Guild Wars 2

None, and I hate to say this, but I don’t intend to either

Unfortunately i can’t support ANet like I did in the past

Thizz.3970:

Experience Scrole – Double click to advance a character to level 20. Can only be used by characters under level 20.

My level 80 character received this as a “Special Item Delivery” and when i double click it it doesn’t work. Should i have opened this with my lower level character? I tried to mail to my lower level characters and I can’t. Anyone know what to do?

Yeah its for a new character, basically when you start a new character use that to make them lvl 20 straight away

marnick.4305:

What positives would raids bring to this game? I’m honestly drawing a blank. There’s, afaik, no good reason to implement instanced wow-style gearcheck tiered raids. There’s a game for that already, and they’ve mastered it.

Thats the thing, in WoW its the PLAYERS that gear check, the gear iLvL is the games way and the dungeon gear is the right iLvL for the LFR system, the LFR gear drops are good enough for full raiding, its the PLAYERS that push

Morsus.5106:

I hope it’s done on an activity basis on the rollout. It’d be pretty ironic if over half the players that were put in the beta weren’t actively playing the game.

Now THAT would be hilarious!

Firefly.5982:

Since we are a it…PLEASE remove mini pets from the “Deposit All” function!!!

I can’t ever use the deposit all function, because it stores away my mini pets as well

I stick my fave pet (mini bone chicken) in my invisible bag, that’s what its for

timidobserver.7925:

The GW1 people and soloers hold the game back. The GW1 people would totally flip their lid if a raid was put in the game. They would all be screaming about the game becoming like WoW.

Therefore, there will be no instanced raid. I am completely shocked that there is gear progression, but so far they have ignored the constant protests of the GW1 people on that.

Quite the opposite, I’d like raiding, its actually one of the WoW things I genuinely liked

Back in GW1, Underworld and DoA always seemed perfect for raid areas, maybe in GW2?

I’d go with that, might actually use it too

Wolfheart.1938:

Oh, they are making you buy the LFG tool now?

Product is bought and paid for, and according to the law concerning ToS, they can make changes and withdraw the product at anytime…

However, ADVERTISING is another matter entirely, not to mention the vitriol response from those that come back tot eh game because of this update to find the LFG tool ISN’T there

Vol.5241:

Just shows people will look for a reason to complain anyway.

Actually here in the UK, there are trading standard laws to stop this sort of thing

esit.3927:

May I ask what staff are going to Eurogamer please?

Thats what I was wondering, so i know if I need to take cookies that I owe a few

Zoid.2568:

Lonesamurai.4852:

Zoid.2568:

Lonesamurai.4852:

Zoid.2568:

Lonesamurai.4852:

I asked them about this on Twitter, pretty sure they are OPENLY ignoring me on social media now

Who are you? someone important?

A games journalist that covered GW1 for 6 years and GW2 until Christmas

Oh, cool

I also now own one of the old GW1 community fansites and trying to rebuild it with new Admins to cover GW2 (so I can get on covering other things)

Sounds good. Can you link the site? i just got back into GW1 a few days ago. May find something worth looking at, trying to build on my HoM.

Both in my signature

Zoid.2568:

Yeah, i don’t hope they nerf any more content.
It’s something else to whine about a new feature coming out and just a few days before its release they announce it’s going to be in beta and only for a limited amount of players, while they have advertised this new LFG Tool to release with the update 17 september. Players will be coming back for this update, a lot and they can’t use the LFG Tool. Not a very good strategy.

Indeed

Why advertise something as a MAJOR inclusion in not only a content update, but a living world update and then set it as limited roll out?!?

Madness

Zoid.2568:

Lonesamurai.4852:

Zoid.2568:

Lonesamurai.4852:

I asked them about this on Twitter, pretty sure they are OPENLY ignoring me on social media now

Who are you? someone important?

A games journalist that covered GW1 for 6 years and GW2 until Christmas

Oh, cool

I also now own one of the old GW1 community fansites and trying to rebuild it with new Admins to cover GW2 (so I can get on covering other things)

Zoid.2568:

Lonesamurai.4852:

I asked them about this on Twitter, pretty sure they are OPENLY ignoring me on social media now

Who are you? someone important?

A games journalist that covered GW1 for 6 years and GW2 until Christmas

Shemsu.8721:

Ace.1726:

Surely this can’t be it when they mean raids. Essentially Tequatl is a dps test, nothing like a what a real raid is.

