Guild Wars 2

CaptainVanguard.4925:

I think in honesty Season 2 should go free as someone who had it when it came out for free, considering that come expansion 2 it will be irelevent content, promoting the game by making S2 entirley free wouldnt hurt the game at all.

A good idea then s3 will be free when the third expac hits and so on but they should say so soon so people dont get kittened after spending gems now to unlock it.

roamzero.9486:

Eh, I’d rather not see what happened to SB what happened to LB with DH (superior to LB Ranger just about every way, and it was supposed to be a signature weapon for Ranger).

Anet plz just rethink Ranger’s SB and make Thief’s SB more than just a utility weapon.

Dont worry Ranger will shine again when we get Rifle.

dont forget that most world bosses drop a item for collections like exotic hunter.

Doam.8305:

Look at this way

Legendary weapons -PVE
Legendary Backpack -PvP/Fractals
Legendary Armor – Raids

What Legendary can the WvW Players get you might be thinking?
Well the answer is about as much as Anet cares about WvW these days

Raids shouldn’t be the only source of legendary armor and it should have been given to WvW players too. Not to give WvW a legendary to work towards which it desperately needs but like the legendary backpack it spreads out the reward. Legendary armor is the big bad reward for raids and there are no doubt people right now who don’t like raids and are only chasing that carrot on a stick. The carrot is so big and so focused in that single mode that the second people get it they’ll start bailing on raids. Armor isn’t weapons as your main toon will ever need one set of legendary armor what are they possibly going to give to loot chasers after the armor?

Obviously raiders will want, accessories, backpack, thier own gen 3 legendary weapons and when the underwater raid comes the first ever legendary breather all locked behind raids becouse its hardest content. ( But its not hard tho anyone can do it is whats said when people complain about it)

play all of em.

Well if you bought from example g2a the seller there might have charged back making the key invalid.

Aatxe.2605:

tsssss, ok I stand corrected , Got into the wrong idea that 6 points where already used.
My excussess for this.

Its all good glad we could help you sort it out.

I hope they do the same going forward so you unlock if you play even if you havent bought expansion.

That means that you dont lose out on content if you still login once every 2-3 months even if you waited to buy said expansion.

Xenesis.6389:

Linken.6345:

Well you do get it even as a free to play account if you login during the time the episodes release just cant play them untill buying hot.

So play the game get it for free or come in later and hope they sell it as a bundle that you pick up with gems.

And what about the players who haven’t discovered gw2, don’t have the game now during living story season, buy the game down the line and have to buy the season, they deserve to get screwed out of it?

If you’re required to buy HoT in order to play living story season 3, then they should get it for free no matter what, doesn’t that seem fair?

No since their model have been be here get it for free or pay gems later.

They could have kept it like season 1 and have it vanish after the time is up but the player base dident want that, hence now its permanent and cost gems to unlock later.

They could have been even worse and required hot to even unlock it.

Allen.1620:

ok my bad i thought unlike legy weapons, armors be different stat, then idc, i wud delete the post but still , there should be some other way to acquire the armor.

Yes many have been saying that since anet released the info it would be hidden behind raids.

I would go so far to being able to craft those blank legendarys they talked about when spitballing ideas how to craft 2 of the same legendary if you wanted main hand off hand weapon.

So pure crafting it or wvw for it or spvping for it you would get the stat swap ability but not the exclusive raid skin.

Then they can add in skins for the other modes later and have them all in by roughly 2024

GiggleFairy.3807:

Ryou.2398:

Clearly tons of people left because anet needed to appeal to esports which was understandable but they did not really divide the skills therefor alienating different kinds of players. Esports pvp killed build diversity period, now I know elite classes did not but they could of easily been fixed.

Believe it or not most mmorpg players these days need and want build diversity.

this is so true. my complaint is how certain gear is locked behind raids and it turns me away from this game. i play necro and want viper accessories but cant get them due to that. people who play now and want to get to that point in the game have a hard time finding groups because those groups are full of veterans looking for more veteran players that are geared up and know the mechanics.

