Guild Wars 2

This made me giggle

HiddenNick.7206:

Looria.8019:

What are you talking about free content?
Dont you know that ppl constantly throw money at ANets face though the gem store. They are making probably more money than they would with subscription model (thats why they introduced this model in the first place).

So no, this content is not free, its payed for by the players.

They pay for their minis not one time events… Get you facts straight. And a majority of people didn’t pay anything to Arena NET.

Well you get your facts straight. Every single person playing this game payed at least those 60 bucks for the game to Arena Net. We didnt pay only for the things that were present in the game when we bought it beause Anet said themselves that there are many features that they wanted to have in game for launch but didnt have time for it and will introduce them in the future.

We didnt pay just for the game. We also payed for the support. And we keep paying ANet (doesnt matter if its in case of pets or some models or whatever..the money goes to Anet) to keep the game going forward, to have resources to introduce new events, new zones, pretty much new content.

My facts are straight. Yours arent.

What are you talking about free content?
Dont you know that ppl constantly throw money at ANets face though the gem store. They are making probably more money than they would with subscription model (thats why they introduced this model in the first place).

So no, this content is not free, its payed for by the players.

So I talked to one of my friends today who was lucky enough to not get DCed during the final lost shores event.

He actually managed to finish the event 3 times. Twice on different overflows and then on main server. He got the reward 3 times (twice out of that he had legendary precursor, The Legend and The Dusk).

I dont know who thought of making the event the way it was but speaking about unfair, I didnt even get to see the end of the whole weekend event. Was there since Friday, working on the chain to get to see everything and I didnt even get to see how it all ended, when some ppl experienced it 3 times.

Just had to tell you guys…these things are just increasing my pain..

General Belisarius.2548:

how could they even fix this anyways? the damage is done and we dont get anything. cant even log back in STILL!?!?!

They kitten better find a way to fix this. I want my reward and im gonna spam them until the end of times until I get my reward.

They better not try to sweep this under the carpet. Or this will be beginning of the end. There are too many pissed ppl right now.

LETS KEEP ALL THESE THREADS BUMPED!

I am not leaving this topic until I get my kitten reward.

Waste of time with no reward. ANet wont see me and few tens of my friends for this kind of thing in the future.

Thanks for ruining my night.

Im telling you I will spam ANet from all sources until I get some reward for my hard work. I have already left many things be where ANet screwed up and i just let it go..not this time. I value 3 hours of my life more than that.

I got NOTHING because I got disconnected 5 mins before the event finished. And I was there busting my kitten since the start.

This happened to me. Im kittened as hell spent so much time and nothing from it. Im gonna spam ANet until I get something from it cause this is just rubbish.

Cant even get back in the game for crying out loud.

And they just finished it and I didnt get any reward.

Really great.

So I spent last 3 hours or so during this Karka event and right when i am at the end of it, i get disconnected. And guess what I cant even connect back to the game cause the login servers are offline. So I spent 3 hours working on something i cant even finish.

This is really kittening me off.

Gotta say the most breathtaking part was with the fires and the huge ice wall. It reminded me so much of the wall in the Game of Thrones

So when I heard about something stirring in the Sea of Sorrows, I was really looking forward to have TONS of underwater content – something is happening in a SEA afterall. The underwater combat is awesome and the underwater atmosphere is just stunning (i hate it in spvp…but for pve its really great).

Well I was really sad to find out there is really nothing happening underwater in this update.

I really really liked the idea when WoW came with Vashjir (whole underwater zone). I dont play WoW anymore but it was really new, refreshing and really great feeling.

GW2 has such a great potential with underwater content and if there is something i would like to see in the future, its much much more of underwater content.

^^ Sense of progression. Thats the thing missing for me from this game.
There is absolutely no sense of progression with your character when you hit lvl 80 and get yourself geared in exotic gear you like the look of.

Yea daily events related to each race would be a pretty cool idea as well.
I kinda miss daily quests or something like that in this game. I mean yea you have daily achievement but its not the same.

I know one guy who already got commander and has another 100g on his account. He already spent around 360 pounds on the game via gem shop.

Guess thats your answer.

