Guild Wars 2

Iris Ng.9845:

Not in dungeons, but Idc. All I want is to challenge colesy in terms of shininess.

Bonus pic: found a celebrity in Seafarer’s Rest!

Daaaaaaaamn that shine!

And it’s a Jerem!

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Madvangogh.4169:

Proposal Overview:
Have a fractal level that can experiment with flying abilities.
Goal of the proposal:
Expand the GW 2 experience into another dimension besides water and land based graphics and interface.
Proposal functionality:
If the swimming ability , instead of kicking legs within a bubbling water environment, was changed to flapping arms within a windy airy environment, we would virtually have flying. There it seems there is a simple set environment that allows the introduction of air weapons (which for all purposes are exactly the same functionality as the water) and some flying attire (armor).
This area can be a easily adapted (I am assuming here sorry) from the water based environment mechanics, it appears would function very much the same with the challenge for developers to create a form of ‘gravity’ (or not as it could just be an area of no gravity).
If this fractal is successful there is a possibilty for future area development in WvW, PvE

Oh just admit you just want flying already. This doesn’t have anything to do with fractals

#Tengu2014LargosShortlyThereafter

I generally play Asura, but I think the race bias actually has to do with the apparent lack of care for armors and such that aren’t human. I mean, look at the halo/horn debacle. It can’t have been tested on an Asura and still pass QA. If it did, then, well, get new QA. lol

Anyway I think it’s sad so many people choose to main human. At least from my RP standpoint, the other races have super rich back stories in comparison.

CC Danicia.1394:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Danicia, I’m hoping to see one of your characters in a dungeon looking fashionable too sometime soon!

Much like IRL, I am not fashionable AT ALL and look pretty dorky.

Oh don’t be shy. I saw those lovestruck weapons on your engi, I think they deserve to be shown off in a sexy dungeon or 2!

Also I’m regards to fashion and being dorky IRL I had to get new clothes today for a job interview, and I had to ask the lady what the heck looks good with what. IRL I wear a manly engineer’s clothes so I can machine…. So I had no idea what the heck to get xD.

Gotta love being good at aesthetics in one aspect of my life. Lolololol

Craftsman jacket and my hipster glasses. #WinningRL

Oh here’s this Asura halo. It’s really low.

Oh by the way, I look like I’m wrestling this fire bow. I love this screen lol

Cool new living story wallpapers! (Ever since we lost the preview page, I have no new backgrounds!)

Really happy to see this.

Moving the thread “Selfless Potion on Asura” to Guild Wars 2 General Discussion for greater visibility.

This is the first time I’ve ever seen this.

Anyway, yay for general discussion! Everyone post your Asura screens with it to show how bugged it is!

Ooooh gosh hendo Colesy! Lovely screens. I like how you did her armor ^^

I’m jealous of sunrise… It’s my next legendary. Going to pursue it more seriously once I get Dawn

You can un equip the sickle and go to a black lion weapon specialist to exchange it for an account bound tool. So yay for that

Just make sure the soulbound tool is in your inventory. The npc will give you the option.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Well it’s a circular argument now, with a refusal to address the actual issue by the usual suspects.

It only becomes a circular argument when you don’t fully understand the mechanics of the event. Please take the time to read my posts, and you’ll be fully informed on the merits of my argument.

I think they read it. They didn’t agree with you, and that’s their prerogative. You don’t get to be the end all be all of knowledge. That’s for the devs.

Edit: also I agree with Leo, if there is a change in policy, devs need to be transparent about it.

videoboy.4162:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I sort of feel bad for Chris already. I tried to keep my posts short, but every time I come back to the thread I see walls of text that are “formatted”. It’s still difficult to get through.

I really wish people could be more concise, use more lists, and less walls of text.

Anyway, I like a lot of the ideas so far. But it does seem the playerbase is all on the same page here. It would be beneficial to get some developer interaction to see what page they’re on. (But I can’t imagine trying to soak in this many words at once, so I suspect that’s why we aren’t getting too much red yet).

Things are much much more accessible already and whilst we can still improve I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for giving it a try.

