Guild Wars 2

There was lore set forth prior to launch as to why female charr and asura are the way they are. I’m sure someone can dig those interviews back up, but I don’t feel like spending that much time on it.

Personally, I’m very glad GW2 didn’t go the over sexualized female route. It doesn’t fit those races.

Thatkitten Rat.1236:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Its supposed to help entice you to purchase the expansion. Its called “marketing.”

And there was me thinking it was supposed to be an aid to players to find content, you know it’s stated purpose. There’s no point showing me content I can’t do, and subverting a tool in game for marketing is annoying, transparent and does nothing to aid their cause. The tool is already kind of irritating in the fact we can’t remove notification s we’ve already seen/or have no interest in, this just serves to highlight how limited the interface in this game is and how much basic functionality is missing from it.

Oh, it functions as an aid too… regardless of what it’s telling you, because you can click on it and it tells you what you have to do to be able to access that content. But the fact that you cannot turn it off, also makes it a tool for marketing. One purpose doesn’t preclude another. So, we’re essentially on the same page.

Ohoni.6057:

They need to provide alternate paths for earning these materials, for players who want the final result just as much as any PvPer, but do not enjoy PvP gameplay nearly as much.

No… those should come as alternative legendary back packs via different modes. Just like fractals has one with it’s own skin, which require you to fractal. It’s perfectly fine that pvp will get several with their own skins, which require you to pvp. Now they need to incorporate a few into WvW, and some through other PvE options. All with different skins. It incentivizes participation in those modes if you want a particular skin.

Vidal.4306:

Right, it’s marketing, but at its most clumsy and most annoying. If anything else, it makes me want to buy HoT even less.

shrug We all wish we could turn off the assorted stuff in that corner from time to time. Maybe some day…

Its supposed to help entice you to purchase the expansion. Its called “marketing.”

Matisse.9356:

Feeling embarrassed for the OP.
Not sure if he failed to comprehend the according dev posts or if the fingers were faster than the mind. Seems to be more and more common on the forum nowadays, so at least he is not alone.

Yeah a lot of people misconstrue what was said in the post regarding this.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Players have to be disconnected for two minutes before they get dishonor and the other players on the team get a forfeit instead of a defeat.

So…I understand giving the time limit, this way people can swap or whatever and get back in without being dinged.

I also understand that some people may be attempted to swap to get the win on another class and not get in before the game ends, in which case giving them dishonor doesn’t really make sense.

However, essentially standing around for 120s when you know there isn’t a snowflake’s chance in hell is just wasting everyone’s time. Is it possible to add some logic to check if the game ended before they returned, and if their team lost, to not deduct the pip? At which point, dishonor should probably also be applied, where as currently they get away scott free if the game ends before that 2 minute mark.

echo.2053:

Deedrick.4372:

Well, its one thing to choose not to play together, but who gets to decide the label on the account as casual or hardcore. Who decides the definition of hardcore for that matter. And how do you convince the hardcore, they need to be handicapped, so others can enjoy the game a bit more.

It varies from player to player mostly in areas where gameplay is boring so they force themselves where others would quit.

Generally speaking

*Casuals – laid back game play, shy away and are easily intimidated by challanges. Follower mindset. *

Hardcore parkour (not possible to not add that last bit lol) – Consatntlytrying to push the limits, often handicap themselves – such as solo gameplay, weaker gear or gearless runs.

As a casual player, I find this extremely offensive. I play solo most of the time, but by your definition I’m a mindless sheep. Not appreciated.

moony.5780:

echo.2053:

moony.5780:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

All I see here is: “I want Hard Mode” a la GW1

The answer we’ve been given is that they don’t want to do that in GW2 for a myriad of reasons.

Beyond that, I honestly don’t think they’d be able to make it work in any feasible or enjoyable way.

really? why?….i loved the gw1 hardmode..it was super cool….

bcs people can start small..and once they mastered the game in normal mode…they can make the hardmode instead of leaving the game

and i dont think its impossible to just make another version of a map where downscaling is hared and 2 times more monster….in the past there were muuuuch more monster than now..so if they reduced it..they can also increase it

The current system is already requires heavy amount of resources. Doubling that cost when they need to use megaservers to fill maps wouldn’t be good business sense.

true…but letting the player downscale himself more than normaly would avoid this…like i can say..autodownscale..always -1 lvl -2 lvl..and so one

You have to keep in mind that GW1 was also completely instanced. There were no repeating events. No respawning foes. No people loading in and out all of the time. People also had heroes and hench that they could rely on when they couldn’t find people for whatever reason. In short, the two games are drastically different beasts.

