Guild Wars 2

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

In my opinion, this game has one of the worst communities I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe not as bad as diablo 2 but still… pretty bad especially in sPvP and here on the forums.

Hmmm. I’ve been pvp’ing for about the last year or so, and have encountered maybe half a dozen people that were unpleasant. Same in pve. People talk a lot of smack in the lobby, but in general I have found the community to be quite good – even in pvp matches. Same on the forums – a few people, but nothing in too greater numbers.

Won’t this just force people into using some other item as a gold substitute? Like Globs of Ectoplasm or whatever? I remember in GW1 this happened because the amounts were so high.

This seems like a very crude, albeit effective, way of stopping a problem – but it creates a big issue for people that legitimately deal with large amounts of gold (I wish I had that problem lol). Especially for guilds or any organized events where lots of gold is needed or moved around. I just feel their must be a better fix for this.

Surely the gold seller accounts are easy to spot via AP, time played or some other metric? Surely real players can be id’d this way and get access to moving larger amounts of gold or something?

Basaltface.2786:

eh.. i just hope to see more “assimilated” dragon minions from the 5 races..not only sylvari. Those designs could for sure look gruesome and “dark” as the OP puts it

The Norn and Charr already have – the branded and those that worship jormag. I’ve no doubt we’ll see human and asura dragon minions – although aren’t their risen that are of all the races anyway? Do they count as minions? I dunno. But each of the races has a portion that’s done evil and bad things, even aside from the dragons.

leviathan.2148:

Not completely off topic, but I would like the nights ingame to be dark :P

GemFX ftw!

Jordo.5913:

I haven’t personally played the beta, but I have seen video of people playing it, and it looks like a BLAST!

There are cries of OP OP! This doesn’t mean that Revenant needs to be nerfed though, just bring other classes up to it’s level!

If you guys do end up nerfing the Revenant a little bit, please take special care in it, because unlike other professions, the Revenant doesn’t have other skills to put in place on a legend if the skill becomes useless. It will just have to sit there, not being used.

I personally think they need to make each skill a little bit overpowered on the legends, just to keep all of them useful BECAUSE of the lack of skill choices. I know you could slap on a legend that is better, but the legends are going to have designated roles, such as Mallyx for condi dmg.

There are some aspects that are clearly too overpowered, and bringing other classes ‘up’ to them would mean the content would be too easy. I would totally expect some nerfing – but it’s down to what they should have been in the first place. They seem to have deliberately overpowered them? (my personal speculation), and then will dial them back to something more realistic for launch. Tuning if you like.

Several things:

• “Why was this announced as a feature of the upcoming expansion?”

Because it’s a feature of the upcoming expansion. Not before, and not after – literally as part of HoT. (This seems like a weird comment – what else would it be part of, if not HoT? I’m confused).

• “Because at this point it’s starting to sound very, very, worryingly much like a direct lie.”

How is it a lie? It hasn’t happened yet, and we haven’t had HoT launch, so you are speculating. If HoT launches and the new system is absent, or their are no Legendaries, then yes it’s a lie. (Sidenote: Are you a time traveler?)

• “Can we have a clear statement, a red post, on whether there will be a -full- set of legendaries? Because it does not -seem- so.”

I assume you mean the new ones, because the blog mentions all the old ones are being done over. What are you basing your speculation on?

• ““We will do it later” is not a statement you can throw around when designing an expansion”. Well, apparently it is – that is literally their exact plan. Also, have you played MMO’s before, or basically any game for the past 30 years? That is what 90% of every game dev has said. Ever. (I mean this as a joke, but you hear this all the time – in all games lol).

People are extrapolating way too much based on too little information. And they flat out said another post about the new ones is coming.

Invoker.5462:

So after hearing all the “word of mouth” about silverwastes being one of the best and most innovative MMO pve zones I thought I’d try it myself.

So after following a broken waypoint to get out there for a while- I found my way thanks to the wiki.

