Guild Wars 2

Legendaries are supposed to be the highest achievement a player can get, a culmination of all their hardwork, and yet it’s purchasable with actually money (regardless of how much)? Terrible decision in my opinion.

Regardless of whether or not it’s horizontal progression or vertical progression, buying legendaries off the TP is Pay2Win.

It would be a hell of a lot of new content to add, but I think it’d be amazing and totally worth it.

lothefallen.7081:

The game is in decline though because of fundamental design flaws like boring combat, redundant grouping, bugs, cash shop pressure, lack of depth, boring PvP scene…Populations are just gonna drop off again in a few weeks. Not many new players are actually interested in this game from all the mixed press it is getting.

I know right? All those people are just gonna quit paying their monthly fees and never come back to the game =P

Nuka Cola.8520:

why can’t they put all the crafting spaces and TP in HoM!????????????? I want to buy stuff of off TP for my crafting and not run across the whole city for it. Make HoM useful instead of a useless zone i visited months ago because there’s nothing to do in it.

He’s not even talking about the HoM, hahaha, funny that most people don’t even know the “Home Instance” exists.

So all those peeps that got the game for xmas can join their friends on full servers? XD

Worst decision ever that I noticed you’re missing: no party join for activities (toypocalypse, keg brawl, etc.).

Bahaha, yeah, I was looking forward to this feature Here’s hoping they’re improved with the implementation of housing and guild halls.

Sadly it seems like WvW is the replacement for this idea. It’s too bad there aren’t that many PvP objectives and the maps are pretty much the same

I do agree though that something like a FFA PvP server would be amazing and I would totally be addicted to it

1. WvW is so much more popular than SPvP, it has been speculated that this is due to WvW giving rewards that actually impact the “real” part of the game. Are there any plans to add karma, gold, exp, or even PvE gear rewards to SPvP, in order to save the thinned SPvP population with an influx of new players?

2. Is dueling actually a difficult feature to add? Can’t costume brawling be retooled to use our actual profession abilities? It seems like such an exciting feature that would make the entire world a beautiful 1v1 playground with nearly infinite map variation

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

In all fairness WvW rewards are only for the zerg artists. Try defending a keep for a few hours, and see what you earn for your time and effort.

And this is why SPvP is so much more popular than WvW, right? =P

Conncept.7638:

I think this is a great idea, in fact several different recipes would be a great idea, for all the extra nonsense leftover from opening boxes and things. There are people that have dozens of account-bound minis, santa hats, and other junk from gambling for the Foostivoo mini and/or choir bell. Not to mention those of us who have no interest in minis at all and have 950 mystical cogs collecting dust.

Why thank you ^^ and I think being able to craft fun items like this might actually add some worth to crafting, other than simply being prerequisites for legendaries! XD

The one word answer: rewards.

There are two modes of PvP in this game, and yet only one rewards gold, karma, exp, and actual gear. Of course a majority of players are going to flock to WvW when they can actually progress in the “real” part of the game while playing it, rather than spend countless hours getting a glory rank or skins that can only be seen in the smallest portion of the game. Regardless of how “fun” or “balanced” it is, some players will always pick the form of PvP that allows them to do what they love and be rewarded for it.

This will be quick and to the point. The choir bells added for Wintersday have become one of the most interesting and unique community features that guild wars 2 has. The only downside is that the unbreakable choir bell is quite a luxury item XD Thus, to support budding musicians who can’t afford an unbreakable choir bell add a crafting recipe for consumable choir bells.

This won’t downplay the awesomeness of the unbreakable choir bells, but it will give people- who otherwise wouldn’t be able to -a chance to make music year-round ^^

Also, on a sidenote, add flute sounds to The Bard, and unique harp notes to The Minstrel to make it truly legendary- it’s got nothing going for it right now =P

This is pretty fun ^^ thank you for going through the trouble to setup a profile and configuration

Fractals of the Mist, new dungeon that drops gear that can potentially be more powerful than exotics.

Get ascended gear through FotM, then go out into WvW and use you’re slight gear advantage to pwn.

Unfortunately at this point FotM is the only way to get ascended/infused gear.

Congrats!

More to the point however, I too can’t believe this problem hasn’t been resolved yet. It was brought up back in October with the Halloween activities that couldn’t be done in groups. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me.