Loads of devs have commented to me about the topics being much easier to consume and think about.

So thanks everyone.

Chris

If she feels bad for you, she should go check out the Ranger Thread. I feel so sorry for poor Allie. =(

Yeah… I checked it out. Oof.

@Ropechef: Your Necro is just too cool. Love the use of the helm, I always show off the face, is interesting you don’t

@Kirin: I love your mix of armors on your Sylvari. I never considered that armor combo, and it is fabulous

@Neo: hahaha omg that Charr. he looks confused!

@Sorrows: ASURA FTW Very lovely.

Malchior.5042:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

runeblade.7514:

Proposal Overview
Remove stacking

Goal of Proposal
With stacking gone, developers can actually continue to give fractal/dungeons depth. Nothing is trivalized anymore because of an easy tactic.

Proposal Functionality
First, make stacking in the long term a unviable tactic. Let players stack once in a while for boons, res or whatever, but after that if players continue to stack, they will wipe hard.

Associated Risks
None.

And here’s where the conversation becomes ruined and people’s biases start causing arguments. I’m not going to bother arguing but I really think you should think a little harder about “risks” before saying that there are none.

IMO, people like runeblade have a right to express their opinion, but it’s lack of experience with software design/development that lead to unrelated proposals or the inability to analyze risk.

I usually try to sense out any bias by use of vocabulary (how may times can one count the word “kitten”) to see if a player’s opinion stems from anger, or just concern.

Just to be clear here, the proposal of making stacking unviable is a global game concern, that is likely far beyond scope to the current discussion of elements/proposals to just the Fractals experience.

And now, back on-topic, before Nike ruins us all with his 4th dimension mod powers.

Sure, okay. I edited my post.

I was feeling so good about this thread, until that was posted and all of my fears on this were realized.

We’re good. Deep Breaths Guuusssfraba……

runeblade.7514:

Proposal Overview
Remove stacking

Goal of Proposal
With stacking gone, developers can actually continue to give fractal/dungeons depth. Nothing is trivalized anymore because of an easy tactic.

Proposal Functionality
First, make stacking in the long term a unviable tactic. Let players stack once in a while for boons, res or whatever, but after that if players continue to stack, they will wipe hard.

Associated Risks
None.

And here’s where the conversation becomes ruined and people’s biases start causing arguments. I’m not going to bother arguing but I really think you should think a little harder about “risks” before saying that there are none.

Edit: “This is outside the scope of this CDI, as it involves much more than just Fractals. In addition, since Fractals is the least affected by this tactic, it is not really relevant to the task at hand.”

lnguy.5127:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Esya.3427:

I already posted this in the dungeon forum yesterday, as I was unaware of a fractal CDI coming up. I am sorry for the double post, but I feel it is best to have this suggestion here as well for completeness.

Proposal overview
Make agony resistance (AR) account wide.

Goal of Proposal
Fractals become much more repeatable/replayable if we can bring any character. It makes it a different experience. The fractal levels are account wide, but I find myself bringing the same character because she is the only one who is equiped with AR.

Proposal Functionality
Similar to the change that was made for magic find in the past, where it was removed from the gear and made account wide, the same could be done for AR.

Associated Risks
- People who already build up their AR should have this transferred to their account somehow in order to not lose progress.
- Balancing the acquirement of AR.
- Balancing power creep from infusion slots that can now slot other attributes.

Hmm, I like this idea. How about making it similar to how we level Magic Find. We can level up AR with the AR drop from playing fractals, and it gets progressively harder to level up AR the higher it gets. As of right now my main char has about 90 AR so I mainly bring him into fotm, I’d like to play different professions in fotm but since I only play high level fotm and my other toons have low ARs so it’s hard to do.

I agree… I just think it’s really really important they don’t get rid of the AR we have already accumulated. That would open up a can of wurms we wouldn’t be able to decapitate.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I sort of feel bad for Chris already. I tried to keep my posts short, but every time I come back to the thread I see walls of text that are “formatted”. It’s still difficult to get through.