Guild Wars 2 needs more exclusive content, something not everyone can do. Right now there is no reason to be good at your class everything is so easy in the game all you have to do is use zerker gear and auto attack essentially.

MattVisual mentions on GuildCast that Tequatl was what Arenanet meant when they said Guild Wars 2 style raids, I’m hoping he’s wrong but I had an inkling that was the case even before.

Can a dev confirm or deny this? Are Arenanet working on actual raids?

No. Just No. This game does not need content that locks out a part of the playerbase, in fact this game was built on the idea of not doing that.

But we all know how closely they’ve stuck to THAT ethos for the game

Astral Projections.7320:

It would be a better gold sink if you could retrait at will but the game charged you a small fee to do so. The would not only be a more flexible system but it would be a better gold sink as people would retrait more frequently if they didn’t have to leave where they were to do so.

Like GW1 you mean? Yup, that would be better

Besides, if you goto the armour stations in eternal Battlegrounds, the Dervish armour is there behind the armour vendor

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Never played WoW because it was so grindy and the lack of grind was what lured me to the GW franchise from the start. Unfortunately GW2 has turned in to just another run of the mill grind fest. There is nothing special anymore.
The WoW players have gotten their wish and GW2 is turning in to another clone with nothing to make it stand out except no monthly fee. I have no wish to make a legendary as they are all ugly as sin, and the requirements for ascended do not offset the benefits of having one. I play every day, but I really don’t know why, guess I am just glutton for punishment.

I must admit, WoW actually ruined GW2 for me

I played WoW in the year or so of limbo between GW1 and GW2 and WoW gave me an expectation of quality that GW2 never reached
Hell, WoW actually isn’t as grindy as it used to be either, it has a brilliant LFG and LFRaid system, yeah gear is a grind, but drops in dungeons are actually good enough to raid with (unless the high stat fools notice)

kitten … I’d rather be playing Minecraft right now, at least that’s somewhat enjoyable grind

Fingers crossed Everquest Next learns from this

I asked them about this on Twitter, pretty sure they are OPENLY ignoring me on social media now

I admit I preffered the GW1 way of doing it

GW1 was:
North America 1, North America 2, … etc
International 1, International 2, … etc
European 1, European 2, … etc

And you could actively jump between them

As someone that used to hold events in game, even with the GW1 community team getting involved (GW’s 4th b’day 15hour radio show anyone?), arranging large community events was easier

I think this entire decision is a joke

The LFG system is supposed to be released on the 17th, not go into live limited beta testing on the 17th…

Not impressed

Wow…

Having just read the announcement about the LFG system rollout…

so although its been advertised as coming on the 17th, its ACTUALLY a limited roll out for live testing?

Antara.3189:

Here’s my opinion about others who say no in the sense that it was related to the Human Gods.

You are correct, 250 years ago.

Keep in mind that dhuum was imprisoned there. He was in a dorman state in the time of Guild Wars 1, but broke came out of the dormant state and broke his bounds. As players, you could defeat dhuum, but he was only put back in his bound state and thus he should still be dormant in the Underworld.

Underworld should still be around in Guild Wars 2 Tyria, unless a lore developer states otherwise.

In regards to Fissure of Woe, in the time of Guild Wars 1 Tyria, Menzies the Mad was fighting his brother to gain control of the “Realm of War” aka FoW. We do not know what happened to Menzies and whether or not he still roams FoW.

There is still plenty of Lore to be discovered in regards to these two areas and I believe both are still relevant to Tyria.

Indeed

Both are still very relevant, in fact if the Mad King is still around, both Dhuum and Menzies should be

I must admit, I don’t see the point in the trait books, those trait sections could just unlock at particular levels

digiowl.9620:

Tiger.9786:

Nightarch.2943:

Five gods* Kormer doesn’t count because she took what wasn’t hers

-_-

My expression exactly when various NPCs gets mentioned…

Me too, especially when their name is spelt wrong…

It’s Kormir, and she was elevated by the other five gods, so I’d say she deserves it (and us GW1 vets fought hard to help her get there)

Seras.5702:

Adine.2184:

Eve was here name . As you may recall she had a pet skull named Adam

Which is available as focus item in GW2

We need the GW necro armor back. It was all so good. The scar armor especially.

