Guild Wars 2

I can’t stop laughing at this video,
it’s cheesy and awesome all at the same time.
kudos to the creator.

Brutal Arts.6307:

I’m not going to leave the game because of it but I sure avoid wvw like the plague except for when the monthly resets.

^^ Ditto, I go in get my 50 kills get out, the only other thing I go in for is the stupid 500 badges of honor needed for legendary.

no real reason to stick around the way it is now, the rewards are meaningless
Let’s see if the big 2013 upcoming WvW messiah patch fixes things up for good, if not Nostradamus foresees the end of the WvW side of Guild Wars 2 altogether.

I’ve been playing since BWE 1, have logged 800+ hours into the game and I have not seen more than 5-8 exotic drops, 10-15 rare drops, and the precursor I got from the Karka final event fiasco and even than it was a worthless underwater precursor valued at less than 10g.

So yes I agree completely with the drop rate and precursor prices being outrages also the 2 elephants in the room namely the stupid RNG and MF

Less RNG less MF crap would be nice !

Account bound from the start no selling legendary weapons on the trading post !
most of the stuff needed to craft one is account bound so why are they tradable ?

I’m sorry but why can’t we add an image signature instead of plain old text ?
even if I put an image link it only displays the link not the image come on it’s the 21st century for crying out loud !

Example:
Raptr has some very nice signatures I’d like to use and can’t !

Bruno Sardine.2907:

It’s just a pursuit devoid of skill…. I’d much rather it be minimal farming to craft gifts to put in the forge to get a precursor (account bound), followed by a unique quest (or chain) in order to “upgrade” the precursor -> legendary. The chain could be a combo of solo and group that’s pretty tough, but it’d be fun and unique and really say something about actually getting a legendary item other than “gg that your grind-hell is over”.

^^ Couldn’t have said it better myself, also most of the gifts and items needed to make the legendary weapons are account bound so why the F is it tradable seriously ?

You’re damaging your own game economics with this and precusrsors being acquired the way they are.

Changes:
1 Legendary items should be account bound and not tradable.
2 legendary precursor should be acquired in a non RNG manner and be account bound.
3 T6 mats and mystic clover again less RNG more skill based ways to acquire them.

Note

I don’t care if the quests or story lines are hard as nails or nightmare mode difficulty level to complete and takes me months to do so as long as I know once I finish it I will get what I’ve been after

Not everything in the game needs to be beatable by a 5 year old !
this is arguably one of the very few skill challenges that actually is true to it’s name.
That said, I did solo it on my level appropriate guardian.

Abigor.4952:

Need a Hard Mode -> Go to WvW

Zerg fest does not equal hard mode sorry.
also did I mention PVP at all NO I did NOT !

I’m talking PVE sir !

And NO I do NOT consider WvW a PVE environment !
any environment where there’s player versus player action is technically and literally Player Vs Player NOT PVE !

No there is no but possibility there !
Can you kill another player? yes, than that is a pvp environment period !
as enjoyable as that is mind you

TwiceDead.1963:

it would be downright unfair because other (newer) players wouldn’t have the same privilege, or rather they would be unable to.

Why, as a new player all you have to do is get completion to access hard mode, even now after 7 years in GW1 you still have to complete normal mode
to access hard mode. You clearly are just talking about equality w/o a clue as to what you’re talking about !

I also see you never played GW1 hard mode.
it is a valid more harder version of the game for those that have completed certain aspects of the game.

I’m not saying introduce it right now, more like in the near future.

Let’s face it, for anyone that has learned how to play this game the way it’s meant to be played PVE is a steamroll and dungeons are easy mode !

Now hear me out before you yell no,

Say you have 100% world completion or you have completed a certain dungeon or all dungeons for that matter.

For dungeons:
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to have a [Hard Mode] option ?
with an increased rewards table of course !

For PVE:
I know the world scales you down relevant to the level of the area, which is still steam rolling if you know how to play your character.

Now, wouldn’t it be great to be able to select [Hard Mode] and be down leveled even further and ramp up the rewards for you ?

Imagine [Hard Mode] World completion !
get 4 gifts of exploration instead of 2 or something extra, now that is awesome.