I really wish people could be more concise, use more lists, and less walls of text.

Anyway, I like a lot of the ideas so far. But it does seem the playerbase is all on the same page here. It would be beneficial to get some developer interaction to see what page they’re on. (But I can’t imagine trying to soak in this many words at once, so I suspect that’s why we aren’t getting too much red yet).

Things are much much more accessible already and whilst we can still improve I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for giving it a try.

Loads of devs have commented to me about the topics being much easier to consume and think about.

So thanks everyone.

Chris

That’s good to hear, your eyes must be better than mine. Glad it’s working out

Balt, I like the idea of sort of an explorable fractals. I think it would be a really interesting addition to pve in a non stressful way (I guess, really, this would be more of a “story” fractal, what I’m thinking of). I like your ideas for progression, but it might be just, so much of a change to the current system that they might be better creating a whole new thing, rather than so drastically changing what is there.

Yeah I think Palador hit it on the head. I camp out in such and such map to be sure I can get the rewards. I didn’t work for the spot on the map, I just showed up early and camped out. Sitting in LA is essentially the same thing: the rewards are structured this way and us, as players, have no control over that.

I wouldn’t get the rewards in LA without being there. I wouldn’t get the rewards from Tequatl without camping the map for hours, keeping the “main” inaccessible to other players because of my spot.

Just to clarify, I don’t really leech LA unless you count running around doing whatever I feel like leeching. If you do, no skin off my back.

Fowidner.6930:

The main thing I still don’t understand; Fractals is all about agony and agony resistance. After compleeting a Fractal you have a chance to get Fractal Weapons, But WHY we still can’t upgrade these weapons into ascended and maybe like the backpack an extra glow or any other effect while infusion the weapon.

I love this idea, and would love it even more if you wrote up a sweet proposal for it. Flesh it out a bit.

@malchior

I loved Eye of the North. I’d love to accompany our various NPC heroes once again to tackle any missions.

Chris, I think Nike recommended an environmental weapon, like a shield, that could help with the first encounter. Is this something that you’re fine with chatting about? The addition of tools to fractals like dredge so that the fractal itself doesn’t change, but our strategies do?

Zodiac armor doesn’t exist. Lol

timmyf.1490:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

timmyf.1490:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I just thought there was a suggested word count of the proposals, and it was 200

So far, that just isn’t happening.

Incorrect. Proposals can have any length. Suggested word count for discussion posts about proposals is 200 or less.

Oh well, there hasn’t been much discussion. Only 5 pages of proposals of “any” length.

With over half of that being variations of “give us more pristines/gold for higher levels and ways to get the Fractal weapon we want without pure RNG.”

I would love to see a separate fractal rewards vs fractals threads, because everyone wants better rewards. That’s just… A given. The evolution of fractals as a whole rather than just what we get out of them seems more important to me.

Lindbur.2537:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Oh right, I can’t forget our fashionable Asura run!

Featuring Lind, Iris, me, Squirrelbane, and a random pug! In TA btw.

Lind, now that I’m thinking of it, that was you right? O.O

I’m the second one, all 3 of my asuras have the same body makeup.

Okay, good, I was certain you were there. I thought you had gone on your pink one.

timmyf.1490:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I just thought there was a suggested word count of the proposals, and it was 200

So far, that just isn’t happening.

Incorrect. Proposals can have any length. Suggested word count for discussion posts about proposals is 200 or less.

Oh well, there hasn’t been much discussion. Only 5 pages of proposals of “any” length.

maxinion.8396:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

So many female humans, but they all look very nice.

I recently changed my female humans armor to phalanx top, vigil leggings, and shoulders, gloves, and boots to battler karma armor (non flame version of the flame wrath ). I have to say, it’s my best combo yet. I adore the phalanx top.

I’m using Phalanx armor and Braham’s leggings. Loving them~

I’m still trying to find the perfect armor combo to warrant a second human/norn heavy to use Braham’s. I’m struggling with that armor set.

I just thought there was a suggested word count of the proposals, and it was 200

So far, that just isn’t happening.

