Guild Wars 2

VB is full of players.

Box o’ Funs, trash talk and emote-spamming while waiting for raids are the new and exciting VB meta.

Fail perfected: doing the exact same thing in a HoT map.

As if there weren’t enough self-indulgent straw man bashing threads already.

Is arguing with real, individual people really so hard that we need to argue en masse with imaginary people instead?

At what point is this not obviously counterproductive?

If this is intended to change anyone’s minds, let’s do a running count of how many people change their minds because of this thread.

Current count: 0.

Predicted count at end of thread: 0.

Celtic Lady.3729:

There’s a fair amount of waiting designed into the game now.

Indeed, so much so that to suggest waiting around isn’t fun is to invite ridicule and ostracism in a game that used to be designed around fun.

In other news, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

#OrwellWasAProphet

Ashen.2907:

Modular. Pick and choose. Ala Carte.

Alas, that would open the content to far too many players rather than fragmenting and alienating what remains of the Guild Wars 2 community.

Raven.1524:

Majic.4801:

Raven.1524:

Seriously? I was testing something so I decided to run from Verdant Brink to the Dragon Stand with a lvl 50 Mesmer. It took me some time, and got 1 shot KOed a lot, couldn’t really kill anything but it wasn’t impossible.
Are you guys seriously that bad at the game to think that the difficulty is too high to survive alone on the jungle, or simply lazy to try different builds?

Are you seriously that bad at logic to think that’s a convincing argument?

Not really, I was simply looking for a way to show up the fact that I was able to run to the dragon stand with a lvl 50 toon xD

That is something to be proud of, and Mesmers are awesome, of course, but it doesn’t really prove anything germane to the question of HoT playability.

On the other hand, if you were to complete all the HoT maps and metas with a level 50 Mesmer, thread over.

Best. Idea. Ever.

Celtic Lady.3729:

I would think it would be preferable to encourage the success of events.

Not the other way around.

That is, of course, the point of the thread.

#FurtherRestatingTheObvious

By comparison, the Matterhorn Bobsleds ride at Disneyland lasts just a little over two minutes, and on a really busy day, you might have to wait a couple of hours in line (though probably not).

So think of it like waiting in line for an amusement park ride, only longer, and less fun.

Raven.1524:

Seriously? I was testing something so I decided to run from Verdant Brink to the Dragon Stand with a lvl 50 Mesmer. It took me some time, and got 1 shot KOed a lot, couldn’t really kill anything but it wasn’t impossible.
Are you guys seriously that bad at the game to think that the difficulty is too high to survive alone on the jungle, or simply lazy to try different builds?

Are you seriously that bad at logic to think that’s a convincing argument?

All I want from Skritta Claws is playable Skritt.

Edarkness.7543:

Something has to be done about this, FAST.

If less than a week is fast enough, then all is right with the world.

“I got a raptor in my pocket
And baby he’s ready to ROAR!”

(With apologies to The Artist Currently Known As Prince)

You whinny some, you lose some.

Your friend should send me a legendary first, just in case.

I’m willing to take the risk, because that’s just how awesome I am.

YES!!! Buffs for these specializations are sorely needed.

People have been asking for them for years.

Even King Canute couldn’t counteract the tides of salt.

But if you’re happy, that’s all that really matters in the end.

Happy Thanksgiving.

ArenaNet iterated.

They still do.

Not only that, they’re highly portable.

Looking at that list, it seems like you’re just getting started to me.

Rash.6514:

I still believe that theory is correct. The reason you haters find each other in the forums is because players who enjoy the game spend most of their time playing it, instead of posting about it.

The theory that people who are happy with the game don’t feel compelled to attack people who aren’t also holds true.

Welcome to the Haters Club.

The way to resign from the Haters Club is to be honest with yourself, realize that having feelings different from yours isn’t “hate” and respect the rights of other players to express their opinions without being attacked and labeled for it.

Hope to see you resign soon.

The failure to load game news on the 64-bit launcher seems to be related to cache file collisions.

Deleting the cache folders solved the problem for me:

C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\Temp\gw2cache-*

Since doing that, I can now see news on the 64-bit launcher.

Hope that helps!

DarcShriek.5829:

Magnus Godrik.5841:

Sorry, i never thought players would abuse the tp for that.

Players will abuse any and every thing to their advantage.

This.^^

(And note how I abused the reply feature to my advantage just to say this.)

Completely obscured by particle effects…

LIKE A (WORLD) BOSS!

How could anyone not love it?

It’s pro.

If by “the LA treatment” you mean blowing them up, killing most of the people in them, then rebuilding them all to look like Epcot Center, sure. Why not?

It would be hilarious.

That’s a thorny question.

Grinding is doing something you don’t enjoy to get something you want.

Pointless grinding is doing something you don’t enjoy to get something you don’t want.

What people enjoy doing or want is up to them to decide.

NOT THE BEES!!!

Reading through the discussion, it seems GW2 is indeed a refuge.

But what is it a refuge for?

I think that’s becoming increasingly obvious.

Posting multiple threads on the same topic also triggers DR.