Beyond all of the technical stuff though, I believe something was mentioned about spreading the population too thin. It was a similar conversation when they responded to people asking for hard mode dungeons.

Of course, they could do a complete 180 on us, and do it down the road. Who knows.

No it doesn’t reset. And as you keep crossing tiers, it will count towards the next achievement in the list.

All I see here is: “I want Hard Mode” a la GW1

The answer we’ve been given is that they don’t want to do that in GW2 for a myriad of reasons.

Beyond that, I honestly don’t think they’d be able to make it work in any feasible or enjoyable way.

They probably care, to a certain extent, Phantis.

However, based on the comments made in the AMA, regardless of whether they care or not, we won’t see any fixes for any of the issues until S3.

I was kind of bummed to hear that we won’t see LS3 until July at the earliest. Granted, at this point, that’s only 4 months away…but 4 months is a long time in a game, depending on what we get between now and then.

So, going to randomly toss this out there… if anyone would like a hand with this, feel free to add me. If I’m online, and not busy, I have no issues lending a hand.

Beyond that, for some of the bugs I’ve encountered in HoT, sometimes abandoning the story step (via the story journal) I’m on and then restarting it has fixed the issue for me.

Yargesh.4965:

Sounds like your husband needs to get more vitality stat armour and a pet class. Toughness pulls like a magnet so avoid that. If you can survive and his pets survive his chance of survival is basically guaranteed.

So, he’s not allowed to enjoy playing other classes, is what you’re saying here. If he likes warrior or ele, too bad for him? Just play ranger? Telling someone they can’t play for enjoyment isn’t the answer.

Yes, adjusting the armor he chooses to wear, and carrying some defensive skills are a given. He’s always done that (wears Valk on his ele, getting him to upgrade to marauders on his war).

Edit: On a side note, I do find it quite funny that no matter what armor he’s wearing vs what I’m wearing, or whose doing more dmg, the foes always go for him. They did this in GW1 too. The joke in our guild was you weren’t allowed to monk, unless you could pass the “test” of keeping his kitten alive.

Shylock.4653:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

So, when we’re exploring, and we run into a hero challenge we can’t complete because he keeps dying, or I can’t keep the aggro to keep him alive,

You don’t need every HC. There are many where no combat is needed and you only need to channel. Some are quite easy and only a few are more difficult.

While I am aware of this, and he’s aware of this, it’s beside the point. Exploration, mapping, story completion, those are the things he likes to do. Things we’ve always been able to do. If he were trying to raid, which is intended to be “difficult content,” sure I could see the push back, but this is open world. The component that was stated as something that was supposed to be for everyone. Back when they were discussing (oh so long ago) that they knew they needed some harder content for some people, but that some things needed to be “for everybody.”

Disclaimer: I am not advocating for massive nerfs btw. Just some minor tweaks, here and there.

Lite Ning Strike.5203:

Lanfearshadowflame.3189 please jot down my screen name and find me online. I run with a group of various ages and skill level players. You can join our guild if you want but don’t have too. We would be more than happy to help you and your husband. We aren’t a bunch of world killers as individuals but as a team we can do anything.

We do a little of everything and really enjoy meeting new people and forging friendships. Take care and hope to see you all online….

Noted.

While I have no issues taking you up on the offer, I’ll see if he’s interested. Like I said, when we play together, it’s really about us playing together. Some couples go on dates. Some do adventure stuff. We game.

Beyond that, he’s …. very anti-social, I guess is the polite way to put it. He has a very hard time making friends, cause he really just doesn’t like people. Of course, considering a lot of the people we’ve ran into in the past, I can’t say I blame him.

As I said in another, similar thread, this is considered an acceptable match up. The only match permutation that is not allowed is 5 v 1,1,1,1,1 which is not what the screenshot shows. That is 5 v 2,1,1,1. Not much better, but falls within their “acceptable” match ups.

Others of us have experienced this as well. I was in a game that ended up 3v5, so we let them just rush and finish the kitten thing, cause there wasn’t a chance in hell. Regardless we all still lost a pip. From my understanding if the match doesn’t last ‘x’ length of time after the dc, you get screwed.

