Guild Wars 2

The Living Story has basically become a parody of itself. Just give up and don’t try to rationalize the plot points.

ZBeeblebrox.4928:

Shadoekin.3928:

Some of the instabilities are actually quite bad. For example…

1) Barbaric: Only two-handed weapons are effective.
——> a pure shortbow thief for all 4 fractals? I guess at that certain fractal level, we shouldn’t invite any thieves to the party.

2) Finesse: Two-handed weapons are very ineffective
——> underwater fractal is gonna take foooooreeeeeeeeveeeeeeer Keep rolling until it’s not Underwater pls.

3) Doctor Death: Skills from the healing slot cause death
——> wtb AH Guardians/healing shouts Warriors/vampiric well Necros/water field Elementalist ONLY

Yeah, these are pretty ridiculous. I immediately thought of thieves also upon reading the Barbaric one. GG you can’t play, bye! Hope you have an alt!

Warning: Having an alt won’t help if you’re the instance owner.

…or we’ll no doubt have to suffer Scarlet riding them into battle. Guaranteed.

ezhcim.3075:

This is the fractal and the story which the developers had claimed to be at par with the Fall of Abaddon?

Its story is comparable with the story of the Fall of Abaddon …once you realize Scarlet caused his fall.

Paulytnz.7619:

To me it’s pointing to the next instalment of Living Story once this tower is over with. I hope it’s something fresh and a good change. Also allies are never a bad thing, perhaps new playable races soon!? O.O

And maybe this time, Lucy will let Charlie Brown kick the football?

Hint: It’s Scarlet.

A totally wild guess, but: I think Scarlet may be behind this.

ArmoredVehicle.2849:

Don’t give them ideas. This was already bad enough.

Don’t worry, they would surely have come up with this idea on their own.

Memory wipes such as in this case is a good example of terrible and lazy writing. Another example: C3PO in the star wars prequels.

This fractal is basically confirmation that Anet does not listen — despite everything they say.

Do you really want to see Scarlet responsible for the fall of Abaddon?

Infus.7159:

Verow.6904:

1 champion gives better rewards than this lol

You should probably read the chest reward again.

Those are finished products, not 1 dust etc.

So its 100 dusts, 100 dragonite and 100 fragments and some obsidian shards.

One of each refined is not as good as 100 of each raw because you lose the crafting exp value of the materials (which you’ll need for ascended armor no doubt.)

I think Anet would prefer you play PvE while in the queue so it’s in their interest to not implement any of these (IMO very useful) suggestions.

They basically can’t give good rewards because it would cause enormous problems come season 2 when everyone rushes to transfer to those servers at the top of each league.

There is no chance they’ll let you sell them on the TP.

This happens every time you have a big fight of that scale. Best to run passive skills and a strong autoattack weapon in a situation like this. Anet will never fix it.

Karma is much harder to come by with the update a few months ago. Don’t go spending like crazy as you won’t be able to get it back as easily.

If you decide to go for a legendary, you’ll need a massive amount of karma.

Aeros.2046:

Necro.6432:

Buffy.9246:

Wish nsp was not in this match up
Bp vs cd week. Bp is gonna win ofc

Wait..no joking around , Wasn’t it BP that got some transfers lately ? …all we doing right now is just a server base effort from the guilds/players that has been there for a long time

Only recent transfer I am aware of is the Rekz guild. Our population has more or less been the same for about the last 4 months.

Rekz? As in formerly Sekz of NSP?

Everyone is just going to have to get back to using gw2lfg. It’s safe from this kind of issue; plus, fewer numbers of people using Anet’s lfg is the only way to get Anet to act.

geist.3980:

winners should get a free transfer to any other server they desire.

This is actually a pretty interesting idea.

Most likely another Scarlet chapter.

BlazeQ.1095:

On NSP. Still having a blast despite PPT. Good fights, little lag now that the PVE bandwagon is over. Great people to play with.

Season 1 has been a huge success for me!

I’m from NSP as well, and the way I see it, if you play the way Anet intends you to play (for PPT), the season has been a total and absolute failure.

