you have to wait 5 levels to improve your character instead of getting a little better every level.

Enjoy the grind!

I agree.

I am level 41 on my Ele, and now I only have 2 points, and none of them are the support traits I enjoyed which all been either moved to master and grandmaster over the last few big patches…

this is terrible change.

the rest of the patch I like.

This is making it more boring for low levels.

I love you. This update was a great update.

Are you married?

wtf going on? its 1:33 pm EST yet no patch

Has it ever been mentioned in a interview on what made Anet turn away from their new trinity mechanics?

Add a real trinity system and problem solved…

Karizee.8076:

Fastest way right now is probably Edge of the Mists. You can get almost 30 levels in one match. Boosters, xp buff food, guild xp banners, find a good commander and stick to him like glue

thanks

Toon refer to Cartoon Character. since the characters we play in games are animated like a cartoon is. So they just removed the Character part and shortened Cartoon into Toon.

I agree with the OP on a lot of their points.

Gyler.8150:

So here’s an idea, what if A-Net can put a gemstore option sort of kickstarter thing where we pay gems to help finance them balancing the game or adding end-game content, such as hard mode dungeons or any of the other thousands of ideas thrown around.

Same can be done with new professions, races and weapons.

Thoughts?

I had this same idea a while ago. I got attacked because people feel that paying a box fee should have covered all that,,,

good thread.

Not sure the point of the Anet people playing with the Anet tag for. whats the point of that?

When is it planned to make WvW even more fun than it currently is?

Do we even know what all the new traits are?

If so, can somebody share them all with me please…

So whats the new traits?

Sometimes issues pop up and may need to read threads on the forum with answers.

How do people access the forum if they cant log in when it request?

This is something that should be easier to fix.

cDKI.8352:

Egon Vidar.9125:

Im Mudbone.1437:

Jabberwock.9014:

How do you get a headache from looking at a big head? lol, just wait a day if it bothers you that much. Kind of ruins the spirit of the holiday if people can just opt out of a prank.

but anyways, you could try setting your computer’s date forward to april 2nd. Or back to March whatever. It seems to be client side.

I THINK some people have a type of Coulrophobia(for the lack of a name for it).

Coulrophobia is a fear of clowns and mimes, and other individuals whose identity and intentions are obscured by things like makeup. What does that have to do with bobbleheads?

Everything.

I am cracking up…

Adamantium.3682:

Knighthonor.4061:

Use it as a melee weapon. Forget the look and feel of it. pretend you are playing melee. same concept.

Not exactly. Since each is on a delay you can’t treat it as any other melee weapon or you won’t hit anything unless it’s stationary (which I would assume is not the situation this thread was created for).

They have a radius, and you can lay out multiples for this very reason. Spam them in a melee oriented way, controls the field.

Try it.

And when you are being kitted, thats when you switch to a ranged weapon. Same exact concept as playing a melee weapon actually.

Fill me in on what new traits you all want.

Hammer weapon.

melee kit.

Robot that can fight and move.

Robot that can heal and move.

Robot that can Tank and Control and move.