I understand how you feel. I’m roughly half way through Sapphire now. Sometimes I get great games. Sometimes I get games (“dont go far” “home and mid only” etc etc) where you just know they are going to end badly (and they do). Its like their brains just checked out and went on vacation.

shrug

I very much like someone of these. There are 4 I’d like to get, but I don’t have the tickets at the moment. And parting with that much gold gives me heart pains.

I find playing HoT content alone to be tedious at times. Its slow going if I’m slogging through on my own, or I’m just another faceless body when I jump into the zerg-zerg-zerg content to work on assorted achievement tasks.

The last couple of weeks, I have been playing through the content with my husband. He loves aspects of HoT, but the general difficulty level is a bit beyond him, and he finds it extremely frustrating at times. For him, the game is about us playing together. He’s really not into zerg play. So, when we’re exploring, and we run into a hero challenge we can’t complete because he keeps dying, or I can’t keep the aggro to keep him alive, I can almost taste his frustration. He gets so angry, because the game is supposed to be relaxing and enjoyable (and the core game was). He works 70+ hours a week, he has 0 interest in spending hours trying to “get gud” as you people put it because that’s not the reason he plays. It hurts, and it’s sad to see him walk away from a game he used to really enjoy because after a decade of play, Anet just doesn’t give a rats kitten about his type of player anymore.

StickerHappy.8052:

Shaogin.2679:

StickerHappy.8052:

Shaogin.2679:

People use the word “spam” way too loosely. 1 Reaper can spawn at most 6 of those Shambling Horrors, and only if they hit 5 targets. The skill is no more mindless than any other skill in the game, and they are easy to destroy in a teamfight. I get you all are on a witch hunt against Reapers, but these nerf requests are getting ridiculous.

2 necros that’s 12. With 1 shout. Plus Death Nova, Plus Bone minion. = ?

if they hit 5 targets? LOL. Mesmer clones? Pets? other AIs? Other Minions? Gyros? It is very easyyyy to cap…

Whoah whoah whoah, we were talking non-mm reapers here using a shout. Can’t just throw in Death Magic. And anyways, multiple mesmers have been causing clutter since the dawn of the game. But I get it, DOWN WITH REAPERS right? I’ll go grab my pitchfork and tin foil hat. ^.^

Clones disappear when shattered tho. Can be easily killed, way easier than minions.

Minions cleave down quite easily too.
Shambling only live for 25s if they aren’t aoed down before then.
Full MM’s sacrifice other utilities for the minion build.

Edit: Granted, if you have multiple MMs on the opponent team, it can be extremely annoying. However, it’s not any more annoying than having multiple mesmers against you, especially running chronophantasma and illusionary reversion. Ugh.

Annonrae.3681:

I was born in the year Pink Floyd released “The Wall”, Sony released the first Sony Walkman ( for a whooping $200 ), and Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister in the UK. I suffered through shoulder pads and spandex while I grew up. My mom’s hair was so big, she didn’t fit through doors.

I’m a level 37 human now.

I’m not quite as old as you….

..but I remember when my older sisters used to do my hair like that “for fun.” Needless to say after their “torture,” I found I never had a taste for makeup or doing anything other than tossing my hair into a pony tail by the time I was old enough to do it myself.

Rauderi.8706:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Old enough to remember watching real cartoons after school and on Saturday mornings. To remember watching the original Vampire Hunter D on TV before anime was the “hot” thing. To remember when doing chores and taking care of your pets wasn’t something you did to earn an allowance, but expected of you as a means of learning responsibility.

kitten I feel old….

You can rest on my lawn.

And then git off it, whippersnapper!

Ah, real cartoons. I miss those.

:D

I miss real cartoons too. The stuff they pass off as cartoons today….just…ugh…

Darcher.3810:

Ok wait Troll is a ugly creature it has nothing to do with what you guys are saying. The only meaning of Trolls are those creatures even in GW2. I seen pics of them and they are just weird looking creatures. lol

Have no idea if you’re being serious here, so I’m just going to skip it…

Darcher.3810:

But I am confused since some of you guys say it has the base game so does it mean its the full game of the original GW2 without the expansion pack?

Ok I had a long drawn out answer, but I’m going to skip it too. In short, yes, free accounts have essentially complete run of the core (orginal) GW2 game.

However, they have some limitations. For example, they only get 2 character slots instead of 5. They can’t use map chat, just say chat. They can only initiate a new whisper conversation with someone that is not on their friends list once every 30 seconds. There is a limitation to what you can buy and sell on the TP. Etc

On the flip side, you can fully level a character from 1 to 80. You have access to WvW (after lvl 60, I think it is). You can do sPvP if you so desire. You can go through the entire Personal Story. Etc Etc.