Seconded

My Necro is still jealous of his Great grandfathers armour and weapons

TheJokester.4672:

those of us that came from GW1 should have gotten more than we did honestly because of the time alone that was invested to get the X number of achivements for hom the fact we had to get the most expensive armor in the game if we wanted 50 of 50 metric ton of titles and some of the most expensive weapons as well I would love to get a Dhuum’s Soul Reaper in gw2(I miss my derv…)

I miss my Balthazar Dagger Dervish aswell

milton.1796:

emikochan.8504:

Lonesamurai.4852:

Hell, WoW has a fantastic LFG system and has done for years
(and yes that is the only thing I genuinely like about WoW)

And it only happened at the end of the 2nd expansion. I quit wow because of what the lfg did to the community, but thankfully gw2s isn’t an auto group finder / teleport into dungeons.

Here here, I played before the LFG was added and LFG killed the server community because you’d learn who was a dedicated tank, healer etc and you’d ask people politely if they’d like to make a group and often it was done within 10 minutes of organizing with the LFG you can spend an hour waiting and nothing..

And it gets better the people you usually get stuck with from LFG are usually illiterate non polite goons who go into rage mode so easily.

I played in vanilla, Quit not long after TBC (I was too busy with GW1 and work) and went back at Lich King
The LFG system was pretty solid, apart from fools who saw who they teamed with and left again (there loss putting them on a 1 hour timer before using it again) and now its even quicker with cross server LFG
Seriously, why can it not port us directly into a dungeon? there’s a bloody waypoint there…

nexxe.7081:

emikochan.8504:

Lonesamurai.4852:

Hell, WoW has a fantastic LFG system and has done for years
(and yes that is the only thing I genuinely like about WoW)

And it only happened at the end of the 2nd expansion. I quit wow because of what the lfg did to the community, but thankfully gw2s isn’t an auto group finder / teleport into dungeons.

It might as well though. GW2 already has instant teleportation. The only difference is that you have to manually click the waypoint, then run inside. It would be different if the waypoints weren’t there, but GW2 is so convenient, it doesn’t make sense not to just teleport the whole party inside.

Exactly, it could very easily TP you straight in to what you queued for, there is NOTHING wrong with the WoW LFG system and allows you to TP straight into content you are the right level for, but haven’t found the entrance for yet just makes sense (especially as you get an ingame mail about where it is)

+1 to the idea (and well written)

I must admit I haven’t actually used town clothes since release though

sorudo.9054:

i do agree with hats but…..what about the lovely and always sinister scar pattern.

My Necro is jealous of his Great (great, great, great) grandfathers scarred face

Hell, more GW1 armours or non-armours are needed… Monk tattoo’s for instance

Undead shark underwater Elite for Necro’s!!!

Hell, WoW has a fantastic LFG system and has done for years
(and yes that is the only thing I genuinely like about WoW)

Nah, there is one simple fix to bring peope back to GW2

Guild Vs Guild and Guild Halls!

A guild hall could have all the crafting, storage and vendor options and could be upgraded to add them just as the GW1 guild halls could

But GvG is ESSENTIAL!
Especially with a proper tournament structure

I would like a few cape designs as a new skin for my backpack

The guild banner is a cool idea, but would rather have a few cape designs

I must admit, day one I changed my chat layout and made a new tab for Guild and PM chat

There are lots of standard MMO tips GW2 could do with using, not to copy (as the MMO formula is already so diluted), just to enhance

Oh I’d love a light armour for Charr that WAS a kilt, but not heavy armour

As the title says, please bring back the guild logos from Guild Wars 1

My guild used the Wolfs head logo in GW1 since release and it has lasted as our guild logo ever since and we’d love to use it again in GW2

Pretty Please?

Good point, this was handy in GW1

I’d agree with this, its one of the items other MMO’s do naturally that GW2 misses out on (and yes I play a lot of MMO’s for work, I notice these points)

Tyr Bloodfur is angry about all the SKIRTS male Charr have to put up with in Heavy Armour skins…

Rytlock will be told about this indignity!

(Less skirted heavy armour please :P)

I’ve noticed this the last few days (started doing a few alts) and I’ve had to group up to do this one, compared to soloing some of the Orr skill points

But I guess its a good challenge and a reason to team up, but yeah, too many vets loitering

+1 to Fellblade GW1 goodness

I do use it on my Ranger, but yeah, it should be as cool as it was in GW1

(also the Crystaline Sword skin on ZAP is not as cool as the GW1 counterpart either… Disappointing)

+1 to this

I’m not bothered about the Grenth animation, but BiFrost looks awful for a Necro

:D