Moderator.1462:

Hi everyone,

Latinkuro, if you see the thread written by Gaile does not say that the use of ANY third party program will ban you, but the use of those which give you an advantage over others or modify the client in some way.

Thanks for your understanding

yeah, that is a big maybe he/she wrote…
I don’t dabble in maybe’s !
the combat mod received an official answer saying you will NOT get banned for using combat mod or whatever the name of the mod is.

I ask for nothing less and nothing more.

Iavra.8510:

M3 (Click on scroll wheel) is dodging in my setup but i guess you want to be able to bind the actual scrolling…

Yes, I primarily use my mouse wheel in other games for targeting.
example mouse wheel down= nearest target
mouse wheel up = next target

right now I can only use middle click which is my normal jump button.

So I want to key bind my stupid mouse wheel the game does NOT let me, which is a totally viable key to use in many modern games !!!!

Now since YOU a.net do not provide this I will have to get creative !!!
no I don’t want stupid macros !
no i don’t want any advantage !

Just want to be able to use my stupid mouse wheel alright !!!

Now they’re telling me I could get banned for doing something they should already provide an option for !!!

How come using action mode mod of whatever to turn the game into a total action based game does NOT get you banned confirmed by devs but trying to bind your mouse wheel WILL !!!

Seriously ??

I want a response that using a program (X-mouse) to allow me to do something YOU should already provide will not get me banned !!!

All i want is to use my mouse wheel for key binding is that to much to ask ?

I’ve asked for this to be added to the game since beta and not a word from YOU !

Don’t believe me look here
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Mouse-wheel-keybind-program/first#post978057

Hi,

I’m looking for a program that allows me to bind keys to my scroll wheel, since arena.net will not or cannot add this to the game I’m forced to use a 3rd party program to do it.

Many games allow you to key bind your mouse wheel, how come GW2 doesn’t ?

I’ve tried X-mouse, but it doesn’t allow for free customization, you can only choose from a crappy list of meaningless options.

Any ideas ?

You need a particle effects density slider in options, seriously !
self explanatory, you can’t see anything as a melee player
you need a mouse pointer color selection seriously !
the mouse pointer color blends with the background and I almost never know where it is when I need to use the stupid thing, takes valuable seconds to locate it, let me choose a color that stands apart from the background so that when I release my right click I know right away where the pointer is

How many bot reports does it take for you to finally get an alert and ban a farming bot? it is so annoying, I put my time into my small farming time and there’s always a bot there making my life miserable, I get the bot killed, he re-spawns and starts all over again, this has been going on for a week now, in Frostgourge sound lv 79 icebrood colossus spawn locations.

I think you need to make it so you get an alert faster when people are reporting farming bots and gold sellers, and take more immediate action.

Guild chat broken after 07/12 maintenance.

So most of the new jewelry recipes are ONLY dropped in dungeons from Bosses !
Wait, what, more RNG? just what GW2 doesn’t need more of. !

This RNG business is so annoying !
Makes it that much annoying to craft !!!
having to hope to get lucky with RNG to actually get a freaking recipe is NOT the way GW2 was designed !!!!

Introduce other ways to acquire these recipes !!!!

I rather spent time and know I will get it for sure,
rather than hope for RNG blessing day !!!
or make the recipe cost 1000 tokens just NOT the stupid RNG !!!

If I liked RNG I’d go play wow, rift, swtor etc…..

This is so annoying I hate RNG !!!!
this just makes it that much annoying to craft !!!
having to hope to get lucky with RNG to actually get a freaking recipe is NOT the way GW2 was designed !!!!

Introduce other ways to acquire these recipes !!!!
I rather spent time and know I will get it for sure, than hope for RNG blessing day !!!
or make the recipe cost 1000 tokens just NOT the stupid RNG !!!

If I liked RNG I’d go play wow, rift, swtor etc…..

This hasn’t been brought up as of late.

Please A.net do not forget to address the rampant particle effects issue.
it is hard to see what is going on even in dungeons with only 5 people, it is almost impossible to see important places to use block or dodge as it is.

