Guild Wars 2

I think they should lock the achievements that we can’t do, like what they did with the holiday monthlies.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The big ones only target crab carriers as well. Here’s how to get Crabtacular:

1. Grab crab.
2. Run from other players.
3. Run towards big karka.
4. Dodge big karka roll.
5. Watch karka roll over everyone who was chasing you.
6. Laugh.

Easier said than done. Not everyone is going to follow you into a Karka. Not to mention they have the ability to roll as well.

Hi. I want a juvenile Karka pet for my ranger. That is all.

It does seem like the karka game could use some fixing up.

Ok I Did It.2854:

Be grateful you could play, I entered it, and had 3 karkas spawn on me, and sit there the entire match, while the guy with the crab stood in the corner getting points, everytime respawned the 3 karka’s instantly downed me, how the hell are you supposed to play this when only 1 person can win because the karkas just sit on you, stupid doesn’t even come close.

This is kind of getting off topic but I think that maybe the 3 karka would work better if there was more than 1 crab on the field so that you can potentially choose one crab over another depending on circumstances.

I won a match of the Crab Toss game and it didn’t give me credit for the crab toss daily.

This is a relatively minor suggestion I think.. but one thing I would like is the ability to be able to write what I consider my character’s story to be. I know there’s the personal story but I don’t really think that gets deep into a character. For instance part of the story behind my character Modrat is that his best friend is Dinky. Modrat is not his real name but rather a nickname that Dinky gave him. Him and Dinky are best friends and grew up together because they both bonded over the fact that they lost their parents. Dinky calls him Modrat because he has rat-like horns and is an engineer. Dinky isn’t too smart so his nicknames are fairly simple and straightforward.

This is actually something that City of Heroes had that I liked. There was an area where you could type your character’s story. Other people could see it too, although I’m not sure how you could do that for this game since you can’t really inspect other players in any fashion.

I think these events need to have both a temporary element and a permanent one. Temporary to keep things fresh and feeling alive, and permanent to make it feel like the story had an actual impact on the game. What I didn’t necessarily like about F&F (although I did like it on a whole) was that, from what I’ve seen, pretty much all the content will be gone and it will be as if the event never happened after it’s over.

This is just my general personal opinion on how living stories should be handled.

I’d buy a speedo for my charr. Please Anet make it happen.

ATMAvatar.5749:

I think all nerf requests should be in haiku format.

See the big kitty
Healing bleeds underwater
Nerf the ranger now

Water no downed kill
Put capture point on island
Please don’t nerf ranger

I think the idea of having a capture point underwater was a bad idea just in general.

I remember once this guy accused me of cheating because I was “exploiting” by using my pet to heal me underwater.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The game draws inspiration from the crab guild challenge but plays a bit differently. There’s achievements, titles, and prizes for participants and winners.

Crab Toss will only be around for the duration of living story events at Southsun Cove. But don’t be too sad, as far as activities go, you might have a very exciting year ahead of you.

Suggestion: Make the crab throwing mini game permanent but make the prizes only last during the duration of the event.

I’ve ran it like 30 times. I’ve only gotten the mini.

It wouldn’t make any sense to put a time limit on it. That doesn’t necessarily mean that there isn’t one, though.

I agree.

15 characters.

This is one of those ideas, I think, that sound good on paper but in practice just doesn’t work out. In small scenarios it would probably be fine but in instances like zerg vs zerg it would just become confusing seeing a rainbow of colors everywhere, One reason why there are only 2 colors is that so you can easily discern what is an enemy AoE and what is an ally AoE. The more colors you add the harder it is to tell what’s what. However one thing I think they could do is make a color for damage-based ally AoEs and a second color for non-damage-based ally AoEs. I don’t think 3 colors is too many,

That would be pretty awesome.. considering the character I’m trying to make Howler on is my charr.

I would like for there to be a title for throwing crabs.

Silicato.4603:

I like rox a lot. She is growing on me ( I even see her eyes better now )
She is funny and a great lider, with a better history than braham.

Braham, on the contrary, I don´t like him. He looks to me like the eternal secondary, behind of the real protagonists.

Rox has grown on me, too. At the beginning I thought I would end up liking Braham better than Rox but now it’s the other way around. Braham really did have a “sidekick” feel to him in the Molten Facility. Then again Braham’s personality does seem a bit more rash as opposed to Rox’s more calm and collective personality that is better suited for leading.