You can get viper stat accessories in bloodstone fen and bitterfrost frontier mate.

Edit
If you want both to be infused and attuned you need one from each map.

Xenesis.6389:

Frankly living story season 3 shouldn’t be a separate charge as you need the expansion to play it. Since it was also advertised as being part of the expansion and needing that to play it, it should be provided to those accounts for free regardless of when they picked up the expansion. Not everyone got HoT on day one, and I’m sure there will be players who will get it 2 years after release and when the living story is done, why would they have to pay for that content when the expansion already paid for it?

I can understand if living story season 2 was still left as charged content, that was released as free content initially to everyone before the expansion and years after game release. If season 3 wasn’t sold as part of the expansion but released for free to everyone like season 2 I can see a need to charge for that as well. They will basically be double dipping charging for season 3. If season 4 comes out not attached to anything then feel free to offer it like season 2, or charge for it right off the bat if they want.

Also gems sales are the same as subs, they are just collected differently, subs take payments from everyone playing, gems sales takes it from people willing to dump much more into a game than a regular sub which tends to cover multiple players. In the end they both serve the same purpose, let’s not pretend they’re completely different.

Well you do get it even as a free to play account if you login during the time the episodes release just cant play them untill buying hot.

So play the game get it for free or come in later and hope they sell it as a bundle that you pick up with gems.

Were have all these people got the idea that legendary armor would have higher stats then ascended.
This is the second thread in a short while were people think it will be stronger.

Have they not seen the zero differance bettwen legendary weapons and ascended weapons?

if you dont want to click the link its a random drop from the end boss in silverwaste the 3 lane one.

just hope they decide to do underwater weapons genration 2 as a surprice for us now that they are easier to implement.

mulzi.8273:

BlaqueFyre.5678:

As pointed out by Blaeys and OriOri, Anet has been extremely adamant on not implementing a gear treadmill, and this I applaud them for adding a gear treadmill will alienate almost every player, all that is needed is to provide Ascended vendors in WvW and to have each gamemode access to its own Legendary Armor, New Stat combos should always be released but not have bigger stat totals than what is already in game.

End game progression in this game has been, cosmetic skins, Legendaries and story progression, not gear progression as such.

correct me if i’m wrong, but I seem to remember a short time ago that Anet was talking about releasing Legendary Armor with higher stats than Ascended. The uproar on the forums was immense and they pulled it, but it is something they have considered in the recent past. And knowing Anet, i would wager we’ll see it at some point..

Nope you remember wrong all they said was same stat as ascended with stat swap ability same as legendary weapons.

well the exp will be dumped into pact comander or fractal master untill level 1 or what ever level your on of those fill up then exp will go nowere untill you get enough core tyria mastery points to unlock the next tier of either.
Legendary crafting, pact commander or fractal mastery.

What maps are you missing exp bar on?

Edit
Dont do several tickets it dont speed up the prosses only make your and others wait longer

Cyninja.2954:

Linken.6345:

Baseleader.4128:

Ah man, i remember the dungeonrunning toxicity. People who are not a fan of the Anet raid system and critique the so-called elitism of the raiding community forget that community that did speedruns on dungeons was sooo much more toxic. Using the completely arbitrary AP-system as a barrier for joining groups, always gearchecking, 2 classes were only allowed in (sometimes thief aswell).

Toxicity will always be a part of every online game. I don’t agree at all with the statement that raids are more toxic than fractals or dungeons.

Yea but people had options there were plenty all welcome groups that completed the dungeons just fine in 30mins-1hour.

All welcome in raid yea sure if you like to bang your head against the wall and never get anywere

Same thing for raids, in the evenings the lfg is full of different groups looking for people and there is sufficient groups looking for new or inexperienced players (on EU that is).

I still don’t see how this is unique or different to how fractals, dungeons or any other instanced content was handled by some people in this game.

I don’t quite recall the all welcome dungeon groups though. All I recall was lfg being full of:
- CoF zerk, exp 80, 5k ap
- Arah war, zerk, exp, 10k ap
- CM 80

The " welcome" dungeon groups basically did not place and modifiers on their lfg searches. Same as raids now leave away LI requirements or actually put in the word tries or practice.