Also I’d like to add that to many skills have the same kind of sound effect.
this coupled with the visual issues makes it hard to know what skill is being used.

I’d say each elite skill and profession signature skills need to have their own unique sound effect.

Example:
I hate to mention Stun Wars here, but one of the few things swtor did get right is sound and particle effects saturation.

Sound example:
you’re in the middle of a 10 v 10 fight and all of a sudden there’s this distinctive sound of lightning or gravity gun, at that moment you know for sure a trooper is destroying people with his grav rounds and a sorcerer is decimating the enemy with fork lighting.

Particle effects example:
even in a 10 v 10 fight, you can still see enemy hand movements and what they are doing, you can also easily identify your friendly aoe even if the same class is being played by both sides, for example if both sides have lightning aoe 1 team lightning is reddish color with a red ground marker and the other team has purple lightning with purple ground marker.

Time to kill PVP:
the time to kill in the lower PVP brackets is way to low, players die in the span of 4 seconds. Yet another thing swtor got right TTK was the best part of balance in swtor PVP.

Yes, swtor flopped because they made to many mistakes, but we have to give credit where credit is due, sound, particle effects and TTK are the best things swtor had going for it.

Korrigan.4837:

I also hope this will never happen. If they remove the money gains from the box purchases, they will have to compensate through the item shop. The last thing I want in GW2 is a greedy item shop like all those trash F2P games have.

^^ Could not have said it better myself, totally agree.
all those crappy complete f2p games always become greedy and it hurts the player base a lot.

B2P is the best form of f2p there is.
all they need is a 48 hour free trial option, at some time down the line so that those that are cheapskate enough that will not buy an amazing game because it doesn’t have a free trial shut the F up about that already.

1. When did you begin playing? (post bw’s)
Head start the minute the servers came up
2. how many hours total do you have? (/age)
main 582 hours
3. What’s your most gold banked so far?
25g
4. Do you have a max level character (s)? (number if more than one)
only 1 lv 80 toon
5. List 1-3 areas / zones / events / tp; where you spend most of your time for income.
Cursed shores, AC, CoF, FotM
6. Do you mainly use MF or not?
MF only for open world PVE, not for dungeons
7. Have you ever got an exotic weapon from a mob? If so, how many and total?
2 total from mob drops
8. Have you ever got an exotic weapon from a chest? If so, how many and total?
2 including 1 precursor for legendary spear
9. What’s the most number of rare weapons you have looted in one day or 8hrs time?
no idea, but in general the drop rate is very low
10. How many rare or exotic weapons do you “expect” to loot in one hour of time?
loot is horrible unless decked in MF which is major fail imo
11. How many lodestones have you looted total so far? (all types)
only 3 I mostly get cores so I use my alt to upgrade them to lodestones
12. Do you craft? If so, do you have a 400 crafter? if so, how many?
yes I craft, 3 professions at 400.
13. Do you sell your looted crafting mats? specify optional
not really worth it, I only sell exotic crafted items when profitable
14. Do you feel your return, (in terms of items, completion, income, etc) for your time, has been worth it?
not really, loot needs a major rework in this game
15. In ONE word, what needs improved most; from your perspective?
I’ll give you 3, CULLING, LOOT and remove MF altogether it’s a bad mechanic

Mian.1945:

Boggle.

Asking for no level scaling in GW2 is like asking for no guns in Counter Strike because you dislike being shot.

^ this, and I would add the following:
- even as a down scaled player you are much more powerful than a player playing the area at the correct level, think about it all your utilities, elites and traits are open plus you have superior rune bonuses/sigil bonuses that level correct players don’t have.

As a warrior I don’t really bother fighting the low level mobs at all if i need vistas or gathering resources unless i get 5 or more on me, even than they die in 2 hits.

I’d say level scaling needs to scale not just on level but also on gear to make it a challenge to fight as down scaled lv80 in lower level zones.

If you have trouble as a lv80 in lower level zones, than I hate to break it to you but it’s not the scaling that is killing you, it’s most likely a bad build design, either to glassy or simply a very kittened build.

Vain.7643:

They don’t deserve to be praised when 1000 of accounts are being hacked while they can’t do anything about it.

