Guild Wars 2

Jure Simich.6154:

I actually wonder why the invisible walls also affect the camera, actually…

Yeah, it would be easy to make it so the camera isn’t affected by it, and since it’s an invisible wall, everything’s fine. Hear, hear!

DavosTheOnionKnight.1653:

Blah blah, hate fight sounds

You should get Quip for your thief.

Milkduds.7109:

(…)The advent of the internet and games being online has led to this idea that games ought to just be patched with brand spanking new content at the whims of players. Not only is it an entitled attitude, but its nigh impossible for developers to reasonably keep up with.

Arena-Net busts their kitten with the frequency of their updates. Yet it’s not good enough and people still kitten.

Human evolution? More like bored child who can’t be bothered to entertain him/herself-volution. There are a million things to do in this world. Why do you expect a game developer to baby sit your free time and provide you with some kind of slow-drip needle heroin addiction of a game?

Once more: the WoW days are over. I mean, dude, you admit to playing this game for over 3 THOUSAND 5 HUNDRED hours, near 4 thousand. Do you realize that there are only 8,765 hours in 1 year?

Chew on that for a minute.

Thanks for that. This mentality is getting on my nerves as well. Overall, I’d say Anet’s been doing a pretty impressive effort of keeping up with those unrealistic demands, too. Sure, the content that’s poured in is hit and miss, but can you really complain all that much when said content is dumped in your lap for free?
As opposed to some people in this thread, I’ll say there is endgame. It isn’t spoonfed as much as in other classic MMOs. That routine of the endgame instances till your eyes bleed, ten more levels, new instances until your eyes bleed again, rinse, repeat, which I’m sure a lot of people sought to escape with GW2, is old and used. Here, you might have to handpick your endgame, devote your time to wvw, dive into pvp, fractals, work on a legendary,… Or even better, do all that. It’s a shame that as the selling point of the game was to be different from that old, used recipe, there’s still people who’d want to funnel it into conformity.

Kalendraf.9521:

…The red heart is typically a symbol for love. Placing this symbol on a weapon could thus be interpreted as “I love to kill” or “I kill those I love”…

Suddenly, I was reminded of Joker and the duality of man…

No, he’s asking if he’s the only one.

… by a bunch of trained monkeys on typewriters.

Yeah, it’s like godkitten Star Wars. Never seen any stars fighting each other in that. Oh and don’t start with Harrison Ford, he was completely unknown back then. I hate when entertainers lie to me :’(

Ironcloud.3892:

Well that’s disappointing. They could have at least tried to make it more clear that there would be nothing for a couple of months.

Also, I love how they specifically mention pretty important bugs, like Nature Spirit healing for the wrong amount, yet they don’t even have fixes for them in the upcoming patch.

I don’t understand how you and so many other people missed the info that the massive balance thing wouldn’t be before at least the LS is concluded. I’ve read/heard it several times and I’m not even fishing for that kind of information all that much.

Jeff.4680:

Godzilla-robots

*Mecha-Godzillas.
Here, fixed it for you. No need to thank me.

WRay.2391:

Well, grind if one of the reasons IMO.
I used to play dungeons for fun. With ascended I need a lot of mats and money so I prefer to do CoF p1 in 10 mins than 30 mins. Which is makes me sad.
Sometimes I have feeling I will never grind all the items I want. Then I play for fun for a while but this forces me to make a break from play finally knowing that playing for fun will not make you closer to your goal. Skins didn’t create this feel of necessity as ascended so I consider this as one of the evils.
The whole game population now is separated into different groups.
1. Ppl who grind and want to maximize profit. They will not tolerate if you decrease their time/profit ratio.
2. Ppl who play for fun. Mostly no way you can keep up with grinders. This forces you to be more and more casual and finally leave.
3. Probably somebody who can do both things. Not sure how.

Your point 3, I suppose, comprises people who play for fun, but still want to play well. People who take note that a certain build is overly popular for dungeon running and work a few hours to have the armor set/weapons they need (really not hard to get a full set of exotics in this game) that they can use when grouping with people that look for an optimized group. Because, yeah, those people won’t avoid such optimized, fast-grinding groups, since they are able to adapt to their playstyle. Unlike what those in point 2 should do.