Then again, maybe we are just having some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection .

the reason you dident see them is they filled quickly since anyone could join, Well I will come with a longbow bear berserker ranger then and will just have to join a training raid and go right?

Djinn.9245:

Linken.6345:

Djinn.9245:

Ardid.7203:

You need to also consider that Tyria IS NOT MODERN, FIRST WORLD EARTH.

During most of humanity’s history, and in fact, in many places all over the world even today, young people do need, want and have to take responsibility over their lives and the lives of others, often puting themselves at risk. 17 years old people go to work, take care of their families, go to war, have children. Many of them do a terrific job we should be grateful for. It is not good by our standards, it can be extremely cruel and heartbreaking, but it is real.

And yet, as I already stated, after gaining map completion I don’t recall a general attitude that in Tyria young people are tragically expected or even allowed to enter the fighting.

Ardid.7203:

With 17 years on her life, if Taimi were a real human she will not be even close to an infant. She’s on the fringe of adulthood in a lot of modern societies, and well over the age of motherhood in most historic societies.

Who said anything about infant? That’s an extreme comparison. And as I said, I don’t see a general situation in Tyria of young adults being mothers or other “adult” situations.

Ardid.7203:

So, yes, she’s quite young, by our modern, first world standards. But I don’t think Tyria can be considered that similar to our own place. Please remember the most ancient of the oldest Sylvari today has only 26 years… Tyrians can’t be judged by the same rules as us.

Sylvari are born adults.

Someone havent watched the cubs play with the ghost’s outside black citadel

Perhaps you’re talking about the event:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stay_near_the_Crush_cubs_and_keep_the_ghosts_away

The cubs aren’t playing with the ghosts, if you look at the wiki (or actually do the event) you see that you are actually governing their fear level…..

Yea and you as an adult dont send them home instead walk with them and indulge in their game, how dare you put them in danger man?

Its the same thing with Taimi you dont control them or her.

This was a response to you since you said no were in core game were children put into danger.

Langdon.9738:

Vayne.8563:

Work on the second generation of legendaries is not suspended indefinitely. That is to say, we’ve had weapons delivered to us, after it was supposedly suspended.

What Anet isn’t doing is making long collections, but they’ve been delivering new legendary weapons to us.

I’m not sure that’s going to change any time soon.

Guild Wars 2 can deliver legendary weapons without lifting the indefinite suspension. It just means that work on legendary weapons can cease without warning in favor of other projects. Guild Wars 2 may have released a few 2nd generation legendary weapons a few months post-announcement of the indefinite suspension, just don’t be surprised if the next legendary weapon takes “years to come” as Mike had said in his announcement. The word you might be looking for is cancellation, which means there are absolutely no plans to continue development for the 2nd generation legendary weapons.

We seem to get 1 each living story s3 episode after the first, so what new post from mike are you refering to?

Edit
We got mace shield and rifle with 302 303 304

Baseleader.4128:

Ah man, i remember the dungeonrunning toxicity. People who are not a fan of the Anet raid system and critique the so-called elitism of the raiding community forget that community that did speedruns on dungeons was sooo much more toxic. Using the completely arbitrary AP-system as a barrier for joining groups, always gearchecking, 2 classes were only allowed in (sometimes thief aswell).

Toxicity will always be a part of every online game. I don’t agree at all with the statement that raids are more toxic than fractals or dungeons.

Yea but people had options there were plenty all welcome groups that completed the dungeons just fine in 30mins-1hour.

All welcome in raid yea sure if you like to bang your head against the wall and never get anywere

yes you cant unlearn crafts but can only have 2 active without the gemstore upgrade.

So a character can learn all but only use 2 at a time

Yea and were have you seen people who been banned for it?

Maybe they are just lying since they dont want to admit to having had a bot doing stuff for them?

Morgulian.4158:

I’d also very much love to see such an option, and I don’t see any issues that would make it impossible (other than "we don’t want to make it).
Story being influenced by race has at least a couple of possible solutions:
- Item to be allowed for use only on characters who have already completed the personal story.