It’s times like these that really bring the Guild Wars 2 community together.

PlagueParade.7942:

I would love to see a Long bow of Elements as the new legendary. Where each of the 1 – 5 skills has its own element. That’d be kinda neat.

But what would the fifth element be?

Ah, I see what you did there.

Okay, I’m in.

The idea is that this will be the last story mission you ever want to do.

A Legendary Longbow For The Rest Of Us

The problem with The Dreamer is that it’s a shortbow, which denies it to longbow users. The solution, of course, is obvious.

I proudly propose…

The Screamer

Instead of unicorns, The Screamer would fire alicorns — winged unicorns — at least twice as large as The Dreamer’s equine projectiles. Their majestic wings would unfold broadly across the battlefield, blinding both friend and foe alike to the action below.

Never to be outdone, The Screamer’s particle effects would include bright, multicolored twinkling stars, each capable of bringing even the most powerful multi-card graphics hotrods to their knees with unoptimized single-digit framerates.

Players will stand in awe as they witness the cumbrous procession of The Screamer’s giant winged unicorns lurching triumphantly across their stuttering screens.

Ah, but why is it called “The Screamer”, you ask?

This longbow would literally scream EPICNESS by being more than twice as loud, and twice as shrill, as The Dreamer, with each whinnied shriek enhanced by state-of-the-art reverberation technology guaranteed to leave ears ringing for ages to come.

Yes, my friends, at long last, the time has come.

UNLEASH THE SCREAMER!

But is it fun?

That is, after all, how ArenaNet measures success.

Ash.5274:

They basically asked how much CoF farming I had to do on my way to getting my rank so high.

The correct answer is “five minutes”.

Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.

Adine.2184:

They must have terrible architects

All but Forgotten by now.

The original post:

Drow.2081:

I don’t think jumping puzzles should count toward map completion. There are to many people who get physically sick trying to do jumping puzzles.

A straightforward proposition that leads to herculean efforts to misunderstand and misrepresent it.

Rather fascinating where it goes from there, but nothing that actually refutes the OP, because there’s nothing to refute.

Nothing anyone has posted will change the fact that some players don’t think jumping puzzles should count toward map completion.

Sariel V.7024:

I’ve been waiting a long time to show Lyssa some proper devotion on my ele, but man this thing is disturbing!

Would you go so far as to say…

Lyssa confounds you?

Scarlet 4 Evar!!!!

Later, tater.

Well, yeah. Given how much time has passed, a little refresher dialog wouldn’t hurt.

“Hey Commander, remember when we figured out Mordremoth was behind all this?”

Except better.

Endless Soul.5178:

Next thing you know they’ll be after our precious bodily fluids!

And after that, the mineshaft gap.

BOMB THE PALE TREE NOW!

Guild Wars 2 Metro Interface… CONFIRMED!

I’m the princess!

And I do what I want!

I really doubt they have enough time for this, but maybe they could achieve something similar by choosing Precursor Champions to compete on their behalf.

The Precursor Champions would represent their respective developers, operate within the game under mutually-agreed conditions, and execute instructions as personally directed by Colin and John. This would allow their individual strategies to be put to the test without unduly distracting them from their extremely important game management duties.

And if things don’t work out as they would like, they can blame it on their PCs.

I think somebody just got aced.

Targeting is easier in some ways with the Action Camera, but there can be issues with hitbox occlusion that make other methods of target selection necessary.

As an example, you often can’t hit that high-priority target behind and slightly to one side of the trash mob in front by putting the crosshairs on it and attacking — you’ll hit the trash mob instead — thus tab targeting remains an important option in crowded fights, especially the kind so common in HoT that involve tight spaces and no-go areas created by high-damage persistent AoE effects.

Parallax resulting from third-person view can also make hitting the target you want more tricky, and the more zoomed out the view, the worse it gets.

I really want to love the Action Camera and would prefer to use it all the time, but found it too problematic to stay with, as outlined here:

Absurdly long critique for anyone with too much time on their hands.

I’m hoping it will become better after an iteration or two, however, and encourage any and all players who want it to succeed to give ArenaNet your best feedback, whatever it may be.

When the number of champs exceeds the number of players present, there’s definitely something wrong.

It may be intentional, though, to allow the event chains dependent on it to cycle by making it fail.

Or not. Hard to tell.

Tom Gore.4035:

Majic.4801:

Harper.4173:

“The finest treasures withing the Forgotten City” are 1 rare, 10 Aurillium and a blue. Those are the finest treasures that Tarir has to offer an “honored” ally.

That’s about all they have left after making the mortgage payments on their solid gold city.

Have you checked gold prices lately? It’s cheaper than any other ore in the world, save for Mithril (see the pattern here?).

Those gold coins in your wallet? Each one of them is apparently made of approximately 100 clumps of gold ore, or 50 gold ingots.

That’s probably what has them in the red: they bought the Forgotten City way over appraisal during a bubble, and now they’re underwater.

Mordremoth had better be careful. If he pushes them too far, they may just bail and leave him holding the keys to Tyria’s biggest money pit.