DarksunG.9537:

Sirius.4510:

And the thing about the ram… that was just silly.

Yeah, the emasculation of male characters & the masculine female characters in GW2 are over-compensatey.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m against the idea of emasculating men, but I don’t really feel that this particular example is a representation of emasculation. Braham is young and inexperienced, but he is also strong. He even rezes the entire party at the end boss. Does Rox do anything cool like that? Nope. And even if one particular character is emasculated that doesn’t necessarily mean that there is a trend of emasculating men. Different people just sometimes have different personalities. I think ArenaNet has done a pretty good job being gender-neutral and to argue that they have some kind of social agenda I think is a little unfounded.

Black Lion Chests obviously drop more frequently than black lion keys. Black lion keys only reliably drop from map completion. I know ArenaNet probably doesn’t want to necessarily just increase the drop rate on them. They still want them to be rare so that people buy them in the gem shop. However I feel that, for players who don’t spend money like me, black lion chests are not a reward. I have 127 in my bank currently just sitting there.

So what’s a way to make it easier to get without increasing drop rates? Why the mystic forge. Perhaps the recipe could be something like 10 black lion chests, 20 philosopher stones, 10 obsidian shards, 2 mystic coins.

Part of the reason I think (only part mind you…) of people complaining about RNG from black lion chests is that they don’t get any keys for the items that they want from it (i.e. molten weapons).

In their defense, in order to make an entire new set of armor they have to make 60 armors (6 * 5 * 2). But I would like to see more sometime.

I think there are 2 things wrong with Giver’s armor that ensures that nobody uses it.

1) The buff duration bonus is not really good enough to warrant losing a stat category over it. I think the buff duration should be increased to 2% from 1%. If you think that is too high then you could potentially give 3 pieces of armor 2% and 2 pieces of armor 1% to give a full set 10% more boon. Though I think just giving everything 2% would be better.

2) There is no offensive stat. This is the only set in the game not to have one as far as I know. People with extremely low damage numbers are usually seen as a hindrance and not a benefit. Also if you look at how boons are set up there are both defense boons (i.e. Protection, Regeneration) as well as offensive boons (might, fury). I think the set should reflect both boon types and not just one to give the set more versatility. So for instance Giver could have something like healing/power/boon duration instead.

As it stands now I don’t know anyone that runs Giver’s armor.

It’s the only fractal that regularly wipes parties. It’s really frustrating to have it come up as the 3rd fractal just to have the party keep wiping and then have everyone quit.

I really want to see an update to fractals.

Can you change it so that the tournament daily just requires you do play tournament, and not win them? I solo queue tournaments and it can take awhile to get 2 wins for me.

Edit: Perhaps you can change the generic “play x matches” into “win x matches”.

MatthewMedina.5419:

This is not bugged, it’s by design. It’s a different type of liquid karma item that will give you an amount of karma appropriate to your level when used, which is why it doesn’t stack with the others.

Perhaps you should have named it something else then to prevent confusion. Maybe give it a unique icon like the charr child drawing.

Necrid.2705:

Have everyone die at the same time. Jump off the center platform.

Does that really work? Also my team left so I can’t try that now. :/

Me and my team got to the end boss. I -THINK- someone dced.. not sure.. but the end boss won’t spawn. Braham and Rox are both here with us. We’re stuck in the middle because if we try to teleport it teleports us back.

My guild mates and I don’t like the new set. It means that pugs that we could be with will do less damage than soldier.

I agree with OP’s assessment. The changes were not enough, especially for spirits. One other thing that bothers me about spirits is, for having to recast them every 60 seconds, their cast time is too long. I would maybe like to see what they did with mantras and shave 0.5 seconds off the cast time at least.

Yeah, I don’t really like the idea of everyone running around naked. But maybe at the least they could make boots hidable too. That way only pants and chest are required.

I got into a discussion and I said that Charr, in general, have an affinity for fire. My friend said that it’s against the lore and that they don’t because of the flame legion. Is there any lore out there on the books that talk about Charr, in general, having an affinity for fire?

Shadowlancer.7102:

While this has been reported a long time ago, please refrain from going under the world. It kills the magic of SAB and doing so is breaking the rules which could lead you into trouble.

What rule is it breaking? I see people exploiting geometry all the time (-cough- CoE) and no action is ever taken against them.