I’ll decide whether disappointed or not, after the three other parts. So one more useless thread, I guess.

Can we have an update on Abaddon, please? It’s been 6+ minutes

You know that in every each class forums here, people complain about the exact same thing, right? Here, I’m gonna show you.

“Hmm yeah sorry, was a bit unclear. With changes I meant like a change about how Anet “treats” us guardians and ignores our whole feedback, changes our class in a way that the whole guardian community dislikes (looking at symbol of swiftness) and always claims that the guardian is an support class without giving us the tools to be that.”

You could just do that and go post the same thing in the guardians forums, yup. I main a guardian, btw, necro’s my second favourite, so the choice of guardian was purely out of having just read it 2 mins ago, you can do it with any other profession. Hell, I bet even thieves are whining.

RuneCrimson.7380:

I hate the fact that to finish world completion you have to go through WvW ((…blah blah blah…)) Bad Idea Anet Bad bad idea.

First things first, there’s no bullying in WvW. You can’t bully the nameless and enemies are anonymous in WvW. The fact is that it’s a 24/7 battlefield, where anything red is the enemy. You might be in a group of 5 and encounter a solo player, whom you’ll kill, having in mind that if you were the solo player and he was in a group of five, he’ll do the same. It’s all fair game in there and it happens regularly to any WvW player, casual or heavy. Your calling it bullying is either a form of trolling, or a big, big misconception. I hate bullies and bullying myself, but when I’m in WvW, if it’s red, it means it’s an enemy. It means kill or be killed (or run, if the odds are against you.)

Secondly, getting map completion in WvW isn’t really that hard. I’ve taken a friend of mine who doesn’t play it to do her map completion. Showed her the places, and how to avoid getting constantly ganked. As a matter of fact, the biggest hurdle is often to get the PoI’s and vistas in towers, which are not always reachable when they’re owned by the enemy servers. However, it’s just a matter of patience and keeping an eye on this site (http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups), which features an automatically updating map of all the current match ups can make your life much easier.

I’m saying, find someone friendly who’s a WvW afficionado to take you there, show you how to avoid being a sitting duck (spotting where fights are happening on the map, staying close to friendly towers for hasty retreats, etc.), steel yourself against the inevitable few deaths (consider it… an adventure! I know, crazy idea.) And for kitten’s sake, stop whining when things are not spoonfed to you.

And to conclude, if you ever can answer that one: is it fair that players that have no interest in PVE have to complete the PVE maps for the gift of exploration? That’s a much, much longer and tedious job than the 4, very small WvW maps.

2900 hours since launch, never had a single precursor drop. I think if I get your kind of “luck”, I might weep.

VigilanceMA.9874:

Hello Forum-goers! We of the Pain Train would like to present you with our congratulations and celebration video to Blackgate for winning Season One NA Gold!
But instead of showing all the great fights we had over the season, we took a different route. Hopefully you like it!

http://youtu.be/VZKkK9S-IKQ

Regards,
Rufus Cinderspire – [Choo]

Hehe, very funny. See, forum warriors? That’s how you make a “boohoo, all you guys do is hide from fights” whine post with style. Better being a sore loser with a sense of humour than a sore loser, period. Good job, looking forward to fighting (or running from) you guys again.

Jeydra.4386:

Kysin.6349:

You act as though you can never be happy about winning anything, because if you won then you must have had some unfair advantage. There will never be even numbers in every time zone on any server all the time. The BG WvW community has put a lot of work and thought into how to best use our available militia, especially in this match-up (which has been a fantastic week by the way). It seems to me like you are playing completely the wrong game mode, tpvp offers a level playing field with even numbers at all times.

As I’ve said before, I want to win, but I also want to win because I played better, not because I had some kind of unfair advantage. The ideal case for me right now would be a match between three servers, all three of which could field full queues on every map 24/7. Actually make that even better: nobody goes AFK, there are no spies, nobody uses glitches or hacks or anything like that, everyone has an infinite amount of superior siege blueprints + gold to upgrade stuff, etc. THAT would be WvW at its best and something awesome to participate in.

(…)

And UNICORNS! Don’t forget them!

