Guild Wars 2

I’ve decided to take a break. When I played Tuesday and Wednesday, I actually spent more time reporting bugged hearts/events/other stuff, than I did just playing. So right now, I’m just checking out the forums and waiting for more bug fixes.

I’ve been reporting this since the first day, but it seems to have gotten worse lately. I don’t even bother attacking stuff like that anymore.

Honestly if all these companies were that serious about security they would stop making us use email addresses as log in names. This way even if they have my username and password, they don’t know what my email is, so they can’t try and hack that to get around the email verification. It’s also a bit harder to send phishing attempts. I get tired of having to create and keep track of a new email for every game I play.

Agree with Tallenn, I hate constantly hearing the greets (A) for other players. There needs to be a way to only hear them when I greet a character and not when other people do.

To get to Mira I jumped off the little “cliff” down to her. Revived her without attracting the risen. Then just ran back to base ignoring the mobs.

Went to the beacon, ignoring everything and hit the button as soon as I got there. When the little movie was done, instead of going right back down to the courtyard and having the mobs attack me the whole way, I jumped off and went to the dock area and came back in that way.

I realized right away there was no point in fighting in the courtyard, so I just sat up on the wall and waited for whatever was going to happen. Then I jumped off the wall onto the beach and swam back around to the docks and run through the risen again to get the cut scene. As soon as that was over I ran straight to the boat.

No deaths. That was my first run through and I had not read any spoilers about the mission. I’ve realized that in most of the missions just standing and fighting is the wrong way to do it.

I had this happen the other day on a Priory mission. The Lion’s Arch one after Claw Island around lvl 52. Really nice gem stats when looking at them in the select reward window, then when I looked at it in my inventory, no gem.

When I did that vista back in the first week, I had to finish the harpy attack DE and wait for the Charr to fire the 3 cows (I did not have to bet). Then for a few minutes it would let me use the cattlepult. But I also had to stand in a very specific spot (middle of the left side) for the interact option to appear. People naturally trying to get in from the back would not get the option.

If the DE has bugged and isn’t happening (I know on my server at least a lot of the Charr region DEs have bugged out) then that may be why people can’t get the option to use the cattlepult.

On Tarnished Coast almost all the Charr zones have started bugging out bad, with Iron Marches seeming to be the worst. Even the Heart quests in IM are messed up. Logged in this morning after the patch and while some were working again there were still plenty bugged out.

Yeah a lot of the events in the mid-level Charr areas were stuck on my server this weekend. People I’m supposed escort never move or enemies I’m supposed to fight never spawn. Daily restarts please.

The only real reason to do crafting is if you find it fun.

The XP isn’t that great when you look at the costs. You could be making XP AND money doing other things.

Legendaries aren’t a good reason to level crafting because of the insane amount of other stuff you need to make them. They aren’t even a goal most players will have a chance of reaching (which is ok with me, some stuff should be extremely hard to get).

I gave up on crafting after the first week. Now I’m just selling the mats I collect. Once the costs go down maybe I’ll try crafting again. But it will be after I’ve done everything else and have a big pile of gold to blow through.

The POI icon really needs to be a different color and a bit bigger. The vistas and skill challenges stand out, but the POI blends in with a lot of the maps, making them hard to notice.

I noticed while playing last night that the scouts I talked to no longer had voice overs while showing me the map. And NPCs during events didn’t have voices either. They would show the text bubbles, but no audio.

Having everything on the “F” was a mistake. I am constantly grabbing banners when I actually want to loot the mob next to it. Since everyone gets their own loot anyway, why didn’t they just have it automatically added to your inventory as you kill stuff?

The cast time is too long to make it an emergency heal. You’ll be down before it finishes. The heal amount is too small (and almost non-existent if you are poisoned). You are just better off blowing all your other utilities and hoping you can burn down the mobs before they get you. And the cooldown is too long for the small amount of healing. Make it instant cast, double the heal and cut the CD by 25%. Then it might be useful.

No, the system is fine the way it is. Hopefully this becomes the new standard in MMORPGs. No more max level idiots going around killing everything in the zone. And yes it happens even if they don’t get any loot/XP from it.

Protip to ANet. If I could sell the tonics on the TP, I would be more inclined to buy the keys. Right now, I just destroy the chests when I get them.

Also, Next/Nearest Enemy should never select a yellow target, only red. If there are no red mobs in the area it should select nothing. Yellow targets should require a click. I hate being in the middle of a big fight and next thing I know I am attacking a barrel.

Being able to go to a lower zone and fight 100 mobs and never take a point of damage, has always been a stupid design. Imagine trying to level an alt if one high-level character could 1-shot through every event in the zone before you even knew they were happening. I’ve already decided that any future MMORPGs will have to have this feature before I will play them.