Once I arrived I did the story quest which was OK but lacked any choice. I then set out to find one of the most disappointing mechanics I’ve ever seen.

Bandit chests..

It seems as though ANET had a bad week or was trying to create a real time sink for people used to mind numbing end game. A group I followed for an hour did nothing but walk to predetermined chest locations. Some innovative stuff eh. Came back the next day, different group same thing.

And apparently this is ok with ANET as it’s been around for a while. If this is the latest ANET had to offer post expansion then I’m beginning to fear the dev team has gone sour. My expectations for the expansion have gone way down as a result

Actually, the zone is great, but some maps become ‘chest farms’ – this is because many people, and I am in this situation, have completed everything in the zone and done all the events numerous times. But the chests are great to farm for items and materials.

I would suggest you avoid those chests farm maps – just ask in map chat if it’s one – and use lfg to jump over to an event map (that seems to be what people are calling them). There are still plenty of people that are not wanting to chest farm so it’s easy enough to skip over.

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

Go away, you filthy salad head. We don’t need dragon minions in our parties or guilds.

You probably also won’t be needing:

• Titan worshippers that killed who knows how many people – bye bye Charr
• Child torturers and murderers – bye bye Asura
• People who can be corrupted by the Elder Dragons – bye bye Norn
• People who can be corrupted by powerful alien beings that can phase out of reality and then spending decades appeasing those beings by lying and murdering innocents as ‘sacrifice’ – bye bye Humans.

Whoops, their are no races left -_-. Oh well aka Kodan and Tengu FTW! lol

aerial.7021:

Donari.5237:

I didn’t actually try to go all the way to creation, I stopped when I couldn’t make Revenant. But hitting “Create” on the slot did let me start the process.

Create is disabled on my account too although I do have the beta icon.

It;s greyed out for me too when I select it – can’t progress till the time I guess.

Argon.1563:

How nice, a person who isn’t even aware of the beta gets chosen, while so many people who regularly play and invest money into the game don’t. Good job, ArenaNet.

Doing so wasn’t a guarantee of getting a beta slot. It’s random – hence you get many situations. It’s 4 hours, that’ll probably be buggy. CALM DOWN.

Donari.5237:

The question is the other direction, will the beta test character have access to our account goodies? I’d hope not, but it feels a bit odd having the beta slot just mooshed in with our existing client.

Yeah, I can’t see how they’d allow that. You could dump items from the beta to your bank and then grab them on your main toons.

I would imagine it’ll be completely cut off maybe?

lordkrall.7241:

Weirwynn.2390:

No, it really doesn’t.

But it does work the majority of the time.

Surely, given the resources and time the game has had put into it, we could have expected better than just “it works the majority of the time”? I want it to work and work well. It largely fails at that second bit.

It may work the majority of the time, but most of that is average at best – not exactly something to celebrate I would have thought.

Weirwynn.2390:

lordkrall.7241:

The current engine works quite well

No, it really doesn’t.

Agreed! For the tech it’s using it runs pretty badly even on fantastic rigs. It should be doing much better. Other games can manage it. It’s a shame really :-(

Lorgus.6148:

James Spades.4720:

Diagoras.5641:

Khal Drogo.9631:

James Spades.4720:

And let’s not forget the actual policy in Russia toward homosexuality… I mean we have a lesbian couple as main characters and we could consider the entire sylvari race as bisexual…

Politics irl have no place in GW2. Agreed mod?

I think he means that it might lead to the game getting banned, shunned, frowned upon and/or getting special age limits. It wouldn’t be the first time, if you look at the Sims 4, for an example, which got a 18+ rating due to possible homosexual content (even though you don’t see anything happening except the jumping in bed). (not saying that Russia is alone in this)

That’s precisely what i meant… It is technically against the law to be homosexual in Russia so one might assume that the game would be banned….

It is NOT against the law to be homosexual in Russia. The law that people refer to bans “homosexual propaganda” from being advertised in public places, such as posters or billboards. Another interesting fact is that nobody has as of yet been convicted of breaking this law.