Motivation must be at an all time low, SoS has more ppt than JQ right now. perplexity

CuddleStrike.8215:

Sharing the LOVE!

<3 you BG. And my BG LOVE commander. Much love to you good Sir!

Enjoying the fights. Loving ND’s tactics too. Been pretty fun! Them omegas! cowers

Awww, so cuddly

Tarkus.4109:

Darkjoy.3092:

Why you so madTarkus ? It’s your server mates that keep bringing up ZD. You broke our heart but we learned to move on and love again

Clarifying is not being mad, I personally don’t give much weight to the current situation because I play for the challenge – getting our kitten kicked in by zone blobs in our weakest time is still better than the t2 hell we’ve been in the last month. We got some good fights with ZDs and ND last night where we wiped them just as often as they did us and thats all I really care about in the game, the eventual outcome of the match-up is secondary to doing your best – if its not enough thats fine.

Now that, people, is a lesson in humility. That got me all teary-eyed and a little bit depressed. I’m not even sure if winning the season’s going to be enough to console me. I’m gonna have to hug that golden dolyak for hours on end before I can get over how inherently better you are than us, Sir. kitten our pathetic competitive minds.

SpitFire.4690:

CuddleStrike.8215:

Score Update!

Snuggling with Jarvan! <3 you!

<3 you too!

Balls deep!

digiowl.9620:

Zoid.2568:

rjnemer.7816:

Zoid.2568:

Personal player skill with the use of timing,CC and support abilities is better than the holy trinity, yes.

I agree, but cc is worthless in PvE. So it comes down to just timing a dodge and auto attacking.

CC isn’t useless in PvE. It is useless against bosses though but not against thrash mobs and veterans. You can slow, chill, poison, stun, daze, blind, torment etc. If they made condition builds more viable CC would be much more appreciated and also do something about CC on bosses.

Slow and chill are soft CC (and one of them is only really useful against melee mobs), blind only acts on a single attack (never mind that we have a whole subset of mobs that are by default immune), stun and daze do not have the duration to be utilized properly (you can’t daze/stun and melt a mob like you can a opponent in PVP, because of the larger health pools mobs are granted), poison is just a weak burn because few if any mobs heal, and torment is not a CC as mobs don’t care about the damage they take (stand still and it hurts, move and it hurts even more).

You can set up a guardian to drop a blind on each F1, while bringing the cooldown to zero each time you kill a mob/player, along with the other blinds available, a guardian can be a pretty effective blinding machine, thus making it a highly helpful support condition. And that’s just one example, I’m sure a Mesmer or whatever other class could come here and show you by A + B how conditions can make you and your group’s day a brighter day.

I got the skill to pay the bills
I got I got I got the skill to pay the bills.

What kills me is people who complain that they’re gonna have to grind. Yet, first chance they get, you’ll see them farming stuff. I haven’t farmed once since launch, I got 5 level 80s with the proper gear. And I’m not gonna start grinding now. I don’t care if it takes me 6 months to get my first ascended weapon (it won’t, cause wvw here, dungeon there, world bosses,… you get the idea.)

People complaining that they have to go through a massive thorny bush to get from A to B, yet they go through said bush, while they could just walk around it.

Oh yes. I totally agree. I get the idea, easy and visual way to see if your aegis is on or not. Except in the heat of combat, you don’t really see it, I tend to look at the icon, rather. Other than that, it messes with my dragon shield, it looks out of place with my staff and GS, etc etc. It’s annoying.

Blackmoon.6837:

This isn’t a video game. It’s a community of sheep, all playing the same cash crop of lies where worth is determined by gear and achievements. That in itself just spits on any foundation this game may have had since it’s very inception.

I honestly just don’t feel right playing this anymore. If I can even call it “playing”.

Wow, thanks, man, you’ve just opened my eyes… Aaaand it’s gone.

Sarcasm aside, I suppose you exposed the dark side of MMO’s. I enjoy the immersion, exploration, playing with friends above everything else that an mmorpg has to offer. The gear I acquire doesn’t provide me with the feeling of being better than others but to please my eye with a cool looking character. I like single player games too, but the satisfaction is different and really more solitary.

