Guild Wars 2

You can remove QoL features from the game. You can add QoL features to the game behind a paywall.

But when you take what’s currently a free QoL feature and put it behind a paywall, that’s really bad. And judging from Anet’s response (i.e., none) this is a sign of things to come.

And looking at how Anet creeps these out slowly, here’s likely what’s next:

• Any new map will have a paywall on its WPs. (White knights: “hey, you can just walk so it’s ok, right? Plus, I walk everywhere anyway, who needs WPs?”) Then:
• All WPs will be paywalled. (White knights: “hey, you can just walk so it’s ok, right? Plus, I walk everywhere anyway, who needs WPs?”)

DiogoSilva.7089:

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Most sigils will still have their same internal cooldown(all on swaps will). So technically it’s not double efficiency for warriors however, it depends how you look at it I suppose.

Actually, that’s not the issue (unless I misunderstood). There will exist a trick that might lead to player’s “abuse”. Take a look at this:

Normal Situation

• Unnamed Class has 4 on-swap sigils (2 on each weapon).
• Unnamed Class can swap weapons each 9 seconds.
• 2 sigils will trigger every 9 seconds.

Elementalist/ Engineer Situation

• They’ll have 2 on-swap sigils (only one weapon set).
• On-swap sigils have a 9 second cooldown.
• The 2 sigils will trigger every 9 seconds.

Warrior’s Broken Setup

• Warriors will be able to swap faster, like Elementalists and Engineers, however, they’ll have two weapon sets instead of one.
• Warriors switch to Weaponset A, triggering 2 sigils and putting them under a 9s CD.
• Warriors switch to Weaponset B 5 seconds after, triggering the remaining 2 sigils.
• Warriors switch back to Weaponset A 5 seconds after. By this time, the two first sigils are fully recharged, and will trigger again. And so on.
• Conclusion: 4 on-swap sigil warriors with a 5 second weapon swap will trigger sigils every 5 seconds, unlike any other profession. This gives them almost “twice” the sigil power.

Wasn’t there already a huge thread about this? And they still don’t get it?

Might I suggest someone at Anet bring up the test server and actually try this out: roll a warrior, put 4 different sigils on, trait fast hands, and swap immediately when possible. Then do the same with every other professions. Compare.

This is the second most replied-to and read topic in this forum — the first has had 4 days to gather steam. Obviously it’s an issue that people are concerned about.

Will Anet responds at all? Or will they to treat this the same way they treated the sprocket controversy — complete silence?

You don’t have to have WPs either since you can walk everywhere. Let’s put that behind a paywall as well. Just say that Evon Gnashblade needs the money because his treasure stash got destroyed in LA — as long as there’s a story reason, it’s ok, right?

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Sorry everybody, I was wrong earlier.

The crafting stations did not get moved to Vigil’s Keep. However, you can travel directly from Vigil’s Keep to one of the other cities of Tyria at no cost via asura gate travel, all of which have crafting stations.

You could do that in the old Lion’s Arch. So in the end, a feature was taken away and only brought back for those who pay. Didn’t Plants vs Zombies 2 do that recently as well? I believe they received quite the backlash.

You might be able to test this against a mesmer mob that uses GS #1 — for example Tazza from SEp1.

Each attack hits 4 times for the same amount of damage.

Enter the fight without the inquest slaying potion. Drink the potion as she’kittenting you with GS #1 and check the difference in damage between those 4 hits.

Didn’t Plants vs Zombies 2 recently have a huge controversy where they removed a feature from the game (lawnmowers) and brought it back for only those who paid?

Pretty much the same thing here.

(In the end, the outrage caused EA to roll back the lawnmower change.)

Young Somalia.1706:

A) Make sure you have swiftness; air acceleration is vastly different with and without swiftness

B) Weapon swap out of your leap animation as close to the end as possible. Leap skills end with the animation which is basically a dead-stop.

Applying swiftness will allow you to keep (some) forward momentum while weapon swapping prevents the leap animation from completing, thus you continue to move forward as you fall, rather than stopping mid-air and resuming to move forward again, but only slightly (on account of swiftness)

This is one of my favorite mechanics in the game and I love leaping everywhere. I’ve basically resigned myself to warrior and guardian just for leaps (not sure about Engie, as far as LH Ele, you cannot swap out of a bundle in mid-air, rendering it quite ineffective).

Cool trick… I’ll try it out… too bad it can’t really be used in WvW because of the need to weapon swap and cancel the skill (guardian GS 3 also has a blind on hit at the end of the leap).

Esquilax.3491:

Amen to this. The greatest thing about GW1 to me was hunting down Elite Skills with Signets of capture. That and the fact that elite skills didn’t suck horribly…

It was even more fun when you had to cap the skill exactly when the boss was using it!

