Guild Wars 2

Hello !

In classics universes, wizards are the wise counsellor, with valuable knowledge.
But in Tyria, knowledge and magic aren’t linked. You found very few magical items, very few are mentioned. Magic look so rare and unused in Tyria except by Asura. But Asura don’t directly use magic, they make inventions who use it for them.

So, I’m wondering, what could be the purposes of wizards professions. Are they just walking artillery compared to non-magic user ?

What do you mean ?

My suggestion is for A.net to add a third button to just pass through the gate of every home instance and use it as a normal area of the city (with more than 5 players playing together) because it already exists and could be nice for roleplayers.

Hello !

For roleplay purpose, it could be nice if we get an option at Home instance portal to just pass through the gate with a third button. Plenty of place wasted where people could roleplay together.

Just about Salma district ! There’s an hospital, an orphanage, a manor, houses, and an inn.
A complete district where people could roleplay, which already exist behind the door but wasted because of the gate.

It’s the same thing for Hero’s Canton, Applied Development Lab, Hunter’s Hearth, and Dreamer’s Terrace.

They have the same name… He made 250 tonics for nothing because of a name…

Hi everyone!

A friend made mystery tonics (lotus root and ancient wood plank recipe) but can’t use them at the mystic forge to make leopard tonic.

Is it a bug or is it normal ?

They’re cats ^^ The game model of their retractible claws isn’t realistic. If you’ve seen a cat paw you have a better idea of how it look and work, but with longer digit.

I want Arena.net to expand the universe, not stack new things and forgetting older things like WoW devs do.

New things are POINTLESS unless they can add them without forgetting the older things.

Also, lesser race will never be playable… An aquatic peaceful fat ball will do nothing on a battleground. A quaggan warrior is inconsistent. A no brain rat can’t became “second in command” of the Pact.

Do you realize what 30 to 40% of the current map size as new map represent ? How can they make the new attractive but prevent the old to be useless ? If you can answer this, it’s good. But make older content decay and rotting is worst than adding few new content.

WoW (many people like to compare to it anyway) have a rotting tactic.
What bring an expansion ?
New levels ! Go pex in the new area because it’s the only one granting enough XP
New stuff ! Since you have leveled up, all your old ultra optimise gear is useless and you must replace all.
New farm thing ! But to prevent you to go too fast or play too casually, here some things you must do everyday just to unlock ultimate allpowerful gear. (faction reputation, valliance token)

And suddenly, all previous content became totally pointless. And I don’t mention their bad habbit of forgetting new races and let them decay when they’re not new anymore.

You can now level up crafting without doing all “classic” work. Just go to the last expansion area and farm here ! Why bothering with crafting copper sword, iron sword, steel sword, mithril sword to level up and be able to make orichalcum sword ? Make orichalcum pot, orichalcum sting, orichalcum stick, and orichalchum nail instead ! It’s useless but you can sell them to an NPC for gold.

Also in the new area orichalcum is pretty common and it’s not a pain to gather all the orichalcum needed. Don’t bother with the price to buy all this orichalcum or gathering all of it, there are plenty of them !

Nerelith.7360:

Aside from that… I really do not see any new permanent content that is " expansion-like." In 2 years even WoW added more. WoW is better at providing expansions than Gw2. Think about that for a Moment. let it sink in. World of Warcraft….. better.

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From where come this information ? I know gems aren’t in my ratio, but I doubt they gained an average of 400$ through gems per player.

@Distaste.4801

Have you considered that BC wasn’t a free update and WoW have subscription fees ?
You can’t expect the same from a 430$ game and a 60$ game. (game cost + expansion cost + 2 years subscription fees)
The ratio is 7:1.

There’s problems, mismanagement, other things. But your comparizon is pointless… WoW and GW2 aren’t equals on the funding.

laokoko.7403:

Now compare to some Korean grinders or wow clone. Whenever they release new content people abandon the old content, and grind the new content instead.

Since when old content decay is a good thing ? Making the new content as good to do as the old is a better way than make the old one useless.

Poplolita.2638:

Why another? Because of people like you.

Are you implying that they make more homosexual couple because I’m homosexual ? It’s not because I’m homosexual that I want to see homosexual couples everywhere and in the spotlight you know ?

