Magister Sieran. But she also made me cry like a kid who dropped her ice cream.
it’s silly to pull a shield out of nowhere every time combat starts
Tons of other MMOs have this option, though. No, it doesn’t look silly. It’s a fantasy game. We teleport, summon rotten things, fire comes out of our hands, throw axes that bounce like plastic balls, we can shoot arrows without quivers, etc… So yeah, “disappearing” weapons would fit it perfectly.
any reason
Waste of slot? This effect can’t even crit.
I agree. I actually want an option to disable every weapon type out of combat (some MMOs have this).
" unkillable"
My “core” condi Engi eats Scrappers for breakfast. I burn them to death.
Everything is a “thing” if you enjoy it! I play CelEngi in WvW and PvE and I have tons of fun with my build. Too bad they removed the Cele medal from PvP.
What exactly did you expect in a massively multiplayer game?
Still nothing on City of Heroes. Costumes weren’t even linked to “gear” so you can have as complex or minimalist as you desire, you had multiple costume saves with more purchasable in the cash shop, you had plethora of costume transformation animations to choose from to swap to those various saved costumes, you had 100% control cosmetically of a character, i.e. the single character can be a man, a woman or a “bulk” type body by changing their costume (actually had a character whose origin was they were a pair of demons, one male, one female, that morphed into magical weapons for their counterpart to hold (if you’ve seen Souleater, think of the weapon meisters)) and you could choose custom animations and colors for your powers.
True. I never played CoH but Champions Online had the same thing. It was so much FUN! I wish I could choose colors for my powers in GW2! I’d sell my soul for a pink Necro.
Lord of the Rings Online has a fabulous costume system.
Rift too! We can mix and match different armor weight (cloth, leather, chain, plate) and weapon types (hammer skin on a staff!) anytime and anywhere for free! Sure, there are clipping issues but we mix-n-match until we look perfect and there are tons of skins to collect in that game as well. I will never forget my favorite cloth-leather mix on my Cleric (who wears chain armor). Too bad Rift’s wardrobe and housing are the only things I like about that game… I wish we had both in GW2.
I know many people hate mounts for whatever reason but I’m excited about them! The amount of time I’ve missed events (and exp for leveling) because I didn’t get there in time is way too high (contested waypoints are horrible). The question is, will we be able to use mounts on core/central Tyria maps like gliders?
Clipping is no excuse.
Yeah and 98% of the Outfits clip on my female Sylvari anyway, especially with weapons, legs and arms, during idle animations and in combat (long buttcapes clip into the ground). At least my current mix-n-match has no clipping at all, I can’t do that with Outfits thanks to their bulky, overcomplicated and restricted design.
I agree with OP, but as Djinn said, it will never happen. It’s sad because mix-n-matching armor pieces is one of my favorite things to do in this game. I bought 1 Outfit for low lvl alts who don’t have mix-n-match’d stuff and that’s about it. I won’t buy more because they are boring, uncreative and noobish.
I’m not sure exactly what you mean by a “vignette.” Do you have an example, or can you describe it better?
If it is more screen clutter, I’d lean towards the negative. Perhaps an option to enlarge the boons displayed below would help? I dunno, you can have so many…
Maybe the OP means a “border” around the screen? Like Necro’s shroud (green border) or low HP (red glowing border). I think blindness has a dark border, that’s why the OP mentioned it? I personally hate these borders and want to turn them off, lol. They are annoying and the red glowing one makes me dizzy.
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I agree and make the “hide minis on high population” OPTIONAL at the game settings! My PC can handle WvW without lag, why would I hide minis? The only reason why I don’t use minis atm is because I got tired of reactivating them after big events…
It’s okay if other people wear them but I don’t want them on my characters.
I agree! I really want short grass skirts and clam bras for my Sylvari girls.
special abilities that modify stats to add some spice to profession choice.
NO!!! I hate other MMOs in which I must pick a certain race for the class I like because of the racials! I want to play the race I enjoy aesthetically and I don’t want to worry about racial skills / passives! GW2 is doing it RIGHT.
I’d prefer not to have to create and play a Charr (or any other race) because that race has the option for the best build.
^ This 100%.
If you are only disconnecting during the story, try running the game on port 80 or 443:
Gw2.exe -clientport 80
There is a specific problem that can cause you to be disconnected during cut scenes specifically and changing the port seems to fix it for some people.
I’ll try that, thanks.