Also, if you despise being treated as a “sheep doing repetitive stuff for vain rewards”, I advise you steer clear of the majority of other mmorpgs out there, cause most of them are way much more about that than GW2.

I don’t get why people feel the need to express their dislike of game features in the forums. I can understand complaining about nerfs, a badly implemented boss fight, a terrible patch,… But the whole game, the whole purpose of the game, its core (also pointing fingers at the old and tired “holy trinity would be better” posters) is not only pointless, it’s a form of ego-stroking. You’re being a diva, looking for attention. You don’t like a game? Well that’s a shame. Move on and don’t play it, look for one that suits your taste. And please, we don’t really need to know about your reasons.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

rjnemer.7816:

What does soloing lupi have to do with anything? Do i get some great reward for doing it? Otherwise why would i waste my time doing that?

Because it shows that you aren’t a bad. If you’re going to call PvE easy, you should at least be able to solo a boss like Lupi. You’re just another ‘good enough is good enough’ poser.

I can call the ‘hardest’ content easy, I’ve done it all faster than 99.99% of other players. Even with 4 players, I don’t find it difficult. Thing is, I can do the content with 1-4 players as well. Can you? You probably don’t try, Lupicus is scary I guess.

You sound awesome, please, tell me more.

What have we here? People farming dungeons in zerker so much that they know them by heart, then complaining that the stuff is too easy? Cute.

No roles? I’m a guardian and I beg to differ. But then again, I don’t limit myself to dungeons running and to zerker gear.

Trinity is better? Been there, done that to death, not looking forward to going back to it.

The game was challenging at launch. I remember my first AC, story mode and it took us a bit. But then you do it again and again, and you acquire better gear and knowledge of your class, and it becomes easy. Same kitten than with any other mmo. Now it’s up to Anet to offer us more challenge and fun, but that doesn’t mean we need yet another boohoo of the week post.

Zagan.5287:

WHAT IS GOING ON? JQ BL was FULLY Green a while ago, now BG BL is fully BLUE JQ and BG going at each other _

Maybe that’s people who were in BGBL yesterday. SoR was constantly running away from fights against equal numbers. The minute they would see our BG zerg, they were turning tail and run away. Some hasty conclusions were made that JQ would be the people to go to for a fight rather than a Benny Hill chase.

Ruin.3461:

Lydell.8713:

Burl.9567:

Kyo.7369:

Lol everyone is mad.

I’m mad. I was on my way to the zerblob on SoR BL and I was 2v1’d between a raptor and a BG. I have never been more humiliated and angry before this. It’s all ok though as I’m not angry at all about it because 2v1 happens. I’m so angry though. L2P

Did I do it right?

Nope, you fail, you should have convinced the raptor to 2v1 the BG dude with you. Shame on you, l2p noob.

I’m sure he tried, but the raptor refused his admittedly rather generous offers. Raptors are fickle beasts, and not to be trusted.

Unlike JQ, you mean? Ha! Gotcha! I win the 2v1 argument.

Masamoon.3864:

Do they run thieves guild too? Make the entire map lag when popped?

Of course, did you think the humongous skill lag was because of your numbers? That’s all they do, they run perma-stealth lag builds.

Strang.8170:

I sense distinct lack of qq, trolling and offtopic in this thread, i´m not amused. Stop having such a good time when i´m not there!

On that topic, let´s continue with bbq theme. I wonder if you can grill a big piece of feta cheese without it completely melting. Also i need to find an excuse to buy a coal grill.

I think so. You’d have to really fan the coals a lot until they’re really really super hot just before grilling your feta. The key is to grill the feta in a few seconds on the outside before the inside starts to heat up and melt. Also, having it in the fridge for a while before doing it should help.

Oh wait, this isn’t the SoR/JQ/BG thread? Oh all right, I’ll go back to all the QQ and forum rage… hangs head and walks out

Burl.9567:

Kyo.7369:

Lol everyone is mad.

I’m mad. I was on my way to the zerblob on SoR BL and I was 2v1’d between a raptor and a BG. I have never been more humiliated and angry before this. It’s all ok though as I’m not angry at all about it because 2v1 happens. I’m so angry though. L2P

Did I do it right?