Arewn.2368:

they gave a large amount of focus to two main character’s lesbian relationship and even felt the need to shove a kiss scene between them into an important moment in the main story. Something unprecedented in the game, and something I’d wage we will probably never see repeated. It makes it feel like they did it just because “oh look lesbians”.

And I assume that, if Kasmeer & Marjory were Asura or Charr, the kiss scene never existed.

To answer the original question, I would give an example.

Omadd’s machine.
If all the NPC (or half of them) had had the vision too, I had better accepted it. Here we are “The Chosen one who had the vision”. Center of the World Syndrom !

I tend to prefer if our involvement in the story stand “around/with” but not “central”. In S1 they put us “around/out” and now “central”. The better way in my opinion in a MMORPG is the “around/with” way.

Roleplayers side, how can we consider that 500 people are “the one” ? So, roleplayers side, there are an unnamed unraced character second to command in the Pact, member of an unknown order, who fall in Omadd’s machine and see what Scarlet vision was. It’s a big mistake for Tyria lore.

Havoc.8419:

So I am torn between my guardian and necromancer I really like both and I can’t seem to pick what one to lvl up and make my main they are both at lvl 30. I am looking to do open world pve, Fractals and explorable dungeon runs. Any suggestions would be great.

Havoc ! Both are good but Guardian is slightly more useful than a Necromancer in a party except when there’s already a Guardian in the party. Guardians are bad at stacking their advantages.

If there’s no Guardian in your party : Guardian > Necromancer
If there’s a Guardian in your party : Necromancer > Guardian

ZudetGambeous.9573:

All you did was give the dragon a poke in the eye. You certainly didn’t kill it.

Also it only took 5 people (destiny’s edge) to almost kill an elder dragon, why is it so unbelievable that 1 person can’t take on a small time minion of an elder dragon?

It takes many thousands of people to kill an Elder Dragon.
Destiny’s edge hadn’t any chance to defeat Kralkatorrik because they forget that an Elder Dragon have armies of many thousands minions. Also there’s a big difference between kill an Elder Dragon and confuse an Elder Dragon. Snaff only confuse Kralkatorrik by sending him love thoughts.

AzureShiron.7658:

did the game really go from “they dont give the player enough credit, attention, influence, power” etc etc to, “Woah now why do we have so much power/influence” like are you guys ever going to be happy?

Yes, but you forget a thing. Some players want to be the UBER WORLD HERO SAVIOR OF TYRIA. But some other people want to feel that they aren’t alone, that their character is one of many others who do their duty to save Tyrian races from their fate, that the world don’t revolve around millions of “Me the hero” in different realities.

In a MMORPG, the second is more logical. We ARE many ones. But, the flaw during the season 1 is that they don’t delivered any valuable information. It was only “do that, make this” and at the end of each episode Scarlet telling us that “I don’t care, do whatever you want, I’m already prepared to it and don’t give a kitten of what you have done”.

I’m a roleplayer too. What I’m wanting is that our characters aren’t main characters but they give us informations. What I fear the most is the game ending like WoW, where newbie roleplayers do the quests and think they’re the world savior with cheat weapons, cheat spells, cheat armors.

I loved the Dry Top and Iron Marches parts because it was mass content.
Dry Top was like “New area ! Adventurers, explorers, and treasure hunters, come here”.
Iron Marches was like “Mordrem invasion ! Mercenaries, vigils, and charrs soldiers, come defend our lands from these draconic minions !”

Linked hollywoodian scripted events is what I want ! It’s what will make us feel that we’re an “army” of people doing is duty to help our mates, our friends, our people.

I loved Lion’s Arch battle for this reason and want that they go more in this way.

What I would love the most is a mix with WvW maps but PvE. A map where we have to conquer Mordrem settlements, defend our forts. With events of Mordrem troups trying to conquer small camps and a huge Mordrem train trying to conquer forts with their own NPC CM, a legendary Mordrem leading the troups on each of our fortress that we have to kill to shatter Mordrem offensive. Players CM having to coordinate the war between defending and conquering, players scouts looking for Mordrem troups movement acting as CM eyes and ears.

