Wildstar failed hard because they lead everyone to believe it was aimed at the hardcore gamer and so all the casuals thought okay we won’t buy/bother with your game. Big mistake…
Also 2 other negative points were:-
Release date of June, probably the worst time of the year to release a new game in NA/EU.
Released shortly after ESO, which burned a lot of MMO players, so they were probably put off. A games developer once told me competition from other good games in your genre is good for everyone as players will buy several games of the same type. But if a turkey gets released it puts players off buying any other games in the same genre. Obviously the genre we are talking here is MMO’s.
Druids! What are you thoughts/concerns?
That they will get even more useless pets so other professions can laugh at Rangers even more…
4,600 hrs
15,000 APs
900 days…Zero Precursors
Zero Ascended Chests
Zero Etched Weapons
/sigh
Wow…our even more unlucky than me…at least I have had 4 ascended chests drop (sadly 3 had utterly useless rings in).
Yes they need to improve/give a reason to defend but they after make it rewarding to do so. If they make it just take longer, then they just effectively reduce the rewards.
Defending can be potently very, very rewarding as well as awesome fun.
During a tournament once I took part in defending our home keep through the night, both the other servers hated our server so were pretty much only attacking us. Around a 100 of server a (not sawing names to avoid thread degeneration) attacked, once we beat them, a 100 of server b attacked and so on through the night.
It was a desperate battle of defense on our part, we held out for 5-6 hours before they finally took the keep which by that time literally had no walls, you could walk through the keep! Reward wise for the defenders it was pretty awesome, you could tag for loot 20-50 enemies per incoming attack wave and we had to set up a rotation so 5 players could empty there bags at a time, so we always had enough defenders.
I have played GW2 since day 1 and have been lucky enough to be involved in a few of those kind of epic battles. But they are ultra rare nowadays. Sadly…
Will Anet ever fix the pointless sigils?
or
Will Anet ever fix the pointless runes?
or
Will Anet ever fix the pointless traits?
or
Will Anet ever fix the pointless equipment stats?
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Will Anet ever fix the pointless utility skills?
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Will Anet ever fix the pointless Elite skills?
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Will Anet ever fix the pointless racial skills?
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Will Anet ever fix the pointless healing skills?
Evidence after nearly 3 years to all that is a 100%, definte NO.
You just after stare at it collecting dust in your stash…or right click destroy it…shame really cause I would love it, heck I would even buy it off you via the TP if we were allowed but sadly its worthless, even if it is the top tier equipment.
Has the meta always been this bland?
Sadly, yes.
Anet are determined to keep it as simple as possible with little to no variety. Reason Esports, apparently by keeping it as simple as possible, it means there Esports is very, very easy to balance.
I agree with the OP, having a theme is all well and good but it can create a really, really, boring, tedious zone after a time.
The 3 Orr zones were kitten horrible compared with Queensdale, Wayfarer Foothills and Frostgorge Sound.
Remember you got 10,000’s of posts complaining how horrible Orr was…don’t make the same mistake again!
They should have a 3rd way of getting ascended equipment in GW2.
I hate crafting in GW2 and don’t bother with it at all really, because its just click 10,000 times, end up with 1 item (possible exaggeration).
So that leaves me with RNG which is currently not a viable way of getting full ascended equipment. I tried with WvW chests, fractals and PvP, got a ascended greatsword which was great (WvW chest) but the other ascended drops were all rings, lots of utterly useless ascended rings!
I also play Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls and Path of Exile, the crafting is more simplified in those game but far, far more enjoyable, crafted 10,000’s of items in those games.
GW2 crafting is too cumbersome/clunky and uses far too many materials.
I have a answer!
Why the lack of precursors?
Answer, Skrit, yea you thought they were fairly useless thieves but in actual fact they are top secret employees of there boss who goes by the name of “Mr Smith” who likes to portray himself as defender of the economy but is actually a evil treasure hoarder…
So how do the Skrit do it? Its simple they have 3 superpowers:-
1) Sense impending precursor drop.
2) Speed of ‘THE FLASH’.
3) 100% pickpocketing.
Every player in the game has had 100’s of precursors drop but wham, bam, thankyou mam, they are in your backpack and before you have a chance to click on the item your precursor is replaced with a GREEN.
Aren’t we all Roleplayers?
Nah…I used to roleplay for 10+ years (tabletop/live ropeplaying etc…) but with games like GW2 all I care about is making my characters as powerful as possible, getting my ‘look/appearence’ and LOOT(not that GW2 has any LOOT). Then I am done…
I think Anet are missing a trick by not having hang gliding in WvW.
They could have just added it to the new WvW map only.
It would have added a whole new level of strategy/tactics to WvW, with offensive/defensive airforces needed.
Also, we could have posted youtube/twitch videos showing groups of players flying in formation to take keeps etc with obviously wings of the valkirye music playing. Or with music from queen, recreating the scene from Flash Gordon the movie, where the hawkmen are gathered to descend on Ming the Merciless palace.