Accounts getting hacked it’s not just a.net responsibility !
Ultimately the majority of the blame lies between the computer and the chair !
use unique passwords and use the kitten (yes I wrote kitten) authenticator and I assure you 99% of the accounts with proper security measures do not get hacked at all !

I guess it’s easier for people to blame a.net instead of making proper passwords and using the security tools at your disposal to prevent something that in the end no matter what misguided ideas you might have is your own fault !

Wow it is true people are never satisfied !
What other mmo gives you this much quality content for free every single month ?
NONE !

Most mmo’s give you small patches once a month and paid content every 6 months,
A,net gives you tons of new content on a monthly basis and people still complain !

Sure there are bugs, but the game is playable and those bugs are only minor annoyances, none of them are major game breakers !

Get off your high horse, bugs will be fixed in due time !
entitled much !

Rissou.7213:

Awh thanks, to bad im human, guess i have to wait for racechange to be implemented

Human medium cultural T3 is also very nice and skimpy.

http://www.gw2armor.com/human/female/c3/medium/display_looks.php

Brutalistik.6473:

If that’s the case about so many warriors in dungeons being glass cannons. Then Anet might change warriors so that glass cannon spec isn’t the only spec to participate in dungeons etc.

Glass cannon is not the only viable build for warriors….!

Shouts healer might stacker, is the best build for a dungeon warrior hands down.
it has great group healing & group condition management capabilities coupled with the survivability of a tank plus comparable damage to a glass cannon.

Spec: 0/0/25/30/15
Armor: pow/vit/tough
jewelry: knight jewelry
Utilities: OMM, FGJ, SIO.
Elite: signet of rage or banner your choice.

Weapons: greatsword/longbow
spare weapons: hammer, rifle, shield, mace

Sigils: superior sigil of battle for the primary might stacking weapons.
superior sigil of air, superior sigil of fire and superior sigil of hydromancy for other weapons situational usage.

Glass cannon is the worse spec for a warrior to run in a dungeon, every time I see these I don’t even bother getting them in my party.

Polle.6908:

I couldn’t decide for a long time when I was leveling because I didn’t want my guardian looking like a fruit salad. In the end I just went for straight silver and let the world’s lighting bring the beauty of the colour.

Hmmm, I don’t recognize the armor or the greatsword, what are their names and where are they from ?

I was just wondering if it’s at all possible to get a precursor from this meta event at all ?
EDIT: I’ve heard they drop more easily from meta events.

any thoughts ?

Hmm, that is odd if you are in a party your buffs should only work for the party not go around randomly. If this is not the case than limiting those abilities to 5 targets is a bad idea.

The original idea is to have guesting work in conjunction with your contacts list.
As long as you have people on your contact list from the particular server you want to visit, you can right click and select the guesting feature.

Nope you can only wear gear matching your real level.

Who is he ?
why was he chained up in the mists ?
Why did we need to save him ?
Is there a giants Race in the mists ?

Normally I don’t dig to deep into lore but that was just to awesome
a scene for me to ignore it.

This dungeon is so much fun, some of the hilarious things that happen in there are just brilliant, kudos to arena.net for pulling this off.

But !

Why do you feel the need to add jumping puzzles to everything now ?
That is the only thing that puts me off from them !

Seriously enough with the jumping puzzles already !
keep them optional and outside of any main content please !

Notes:
yes I played mario, and yes I loved it.
No I don’t want to play super mario online the mmorpg !

Hackuuna.4085:

Hate this change. It is now a completely anonymous experience and does nothing for building a community of players who like to PvP. What would ANet have us do? Post screenshots on the forums asking people who a certain player is in the hopes of talking with them?

Why did online gaming have to become an anonymous experience?

You can speak to everyone on your server ! and see their names !
if you really wanna speak to the enemy so badly maybe you should join their server mate !

Warfare is warfare, the enemy is there to do battle not to chat or grief !
if most of your friends are on that server and you badly nee to talk to them either join that server or use 3rd party programs to communicate !

Hmm, I don’t see why he would need to reroll at al.
I only noticed it was working when I reached 250k XP and got the 1st tier, getting the final 500k tier was just as easy, all you need is a lv80 toon and you’re set, it can be done in less than 2 hours.