It’s a MMORPG, not a solo RPG. It’s already too much that there are millions “second in command” of the Pact. Also, focusing the story on the player will make that not all people would be satisfied and will need more time. They have to make a story for each race.

It was said during an interview that Tyria never had bible/koran/torah to hurl anathemas. Homosexuality is rare and straight people don’t understand why people can be homosexual, but don’t give a kitten to what people do.

Ah! Found it! http://gaygamer.net/2011/10/interview_guild_war_2s_ree_soe.html

The Living Worlds s2 is good, but…

There’s a new human lesbian couple. It’s said to be rare in Tyria. Why making a new human lesbian couple so obviously ? There’s other races… And where’s the gay couple ? Why do you not insist as much on straight couples ?

Also during an interview it’s said that people don’t think it matter. Why insisting so much on it so ? We don’t know these noble woman, why does she yell to us that she’s with another women ? It’s like being at a party and a stranger come and tell you she’s lesbian… We don’t care !

If you want to introduce lesbian/gay/straight couple, let us know them more intimately before or don’t bother to make NPC tell us this.
If they talk each other or are side by side, it’s enough hints for NPC we don’t care about.

Hi! I was wondering… Black Citadel have an iron ground, it’s summer, the sun is heating whatever it touch.

Are Charrs immune to burning hell iron ground ? It must be 40 to 50°C at 2 PM! Their paws have an auto cooling mechanism ? Is there a cooling system under the Black Citadel ground ?

(40 to 50°C is 104 to 122°F for the 1% country not using ISU)

It’s very annoying that many head pieces aren’t good looking on Charrs.
Why remove their horns ? It’s worse than having them messing with the fabric realism.
Without horns, hoods look like diapers :/

Balsa.3951:

Story telling wise anets writer made a leap.

They changed the writing staff.

The new one can’t obliterate that Scarlet was the main threat in S1.

But I agree that they did a great job !

Asura magitech isn’t technology. Charrs use cog, pump, etc. Asura use crystals and “anything”. Golems are just stone blocks with magically programmed crystals.

Also, you could be the most intelligent people in the world, if you don’t know what is a cog, it’ll be harder to understand how mechanisms work.

I’ve never said that it “revolve around an intellectual connection”. I said that the gap is too wide. Do you understand the subtelty ?

And for “extremly special case”. Yea if you want to see an atrophied dwarf Charr with a lobotomised Asura in love, do as you wish…
But with all the “if” needed, Jennah could became Jormag’s mate too.

Because Asura don’t learn technology. The Asura is smart, but he know nothing about technology. Asuran technomagic have nothing to do with technology.

You assume that I classify Charrs by their profession. I said “from warrior to mesmer” because they’re opposite. But if you can’t understand what a variety range is, I’ll not loose more time with you…

And “emotional connection” or “intellectual connection” is not something that make people fell in love. It’s what make them appreciate the other. Zojja isn’t Rytlock mate you know ? Even in Disney movies they don’t make ridiculous interspecies pairing…

If “friendship” next step is “love”, I would be in love with dozen of people…

I’ve included any variations like from warrior to mesmer and it’s impossible. By impossible, I mean that the probability that it happen is infinitesimal. There are more chances that Queen Jennah marry with Smodur the Unflinching than an Asura and a Charr could be in love.

The smartest Charr is like an intellectually deficient people even for the dumbest Asura ever. They can’t share anything because it’s too simple to interest the Asura or too complicated for the Charr. It be like talking quantum mechanisms to a peasant from the VI century.

The flaw is on your side, you assume that they are human-like inside with a wide range of body type known as “species”. It’s not how it work. How could an Asura and Charr fall in love ?

I never said that interspecies relationship isn’t possible. I said that Asura/Charr romance is impossible. Norn/Charr or Norn/Human is possible, but not Asura/Charr.

There are racial combinations that arent possible.
An Asura can’t be attracted by a non-Asura except by gravity (joke time !).
A Charr can’t be attracted by a Sylvari or an Asura.
A Norn or a Human can’t be attracted by an Asura.

Last time I checked, Romeo and Juliett were of the same specie and find each other attractive but their families hated each other.

In the case of a Charr and an Asura, they can’t find each other attractive.