DC during the final dialogue of story missions has become a regular thing for me as well. I’ve asked before if anyone has any idea why this happens, or what can be done about it. So far, no responses. At this point I’m not doing story missions, as a game play session that ends in frustration is not fun. It seems a pity that the company that knew how to save one’s place in an instance more than a decade ago cannot (or will not) do so now.
Yes, I only get dc’ed during dialogues! A few weeks ago it happened to me 3 TIMES A ROW during the Queen Jennah one (season 3, ep 4)! I got so annoyed, I didn’t touch story for a while…
Anyway, after I posted this thread I tried “Frozen Out” again and spammed my skills during the final dialogue. No dc! Maybe it’s coincidence BUT what if the server thinks we’re idle/afk and kicks us out because of some bug or something? :o I’m gonna spam my skills like crazy during dialogues to test this!
Other than story missions, I only get dc’ed when my connection becomes unstable (rarely happens) but that comes with huge ping spikes. When I dc from story, there’s no sign of dc at all and I can reconnect immediately!
I’m on “Frozen Out” story mission, took me 27 minutes to finish the mission, the last thing just didn’t want to break, even though the boss ran through it MANY times. ANYWAY, I killed it, I was at the FINAL dialogue part (which cannot be skipped, yay) when I got disconnected (it wasn’t even my internet, the game simply kicked me out). And now I have to do the WHOLE thing again… 27 minutes of my free time wasted and all I got was a headache.
Seriously, when will we be able to continue story missions??? When we log back in there should be an option that says “Do you want to try again from the last checkpoint?” Checkpoints, just like when we die. Please make it happen. Or something like that. Sorry for the caps. I’m frustrated.
Before making a new race with weird anatomy and therefore tons of clipping issues, fix the clipping on existing races or at least “improve” them to be less noticeable. -looks at Charr and Asura-
yay mspaint fill white! just what I’d been waiting for! /s
This made me lol. I don’t understand the obsession with these “texture killer” dyes. I’m a huge fan of the Enameled dyes, they make armor textures more detailed.
I can’t explain the random teleports to waypoints, I didn’t visit those wps, I ported to the north of Lake Doric from Royal Terrace! But the worst thing is the resetting quests. It’s impossible to do map completion right now so I can’t wait for that patch… x(
^ What they said BUT you do not have to worry about gear before lvl80, don’t waste your gold on runes and other stuff, just wear whatever you find! Even cheap green gear from the TP is fine for leveling. Save your gold for lvl80 gear!
I’m trying to do map completion in Lake Doric, I get disconnected every 5 minutes, once I ended up in Lion’s Arch (wtf?) after I relogged and an other time at a different waypoint in Lake Doric. How is this possible? The worst thing is that I cannot finish this slow, horribly scaled Heart quest I am working on because it keeps getting reset completely or I lose 20% progression… This problem started after the update.
Edit: Again, I was doing the Siegemaster event, got my Heart up to 50%, dc, now back to 10%. Great… I guess I’m logging off until a patch…
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It’s so weird that many people don’t like the personal story. And then there’s me, sometimes I start new characters just to replay the story missions. GW2 is the first game in which I actually watch / read the cinematics, lol. I guess I’m weird. Anyway, tell your gf to try other things to level up: WvW/EotM/PvP for Tomes, she might like them and/or mix all that with PvE exploring!
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Just delete the characters you don’t want. I’ve been playing since beta, only got 1 birthday gift so far because I often reroll as an other race or profession. Well, that was before I finally found my permanent main. :P But yeah, I don’t really care about the free b-day gifts, these items are not worth it to keep characters I will never play with. And yeah, a race change would be nice but it won’t happen.
This is awful nightime lol. Im talking pitch black moon light
As a person with imperfect vision, I am glad our night times are not too dark. If they made night times darker I would need extra brightness which would be a pain in the butt to change back at daytime. Ugh. If they ever going to change this (probably not), then the amount of darkness we get during night should be optional at the graphics settings or something. In fact, I would like an option for 100% daytime, it’s better for my eyes.
Pretty maps / favorites to explore: Timberline Falls, Lornar’s Pass, Caledon Forest, Blazeridge Steppes. Favorites to play: Silverwastes, HoT maps.
Dredgehaunt Cliffs – I hate the dredge and their caves + worst Vista in the whole game.
Lake Doric – Extremely boring map and lame events / Hearts.
Ember Bay – Ugly barren rocks, lava and fire spitting mobs everywhere.
Kessex Hills – It’s still in ruins, ugly as kitten + some really annoying Hearts.
Brisban Wildlands – I hate caves in general but this map has the worst Skritt cave ever.