Eicherjw.3926:

Looria.8019:

Meet Looria the Evasive
My little killing machine

what set is that?

Heyy, its nice to know someone likes my set haha.
I honestly think this combination looks neat on Asura only. Saw something similar on bigger characters but it just didnt look that good.

This aint really set though. I just combined few armor pieces that I liked to get this result.
Helmet – Twilight Arbor dungeon armor
Gloves – Citadel of Flame dungeon armor
rest of the armor is Berserkers Seer armor
Staff – Asura Tier3 cultural weapon
Colors – Celestial and some sort of dark purple one dont know which one exactly.

Regards,
Loo

Voqar.2349:

There both is no reason for most people to be at any specific town other than LA and due to lack of LFG tools in the game, the only way you’re going to get pugs is to hang out in the zones where your target instance is or to hang out in LA.

You’re not going to get the masses away from the only real hub when it’s the only place to get PUGs for PvE and the PvP zones dump you there when you leave PvP.

As I said earlier. If the only problem is looking for group, there is esy fix – introduce all cities wide chat.

Actracts.1389:

Maybe if I get a ‘home town’ advantage, I would visit Divinity’s Reach more often. Things like discounts on certain crafting materials, more exp gain in crafting in my home area, better sell rates, maybe even a small bonus stat for for a set time depending on how long I stay or what I accomplished in my area with a max cap (IE +2 for all stat for 15 minutes if I meet X amount of requirement in my home area – sell/buying items, crafting, killing things, completing DEs).

And duuude, I love this idea.

Hey guys,

thanks a lot for the constructive feedback you provided in this thread.
I see a lot of great ideas how to make the cities more interesting and how introduce some system to get to other cities as easily as to LA.

I never said heartstone was the only idea. It was one of the many possible ways to do this.

Anyway, keep it coming. More ideas!

PS: I will update the OP with all the ideas you guys have so we have them all in one place.

Regards,
Looria

@Beltaine yea having in Mists portal to all cities would work too. I think we should have the same access to all capital cities. Not just LA and the rest through LA.

But still, even 1/5 means being in the city which matches the culture of my race. One of the reasons I started playing Asura was because I loved their architecture and their main city.

Gehenna.3625:

Yeh the cities are amazing places but there’s no reason to go there. It also makes little sense to create more than one hub, because people wanna go where they can talk to the most people. LA has everything except cultural armour vendors but since not everybody likes those and when you do it doesn’t take long to buy them, why spend any time there at all?

Still, they are beautifully crafted so I wouldn’t want them to be taken away. But also why would you want to separate people by forcing them to spread out to other cities?

Admittedly, a Winter’s Day celebration as we know from GW1 would probably be nicer in Hoelbrak…

Easy fix, make a chat thats connected through all cities. You will be able to be in any city and still see whats going on in all of them.

Thats not true actually.

You have 3 choices right now.
1.) go to LA and stay there. It costs you no money and its the fastest way. Which ultimately makes it the best choice.
2.) got to LA, take portal to another city and teleport again within that city. It costs you no money, but it takes more time.
3.) go directly to one of the other cities. Its pretty much as fast as going to LA, but it costs you quite a lot of money.

The choice is easy and in most cases 1.) wins. And thats why I made this thread…Id like this to change.

Swagman.9013:

Why not just get there free via lions arch Morrigan? Or is that one too many load screens :P

As Anet stated, since this is not subscription based MMO, there is no need for time sinks. Thats why there are waypoints. They dont want ppl spending too much time doing something else than what they logged in for.

Taking aditional two portals and few more loading screens would be unnecessary time sink.

“Time is money, friend”

Favourite: Asura
Least favourite: Charr

I have around 120ms input lag on my 50" TV and I cant play on it with Ele. Its just not possible.

50" 3D LG plasma HDTV. It looks awesome (even tried it in 3D lol) but the TV is bad. It has around 130ms input lag and its just unlpayable on it so I will be changing it to something else.

Soulwatcher.2604:

There really is no need to return to your home town other then to use the bank. There are plenty of vendors and trade posts through out the world.

Which is sad imo. Those cities are amazingly stunning and im sure the devs spent huge amount of time building them. Its a shame there is absolutely no need for us to ever get back there.