Personally, if you get a character to 80 and feel like you want to keep playing, you should probably just invest the 50$ at that point to unlock everything and give you access to the expansion. But prior to that, its a very extensive “free trial.”

Old enough to remember watching real cartoons after school and on Saturday mornings. To remember watching the original Vampire Hunter D on TV before anime was the “hot” thing. To remember when doing chores and taking care of your pets wasn’t something you did to earn an allowance, but expected of you as a means of learning responsibility.

kitten I feel old….

I get them from champ bags in EotM. I have gotten several. Just go karma train for a few hours. Should get you one.

HossDelgado.5832:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Its part of what was implemented this season. Regardless of win or loss, if you get tagged as a leaver (which I think is a 60s timer?) you lose a pip.

ty . that’s really a dumb thing to do

It is, and it is not. It is a compromise for those that would attempt to abuse the system. Due to how long you were gone, had the game resulted in a loss for your team, they wouldn’t have lost pips. Without this…deterrent… there would be those that exploit this feature. “x is the designated dc if we start losing, this way none of us lose pips.”

Edit: kitten filter

Its part of what was implemented this season. Regardless of win or loss, if you get tagged as a leaver (which I think is a 60s timer?) you lose a pip.

Personally, not striving for Legendary (as much as I would enjoy the title, but that’s the PvEr in me talkin). My goal is simply Diamond. Not even end level Diamond. Just want to cross the threshold. It would be an improvement over how far I made it last season, and that’s sufficient for me. That’s pretty much it.

And of course, it’s one less threshold I have to cross later on when I’m finishing my trek for the back piece

shion.2084:

Yasi.9065:

Now what I REALLY HATE are those noobs that… after capping mid… run far to try to cap far and leave mid and close empty.

THATS stupid, and THOSE people should just NEVER be allowed to play pvp again.

Depends how fast you are… I can do this, cap far and get back to mid in Foe Fire.

Mes portal is lovely for this. Or to pop back to home from mid…

I ran into this last night during one of my games.

Had 1 teammate complain of a 3k ping, then disconnected. Then we had a 2nd player just up and leave. Finished the game (lost, badly). Neither player came back, so it ended as 3v5. All solo q’s. Still lost a pip.

sigh

I enjoyed leveling my necros; they were one of the classes I found easiest to do.

Ranger is decent too, with the right pet.

Mesmer is very…slow until you get about half way through and start getting a decent amount of traits and skills unlocked. Then the play livens up a bit.

Ele can be very confusing for some people with all the attunement swapping and such. I can’t say that I recommend staff for leveling (though I have done it).

I’m sort of “meh” on Revenant. Probably due to the fact that I haven’t spent extensive time on the class. I’m still trying to get into the hang of swapping legends and swapping weapons for this class.

Right now, most people would probably tell you Necro and Rev would be the easiest, most face roll options. Ranger would probably be the next in line. Mes and Ele take a bit more learning and thought. At least, imo.

My guild is just me for the time being, otherwise I would extend the offer.

A lot of people have asked for the ability to mix and match across the weight tiers. Maybe, eventually, they’ll look at redoing the mesh system which they use for designing armor; however, I highly doubt it.

They really need to add/put back/something to look at what classes are getting stuck where, in addition to what they are already looking at for the algorithm.

Just wooooooow

We all do.

Last season Anet told us to report those people under “botting.” I know some people continue to do this, and will until Anet says to do otherwise. So, I guess, try that?

I had a couple of games like that last night. There are a lot of reapers this time around.

Of course, it doesn’t help when people in map chat keep telling people “swap to reaper, free pips.” Granted, I’m not the best player, maybe not even average, but I’ve seen some bad ones that make me look like a freakin’ god! Kind of makes me want to cry.

Yes, I will hoof my kitten to far when the 4 that went mid wipe before or just as I finish capping home. There is zero point going mid at that time, and hanging out at home when the 4 of them will be respawning isn’t necessarily the wisest choice either.

Or, if I’m one of the ones that went mid and my 3 teammates melt like butter (and I can’t safely get them back up) I’ll hoof my kitten out of the fight and poke far to see if I can entice a few away from mid, this way when my teammates respawn they can attempt it again (cause you just know they will).

Of course, there are plenty of games where I start by going far, because as a necro I can usually delay that initial cap significantly, if not steal it all together. Just depends on what I’m facing and if someone comes to help them and what that someone is.