I would like Tengu or Largos.

We need to somehow convince the flame legion that the asuras are a threat. Hopefully they will attack Rata Sum and we will look innocent since the flame legion is not a part of us. Then we support the Inquest from the shadows. Hopefully a larger Inquest presence would incite some sort of civil war among the asura. If we’re able to do it right we could wipe out the asura and nobody would even know that we did it.

I’ve just been doing the PvP dailies every day. I didn’t have trouble getting the monthly done.

I’m really hoping we get a molten weapon token from this.

Blur.3465:

No one is preventing you from teaming up, since no instance, whatsoever, required ‘’you must go solo’‘…the Living Story with Rox and Braham was optional. You could solo it or enjoy it with the rest of people…
I don’t mind having big dungeons which require 5-man team, but I don’t see the point in adding this to the lore and story…

The Rox and Braham missions were also really straight forward and were only about killing waves of enemies. I don’t want to see the finale be a repeat of that.

Paul Belz.7351:

The dungeon itself will be available for a limited amount of time, as it is tied to the ongoing story. The possibility of revisiting the content is not out of the question, however. It just becomes a matter of determining where and when it makes sense to do so.

cough Fractals?

I like the idea of having it be a 5-man instance. It allows the devs to both make the content challenging and better tell the story. Like the dev guy said, all the prior content for F&F is entirely soloable. The idea that Anet should never make 5 man content is fairly silly. Even if you aren’t in a guild you can still pug it.

Farzo.8410:

What interests me is that Moto seems to take a small interest in ‘’An Adventure Box in every Tyrian household’’ when he has the conversation with a human.

Something that might get added in your personal home instance?

Anet does need to do more with home instances.

Josh Foreman.8250:

How did you defeat the big rabbit?! I can’t get past the first round of carrots.

Potions.

I was able to actually kill him before he even spewed out the green stuff. I just pretty much just kept jumping up and repeatedly hitting him while ignoring the bunnies.

I wish they would release what is going to be in the patch. The only thing we know for sure is that there will be living story content. Everything else is just conjecture.

I was playing Keg Brawl and I was oh like, whoa, there is no leaderboard for Keg Brawl. There should be one.

I thought I remembered reading he wasn’t working for a week or something. I dunno.

Zaxares.5419:

Sooo… 5 Black Peppercorns, 5 Chili Peppers, 5 Cayenne Peppers and 5 Ghost Peppers? And when you eat it, your character bursts into flames and dies?

I would actually love this.. so long as it doesn’t damage your armor when you use it.

I bought one for my main. I don’t plan on buying any more. It’s a fun collector’s item and I never have to worry about picks ever again on my main.

A lot of people like the idea of mounts. I’ve liked them to an extent, but, I always felt mounts to be kind of boring. I remember in GW2’s development there being an interview about how the developers of GW2 are also action game fans.

When most people think of action games they probably think of like Devil May Cry or something. But I moreso think of first person shooter games. One aspect that is in quite a few first person shooter games are vehicles. Guild Wars 2 already has a system in place where your skill bar can change. We could utilize that by giving vehicles their own skill bar. If you want to get really fancy you could have vehicles that could house multiple people and give different skill bars depending on what seat you’re in (think how the Scorpion in Halo has 2 seats for the driver and for the turret gun). I really like driving vehicles in those games.

You may be thinking that vehicles have no place in a fantasy game like Guild Wars 2. However some things to take into consideration are the facts that we already have vehicles in Guild Wars 2 (we just can’t use them) and a vehicle doesn’t necessarily have to be something mechanical. For instance a vehicle for a sylvarri could be a living plant that the sylvarri fuses with.

Given the fact that vehicles would have abilities I don’t think that just everyone should have one at all times. They should be something fairly special to use (not super rare though). Doing something to balance vehicles could in turn help overall map balance. I think ArenaNet doesn’t seem too keen on the idea of everyone having mounts because of the waypoint system. Having a powerful mount like a vehicle gives ArenaNet an excuse to limit the availability of them.

Airships make everything better. I just wish that there were more airships besides just on Arah story.

There are story problems with having dwarves since they’re all dead but 1. In order to make dwarves playable they would first have to change that situation.

Concerning elves we already have 2 elf-like races. Sylvarri and Largos. I would like to see Largos as a playable race in the future.