Nope, you fail, you should have convinced the raptor to 2v1 the BG dude with you. Shame on you, l2p noob.

Masamoon.3864:

Kathy K.6812:

Masamoon.3864:

War Machine for starters.

Still alive & kicking. Infact they were commanding last night in JQBL. WM is probably one of the few SEA guilds that will be playing this game for a very long time.

Ha, alive and kicking. Cute. Maybe they’d be a factor if they’d still run the 60 man blob they did the first week they came. They got so scared they were pushed into PvDing EU timeslot then disappeared from being a factor altogether. Name any guild other than RISE, BT or MERC thats transfer in the last few months and still regularly fields 30+. That means everyday.

[thif] for one, but since they field 30+ thieves everyday, you probably never saw them. They’re the kitten, though. And very loyal to BG

SykkoB.9465:

Lydell.8713:

SykkoB.9465:

Lydell.8713:

Cover Girl.2580:

BG you guys do nothing but complain. The firs time you ever stepped foot in T-1 you jumped in, ran around attacking everything, pushed massive numbers and chest thumped more than any server I have ever seen. You got sent back to T-2 with many many cries of 2v1 its not fair!
History repeats itself and you’re back in T-1 now doing the exact same thing. If you win, it’s because you’re the most skilled. If you lose it’s because we are cheating and using unfair 2v1 tactics to keep you down.
I will say, with all honesty, that I used to sort of root for you. But now, I will entice everyone on the map with me to push you every chance we get because of the chest thumping/crying game. Page one of this thread was filled with BG pomp and bragging when you were 10k+ ahead of everyone. Now RUIN is posting rant letters about 2v1 and unfair practices? If memory serves me, RUIN was the ET guild that left to go PVD in some EURO server then claimed they were the best undefeated guild in GW2. Why is it that now they are getting trashed, the game sucks and SoR is creating MegaBlobs. Do none of you remember SOS? I believe they initiated the whole Megazerg, JQ adapted and BG adapted.. When SoR entered the mix, we had to adapt to it also. Just fight hard and enjoy yourself. If you lose, try again.

Ten people chest thump in the forum and you say our server chest thump? Ten people whine about 2v1 and you say our server whines about it? Forum non est vox populi. (I’m sure I must have screwed latin up the kitten there somewhere.)

it’s one thing for militia and stuff to post 2v1 but its another when its known commanders on bg who post it

How so? I didn’t vote for them. Did you vote for your commanders? Those guys are a bunch of tyrans and psychopaths. I only follow them cause I’m obsessed with blue doritos ever since I found a dorito in a bag of M&M’s,

LOL this post did make me chuckle

but its like this a commander leads ur militia or guild and has a large affect on the servers morale. Kinda like a captain ona sports team

so u see there is a large dif from a militia player saying it and a commander

Not really, they’re just people who have a series of characteristics : had enough cash to buy the commander tag (or a big guild that helped with it), the will to spend said cash, enough charisma to have people behind them, enough skill to perform well enough so that people want to continue following them, and on top of it, the desire to do it and deal with all the downsides of being a commander.

That doesn’t make their opinion more important than others, nor does it give them any forum representation responsibilities.

SykkoB.9465:

Lydell.8713:

Cover Girl.2580:

BG you guys do nothing but complain. The firs time you ever stepped foot in T-1 you jumped in, ran around attacking everything, pushed massive numbers and chest thumped more than any server I have ever seen. You got sent back to T-2 with many many cries of 2v1 its not fair!
History repeats itself and you’re back in T-1 now doing the exact same thing. If you win, it’s because you’re the most skilled. If you lose it’s because we are cheating and using unfair 2v1 tactics to keep you down.
I will say, with all honesty, that I used to sort of root for you. But now, I will entice everyone on the map with me to push you every chance we get because of the chest thumping/crying game. Page one of this thread was filled with BG pomp and bragging when you were 10k+ ahead of everyone. Now RUIN is posting rant letters about 2v1 and unfair practices? If memory serves me, RUIN was the ET guild that left to go PVD in some EURO server then claimed they were the best undefeated guild in GW2. Why is it that now they are getting trashed, the game sucks and SoR is creating MegaBlobs. Do none of you remember SOS? I believe they initiated the whole Megazerg, JQ adapted and BG adapted.. When SoR entered the mix, we had to adapt to it also. Just fight hard and enjoy yourself. If you lose, try again.

