Guild Wars 2

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Xzaander.4123:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Xzaander.4123:

Oh god please no. GW2 is influenced by typical rubbish Korean design enough as it is, I would loathe even to think of more of that. Because, honestly, there are plenty of games out there for you to choose from who give you these types of armor design, but very few with a more “realistic” approach to armor design. So please for gods sake, leave GW2 alone. If anything, more heavy armor sets should look like Phalanx, Ascalonian or Human Cultural Tier 1, i.e. more medieval knight/soldier inspired.

Though one thing I hate in GW2 are the helmets… I love me a cool looking helmet, but only Phalanx and Dark fit my personal taste at least.

Realistic armor is mostly ordinary. And ordinary armor is boring.
Armors must be complex, special and have lots of glowing bits!

Ugh, please. Go play WoW then or something.

Go play dragon age origins if you want ordinary and boring armors.

You dont need ridiculous sized shoulder armour or glowy bits for armour to be attractive or none plain. Maybe this game should take its own route instead of copying styles already used in many cartoony mmo’s.

I agree there, the lack of “realism” in wow is one of the main things that put me off even trying it.

Sorry i didnt get on to the "", i should have got the meaning :/

But what you said with the former post i do agree with, some of the armour is too OTT for me, like you said with all the spikes. Theres some good ideas there that i would like to see used.

But like i said, there needs to be a lot more items either in the gem store or in game, with the huge shoulders and huge swords it just seems very wow to me :/

Xzaander.4123:

“realistic” approach to armor design.*

Really? lol

The size of shoulder armour and some of the gloves and you think that is realistic?

With the human cult t1 armour you can tell that has been made a lot bigger, just look at the curved bit where the arm comes through.

Basically Id just like a lot more choice for armour (and weapons) there does seem to be a very limited amount compared to most mmo’s.

I havent read about this anywhere but here, so i dont have much info but…. ill soon be making a ranger alt, i was going to put a precision or strength rune (ive forgot the name but the one that stacks as mentioned above) on a bow, use the bow at the start of a fight then when the mob got close, id use my sword.

Will the buff now disappear when you change weapon?

Delete this post.

Zutha.5091:

In a game that offers gold for RL cash. If people use that cash to buy something that is then changed at a later date… this is open to false advertisement.

p.s…. I’m a development solicitor

If you are then you should know that they’ll have a clause which states that things can be subject to change.

LordByron.8369:

Lostyus.4250:

Also all the 2 handed swords are huge, really wide and/or long. Not all 2 handed swords are taller than the wielder,

There are many shorter 2 handed swords.

Unless you play an asura….then even a dagger is taller than the wielder.

Really?

What swords are they? Cause ive looked through them multiple times and they’re either very long and wide or just too long. Even the Ebon Blade (i think its called) is really long although it is narrower than others.

Maybe im being too selective, but i prefer straight swords, kinda just like a normal longsword with a normal sized hand guard .

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Any character that was created before the feature pack build will be grandfathered into the system; meaning that they will have traits 1 through 12 of each line unlocked. The new 13 traits will need to be unlocked by everyone. Any character created after the build will be required to unlock all of their traits via content or purchasing trait guides.

Everyone in PvP will have access to traits 1 through 12, even on new characters. New traits will be initially locked in PvP and require an unlock similar to when we added the new healing skills. Once a trait is unlocked it is unlocked for all game modes. Hope that clears it up a bit.

Thanks for clearing that up.

But to be honest i will be making all of my alts before this comes into effect. (I only have one character ATM) The new changes just seem to slow down the progression too much for me. I see no advantage to using this new method for my new alts and only drawbacks.

The advantage of using the old system is that i get my traits sooner and can use lvl 60-80 to get used to it and find what suits me and my play style.

One of the things that is fun about visiting lower level areas in this game when youre lvl 80 is having your completed character, having all the moves that youre used to. If traits are taken away from my lvl 80 warrior then i wont want to do lower lvl areas, because ill be playing with only half of my toons abilities, ie less fun. This would be very weird to get used to as (depending on what area youre in) your toon would be at differing lvls of completeness. (many of my traits depend on other traits to give me the final build with its abilities).