There’s not enough incentive for me to hop into SPvP, I mean it’s a completely separate game. If it had some influence on the “real” part of the game (by real I mean PvE, which makes up 90% of the games content) I’d probably do it fairly often. Otherwise I stick to WvW, where I can get exp for my alts, along with karma and gold; I really couldn’t care less for SPvP skins.

There needs to be some kind of reward like ZKeys from GW1 added, then you’ll see a lot more players jumping in I’m sure.

Solution?

Make Consumable Choir Bells craftable with mats that can be found year round. Keeps both parties happy.

SolarNova.1052:

Completed it wihtout loosing a dolyak 4 times in a row wihtout any need for any1 in group to communicate.

Things will get easier as time goes on as more and more people learn how to be effective. it isnt hard. .have patience.

The decision to nerf the achievment is bad 1, obviosly ,,but Anet wil ldo as they please ..those of us who got the achievment before the nerf have that atleast..feel sorry for people who get it after the nerf ..isnt exactly an achievment at that point…but im sure they could just keep doing it til lthey complete it wihtout loosing a dolyak as an unoffical achiemvent for themselves..

I don’t care about the achievement, I just want to have fun with my friends and guildmates.

Raincrow.1840:

Latorn.4209:

Haha, man, you actually think it’s a good thing that you can’t join activities as groups?

Yes, for some things. You’ve got your little dungeons and fractals already.

For small group PvP things like Snow Ball it’s very good to keep your premade out of them.

Why? Why is having the option for people to play the way they want a bad thing?

Raincrow.1840:

Latorn.4209:

Isn’t this game supposed to be social? Geez, I guess we just have really different perspectives on this.

Yes we do have different perspectives and that’s something you group players need to realize. Not everyone plays MMOs for the reasons you play them, which is why MMOs have a wide varity of content types.

Exactly my point, why is giving grouped players the OPTION, while keeping solo queue for solo players a bad thing?

Raincrow.1840:

Is the game “supposed to be social”? Only if you WANT it to be. There is no reason to force it on people, as all that would do is drive paying players away.

Really? How is having the OPTION to queue as a group and the OPTION to solo queue FORCING social aspects on people?

Raincrow.1840:

Besides… If you’re looking to be “social” you don’t need game mechanics at all. Being in a group and killing stuff isn’t social anyway.

Essentially you’re saying that tackling challenges that require teamwork isn’t a social activity, haha, the only means of being “social” is by chatting? >.<

Raincrow.1840:

Latorn.4209:

I don’t see why there would be a problem if group queues were matched against other groups, and solo queues were matched against PuGs.

I don’t see the problem with group dungeons like fractals having solo versions, so I don’t need a group at all. When I get that, you can have pre made bersions of pug content.

How subtly hypocritical of you =P lol, this post doesn’t make much sense to me.

The system I was describing is pretty much the League of Legends matchmaking system, you can solo queue against other PuGs, or you can group queue against groups.

Raincrow.1840:

Latorn.4209:

You’re arguing semantics when I’ve already explained to you what I meant >.<

Replace “a majority of it is made up of solo activities.”, with “a majority of it is made up of activities, which you can only solo queue”.

Yes, I am arguing semantics, because as a solo player I don’t agree with your attack against solo play. Especially since the activity in question isn’t even a solo instance, it’s important to me that you get it right.

Besides that… Regardless of what you meant to say, it’s still a good thing that Snow Ball (And Keg Brawl as well) don’t allow pre made groups. I get it, you like to play with friends, and Toypocalypse would have been fine for it….. but you really don’t need every activity in the game to cater to your playstyle.

Haha, man, you actually think it’s a good thing that you can’t join activities as groups? Isn’t this game supposed to be social? Geez, I guess we just have really different perspectives on this. I don’t see why there would be a problem if group queues were matched against other groups, and solo queues were matched against PuGs.

Raincrow.1840:

Latorn.4209:

Raincrow.1840:

Latorn.4209:

It’s not just one event, it’s the snowball mayhem and choir bell events too, there isn’t much else to Wintersday besides the dungeon; a majority of it is made up of solo activities.

Snowball is not a “solo activity” lol. If anything the event is too much forced grouping.