• Item to change the race in terms of appearance, but otherwise to remain the original for the purpose of story.*
  - Item to reset all your personal story to stage 1, and make you replay it, without getting any rewards for it.
  I am sure I can think of more ways to work it around.
  Regarding the cultural armors:
  - You will no longer be able to use them after you change race. You will not be able to change race as long as you have any cultural armor pieces equipped (or they will be automatically unequipped when you do).
  I have 1 character of each class and each race, without charr. I’d love to change my revenant norn to charr, but deleting it doesn’t look like an attractive option because I have 100% map completion on it, crafting skills, and time since creation (for birthday). If they make a consumable item that enables race change, I’d readily pay some 2000 gems for it.

Oh would be funny to see human females with charr male voices running around, I would roll around the floor laughing if this ever got implimented.

people were banned for useing it on xmas holiday recpie that gave you more materials then the 4 items took to craft making it a clear exploit if I remember right.

considering how well the ai henchmen you get in story works, would you really like that in the explorable paths?

Djinn.9245:

Ardid.7203:

You need to also consider that Tyria IS NOT MODERN, FIRST WORLD EARTH.

During most of humanity’s history, and in fact, in many places all over the world even today, young people do need, want and have to take responsibility over their lives and the lives of others, often puting themselves at risk. 17 years old people go to work, take care of their families, go to war, have children. Many of them do a terrific job we should be grateful for. It is not good by our standards, it can be extremely cruel and heartbreaking, but it is real.

And yet, as I already stated, after gaining map completion I don’t recall a general attitude that in Tyria young people are tragically expected or even allowed to enter the fighting.

Ardid.7203:

With 17 years on her life, if Taimi were a real human she will not be even close to an infant. She’s on the fringe of adulthood in a lot of modern societies, and well over the age of motherhood in most historic societies.

Who said anything about infant? That’s an extreme comparison. And as I said, I don’t see a general situation in Tyria of young adults being mothers or other “adult” situations.

Ardid.7203:

So, yes, she’s quite young, by our modern, first world standards. But I don’t think Tyria can be considered that similar to our own place. Please remember the most ancient of the oldest Sylvari today has only 26 years… Tyrians can’t be judged by the same rules as us.

Sylvari are born adults.

Someone havent watched the cubs play with the ghost’s outside black citadel

Vyrulisse.1246:

Core Tyria Mastery points are pain in the behind to get and there should be more of them. Those Living Story Season 2 Achievements are complete garbage to try and get even if you own it.

Are you na or eu I could help you with them if your the later, need to shake the rust of and they were fun the first time I did them

Faaris.8013:

Kako.1930:

Lol, if all the characters had the same voice and personality it would be boring. With variety comes things you don’t like as well as things you do. It makes us appreciate the characters we do like even more.

Well, if that was a priority for ArenaNet, why is there only one female voice for the characters you play? I was quite surprised to hear the same voice when I created my second female human, but thought “well, maybe they had one voice actor per race”. Then I created a female Asura, and guess what, same voice!

There is only one reason for ArenaNet to do that: saving money. Seriously, are voice actors so expensive? Time cannot be the issue, since the whole recording process can be done in parallel. How long does it take to record everything a character says in the story? A month? 2 months? In a game of that scale, I really have no tolerance for saving maybe 20k by copying & pasting the same voice on every character and race.

There is a way to fix that though. Hire a couple of voice actors and do the recordings, then add choices to the character creation process and to the ingame options. I would even switch the voice of my Asura after having started to play it.

The voice is a major part of a character, not just a little detail. If you live in a country that translates all series and movies into your own language, and then you start watching the originals at some point in your life, you know what I mean

April Stewart – Female human character

Colleen O’Shaughnessey – Female asura character

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Voice_actor

Maybe you should listen to them again?

Yea these team fights would make a good guild mission addition.

Would have to get the solo stuff in there bettwen somehow to not cut up the story to bad tho.