I really hope they dont do this, so please stop asking for it.

Also why only new Grand Master traits?

My warrior isnt GM in any of them, (ive rounded him out so hes got points in precision, strength and defence, then the remainder points going into discipline to get the faster weapon swap). Surely im not the only person to do this, so me and many like me will be unable to make use of these new traits and to do so we would have to fully change our toons.

Also to me it seems like they are leaning more towards the holy trinity, with the best healing class getting another boost to healing, and the guardian getting a hp boost making him more tank-like.

I like that they are doing things to improve the game but i really hope they arent expecting me to go to other things to earn these traits (like wvw or pvp). Yeah i could just buy the moves/traits but im hoping that it wont just be a gold sink.

I really dont like most of the shoulder armour in this game, it just seems too big and unwieldy.

Also all the 2 handed swords are huge, really wide and/or long. Not all 2 handed swords are taller than the wielder, I just prefer some realism in my game and would love some of the items to be smaller.

More variation on armour would be nice too., either to buy from the gem shop or to actually get in game without having to grind for ingredients.

EnemyCrusher.7324:

• No More Tricks, Scarlet – Defeat Scarlet’s Prime Hologram without being hit by lasers or their lingering scorch marks.
  • Players just stand off to the side and leech this whole fight to get this achievement.

This is a terrible achievement to try to get.

Ive tried it a few times, and to continue to try to get it i would have been putting nothing into the fight, nothing to help the team. You get pinned in by the lasers so you have no way to get all the colours you need (or you might get one colour and do 33% of normal damage) sometimes you might be able to run through the middle (under scarlets legs) but when i have done that i didnt get the achi, (is that why?)

You either make a bee-line for the colour you need or it will be gone by the time you get there, sometimes a colour will disappear when you’re mere inches from it, so you run to the next place and it will disappear as you approach that one too.

This achi really does limit the damage you do, you’re pinned in then have to wait a few seconds more after the scorch mark has gone (because it still counts against you) so for the whole fight you’re doing a tiny amount of damage.

This doesn’t promote team work at all and should not be in there.

Saifon.9857:

its not the games fault.. its BT provider.. they restrict network bandwidth during peak hours.. causing u to lag and discconect at these times.. now according to BT.. its only peer to peer stuff that they restrict bandwidth.. meaning torrents and the likes.. however it seems GW uses some same ports as torrents and therefore being restricted bandwidth as well for GW.. it sucks.. and BT will just blame the game.. so best solution.. change provider

It isnt.

It might be affecting some BT users (if theyre with infinity or what ever) but Anet isnt blameless

Me my friends and many posts ive seen have had the same problem, but the thing is, if I/they sign in with another character, then the game works fine with that one and is playable. I really dont think BT are restricting the toons im using lol.

I think the people who have it the worse are infinity users who are also suffering from the problems with Anet.

This problem is affecting more than just BT customers.

Its lag, plain and simple, my friends and me are having the same problem.

If you try to connect during off-peak times you should be able to connect.

This started happening to us about 5 days ago, before that it was fine.

Anet really needs to sort this issue, theres plenty of people having this same problem (check the many lag threads)

Part of me (the paranoid part lol) thinks its selective, because me and others can connect with a 2nd character, but not our main.

Same thing is happening to me which started about 2 or 3 days ago, only had the game for 2 weeks and this is making it unplayable.

Ive tried doing that tracert thing with the ip from the game but it says “unable to resolve target system name”

This is the same problem im having.

The main reason i bought the discs was to avoid a very long download. Its roughly took 4 hours to DL 7 gig which is about 1/3 complete. If i could have installed it from the disc then i would probably have been ready to play now. (the time took for the 7 gig would have been just for the updates)

Also its very handy having the discs in case you need to reinstall the game again, instead of having to wait nearly a day for it to DL, you just pop the disc in, wait 40 minutes then its installed.

Im disappointed at having to DL the whole game even though i have the disc :/