Please educate yourself before making outrageous claims on subjects you know nothing about, lest you be seen as a brainwashed mouthpiece for whatever tabloid you read. Good day.

Unfortunately, the law is then used, as we have seen numerous cases, as a pretext to be excessive – that’s exactly why they were enacted in the first place of course, under the guise of “protecting children and society”, etc.

Khal Drogo.9631:

Diagoras.5641:

Khal Drogo.9631:

James Spades.4720:

And let’s not forget the actual policy in Russia toward homosexuality… I mean we have a lesbian couple as main characters and we could consider the entire sylvari race as bisexual…

Politics irl have no place in GW2. Agreed mod?

I think he means that it might lead to the game getting banned, shunned, frowned upon and/or getting special age limits. It wouldn’t be the first time, if you look at the Sims 4, for an example, which got a 18+ rating due to possible homosexual content (even though you don’t see anything happening except the jumping in bed). (not saying that Russia is alone in this)

Politics irl have no place in GW2. Agreed mod?

I don’t think you can really say that in this case – politics itself intrudes upon the game. At least as regards the OP’s original post. The laws in Russia would make large parts of the story and the portrayal of multiple characters illegal – i.e. the game in it’s current form would be almost certainly banned. Advertising the game would be ‘promoting’.

yolo swaggins.2570:

That would be highly unfair because Charr would be OP.

Right up until someone threw a bucket of water over them :-P

This is showing all NA servers are down – http://gw2status.de/

It’s back now. I wonder if they are doing something for the beta thing.

The ANet hampster died LOL

Can’t even log in. Heaps on reddit reporting the same. What up?

ArtemisJade.9068:

Killface.1896:

Maize Balm farming in Bloodcost so broken atm easy 25gold + per hr

Maize balm farming in bloodcoast? Maize balm still drops???

You can make it. However, the price is sooo high to buy the potions it’s not worth it – not anymore anyway. You are also limited to one potion crafted per account per day. Would probably make more money just selling the potions lol.

Killface.1896:

Maize Balm farming in Bloodcost so broken atm easy 25gold + per hr

25gold an hour? really? But the maize balm itself is so high in price – it barely worth the bother. You might make 25 gold an hour, but it costs most of that 25 gold to buy the stuff that makes it.

Unless Maize Balm has crashed, their is minimal profit in this these days.

And chocobo’s! whoops, wrong game -_-

That means Kasmeer and Marjory would be real – I don’t think I could handle that much adorableness in the world #TheyAreTooCute :-) <3 <3

Is it still insanely hard? I did this just before the patch and it was insane – it was sort of fun to be honest. But way out of place in that level zone.

I wish I had ping as low as that. Here in NZ I have always gamed with 280-300 ping – we have terrible internet. You’ll get used to it.

You should remove ‘mining’ from this discussion – you can use home resource nodes to get the mining daily at least. The sprocket node counts as mining & you should have plenty of laurels to buy it.

runeblade.7514:

Please reduce the requirement of each of these daily achievement by 1.

I bought the Basic Mining/Logging/Harvesting node so that I can easily complete the daily chore. I didn’t buy these to be forced to run out to the zone looking for these nodes to complete the daily chores.

The basic logging and mining nodes have 9 mines and 9 chops each. The daily requirement is 10. By reducing the requirement by 1, I can easily achieve the daily chore by supporting the game by buying the basic nodes.

Just by having one more, you put a middle finger on me because I was supporting the game. Is this how you treat customers?

LOL. You are funny. Don’t be so lazy.

Please just give me every item in the game for free, and no effort whatsoever while you are at it Mr Game Developer! Kthnxbai

Markav.3950:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Thanks to megaservers you can still RP with them. You just can’t WvW with them. But yes, you will just have to keep checking off and on for an opening. There is no other way to get in.

How do megaservers work exactly? Like, I’ll able to be in the same area and they’ll still be capable of reading my emotes and seeing my character?