Ten people chest thump in the forum and you say our server chest thump? Ten people whine about 2v1 and you say our server whines about it? Forum non est vox populi. (I’m sure I must have screwed latin up the kitten there somewhere.)

it’s one thing for militia and stuff to post 2v1 but its another when its known commanders on bg who post it

How so? I didn’t vote for them. Did you vote for your commanders? Our commanders are a bunch of tyrans and psychopaths. I only follow them cause I’m obsessed with blue doritos ever since I found a dorito in a bag of M&M’s,

Cover Girl.2580:

BG you guys do nothing but complain. The firs time you ever stepped foot in T-1 you jumped in, ran around attacking everything, pushed massive numbers and chest thumped more than any server I have ever seen. You got sent back to T-2 with many many cries of 2v1 its not fair!
History repeats itself and you’re back in T-1 now doing the exact same thing. If you win, it’s because you’re the most skilled. If you lose it’s because we are cheating and using unfair 2v1 tactics to keep you down.
I will say, with all honesty, that I used to sort of root for you. But now, I will entice everyone on the map with me to push you every chance we get because of the chest thumping/crying game. Page one of this thread was filled with BG pomp and bragging when you were 10k+ ahead of everyone. Now RUIN is posting rant letters about 2v1 and unfair practices? If memory serves me, RUIN was the ET guild that left to go PVD in some EURO server then claimed they were the best undefeated guild in GW2. Why is it that now they are getting trashed, the game sucks and SoR is creating MegaBlobs. Do none of you remember SOS? I believe they initiated the whole Megazerg, JQ adapted and BG adapted.. When SoR entered the mix, we had to adapt to it also. Just fight hard and enjoy yourself. If you lose, try again.

Ten people chest thump in the forum and you say our server chest thump? Ten people whine about 2v1 and you say our server whines about it? Forum non est vox populi. (I’m sure I must have screwed latin up the kitten there somewhere.)

Fade.7658:

Punny.9210:

Bros,

I’m not taking the game seriously but It really ruined the Fun in my free time when you 2 servers ( SoR, JQ ) helped each other in EB yesterday.

i’ve been in BG since Day 1 but quited for 5 – 6 months and just return though. I never seen this obvious double team before.

anyway good game, i hope Jq will drop to the lower tier. So we may have a nicer match up next week.

I was on last night in Aldon’s Ledge trebbing when JQ took Lowlands Keep and SoR stopped reinforcements at spawn. There wasn’t any double teaming involved. We wanted Lowlands cracked, and that was the easiest way to get it done, after being pushed out numerous times by BG.

We tried pushing Jerrifer’s Slough after taking Lowlands, but JQ was dug in too deeply, and we couldn’t make any headway.

Anywhere else in the map, I can’t speak for.

Was there too, BG side. Now, don’t take me wrong, unlike some of my compatriots, apparently, I had fun. Like you’re saying there, we pushed you back numerous times. Not only you, but JQ too. Which meant lots of kills and lots of bags, plus that feeling of being the underdog hero that I dreamt of being when I was a teenager, priceless kitten.

But as much as in the end, I really don’t mind about the obvious 2v1, I still find it hilariously sad to still see people denying that it’s JQ&SoR vs BG. You’re even telling me here that SoR camping our spawn wasn’t 2v1, it was, what? A tactic to crack the keep? whatever you call it, helping the entire JQ map with the entire SoR map against the entire BG map is 2v1, no matter how you call it. Now, nonetheless, it’s probably a bit sad that it took you guys so long, and resorting to such lame tactics to take our keep with twice our numbers.

But again, don’t take me wrong, I don’t mind that and a bunch of us didn’t seem to mind it, from what I heard, starting with our commander. It makes for fun weeks, and wiping the floor with JQ and DB’s faces wasn’t all that fun. Just, at least, have the honesty to admit how you guys work.

Until we get to face SoR without JQ, I salute you, forum and battleground warriors.