Everyone is in Lions Arch and in Lions Arch only.

If you are exploring and want to go pick up some stuff at the TP, you go to the mists, enter Lions Arch and teleport to the TP. There is no point in teleporting to the portals, enter different city and teleport to TP there. Those are two unnecessary steps that just consume time and dont bring any value.

The Grove, Rata Sum and Divinitys Reach are only used during first parts of the story quest line. Other than that they are dead and useless.

I play asura and honestly I love the layout of Rata Sum. I would be there. But why would I waste time getting there when I have everything in LA already (and im certainly not gonna spend any money on getting there directly)

Solution?

Introduce something like heartstones in WoW. One portal to one of the waypoints in the cities for free. It can be on cooldown. But for me, I would make that “home waypoint” in Rata Sum. Im quite sure there are other players that would like to have their racial city as their home.

Please think about this.
Regards,
Looria

EDIT: There is a lot of constructive feedback in this thread. I will try to sum em up in the OP so we have them all in one place.

How to make transport to other cities efficient ppl actually use them as hubs?

0.) Add item (like to HoM) that teleports you to one of the cities that you choose for free
1.) Add portals to different cities in the mists.
2.) Waypoint to your home city for free
3.) Free teleport between Mists and all other cities
4.) Add a racial, 1h cooldown, teleport to your home city (or just free to waypoint there from the outside)
- If we have the population spread across all cities, for better communication and community it would require “all cities chat” so you can bee looking for group throughout all cities.

Add incentive to all cities to make players want to go there:
First idea:
Black Citadel Halloween — ghosts and bleak landscapes abound here
Hoelbrak Wintersday — no brainer – snow everywhere
Divinity’s Reach Wintersday in July or St. Pats? — they got confetti everywhere :P
The Grove Easter — the whole place is eternally in Spring
Rata Sum not sure on this one…Thanksgiving doesn’t fit all that well :/
Lion’s Arch GW2 Anniversary Day — kinda has to be here I would think

Second idea:
Black Citadel – 1v1 arenas
The Grove – Pet battles
Rata Sum – Poly-mock / rock-em-sock-em golems / that weird golem chess game pvp.
Divinities Reach – Moa races

I also loved this idea Actracts posted that would definitely make players want to go to their racial home cities:
- Maybe if I get a ‘home town’ advantage, I would visit Divinity’s Reach more often. Things like discounts on certain crafting materials, more exp gain in crafting in my home area, better sell rates, maybe even a small bonus stat for for a set time depending on how long I stay or what I accomplished in my area with a max cap (IE +2 for all stat for 15 minutes if I meet X amount of requirement in my home area – sell/buying items, crafting, killing things, completing DEs).

I will update this list with more ideas as they come.

Cheers
Loo

Reddit are bunch of kittens :p Cant expect to get upvoted for some serious suggestion there.

Centaur!

If you have problems with swimming, just transform them into mermaids.
I mean still the upper body remains the same, just change the lower body.
Would be frikking awesome.

I admire your patience.
Im not going to step a foot in that dungeon until Simin gets fixed.

For folks solely focused on sPvP, they still have level 1 character, with level 1 gear shown in the character selection even though their sPvP character looks frikking kitten.

It would be nice to have the option to display either PvE or PvP character in char selection.

Just a thought.

Meet Looria the Evasive
My little killing machine

Aight I will also chip in

Asura Elementalist

Yo there.
The only reason I can play Ele is because of the setup im using. I just couldnt use normal keyboard because the finger acrobatics I would have to do to be able to move without restrictions and properly stance dance and cast spells, id go insane.

Below you can find my gaming setup for Elementalist.

Nostromo n52te and keybinds:
http://imgur.com/a/BQTWf#1

Corsair M90 and binds
http://imgur.com/a/BQTWf#0

I am experimenting with having attunements on Nostromo (keys 6,7,9,10) and get rid of turning with A and D. Works too.

What I love about this setup is that I dont have to move my “movement” fingers around. I am not restricted with movement. My hand is still in the same place and most of the skills are controlled by my left thumb or right thumb.

Im wondering this too.
Until I see some proof that this boss got fixed I will not set foot in Arah.