I also read about World Transfers, something about it costing (what looked to be) Gems? Can I just delete my character and start fresh somewhere else without paying the transfer fee?

Also, thanks for responding!

Unless it’s WvW, the servers thing is largely meaningless – but each instance of a map can still only hold x number of people. But the server they came from doesn’t matter.

SyZ.7920:

People say farm for a legendary … so my two options as a ranger are a bow that shoots flowers or a different bow that shoots unicorns … really?

I’m really into collectibles, and it seems like there are just miniatures or skins. I haven’t seen one miniature in 2 months of playing this game and don’t even know where to get them

I’ve spent none of my karma or laurels, because the gear I bought for 3g the moment I hit 80 is better

I’ve done a few fractals, they’re fun but don’t seem to have any story or rhyme or reason to them

Done a few dungeons, they’re fun as well but I don’t think I want to grind them 75 times farming materials

My gear sucks for PvP, I don’t understand the point of WvW, and as far as I can tell there are no raids or anything to work towards

Should I just quit?

• You can use other weapons than the two bows – so no, those two aren’t your only options.
• If you like collectibles, check your collections tab – their is enough there to collect and unlock to keep you occupied for ages – and that’s not including the upcoming xpac.
• At 80 the stats flatten out – this is deliberate. They don’t want a gear treadmill. You collect stuff that you like the look of visually. Ascended gear has slots for other stats, and Legendaries can change their stats as you like.
• The Fractals are that way – they are supposed to be random and varied. That is thier whole point.
• Dungeons? Well, the diff paths tell different stories, but yes they are repeatable / grindable. But no need to do that – go and do something else I guess.
• Your gear shouldn’t suck for pvp – if you have gear better than what laurels could buy then its the top statted gear – and you can alter the sigils and stuff.
• Point of wvw? Kill people and advance the various tracks and get loot and items I guess.
• Raids? No, GW2 does not have these. Never has. Probably never will.
• There are plenty of things to work towards – see above, and that’s not all by any stretch.

Hmmm, will the new systems use skill points? I have like 2-3 thousand in my bank (10 stacks of 250 or so).

pdavis.8031:

Morsus.5106:

pdavis.8031:

Lytalm.5673:

Why limit it to medium? If you implement a system like that, heavy should also have a chance to salvage into cloth, as it is required in the craft of it.

True, but it might bring too much silk into the market, and essentially crash it, causing prices to fall to vendor value again. Also that would mean that 100% of armor drops providing cloth, instead of 66%.

But all armor weights need silk, so why artificially limit it to only being obtainable from two of the armor weights?

All armor weights do require silk. So why can you only salvage it from light armor?
Adding it to be salvagable from all armor weights would add in too much silk, making it lose a significant amount of value. As it is now, the only “reliable” way to get silk is to salvage light armor. So instead of having only ~1/3 of armor drops grant cloth, adding in medium armor would double the amount you can obtain from salvaging. Increasing that to all armor drops would triple the amount of cloth.

If you introduce too much, the cloth market crashes, and cloth then becomes worthless. Add in too little, then it essentialy stays where its at. I think that just 1 more armor weight providing cloth would increase the supply enough so that it doesn’t lose too much value, but still makes it so it’s not as bad to farm.

It is strange that it only drops from one weight when it’s used in others.

Best news ever! Can’t wait to finally do this on all my other characters.

I really hope the other weapons are viable. Those hammer animations are lame.

Argon.1563:

For a long time, Berserker has been looking shady for open world content. It started getting sketchy to run it around the time of the Tequatl Rising update, and from then on, more content has been released that has made it less viable. Now we’ve seen the stuff in HoT, if I see anybody in my open world parties to do world bosses/events running Berserker, in HoT, they’re getting kicked. Im not picking up corpses off the floor for half of HoT.

I think Berserker will still be good in dungeons, but for open world content: Not appropriate, not viable, buy a real armour set.