Well you can get carpace armor boxes per character was it gloves leggings and shoulders if I remember right and its nice exp if you need mastery exp or for spirit shards.

true but for hacked accounts, since your brother knew your password they might see it diffrently my friend crossing fingers and toes here.

pointaction.4639:

It would be nice to be able to change stats on Ascended Rings, Accessories and Amulet like you can on Ascended Armor and Weapons because I have so many of these that are the same stats and very useless and clogging up my bank bags.

If I vendor them it is only worth a few silver.

Then use ascended salvage kits and salvage them?

DemonSage.6317:

Yeah man, if they scaled dungeons it would be better than it is now, but if Anet wanted to make Dungeons better, they would need to give it better rewards.

Why?

OnizukaBR.8537:

The only reason some core specs are better then cond ( cond eng, cond ranger ) its because their elite have a different porpuse ( druid is support focus ) the moment both get a cond elite then you will not see the core classes anymore.
And this is just like elite skills on GW1, you arent suppose to not use 1.
And core classes will never provide something elite cant, because you can still equip two traits from the core classes to get something the elite cant provide.
The only real solution if they want the core classes to still be on the same foot is take one trait from each class and make it an elite.

So do that mean hot players can use both the hot elite and the core elite?
Since everyone should be able to use core skill lines.

And it dont mean so, then what happens when my necro want bloodmagic elite but anet decide to make spite the core elite its unfair… chatter that will eventualy start?

buy a gemstore sickle and be done with it OP

Edit
You got atleast 1 shared account slot from the level 80 boost that you can use to share it bettwen all alts

Stand The Wall.6987:

guard: scepter/scepter for double the faerie wand action.
mes: shield/shield cuz this point is mine and I aint ever giving it up.

Sad to inform that even if mesmer got main hand shield as next elite spec you wont be able to use two elites so no shield/shield for you.

Really thought this thread was about what next legendary weapon you wanted to be honest

zealex.9410:

eeh idk i was mostly suggesting it for when the legendary armor comes out if they havent found a way to deal woth the sigils infusioms by then having this tool to take them all out would come in handy

If it take out sigils/runes then its not the same item as the OP described.
And since anet sell rune/sigil extractors in the gem shop I wont see them adding that in the forseeable future.

cant go condi with a longbow as a ranger you could use it on a warrior or guardian tho.

Silverlance.2190:

vesica tempestas.1563:

Silverlance.2190:

Ayrilana.1396:

Normally 50% off.

Thanks. I wonder if I can get it in Game for less. although they might be sold by now. No way can I justify full retail for small add-on with a base game I already have.

you cant justify 5p a day for 24 hour access giving new zones, new skills, new mechanics like mastery & gliding, new class etc etc?

When it comes to money. Yeah. I need to justify it. 5p day you conjured up doesn’t change the price. And this is coming from someone that bought the exceedingly expensive CE at £150.

I don’t feel obliged to pay £35 blindly. And if I was alone in this regard I don’t think there would be so many angry old topics or negative criticism concerning it. I was just late to the party.

And no. A Max-Level Boost doesn’t humble me in the slightest.

It’s great some of you feel so strongly about the game. But it’s pointless to try and persuade me it’s great value.

Well since you havent bought it yet.
Just wait for next expansion and get this one for free when you buy that one.

Langdon.9738:

I’m hoping that their indefinite suspension on legendary weapons for second generation legendary weapons doesn’t stop them from pushing to deliver a third generation legendary weapon set in the next expansion. They would really redeem themselves if before an expansion they’ve released all second generation legendary weapons – then release the third generation legendary weapon set all at once at the next expansion without advertising it.

Well be prepared to wait aprox 3 more years for the next expansion then mate.

NikeEU.7690:

Sigil and rune swap are meaningless if you can’t also swap Stat infusions. I suggest you stop thinking of legendaries as the replacement for all your other gear and just look at them as cosmetics with upside when a particular Stat set is no longer meta.