Raven Paradox.1860:

Typical quit gate. Now that the gap is getting closed, they’ll stop showing and use the “we played all weekend and are tired” excuse, along with a spice of 2v1, JQ failed to help them cap SoR garri, SoR has too much coverage, and whatever other excuse we’ve heard the past 5 months.

There’s no such thing as 2v1. Why, when JQ was capping our keep in EB (after we defended it from being destroyed by JQ and SoR as they were fighting each other with our keep in the middle for two, relentless, brave hours.) When JQ was capping and SoR had a zerg parked in front of our spawn, while some of us whining BG might have said SoR was helping JQ by keeping our dead from rallying to the keep, I’m not blind to the truth, in fact SoR was there to rub our shoulders and console us over the upcoming loss of our keep.
Such nice chaps.
2v1… pfft! nonsense.

^Tagged along with Rise for a few hours, was fun to mow through mindless zergs with your frontline, Jarvan. Except I need to see a doctor about that finger that hurts from looting hundreds of bags. So no thanks for that JQ and SoR, I might never recover full index finger mobility :’(

Being skilled is good, I thrive to better myself, like most. A particularly skilled player, I will admire, not like I’d admire a Gandhi or Einstein, this is just a videogame, but someone who’s really good inspires me and I’d naturally congratulate them.

Now, some dude comes into Lion’s Arch and shouts in map chat that he’s got the mad skillz, I’ll join the chorus of people bashing on his pathetic kitten. And that is not hating on talent, that’s hating on idiocy and the lowest form of attention kittening.

Obsidian.1328:

This may sound crass, but can Cuddlestrike simply post the score update and not use it as an excuse for an Asuran runway expo? It reminds me of Toddlers and Tiara’s and it’s starting to make me sick.

I never post much in the forums at all, but I had to stop and post here. The hell are you talking about? Cuddlestrike’s score updates are the best thing ever. Better than a lame cropped screenshot just showing the scoreboard.

etiolate.9185:

There is no server pride at this point. Maybe in the mid-pack of servers, but free transfers lasted so long that they created a mercenary mindset that is the start of the paid transfer server mindset now.

I am somewhat curious to watch the impending fallout of burnout amongst the merc-minded, but I think the way WvWvW has been raised harms the game’s future and that does not amuse me.

On Blackgate since headstart. And incidently, feeling server pride, all right, since every siege built, every fortification rebuilt, every heals, buffs and rezzes, every damage done to the enemy were my tiny contribution to where my server is right now.
Blackgate reprazent!

Same time, what to expect from a guy who spells laurels “leurals”?

Three words: Skales, Beetletun, fishermen.

In my opinion, this game has no grind that I don’t chose to do. So nope, it doesn’t have too much grind, it’s just right in that field.

I’d say it’s simple, get me to successfuly run the dungeon once and get the aforementionned gear, ok. Give me a way to get it through WvW without spending months grinding tokens, ok.

Ask me to repeat the same dungeon 50 times until I get the kitten piece of gear, definitely not ok. That wouldn’t be a challenge, an endless time sink isn’t a challenge. It isn’t fun. So far I was happy with how things worked. I ran the dungeons a bit with friends, but didn’t feel forced to grind them for exotics, I got my exotics through other means, karma, gold, wvw,… I say splendid. 3 months and I never felt any form of grind, and I’m still having fun. I don’t want that to change. Give me more challenging content to overcome, don’t give me content that I have to repeat endlessly hoping it’ll keep me playing. It won’t.

I don’t know what to think about this and I’d tend to be more of a wait and see type. However, if GW2 is heading towards a treadmill type of gameplay like the MMO I came from, I’ll put the book back on the shelf without reading the end of it. Had enough of that crap.

I might be naive, still trying to give Anet the benefit of doubt, but there’s a few things that make me frown. Why better stats on those items if we’re talking horizontal progression? How is getting gear that stops an arbitrary condition offering a challenge other than the time invested in earning it? Basically the same questions as most everybody here. I’m not going ragequit yet, but if gear treadmill is what we’re heading towards, I’m a sad panda (no pun, I don’t come from that one), cause I could have seen me playing this for years.