Corrupted priestess of dwayna is bugged right now.
You can check out this video if you are not certain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOEkzd61lAc

I have spent 1,5 hours fighting this boss without any progress.
The boss is killable. When you fight her for 2,5 hours eventually you can kill her (so im told).

Dont matter if you cant kill boss at all due to bug or if it takes 2,5 hours to kill him. Both cases are bad design and it needs to get fixed.

@ Spifnar – Let me rephrase that. Most scepter/dagger skills are released towards one target. The fact that it can hit multiple targets thats fine (and yes in case of phoenix thats the purpose) but most of the skills are not ground targeted. With staff most of the skills are ground targeted and.

My whole point was that staff is more effective for fights with multiple targets, where other weapons are not as much.

We killed the sniper up on the tree by me (Ele) using focus in my offhand giving my party aoe destroying projectiles and I used mist form to get up to him, used tornado and he was just bouncing and bouncing without doing anything. That bought my team enough time to deal with the rest of the mobs around and after that came to assist me with finishing the sniper.

Our weapon choice severely defines our gameplay. Every weapon is good for something else.

Staff is good for support, control and AOE damage. The more targets you have on one spot the more effective staff is.

Other weapons are the other way. The less targets do you have on one spot the more effective they are. The more ppl..the less effective they are. Scepter and daggers are specialized on single target damage. Even though you are able to deal some damage to multiple targets at the same time, it will never be as effective as Staff.

Also weapon choice determines how you should build your character. With staff character can have much lower HP and toughness because the idea of staff gameplay is not to get hit and do big damage from long range. On the other hand if you go with daggers you will be on your foes toes so higher vitality and/or toughness is preferred, because you are most likely to be attacked in the middle of the combat field.

I personally love staff for PvE, WvW and tPvP, for sPvP however I prefer scepter + focus.

Thats where you are wrong. Unless you pin point every single skill that you feel is too weak and suggest changes to that skill, your feedback is pretty much useless.

Keep in mind that balancing classes is not just about increasing multiplier of some skills and decreasing multiplier of other skills. Its much more complicated process and the more specific you can be, the easier you make it for devs, the sooner you can actually expect some change to happen.

@Grevender – Very specific, nice.

I would just like to remind everybody in here that this thread will NOT be taken seriously by any dev unless the feedback in it is constructive and as specific as possible. “We need to deal more damage” as useful information as if I would write “My sister is 13 yo.”

Isnt this with every type of transport our there?
You dont have enough money for the buss? Well you need to get there on foot.

It takes longer but you dont have to pay for it.

Its all about priorities. You wonna get there faster? pay for it. You dont mind it will take a while to get there but it will save you money? its up to you.

As I said. If waypoint cost is too high for you, there is always other choice. You can get there by running there.

I understand that hard hitting skills need to give players the chance to avoid them. But even this is too much. Especially when more damage actually comes from conditions that are applied by normal auto attacks that you dont dodge.

RaZaC.1963:

Its funny that they (A-Net) stated many times you should not be punished for dying, because death in it self is a punishment. I’ve seen nothing of this back in the actual game. Armor repairs are a huge money sink and so are waypoints (teleport after defeated).

I’d rather they lower the dungeon rewards and removde the hassle of repairing armor then haveing to play X silver for my armor repairs and getting a higher amound of silver at the end.

Do you understand the whole games economy?
I dont think so.

Repairs are in game for a reason. And how much do you pay for repair is for a reason as well. How much do you pay for waypoints also.

Every normal player gets more money out of the dungeon than he has to spend on repairs.

And if you dont like paying for waypoints, you can always get to your target location on feet.

I agree with those guys. Staff is an awesome weapon when there are more enemies. Its not so efficient for 1v1 fights. For that i would prolly go with scepter + focus. Invulnerability, destroying projectiles, slows, vulns and have all you can in water attunement trait line for cond removals.

I will just add one more thing. This game isnt balanced around 1v1s. You would never be able to balance it that way. WoW is trying to do exactly that and look where it goot them. No this is a team play. You are supposed to be fighting 2v2s or 3v2s or things like that. Thats where the combo fields and stuff like that really kick in and you have decent fight.

Keep that in mind.