Friendship is not romance. I’ve never say that friendship can’t happen.
But a romance can’t.

Nicholas S Lin.6187:

Thus for Tyrian Humanity to truly prosper beyond it current circumstance it MUST have full and effective control of its only safe window to the world outside of Tyria. That window has a name. And its name is: Lion’s Arch.

Other races will not let Humans take this place because it’s the economic core of Tyria and they have interests in it too. Giving it to Humans is not acceptable because it’ll give Humans a strong grasp on the world economy and knowing how corrupt can be the Humans leaders, they’ll not tolerate it.

Lion’s Arch is like Suiss, a neutral place that other will defend to protect their interests.

Any Asura, including the dumbest is way more intelligent than every non-Asura and while talking to them will have the same feeling than when you talk to someone with a “syndromic intellectual disability”. Asura are short and lack of physical strength while compared to others races.

Charr are the tallest playable race (but their hunched posture make them shorter than Norn). Every Charr is a killing-machine, the puniest Charr is physically as strong as an human fighter. They are living swiss army knife. Claws, teeth, horns, balancing tail, four ears.

It’s as stupid as if IRL a human bodybuilder marry with a 3 feet martian floating brain that can make a teleporter out of a microwave oven just because he has basic martian knowledge like are multiplication tables for a human. They would have sooooooo many common activities and soooooo interesting discussions.

Charrs and Asuras can have different tastes like fur pattern, eyes color, voice pitch, size, fat, muscle, intellect, horns/ears shape… But you’ll never see one whose tastes is the complete opposite of what millenia of evolution have put in their DNA and primitive brains.

With your logic, why not a Human in love with a Skritt ? Or a Centaur and a Quaggan ?

Just to be clear : Charrs aren’t purring fur ball. Players do whatever they want, but the lore is the lore. You try to hug a Charr, he scratch and howl back.

Asura like intelligence, big forehead, big ears, small size, huge head. Charr don’t look like small feline teddy with huge head.
Charr like their partner tall, strong, ferocious. What an Asura is not !

You will never see a Charr and an Asura hugging together except in lore-out fan mind.
A romantic relationship between these opposite races is like a sign of the Apocalypse (the death of the game). It would means that A.net killed the lore to please some players.

Charrs aren’t purring fur ball !
You try to hug a Charr, he scratch and howl back.
Asura like intelligence, big forehead, big ears, small size, huge head. Charr don’t look like small feline teddy with huge head.
Charr like their partner tall, strong, ferocious. What an Asura is not !

You will never see a Charr and an Asura hugging together except in lore-out fan mind.
I’m a fan of these two races, and a romantic relationship between an Asura and Charr is like a sign of the Apocalypse (the death of the game).

We regularly see new color, strange neon pink from some strange Asura elixir that no wise Charr would try, but I’m here to ask for a new fur/mane color that Charr are lacking, a natural color.
Charr have black, dark grey, bluish dark grey, dark red and dark brown.

The darkest brown currently available is #2A1C0E
What I suggest is adding a black brown #150E07 as a new choice !

Regularly I’m frustrated because my Charr have a black mane because the dark brown is too light (because I already use Dark brown for the fur pattern) but the black option hasn’t the matching hue.

Shield
[#4] Medusa’s head : Stun target (range 300)
[#5] Gorgon terror : Fear foes (AoE 130)

Greatsword
[#1.1] Cleaving attack, grants life force (range 130)
[#1.2] Cleaving attack, grants life force (range 130)
[#1.3] Cleaving attack, apply poison (range 130)
[#2] Whirlwind combo attack (AoE 130)
[#3] Apply blind to nearby foes, leave a dark field (AoE 180) [don’t pulse]
[#4] Apply torment to a foe (range 130)
[#5] Apply freeze to a foe, projectile combo (range 900)

Leveling build http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNAoYWjc00Sb1NO2wfjibBRygxms4RoCE1FA-e
Take Signet of the Locust first, replace with Signet of Spite when you have the +25% speed trait. Take Staff Death Magic Traits after the others.