For those of you who buy gemstore armor, what do you do with them when you get a new skin? Do you overwrite the old skin, losing it forever? Or get a new piece of armor for the new skin so as to keep the old skin in reserve? If you do the latter, what about if you have Ascended armor?

Zelyhn.8069:

Maybe this could coincide with the release of GW2 in China.

Assuming they do this, why would they do it at the same time as the release of GW2 in China? It’ll just be something in-game upon release. If they do it after the China release, it’ll look like (and can be pitched as) a post-release addition to the game.

You’ve got to think like Anet.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

We have not removed the central hub. All services have been moved to Vigil’s Keep, due to the attack on Lion’s Arch. You can find everything there.

So where’s the crafting?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Fumble-dodges-1/first

They know, but probably don’t care.

Fixed? Anyone tested since the 2/18 patch?

Next: Evon Gnashblade says that WPs are behaving erratically because of Scarlet’s tampering with Tyria’s magic. Everyone must take a WP safety course before resuming use of WPs. Safety course price: 1000 gems.

White knights response: “But you don’t have to use WPs. You can always walk wherever you need to.”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Dungeon-crafting-recipe-drop-list/first#post2006897

Note that a few of these are obviously bugged and have never dropped for anyone.

The more you support sPvP, the less chance WvW has of getting the attention it deserves.

My reading of the patch notes says that crafting will be available in this airship — but not at the vigil keep.

They’re not even making an effort to be sneaky or subtle about it anymore.

Ygdrad.7839:

Tengus have the same mesh as the charrs, we’d probably just get the same boring near-identical trenchcoats. They wouldn’t have to work on new armor except for racials.

This. Tons of clipping issues. Armor that’s just human/norn armor but with obviously stretched textures. It’ll be a disaster, just like with the charr.

sirflamesword.3896:

Do they think by destroying the main place people went to get to the bank crafting etc would make them by the airship ticket? Not even being subtle about it.

Just be happy they didn’t destroy the Asura gates as well and make them available only through the gemstore. …or is that next?

It bothers me (when I use guardian greatsword 3 in any direction where the ground is sloping downwards). The sudden sharp vertical drop looks awful.

Kim.4152:

There should be some sort of compensation for glory boosters because they were still coming out of black lion chests in December and perhaps even afterwards (not sure about the latter).

I just got a glory booster 2 days ago from a black lion chest.

Mystic.5934:

In their defense, the equation for how much damage to deal is probably really complication. Think about everything that contributes to it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it took up a full page. It probably is pretty easy to fix (turn + into – or * into /), but hard to locate what to fix. and if they changed the wrong part, something else would break just as horribly. I imagine the recent mesmer chaos storm buff was caused by such a thing :P (when chaos storm upon taking fall damage delt like 80,000 damage – that 4.2 second lupi kill was HILLARIOUS)

No. If the followed any good programming practices, then it’s pretty clear what the problem is and where that problem is located. This should take no more than 10 minutes to find, fix, and test.

400 some ranks, just got one ascended armor drop — stats I don’t use, of course.

We just had a fractals update a few months ago and Anet only touches the fractals once a year. So don’t expect anything for a long while.

MAD CAT.9321:

It’s a waste of time to kill veterans because 90% of the time we get a useless piece of GREY item or a white. On the rare occasion, maybe a rare if we’re lucky. How are we supposed to make gold for really expensive dyes other than FGS trains until our eyes explode???

Do dungeons — they’re very profitable. Be sure to skip the silver mobs since their drops are just as bad.

They’ve probably mostly left the game because it’s too grindy.

Every other update they bug out necro minion AI.

They just bugged minions again in one of the recent updates — they frequently stand around doing nothing again (not sure which update exactly, I’ve already switched to guardian).

trassr justin.9743:

Here is some proof that it needs to be fixed in case you don’t believe us and/or just hate necros and are ignoring their bugs. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even want to use my flesh golem because whenever I get into any big fights and i need him he’s standing off in the corner somewhere.

I’m seeing the same thing with the flesh golem. They seem to break necro minions every other update.

Psycho Robot.7835:

I think people would feel much better about this whole thing if you took a moment to explain why exactly this is taking so long to fix. For example, why maybe it ISN’T as simple as changing a + to a – in the effect code.

The reason they’re not saying anything is because it is that easy a fix. They just haven’t bothered to do it.

Nike.2631:

Think of it as incentive to try something new.

I already have Ascended trinkets and weapons for my current build. No way I’m going to regrind those for another build.

I want a meat shield. Pun intended. Sorry.

Veldrunner’s Armor chest (Apothecary stats).

Worthless to me. Wish I could at least give it away.

90% failure rate is a terrible mechanic when you have no idea when that 10% procs. It just makes blind completely useless against bosses. IMO it should at least be 10% successful application of blind and when successful, it works as usual.