Oh right, I can’t forget our fashionable Asura run!

Featuring Lind, Iris, me, Squirrelbane, and a random pug! In TA btw.

Lind, now that I’m thinking of it, that was you right? O.O

So many female humans, but they all look very nice.

I recently changed my female humans armor to phalanx top, vigil leggings, and shoulders, gloves, and boots to battler karma armor (non flame version of the flame wrath ). I have to say, it’s my best combo yet. I adore the phalanx top.

XD.

Then “aren’t you a little short for a storm trooper?”

Ugh, fixing the bugged page :

Taku.6352:

Can’t beat an asura. Especially when she has few bolts loose in the nogging and is wielding a flamethrower

Now this wins for most awesome Asura (apart from mine xD)

Anierna.6918:

ik. It’s terrible. I’m gonna craft a bunch of ascended blue weps tonight, and transmute Zojja stats onto them. Such a waste

Harsh

Anierna.6918:

Last pics for the day. My War is only partially finished, and I haven’t even started on my Guard >.<

She’s adorable. The red swords though… Darn you ascended crafting and not being able to choose the color AND the stats!

Ooooh that green on your necro, that dye with that outfit is just marvelous, excellent choice there.

Also, your warriors a rock. Just saying.

I would much rather the armor be white, so I can say: “Aren’t you a little short to be a storm trooper?”

Psssht leveling past 11 is for scrubs. (When you can get shoulder armor on most characters. XD)

MastaNeenja.1537:

wait you have 16 characters? o.o

Yep. I buy at least 3 slots every time they go on sale.

Lindbur.2537:

You guys are tempting me to create another character. :<

Make another, I have 16 filled slots because every time I have an armor idea I can’t shake, I do it.

Lindbur.2537:

Let me see if I can dig up a screenshot of my mesmer…

Ok, I found one, but it’s not a screenshot per se, I took it using my phone. Pic’s pretty old and of low quality, but that’s her final look and it won’t change for a long time.

Lind, just curious, why would you take it using your phone?

As for characters: Actually I think my best screen shot ever is one in LA that I posted in the general discussion thread. I’ll post it here too, but I’m sad that my favorite screen is of my human and not my Asura.

No no I get people using it, I just dislike the way it falls on the side of the face, almost emo. It’s the only hairstyle for humans (apart from bald) that I can never consider suitable, in addition to disliking the way it falls, it’s also way too Barbie for me.

spoj.9672:

Im probably going to change it again because i picked the new hairstyle with the flower and 90% of human females have that style. Will post a pic when im happy with the new look.

I personally hate the new flower hairstyle. I think it looks like…. I don’t know. I just hate it.

Sorry, lol, I have a lot of passion for this topic.

I figured, because why else?

spoj.9672:

I got bored of that hairstyle on my warrior and changed it. :P

Likely story!

Anierna.6918:

Can anyone guess my favorite color yet?

She’s gorgeous. Best use of that hairstyle I’ve seen yet.

Magnus Heartseeker.7958:

15 charrrssssss

Exactly. Lol

I’m not generally one for “feels” but this made me tear up.

I love Taimi. And I am really glad that a character like her has been introduced. I wish our characters could have story lines as fleshed out like hers (without just being the hero, the savant, etc) to actually have physical flaws.

Anyway, I’m glad. And bake those cookies! (Ooh, maybe attempt to make an omnomberry bar with a few berries that are like them!)

If it had been Asura t3 in the gem store, it would still be there.

Mmmmm I saw that post in the bookah section “devs disappointed about human bias” and why wouldn’t more people play as a bookah? Everything is well done and cared about. And, you know, tested.

… Well for one, the imaginary beings in this imaginary world tend to care about the other sentient beings. I’m pretty sure they know that if they let their neighbors get destroyed it’s only a matter of time until they’re next. Scarlet is a threat to everyone, and lion’s arch is the place she decided to attack this time. Why wouldn’t a Charr care? LA was the central hub of player communication. It doesn’t matter if you’re a human, Asura, Charr, or Sylvari, nothing is untouchable.