Iron Marches, Fields of Ruin and Diessa Plateau – Rocks, rocks and more rocks, metal and even more metal, boring ruins and annoying enemies.
I actually like everything else.
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I think Glue Shot is pretty bad for a 25 sec cd skill, especially in PvE. It can be somewhat useful in some PvP situations but according to my (limited) experiences, better players get out of it / avoid it easily. Since it’s glue, it would be fun if it had an AoE poison effect with each pulse. Decrease cooldown to 20 seconds. Thoughts?
It triggers on enemies under 25% HP which is really hard to use. Make it 50%!
Also, increase radius to 300 and hit 5 targets instead of 3. Please and thanks!
That’s so sad. They should have kept leather cheap. Gotta love that they messed up the leather prices and now they are like “we won’t do anything anymore”. Thanks a lot, really. lol.
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The precious farm in Lake Doric didn’t lower leather prices and it’s annoying to farm it, it’s easier to farm gold elsewhere and buy the leather. It was dirt cheap before Anet changed the drop rates (or whatever black magic they used) and now it’s too expensive. Can’t we just have something in-between these 2 extremes? Is it that hard to manipulate leather again? They did it once, why keep it overly expensive?
Aw! Hey, if you don’t mind waiting, get one during a sale when they are only 800 Gems! I got mine during the anniversary sale a year ago. It’s in August but we might get perma pass sales before that.
I have the Royal Terrace pass (in a shared slot) and it’s easily my favorite item in the game. It’s not about saving gold, it’s about convenience. I love NPCs in a small area.
Edit: lol, I was slow, I’m glad you’re buying one. Enjoy!
It might come back during the anniversary sale in August.
Mini Air Elemental because it looks like some magic orb.
You can’t actually be afk there. You need to replace turrets fairly often.
This. Again, we’re getting this silly trebuchet thing because of the whiners who don’t even understand how this farm works. The ignorance is strong with this one.
I disagree. The fact that I don’t have to improve my gear all the time is exactly what I love about GW2. I hate grinding new gear in other MMOs.
Ummm… what!? So, what do you use for a keyboard and mouse? Pets classes like the engi/ranger/necro could be easily used since you can simply set the abilities to respawn after a delay with any current gaming mouse/keyboard. Not saying people are afk farming or not but your assumption that no one is and its impossible are right out if have every used any gaming peripherals.
I don’t use “gaming” stuff. I use a cheap mouse with 2 buttons and a cheap keyboard. And I’m pretty sure the casuals and poor students who do this farm are in the same boat! I’ve been playing MMOs for 13 years, never once used a macro or any kind of cheating program. I didn’t know it was possible to set “recast” on 3 turrets and even run to the turrets’ location – legally, with your precious gaming stuff, because I don’t use them. But it definitely sounds like you’ve never been to an Engi farm because you would know that most people actually stay around and chat. In fact, we once saw bots among us and we reported them.
Lol Mea is trying to protect her/his farm.
Not really, I know it has Anet’s attention and it will be nerfed anyway. I only did Engi farm for about 2 weeks when people first came up with the idea but I stopped after that because my gold/hour got halved (too many people farming) and I’m not busy with exams anymore so I can play the game “normally”.
However, I never once went afk. I was studying right in front of the screen and kept an eye on my turrets all the time… But when I went to eat or do something I actually logged off. I even went to char select screen during my bathroom breaks!
It just makes me mad when people are so ignorant, they don’t understand that Engi farm cannot be afk’d because of the reasons I mentioned in my previous post.
OP, are you from the future or what? GW2 is one of the most played MMOs next to WoW, FFXIV and ESO. It’s lightyears away from being dead.
Gotta love it when people complain about things they do not even know how they freaking work… Engineers. cannot. be. afk. because. the. turrets. get. destroyed. in. 5. minutes. Also, if a GM comes around and they don’t answer the whispers, they get temp. banned. This is not an afk farm. Next time learn more about the situation before you open your mouth!
who the hell is aneth
My thoughts exactly.
And how does that stop you from killing centaurs? Start your own party and run up the hill. Duh.
(given you also supply 600 gold) you can potentially net 300-1500g[sup]*1[/sup] depending on your luck
In other words, I could lose Gold. No thanks, I don’t gamble. :P RNG hates me!
I have old gathering tools and I’m happy with them. I’m sitting on 300k UM and I don’t think I’ll ever need that many. UM is kind of overrated… Even if we need it in the expansion, I can just run around and eat berries… -shrugs-
I couldn’t get into GW1 and the combat was boring. GW2 is better in every way.