Thanks for posting your views here. Now I don’t have to actually encounter someone as unpleasant as you in-game. puts on block in-game

khani.4786:

My question is what if your “Auto attack” is set to a skill other than skill #1… will taunt make the player only use sill #1 or will it actually make them use what skill is set as auto attack. And what if an auto attack skill is not set?

And what happens if you are morphed, or using an item which replaces all of your attacks?

Stormdancer.4972:

The fix is incredibly simple.

Rotate the art 90 degrees.

Boom. Solved without code.

Are you serious? If it was that simple, they would have done it long ago. Plus, any change they make in one area can effect other area’s – unexpectedly in some cases. Look at the last patch with the client crashing food item bug – and that was just one item. The game has to deal with thousands and thousands of assets that interact in all sorts of ways, and the team has been working on the game for years and years – I think I’ll trust them when they say it might be complicated.

I always think it’s funny when people say, “Oh it’s really simple….”, like you could just use photoshop or something to fix the game.

The best thing to get the Shatterer achievement is to go a bit late to it. That way you’ll get put in a lower population instance,and the AoE will not smash them so quick.

Over the last few months, even in heavy pop maps, I’ve seen the crystals sit there for a while. But definately easier on a low pop map.

I have been playing for just over a year and only got it a few months back. They should just make it so you only need to tag them, and maybe give them a bit more hit points. It’s a fussy achievement.

Just use a transformation tonic. The Silverwastes Mordremoth ones – thrasher, husk, etc- are good. When you zoom in morphed using those, you don’t see your body. It’s basically first person view. I use it for screen shots when I don’t want my toons body in shot. Works well.

TwinFrozr.6214:

SlackerATC.5934:

5 Dragon ball wins a day, are you serious? I really want to play a luck based pvp game for an hour every day, thanks.

I also reacted the same way. The entire point of nerfing the previous daily system was to let us have fun instead of grinding, then they come up with this. Forcing people to PvP is never a good thing, and it shouldn’t take long until we have a load of afk’ers in this activity.

No one is ‘forcing’ you to do this. You get that right? You could GASP choose not to do it and go and do some other activity you actually enjoy.

LetsGoGiants.4962:

I played GW1, and I recently tried GW2. I’ll give my final review here.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS:
My first impressions were very positive. I liked the event system, and the cooperative gameplay aspects. When I did my first world boss in the Queensdale swamps, I loved how everyone got a set of loot from the encounter. The graphics were great, and I liked how quests and events meshed together.

INTEREST RISING: DIFFERENT MODES OF PLAY:
I liked the fact that there were different ways you could play and progress. The crafting system was simple and straightfoward, and was not long and frustrating. My interest in the game had started to ramp up significantly. I tried dungeons, eotm, and small group pvp, and liked it all. Small group pvp had a learning curve, but it was the kind of difficulty that was engaging.

REALLY INTO THE GAME – HITTING 80 WITH ELE AND GUARDIAN / LOOKING TO WvW:
I couldn’t decide between ele and guardian, so I decided to co-main them. WvW was my preferred end-game mode and what I wanted to spend most of my time doing when I got to 80. Both ele and guardian seemed to be great support classes for WvW, and I wanted variety, so I leveled them both.

DESCENSION:
When I hit 80 on my guard and ele, it became time to set up my characters to do WvW. I decided to go with a celestial staff ele and a tanky support guardian. But…I found out that to get celestial gear, I would have to make these quartz crystals which were limited to one per day. I didn’t like that, because I view gearing up as the precursor to play, not as the actual play.

But then I researched ascended gear, and found out what I would have to do to get it. I tried fractals of the mists once, and completed the first level successfully. I hated it. It wasn’t fun at all. The whole time I couldn’t wait for it to be over. Now, this wouldn’t be a big deal since I liked the other game modes (especially WvW). I learned that it would be a major grind to get ascended involving a game mode I didn’t like, and that I would be at a disadvantage in WvW without it. That disadvantage looks to be about 10% all told from my research on the internet, which is enough to be substantial. I deleted the game.

lol. you need to do more / better research.