For mini/maxers yes for everyone else no.

my laptop with 770m fully updated geforce experience see gw2 still

SlippyCheeze.5483:

I think there is more nuance possible than Conncept.7638 is bringing to the table here:

I agree that if condition damage is (far enough) lower than power damage, nobody is going to bother with running it, or contermeasures for it.

If it is approximately equal to power, or even stronger than it, but that damage is spread over time, then there is more nuance than “only condi” involved:

• bring condition cleansing, and use it to purge off conditions.
  * bring healing, and use it to heal through condition damage.
  * bring condition transfers, and use it to move conditions back to the attacker.
  * bring a higher health pool, and tough it out.

…and also, time when you use the condition cleanse. Is it worth absorbing a few seconds of damage, and then cleaning off the last half, or should you instantly remove it, leading to less damage taken now, but also more risk.

Much of what you say applies to power damage identically, too: if it overweighs condition damage, everyone brings power, and you get simple counterplays: use an immunity, or a heal, and apply some damage reductions.

I could certainly see two big things being argued that change the picture though:

First, make protection reduce condition damage as well as power damage. That makes it more valuable, and provides another option for dealing with that source of pain. Perhaps do the same with aegis, absorbing a tick of damage?

Second, slow down the pace of GW2 PvP some. It’s … very, very fast right now. Many engagements are decided in the first six or eight moves, and that is somewhere between four and six seconds of time.

Slow that down and suddenly condition damage is less of a thing, because you have more than two seconds to do something in response to it … just like you do to power damage, which is just as spike-oriented right now.

Dont forget resistance that should make you immune to direct dps aswell then.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

dukenukem.9072:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

If you already know there are millions of reasons why not, then no point in telling you again.

There are always reasons not to do something but it only takes one good reason to do it

Here’s the reasons why not for those new to this request.

The reason stated was that it would be a non trivial undertaking to redo all the weapons in the game (and no, you can’t do some and it not affect the others as even the ones without dye channels would need to fit on a UI that now has dye channels). Not only would it be cost and time prohibitive but changing the underlying code in such a basic level of the game would cause a slew of bugs that would also take dev time and budget money to track down and fix.

As they said about the related request to dye backpacks

Ashe Lewis.9815:

This sounds like a it could be good idea, but it doesn’t sidestep the issue of categorization and what certain types of assets can do. The older assets would still be affected. We’d still encounter a ton of programing challenges and bugs from altering a core mechanic of the game and the years of code built on top of it. Every player and many npcs use items, so the wrong bug slipping through can have a major impact on everyone in the game. Not to mention finding that bug could be like searching for a needle in a haystack because of how fundamental this part of our system is. We’d still probably end up having to re-author and retexture all old items (which would take a ton of resources) and even if we did do that, more players may end up upset by the minor texture changes to their current gear than those who can’t dye backpacks.

In other words, while the ability to dye weapons (and backpacks) would be cool to have the costs in both dev time and money to put them in game and then debug the changes is prohibitively high compared to the benefit gained. Especially when the same time and cost could be used to add new content instead, which arguably would attract and keep far more players than dyeable weapons. Your “good reason” would need to be better than what it would cost in time, money, extensive bug fixing and in the new content not done.

Yes and with it they cant keep selling us the same wing skins just diffrent colours

Murdock.6547:

Sounds like you should make your own party with blackjack and hookers.

Also let me just SHAMELESSLY plug my awful video since it’s semi-relevant.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oEznBsolOo4

So you mess up the stack by telling everyone to go to wrong place, were the berserker used to spawn long ago.
Then continue to not help any downed just to survive and not be able to kill them yourself.

This is relevant how?

peeterske.9134:

If a new raid comes out and all teams are figuring out tactics theyll just do it in es mode and spoil themself on mechanics of bosses afterte first lol

Who said it had to get out at the same time?
Could release easy mode 2-3months after the normal one no serious raider would wait that time to start learning the mechanics of the new raid.

do the daily every day and play normaly.

well not nearly complete maxed out it was 10k but agree it is something they should look in to disable or make so you can chose what achievements to show there

would be great if we could get one for the harder to finish weapons like warhorn, shield, focus and torch.