However, if you play to get in fights and take loot bags, (i.e., “violating the game mode”) then it’s been more or less the same as before.

So Anet created these massive candy corn sinks during halloween (e.g. the 20 slot pail), presumably in an attempt to reduce the abundance of candy corn in the world (or maybe the actual goal was to raise the price of candy corn).

Did it work? …or did people just decide they didn’t want these items?
Any TP master done an analysis?

Yenn.9185:

I don’t think a lot of player build experiment. They would look up on forums the most efficient build, tweak it a bit to their liking, and then stick to it.

Ascended don’t discourage builds/classes as you still have exotics.

Even if this were true (I personally believe the power creep of Ascended gear will force content to become harder, thus pretty much forcing people to use Ascended gear) people (psychologically) just don’t like to “downgrade” their gear stats from Ascended to exotic, thus discouraging playing with a variety of builds.

You would think that the more alts people play, the more builds people play, the longer it takes for them to get bored of the game. And so you would think Anet would encourage people to play more alts and experiment with more builds. Oh well.

Look at how people reacted to resetting fractal levels higher than 30 down to 30.

In any case, Anet would never do it because they would never admit Ascended gear was a mistake.

This problem has been around for so long that it’s now a feature — not a bug. You use it to reduce the probability of people kicking you at the last boss to invite guildies/sell the run.

Gudradain.3892:

Attack the server which has currently the highest score in the match up.

This is how Anet no doubt intended WvW to be. But the way they decided to rank servers makes it more optimal to have both stronger servers beat up on the weakest one.

What’s really funny is that there are people who believe they deserve rewards for being on a server with the most coverage.

ykyk.2740:

You would think this is some clever post, but it really isn’t.

This. Though the title is 100% correct.

The whole Leagues idea is a farce. The “winners” are predetermined by population/coverage. If you care who wins, you’re doing it wrong.

Vox Hollow.2736:

You know, it’s funny you say that Rising.

Queen’s Jubilee Scarlet used Stability instead of Defiant, esp on her Hammer incarnation. You couldn’t actually keep her from putting it up as far as I was aware, it just offered a brief window between refreshes where you could land a skill. It was so simple but it actually worked out pretty great.

I thought the Queen’s Gauntlet was a step in the right direction as well. Silver mobs with no defiant meant you could really use all your skills. Plus, NPCs using boons means a lot of boon stripping skills finally become viable in PvE.

Tongku.5326:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Tongku.5326:

Also, I know its been stated that the kit quality doesnt matter for the dark matter globs

Is there some source for this because I’ve been using Black Lion Kits and would prefer not to.

There were several, but sorry, just dont have them bookmarked and not going to search for dev posts from months back. I just use the Black Lion Kits due to my own superstition and lack of trust in their programming and QA.

Yeah.. considering every other salvage material is affected by the type of kit used, even if they said dark matter wasn’t, it’s getting really hard to trust their extremely bug-ridden programming.

Tongku.5326:

Also, I know its been stated that the kit quality doesnt matter for the dark matter globs

Is there some source for this because I’ve been using Black Lion Kits and would prefer not to.

Moshari.8570:

Well, you cant choose your bounty, so I am not sure what the point of the question is….I will also state that some bounties are easier for some groups than others. I was in a guild where we had 10+ people take on samwell and we could not finish him no matter how many times we tried….so when my new guild got him with only 5 I cringed…but we finished him easily….and have since gotten him captured every time we got him…so who am I to judge.

Check out: http://dulfy.net/2013/02/27/gw2-guild-bounty-guide/ and judge for yourself, everyone has their favorites (Trillia for me) and everyone has the ones they dread (2multi for me).

Cool.. I’ll check out Trillia more closely. (I believe the bounty guide is somewhat out of date — for example, wiki says that Half-Baked Komali’s mechanics have changed drastically).

As for not being able to choose your bounty: I’m going to do the tier 3 bounties (6 bounties) and I’d like to choose the easiest one to fight. I don’t care about failing the bounty as I just need one kill to get the commendations.