And also, how do Sylvari Revenants exist, when Rytlock, the very first Revenant, is a virulent anti Sylvari racist?

I’ve only been pvp’ing for the last 6 months or so, and have only run into a handful of awful people – I just block them and move on. If it’s really bad, I report them, then block. Their is a lot of smack talked in the pvp hub town thing, but it seems a lot of hot air. It’s certainly not as awful as some other games I see. And pve wise (which is what I mostly play) it’s even better – but you always seem to find some idiot that takes it too far.

Just over 1500 hours and 2 pre’s – both within the last month. Rifle and warhorn.

Any update on when they are going to fix this issue yet? As noted earlier, I refuse to play the story any further, on any character, in it’s current butchered form. The branching missions after you select your ‘greatest fear’ should never have been removed. Not to mention the overall story makes no sense now, plus Season 1 is not playable for new players (There are so many characters that talk to me, yet I have no clue who they are – I didn’t even know who Jory, Kas, Taimi, Braham & Rox were!)

Any update ANet?

I don’t know what I’d do. But it’ll have to wait. I still have to decide what to do about the Asura murdering, torturing and experimenting on Sylvari children, the Charr for murdering and enslaving thousands of humans, and the Norn for worshiping Jormag.

So many things to decide – so little time.

psizone.8437:

Morsus.5106:

First the interview says only one specialization per class, then it says only one map. I may not get the expansion after all.

They also say that it’s one specialisation with the expansion but that they’d use the specialisation system to give players new skills and traits later on, implying new specialisations will be coming. This is going to allow them to give us new traits and utilities without them feeling out of place or useless.

As for the map, one map could technically be multiple zones, we won’t know for several weeks.

It’s way too soon to decide if this expansion is worth buying or not, hold the dramatic tone until we actually have all the concrete info

My assumption, and its just an assumption, is that further expansions would add additional Masteries and chains – things relevant to the area’s the expac is set in. No real need to swamp players with dozens of new things every xpac.

MokahTGS.7850:

butch.8136:

^ Again, you seem to have all the details. Enlighten me.

Why do people keep saying 1 zone? Like wtf…

From this interview:

http://www.shacknews.com/article/87848/guild-wars-2-director-discusses-heart-of-thorns-revenants-guild-halls-and-more

Colin Johanson says: “From an environment standpoint, this is the largest amount of vertical space we have ever built in the game. Our map spans huge distances up in the air. We are actually able to climb to the very top of the jungle and look down on everyone below. We’re adding hang gliding, so you won’t have to fall to your death every time. We’re adding a lot of abilities that will take advantage of the amount of 3D space that we’ll make use of as part of these adventures in the jungle.”

He says map. Not maps.

He doesn’t say zone, area, region, biome or anything else. He says Map.

Take that as you will of course.

The World Map is also a map, is it not? We need to wait for more info.

Also, I wonder if the maps are layered, each layer could be considered a map? Would it be any different if each layer was separated and placed side by side? Perhaps they have taken multiple maps, and stacked them. Like taking all the ascalon maps and putting them on top of each other. That would make it look much smaller. But like I said, we need more info.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

titoroco.8049:

if u dont like dont buy it =)

How would I know if I like it if I haven’t tried it? To try this expansion I am forced to buy it. #mindblown

That describes any game ever made. Ever. Should you also get a free copy of every game to try first? #LogicFail

Iason Evan.3806:

On top of that, they said a way to acquire precursors by playing the game was coming years ago. Hopefully, people that don’t buy the x-pac will still be able to use the new system to make them.

Probably not. In the latest MMORPG interview, he said the new Precursors will be like the Bioluminescent Armour – rewards for collections. Some parts of the collections will no doubt be in the new zones, and if you haven’t purchased the expansion you likely can’t go there, so wont be able to complete the collections. But I guess they could also be a random drop as well? We’ll see I guess.