I agree that Toypocalypse should have allowed groups, as long as balance wasn’t effected….but snowball is perfect as is.

You can join Snowball Mayhem in groups, rather than being randomly assigned team members?

This is what I meant by solo activity, you cannot play it with your friends/guildmates.

A group of random team members is still a group. Just becuase you can’t be with established friends does not mean you’re playing it solo.

You’re arguing semantics when I’ve already explained to you what I meant >.<

Replace “a majority of it is made up of solo activities.”, with “a majority of it is made up of activities, which you can only solo queue”.

Raincrow.1840:

Latorn.4209:

It’s not just one event, it’s the snowball mayhem and choir bell events too, there isn’t much else to Wintersday besides the dungeon; a majority of it is made up of solo activities.

Snowball is not a “solo activity” lol. If anything the event is too much forced grouping.

I agree that Toypocalypse should have allowed groups, as long as balance wasn’t effected….but snowball is perfect as is.

You can join Snowball Mayhem in groups, rather than being randomly assigned team members?

This is what I meant by solo activity, you cannot play it with your friends/guildmates.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

It’s one event. It’s not a required one. And it’s just a game. I really don’t get why people are getting so bent out of shape about this. Can we please keep a little perspective?

If you feel that this situation is so damaging to your fun or entertainment because of having to randomly group once, for a shared goal, maybe it is time for you to move on.

It’s not just one event, it’s the snowball mayhem and choir bell events too, there isn’t much else to Wintersday besides the dungeon; a majority of it is made up of solo activities. This unfortunate design already happened for the two Halloween activities and even keg brawl.

Solo queue only for group activities is completely foolish in the first place.

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

Like Snowball Mayhem and the Bell Choior, the Toypocalypse is an activity. They are using the same systems, and these systems do not permit joining by party. Unfortunately due to technical limitations and time constraints before the holidays, we cannot change it. We understand that this is not ideal for people who wish to play in the same party and who are finding it difficult in random groups. We will be adjusting the “Toypocalypse Cancelled” achievement so that you will need to keep only one gift dolyak alive. We do not have an ETA on when this change will be live. Thank you for your feedback. We have been listening, and we will take your comments on board for future game updates.

So the answer is to make the game easy, instead of providing a fun challenge for groups of friends and guilds to use teamwork to complete? Is this really the right direction?

I’m also bummed that the other activities didn’t have a group join option (even the Halloween ones), bleh, I don’t like talking to my friends about the game while we’re in different instances of the same activity, I’d rather play with them!

Did the event once solo, won’t be going back since I can’t join in with my friends :/

So the Wintersday event was great, is great. There is just one problem, for more than half the event we can’t play with friends and are instead grouped with strangers :/

I mean during Halloween I didn’t really participate in the activities because they were only solo queue, but then again there were only two Halloween activities and plenty of other things to do with friends.

Wintersday on the other hand only allows us to group with friends to do the Toymaker Tixx dungeon, everything else: bell choir, snowball fight, toypocalypse is solo.

Please ArenaNet, in the future could you consider adding some sort of group join option to these activities? Otherwise my friends and I pretty much play them once solo and don’t go back to them :/

This is incredible, amazing, and should be Guild Wars 2’s box art.

Late For Tea.1846:

A nice lady at the plaza in Lion’s Arch told me her kids have the full line of Tixx’s toys. Do you hear that? Every single toy variation he released! I think we’re already too late…

Oh god… Those things are like freaking time bombs just ticking under the tree!

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

The Black Citadel being overrun with princess dolls. THAT I want to see,

Well, that’s exactly what you’re going to see unless someone stops this madman! If he’s not stopped you’ll also be privileged with viewing Rata Sum being overrun by little charr soldiers!

Warscythes.9307:

Actually I am fairly sure Toxx is just drunk.

You know how she said she is filled with Christmas SPIRIT? It would explain the constant Hic she is doing.

This is a good theory. It’s probably the only way a goodhearted soul like Toxx could manage dealing with Tixx everyday, she turned to the bottle.

Toxx is just an innocent victim, just as GLADoS was to Aperture.