Now that I think about it, if I were to choose one preferred target and queued up four tier 3 bounties, I’d have an 80% chance of getting my target in those four tries.

Also: banished to some subforum, never to be seen again

I would have assumed that (generally) the more alts a person plays, the longer it takes for the game to become boring, the more gems Anet makes. So why is Anet making everything so alt unfriendly (ascended gear, WXP, for example) is a mystery to me.

I’m about to activate guild bounties purely for the commendations… so:

Which guild bounty bosses are easiest to kill with a limited number of people (around 3)?

And just for fun: anyone tried to solo one of these bosses?

Please decrease the defiant cap for solo players as well. Not every profession has as many CCs as thieves and warriors.

Or: scale defiant according to the number of CCs a player currently has available at the moment he meets the boss.

Also, do something about blind as well. 10% RNG chance of effectiveness means you generally can’t use blind skillfully against bosses.

Johje Holan.4607:

They’re commenting on the lack of responses in the other CDI thread too.

Yes… but here, we can literally see — through player post counts — a very large difference between how two communities (WvW and general GW2) react to CDI.

It shows (IMO) that WvW players — much more so than the general GW2 community — have given up on engagement with the devs. Why? This is a very important question that Anet should really be asking themselves.

The main forum CDI thread had 1014 posts (and 51645 views).
The WvW forum CDI thread had 1134 posts (and 42389 views).

The main forum’s current CDI thread has 100 posts (and 2920 views).
The WvW forum’s current CDI thread has 47 posts and (1907 views).

Why is the ratio between the main form and WvW forums’ posts so drastically different this time? Could it be because players feel the devs aren’t listening and are already giving up on CDI?

lordkrall.7241:

Lord Kuru.3685:

They say that as if it’s because it would ruin the “competitiveness” of the leagues. In reality, it’s just an excuse to not do as much work on WvW as they should.

Ah yes, because they are just sitting around doing nothing the whole league because they have no scheduled releases…..

Because of this excuse, they can move resources (that should have been used to improve WvW) into other parts of the game.

You should be happy Evon lost. If he had won, we would have gotten Abbadon’s fall…

…caused by Scarlet.

BlueZone.4236:

Colin Johanson:

http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/8/4392552/guild-wars-2-developers-eye-esports-with-aims-to-create-the-most

Our goal is for Guild Wars 2 to be the number one PvP game in MMOs and we feel there is a really open space right now for PvP within eSports, in particular for MMOs.
…
We’re seeing a ton of response from the PvPcommunity, we just need to get those last bits in place and then we’re really going to dive in and try to become a big part of eSports.

They’re almost there, apparently. Those pesky last bits!

I really hope that quote is just for publicity purposes and that they don’t truly believe they will become an esport. The sooner they give up on the esports idea (because it’s just not going to happen) the sooner we can have better balancing in PvE/WvW.

Whoever can spawn camp the lower ranked servers the hardest would win the league.

You have free “content” every 2 weeks.

Anet wants to force you to go to sPvP for this because they still hold out hope that sPvP will become popular and become an esport — so they do as much as possible to push WvW players into sPvP. Just look at the bloodlust area — it feels just like an sPvP map (which is why it’s turn out to be a massive failure — at least in the matches I’ve been involved in).

They say that as if it’s because it would ruin the “competitiveness” of the leagues. In reality, it’s just an excuse to not do as much work on WvW as they should.

I don’t think many people will use the bank to constantly switch their tools between characters. I’m guessing the account bound feature will mostly be used when people decide to play a different characer more, or change their “gathering alt” to another character.

Great suggestions, but I’ve lowered expectations to the point I’d be happy if they finally fix the issue with small fonts on the buy page.

I can imagine the outrage when they are suddenly upgraded to require level 500 crafting. There will surely be lots of people who were 1 day or 1 week or 1 month away from getting their gifts when the update pops and they will be angry!

And Anet will probably state that they intended to give notice but forgot.

Interesting! It tells us a bit about the popularity of the content when there are times when there are zero players in the entire zone.