Daggers for single DPS, with life drain, condition transfer, immobilization, blind, and weakness to stay alive.
Staff for control/huge group tagging
Well of suffering do a lot of damages
Blood is Power is good at the begin of a fight against a veteran/champion

Usually when someone tell “it isn’t nowadays” he means “GW2 is middle age like” (that is wrong). What was the point ?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNBHhZakjmWaruxyG+bTULISWsGkFCEZnWA-e
With berzerker stuff whenever it’s possible.

If more than just “dodge or die” boss exists it would be so much better.
But dodge is the only thing that every profession have…

Asura – Futuristic society.
Charr – Post industrial revolution society, you’ll see more Charr with rifles than bows.
Human – Post renaissance society, they already have gunpowder, rifles and pistols handcrafted.

And for those talking about whip… ^^ It’s a “new weapons combinations” topic more than a “new weapons family”. Because it’s way less work to just do spells instead of many many many weapons skins + spells.

Staff is a magical weapon, how do you imagine a Ranger with a staff ? A celtic druid using vines and bees ?

Currently : You can pay to have gems and complete with casual farm
Your idea : You can pay to farm like a nolife

Definitively better for people and Arena.net to stay with the current system ! Same result, less farming, less boring.

Hello, everyone !

I’m here because I’ve got ideas of new weapons choices for us. And there are great chances that you too !

Engineer – Focus
Mostly designed like a device more than a magical item. It can have a reflect area effect and can be combined with a coffee pot for breakfast !

Ranger – Rifle
A Charr or an Asura scout will have a rifle instead of a bow. And imagine a proud Human hunter with his drakehound and his well crafted rifle.

Thief – Torch
Thieves are adventurers too, like Indiana Jones or Lara Croft, they could explore ruins and caves, but to be rich from the selling of these treasures ! But how can they go through these old dark places without a torch ? With a sword, a dagger or a pistol, they could slash and burn these ooze that are on the path !

Warrior – Pistol
Charr Iron soldiers regularly have pistol/shield ! Lion’s guard too.

Guardian – Warhorn
In the middle of a battle resonate an holy sound, a magically imbued blow that help you, filling you with motivation, courage, and hope.

Hi !
The current major issue with random sPvP is X vs X-1 (5 vs 4 usually) where no auto-balancing is done.

IMHO, for the duration of the “X vs X-1” match, the X players team may have a malus or the X-1 players team get a bonuses.

Some ideas that could balance these phases :
X players team can’t get any point by killing an opponent player.
X players team have 10% less health.
X players team can’t respawn until one of them died (making the match a X-1 vs X-1)
X players team respawn slower
X-1 players team have 10% more health
X-1 players respawn faster
X-1 players respawn with a 10s speed buff

@Kalavier: Where is this NPC please ?

Hello !

Where is the fat ? No human (PC & NPC) have any fat… It’s unnatural…
I don’t talk about obese people. But why can’t we make women like in this paint ? http://corioblog.com/concert.jpg All the current models are nearly anorexic or have a muscled belly.
Same for men, having some fat is natural in this post-Renaissance-like society.
It could add variety to character creation and help you make some rich Humans NPC.

Filled with candies and players letters asking to remove hobo-sack ?

Yeah, I thought Tribunes but marked Imperators xD

Most logical thing I think about how it’s organised :

Soldier
Command nothing, obey simply. Can suggests thing.

Legionaire
Command a warband (Tactical unit commander)
Ensure that the warband jobs is done with direct view of what is happening to adapt how they’ll do it instantly.

Centurion
Command warbands (Tactician / battle commander)
Manage warbands during a battle, overviewing the battle field, trying to anticipate ennemy counter attack, managing where warbands have to go to be useful.

Tribune
Command armies (Strategist / warmaster)
Plan entire wars, debate on how to proceed with long term views, counselors of the Imperator.

Imperator
Supreme ruler of a high legion (chief warmaster)
Leader and ender of Tribunes disagreements

When you have a one year thread with nearly height thousands replies, not giving any kitten is a strange choice…

If I could do [+10000] to Basaltface, I would do it.

Scout tag is a nice idea ^^

Hi!

I come here with a suggestion. CM Tags “account bound”.
If you have a character with a CM Tags, it would be great if you can pay like 2000 Badge of Honor to get it with an other character. OR pay 5000 Badge of Honor to have it account bound and every character of you have the CM Tag option.