If Tixx really wanted to fix the problem he would be attacking it at its source and recruiting engineers (permanently stopping the creation of “malfunctioning” toys). Instead he recruits adventurers everyday, and why? Well, obviously to use them for test runs to gather data before he puts his plan into motion to invade Tyria.

This guy continually has serious problems with the “toys” at his workshop so he decides to recruit Tyria’s bravest to help him out? He also just happens to package some of these malfunctioning “toys” and decides it’s a good idea to rain presents down on Tyria that contain these “toys”?

I call shenanigans.

He’s truly using adventurers to simply test his new toy army prototypes in order to take over Tyria. Every day we return to his laboratory to “help” him it seems he’s come up with a new “toy” enemy to test us.

Isn’t anyone else suspicious of how the guy consistently needs to “calibrate” Toxx, and she tends to come back being slightly stronger than before, with new moves and techniques to boot?

This guy is a serious threat, if every child in Tyria receives one of his “toys” on Wintersday morning our capitals will have been invaded overnight without a hint of resistance, fight back now and we only need fear the capabilities of his toy drop pods. The Pact needs to shift their focus to this new and dangerous threat, or else we’re all done for.

This is completely ridiculous.

You can tell me it has the same stats as other exotic weapons, blah blah blah, but this is a legendary we’re talking about; an item that is supposed to be the culmination of a player’s dedication and hard work. It is the top tier of the game, and now it’s pay to win??? >.>

This thread is a joke right???

Holidays are pretty much made for solo players, as a grouped player holidays are a pain- I can’t do any activities with friends, it’s all solo queue.

Got the same things as yesterday, except I got a Heavy Loot Bag instead of a Gulp of Karma…? Could it be because I had the gulp of karma from yesterday still in my inventory? >.>

Oh snap just made a thread about this, anyways I totally agree. I mean it is a Massively Multiplayer Online game, and a really nice feature in multiplayer games is the ability to play with friends XD

Both the activities now, and during halloween were great, I just didn’t really play them since I couldn’t play them with friends… and Keg Brawl? Haven’t gone back to it after my first game with randoms.

Will we ever see this made available in the future? I mean the activites are freaking fantastic, it’s just that we can’t play with people we know… Which is sorta the whole point of multiplayer games XD

I know there’s the whole issue of premade groups vs PuGs, but couldn’t they make a system where groups are put in matches against other groups? Or even if it was a maximum of groups of 5 being able to join, so that the whole team isn’t stacked…

Even if those features weren’t implemented for snowball mayhem, how harmful could it be for a group of friends to play bell choir together, or run the jumping puzzle?

isendel.5049:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Every profession gets one skill that is specific to snowball fight. We thought it would be nice to retain some of your profession’s style in the game.

And it is! Snowball mayhem is just fine, but people will complain about everything no matter what^^

Agreed, it’s fine the way it is IMO ^^

Haha, I sort of made a thread like this yesterday asking what kind of tunes people play.

I play Zelda’s Lullaby and Song of Time all the time because they’re so easy

So far the only good they have done is when we set an ambush next to a present. That doesn’t even feel right.

Actually, that sounds amazing =P

Does anyone else play tunes in between games?

My favourite to play are Zelda’s Lullaby and Song of Time, most of the Ocarina songs from Zelda are pretty easy

I think it’s freaking amazing, but I also thought clocktower was amazing.

No one is making you do it btw, if you don’t enjoy it just join in on the other wintersday festivities.

Because they’re amazing. This one isn’t anywhere near as time-sensitive as mad kings.

Been with Tarnished Coast since the beginning as well, didn’t realise there were that many RPers out there XD

Don Muerte.7168:

that’s what WvW is for. it’s frustrating sometimes to run around solo in that place, but it’s doable if you can just get over the fact that you’re going to get tore up by mobs of people often.

I think that’s just crud. People should be able to play the way they want, be it in balanced sPvP and impact the “real” part of the game.

GW1 had Zkeys, GW2 should at the very VERY least allow players to exchange glory for exp if they choose.

I think it’s fine the way it is… I’m actually quite happy that they decided to make some armour actual armour for females instead of chain bikinis.

I’m sure you could mix and match a few pieces from the human or norn cultural armour sets to get the look you’re going for though.

I took a break for a while too, and now I’m back and I can’t stop playing XD

Population is awesome, but I guess it would depend on server.