Mesmer portals transport cap not addressed !
Mesmer portal LOS issues not addressed !

A.net the portals are being used in WvW to bypass keep defenses entirely, kill the lord and claim the keep !

people complain about the weirdest things, arenanet has the best patching style in any mmorpg ever and still people complain !

WoW: has a weekly scheduled downtime of hours for maintenance plus more hours for updates.

Swtor: same as wow but more hours needed.

GW: minimum down time all you need is to download the new build and play !

Still people complain seriously !!

both valid questions that I would also like an answer for.

Great post, I wish more people followed your thought process before raging about something they know very little about. Right now as more and more info becomes available it is becoming clear that this is likely the direction they are taking.

yes but free trials begin today Nov. 15th people need time to download the game read patch notes, adapt builds after nerf bat and so on. I’m hoping for the patch to drop today.

If you can install the game at the university, update the game there and copy the files to a usb drive specially the *.dat file which is the biggest part of the game, take it home and overwrite the files easy as pie.

GoneBatty.9048:

That burst is too high. It would be fine if it was say, 8 k at most, since the cursed thing PIERCES anyway, but being able to get 15 K+ on multiple opponents using one ability is….Wait for it…Unbalanced!

Like I said, only glass cannon, zero defence, trinity style players take such high damage from kill shot, any balanced build character only takes wait for it 9K damage at most.

I don’t even run this build (I’m a shouts healer warrior) and I’ve seen people take a ton of damage from my kill shot when that happens I just laugh really hard because all I can think of is:

There goes another glass cannon moron ! He will probably go to the forums later to complain and QQ instead of fixing his WvW build.

Rojaha.4082:

So you’re saying I should be happy that I have to buy on the TP or grind in-dungeons for a new type of resistance gear every time I want to do a new dungeon?

Not the gear mate, only the new infusion slot upgrade specific to the dungeon would be needed the gear would be the same ascended gear.

What I can see happening is them introducing new dungeons with other types of conditions, for which you will need new infusions on your ascended armor making ascended gear viable w/o adding a power creep / gear grind ladder at all.

Hycinthus.6483:

I think I have a PvP-phobia. I’m just scared being killed and hunted by other players. In PVE it’s fine because I can run away, and the monsters will lose aggro. But being hunted by players seems too personal to me, this is why I cannot do PvP or WvW. Am I the only one feeling like this and is it weird?

Also, I know that when I do PvP against another player, I will most likely die, so there is no point of me to PvP at all, since all I’ll be doing is respawning over and over. Any suggestions ?

Nothing compares to the rush of adrenaline surging through your body when you 1st start doing PVP.

All PVP players were at some point in time PVE only players.
it’s when you get tired of predictable AI movement and responses that you take the plunge into what is the ultimate “you never know what will happen next kind of gameplay.”

My suggestion would be to start with structured 1st, simply to avoid big repair bills because as a fresh new player to this game type it is inevitable that you will die a lot as you acclimate and adjust to the faster pace and randomness of it all.

Ayane Hajinmon.9165:

hmmm would something like this help?
X Ayane X
I I Ayane I I

i see people doing that

Ugh I so hate using these kinds of gimmicks to get a name, or worse numbers….
I go as far as to refuse adding such people to my contact list, or run party/group content with such people, it is such a hassle.

If a name is taken come up with another more original one would be my advice.

Hmmm, this remember the difficulty you left it at should reset once you leave the dungeon though, or have the option to reset the difficulty manually.

I also hope the WvW style level scaling will only be present in this dungeon for the duration of the weekend event ONLY ! afterwards it should be a pure lv80 dungeon.

Akumu.7238:

What ever should you do when someone kneels down and points their gun a you. Anet should really give us some way to DODGE such a broken ability.

Until then, do what the above posters suggest.

You can dodge it !, it’s so easy it identifies people that get hit by it for 15K as total glass cannon newbies !

The fact it is so easily avoided is why it doesn’t need a nerf at all.
or get some toughness reducing the dmg by 50% LOL !

they should do it at 12 midnight PST