Update: I made it to Emerald T3! Woohoo! I know, not that exciting, unless you’re me.

Of course, if I have to keep putting up with people like I ran into last night, I might just go postal on someone.

Hammerguard.9834:

Guy, last season, players were able to reach diamond/legend without ever seeing a good player. It’s like there was multiple versions of each division for all levels of MMR. Just becasue people got to a higher division last season doesn’t mean they belong there.

And the people that got caught in the pro players’ win streaks don’t necessarily belong there now. Conversely, those stuck in emerald and sapphire very much might, but can’t catch a break due to the current match making.

Its kind of hard to know when you we can’t actually see what we’ve got for a MMR value.

Can’t. Stop. Laughing.

Well…my personal goal is to claw my way (kicking and screaming if necessary) into Diamond…so, still gritting my teeth and pushing through atm. Limiting myself to the 3 games for the daily on weekdays (if I log in at all) and we’ll see how the weekend goes.

It doesn’t translate well in text. I thought so, but was just making sure…

Talyn Sneider.1825:

The greatest NPCs of gw1:

Oink:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Oink

Prince Rurik:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Prince_Rurik

Kilroy Stonekin:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Kilroy_Stonekin

Make it so

Oink would be awesome! I would laugh so hard.

That’s not an apology.

It’s a diversionary tactic. But yes, we’ve seen that before.

1) Day 2? Might have been Day 3. Its been a week and I can’t even remember wtf I did yesterday.

2) Emerald T1 – T2 (I keep bouncing back and forth)

3) I think its roughly 49% now

4) Semi stuck. I win 1, lose 1, win 1, lose 3, win 1, etc. Very much a 1 step forward, 2 steps back frustration. It would be less frustrating if the losses weren’t 500 -13, 500 – 125, 500 – 40, etc etc. I’ll get 1 game with people that know what they are doing, then I’ll get a bunch of games that leave me going “team? hello? where’d everyone go? wtf are you doing?”

5) Huge? No…unless you count 5-6 as huge. Conversely I’m not getting the huge win streaks either (obviously).

6) Considering I solo q’ed my way into the final tier of Ruby last season, the fact that I can’t seem to break out of Emerald this time around is disheartening. I honestly don’t know if I’m going to play much beyond the 3 required daily games for the league daily achievement, and I’m finding it hard to find the motivation to do that.

Snorcha.7586:

BrotherBelial.3094:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Snorcha.7586:

time to move on to a different game guys, how many more chances are you going to give these developers? – It’s clear after 3 years they have NO idea what they are doing and each attempt the game gets progressively worse.

snort

I’ve been hanging around since 2006…. perty sure I aint going nowhere after being around this long. Glutton for punishment, that’s me.

Eventually it’ll get better….. and then they’ll touch it again. XD

I completely agree. Been playing GW/GW2 way too long to stop. Just because I’m not a fan of the current system, dose not mean it cannot/ will not change.

ANet have done enough good to keep me around. Sure they don’t always get everything as I see it right. But then I never get thing right all the time as my wife would tell you.

This is true, but ask yourself, when was the last time you had one of those “Wow, what an awesome feature” moments, or “Man, that was so much fun” moments.

Different folks different strokes, just saying don’t be afraid of change, you might surprise yourself!

Lol no…not afraid of change. If I was…I probably wouldnt be here to begin with, let alone still here…

As for “man that was so much fun” …kicking Mordy’s butt Sunday. Finally got around to playing HoT’s story, and I had a blast in the last instance.

Thought they could do that now? So would it really be that different? Or they could just not make it stack from multiple sources.

Warcry.1596:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Alacrity got hit harder than it should have been, imo. It was a knee jerk reaction on Anet’s part.

I don’t disagree that chill needs some tweaking as well, but let’s not do another knee jerk smiter’s boon nerf.

Alacrity seemed to have been needed due to Spirit Vale. Which is weird because they have said they balance around PvP. Alacrity is fine as it is now, it trivialized PvE content much like 100% Quickness used to

If you take a look at what was said about that, they stated that the group dps was much higher than intended because of how much alacrity was shared out from the mesmer. When they were first talking about alacrity before HoT, they made it sound like the shared alacrity would be much more limited than what it ended up being. What they should have done was curbed that component of the boon. Would have achieved the same effect without breaking other things.

Buffalo: Well I caught that much. I actually wanted to see it. Would be a good giggle.

Jess: Pity I missed it.