Anet will do nothing. The best you can do is try to contact the DH community and get them to peer pressure these people to stop.

Taku.6352:

AtriustheGod.6785:

So I tried AC p3 alone yesterday. The spider queen was again no problem, and I managed to get Kohler to kill the Troll, but I got stuck at the burrows. I tried my best to kite all the gravelings, but they never all seem to stay aggroed on me. A few break the group and head for the essence collectors, and gradually kill them. And if I don’t move around in a wide enough circle, the gravelings kill me. The best I got to was 50% charged and then I gave up and posted a LFG to help me finish the dungeon.

I also tried CM p3 and I have absolutely no idea how to kill Sure Shot Seamus. I got him to 90% at best by running around the building with some well aimed bow shots, but I couldn’t handle him or the adds.

If you can get 5% off his health he switches to using a shotgun and then you can just circle him in melee range. His skill windup is so long that you will be well out of his frontal cone before he fires. I suggest taking at least one stun breaker for him in case he decides to aim at a random direction.

This. For Seamus.

For AC, when gravelings attack the collectors, just give them a few hits and they’ll aggro on you (you may have to be in melee range) … also, if you regularly damage those that are following you they don’t de-aggro. Just run around in circles near the burrows so that you cleave the burrows as well.

Flissy.4093:

Boss skips, however, are something that should be dealt with. Very few bosses are skippable, but the ones that are (Kholer [AC], Hunting Hound [CM P2], Bridge event [COF P1], Jaddeor Icefist [HOTW P2] just to name a few) shouldn’t be. I’d even argue that some Champions in dungeons (such as the Champion Dredge on the SE P1 Bridge, or the Icebrood Wolf at the start of COE) should be bosses and therefore mandatory.

If they wanted to force you to do bosses they can just have a door refuse to open if you haven’t done so.

By the way, it has officially been stated that Kholer is optional. Just like the troll in the same dungeon.

More skills means you may have to change your build. Changing your build means possibly changing your gear. Changing your gear after already grinding through one Ascended set? I can already feel the rage echoing from the future.

I think Anet might have screwed themselves here.

mercury ranique.2170:

The colour off your server is random. the worlds in a match are chosen based on rank, recent playtime against eachother and rng. When that is determined, they use RNG to assign the colours. so yes it is luck.

Completely false.

They’ll make it worthwhile: by putting stat grind on infusion slots. You’ll have to grind the Ascended then.

Pip.2094:

I think it’s random what color your server will be next round…or it has to do with score/rank…no clue…
All I know is that I was waiting for 4 weeks to complete map (only due to WvW) waiting to be red…missing only ONE point of Interest in the red borderland in Cliffside keep. Color switched this way: Blue, green, blue, green. If yesterday a zerg wouldn’t have been so awesome to finally decide to give a shot to Cliffside, I would STILL be missing that.
That’s why I will ALWAYS complain about WvW maps for map completion.

It’s not random. The matchup algorithm takes server rankings, tweaks them a bit using a small amount of RNG to get tweaked rankings. Those new rankings determine the matchups and colors (highest tweaked ranking in each matchup gets green, next blue, next red).

The large ranking gaps between some servers combined with the small amount of RNG used makes it so that the probability of some servers moving up/down in the tweaked rankings (and thus changing their color) is very small.

That’s why some servers get the same colors week after week.

So why doesn’t Anet first tweak the matchups and then randomize colors separately? Too much effort (or maybe they just don’t care) I guess.

Espionage.3685:

If ArenaNet intentionally implemented ways to run past enemies in dungeons and stated such (just because you can do it doesn’t mean it’s intentional), then I guess I don’t really have any argument… But I’m assuming it’s not intended.

You would be assuming wrong. It’s intentional. If they wanted you to kill all mobs, they can easily prevent your progress with a wall or door until you’ve killed the mobs. The do exactly this in many places in many dungeons. This means where they don’t do it, they are giving you a choice. (I’m not talking about exploits like going under the map or stuff like that.)

The funny thing is that with Ascended gear and the fact that there’s no skin locker, those with Ascended gear are probably less likely to buy skins.

Kill the champ. They’re all soloable.

Yep. You’re locked in to your Ascended gear once you’ve got it. You just have to pray balancing, nerfing, buffing and new skills don’t change your build enough to make you want or need to change gear.

Don’t like it? Make your own LFG stating you don’t want to stack and want to kill all foes. Let other people play the way they want to play.

Not fun enough.

What happened to the summary of the previous CDIs that we were promised? We didn’t even get that.

History shows that we will all give our ideas and they’ll say a few kind words about our comments; then they’ll just turn around and do whatever it was they were planning on doing anyway: make WvW look more and more like syhammer — because everyone loves that map, right?