Really, Anet have some imagination…
Doing something like that would have hordes of players returning to WvW.
"Challenging" content in open world concern
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
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The getting there 2 hours before a open world event and then shuttling in your guild mates in just so you have a chance at hard content is no fun either.
Before GW2, I have never encountered a game that made me (the paying customer) wait around for 2 hours+ just to play some specific content. Can you imagine if shops said that, sorry you after wait 2 hours to buy that tv.
Stupid.
Content should revolve around the players and they should be able to trigger it whenever they want. Its okay with me if you after complete certain steps/events to trigger it but those should take no more than 20 mins or so.
Today everyone works different times. So games should revolve around people, not people revolving around the game.
Err. Isnt that kind of defeating the purpose of hte whole (living world) and (dynamic event system) theme they have built the ENTIRE GAME on?
Not really, the only 2 events I was referring to was 3 headed wurm (mainly) and Tequatl (but that’s a lot easier). Everything else is okay and you can just turn up at the appropriate time, no waiting if you want to complete it.
This new harder content in the expansion, may be like 3 headed wurm but 10 times harder. So as its open world you (or some of your guild mates) will after get there a few hours early, to ferry in all the players you can rely on, in order to have a chance to complete it.
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"Challenging" content in open world concern
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Meglobob.8620
The getting there 2 hours before a open world event and then shuttling in your guild mates in just so you have a chance at hard content is no fun either.
Before GW2, I have never encountered a game that made me (the paying customer) wait around for 2 hours+ just to play some specific content. Can you imagine if shops said that, sorry you after wait 2 hours to buy that tv.
Stupid.
Content should revolve around the players and they should be able to trigger it whenever they want. Its okay with me if you after complete certain steps/events to trigger it but those should take no more than 20 mins or so.
Today everyone works different times. So games should revolve around people, not people revolving around the game.
Nearly 2,000 hours…0 (zero) precursor drops.
No special (rng, high value item drops, above 20g) in that time either.
GW2 most UNREWARDING GAME EVER.
You will get some smug so and so on shortly say 8 precursor drops + loads of high value drops, obviously blessed by Anet….
1st thing I intend to do his roll revenant, pop a lvl 20 scroll, eat 60 tomes of knowledge and eat as many skill pts, plus spend as much gold as it takes to unlock every trait, skill and then off to the Maguma Jungle to learn hang gliding…
Questions about Pricing and Payment [merged]
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Meglobob.8620
Up to $60, if its over that amount, I would wait until it goes on sale!
Better not be true…
What is the point of lvl 20 scrolls/tomes of knowledge/skill points if they are disabled? I had all 8 classes at 80 before all those things got brought out and am looking forward to taking a nice shortcut for once.
Would potentially put me off buying the expansion if this was the case! Remember ‘no grind’ Anet…
1st thing I intend to do his roll revenant, pop a lvl 20 scroll, eat 60 tomes of knowledge and eat as many skill pts, plus spend as much gold as it takes to unlock every trait, skill and then off to the Maguma Jungle to learn hang gliding…
So +1 revenant here….
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Is GW2 going to get trashed like CoH?
No (short answer)
NCSoft likes GW2 its a good money earner for them and probably there most successful MMO in US/Eu where in the past they have had trouble in those markets. In a recent round of cutbacks across there large family of NCSoft MMO’s GW2 was protected from any cuts because its successful.
However, I noted that Guild Wars is still running.. no content updates (as far as I know) but it’s not been shut down.
Its had exactly 40 content updates in 3 years since launch…
A expansion has just been announced GW2:Heart of Thorns and the chances are after that is released there will be many more ‘free’ content updates. So a good time to buy GW2 and get into the game, especially if its still 75% off (celebrating expansion announcement).
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“I spoke with Colin at the after party. Only one specialty per class at this time. It works very much like a secondary profession where you can mix and match your skills. It can also be modified any time you are out of combat. Unclear if each class is only getting one new weapon but from the ranger speciality it appears at least that the new weapons come from the new specialties.
Also, jumping into the specialty gives you new trait options however it also restricts what traits you can use. Exactly what/how wasn’t specified.
Only combos he would confirm was ranger and necro weapons already shown. Though he hinted at looking closely at the trailer for others.
Last thing before bed, no polearms. The art team had a lot of fun making look a likes but no pole arms in gw2.".
This is interesting…
So if I take a specialization for my Ranger which we know is Druid, can I swap between Ranger (as it is now) and Druid when I am outside of combat. Or once I take the specialization of Druid, will I then be a Druid forever? Which means I would after level to 80 another Ranger, just to play the traditional Ranger?
I hope you can change back and forth (when out of combat) at will. Not sure I fancy buying another 9 character slots to have all professions. Although it would give me something to do in GW2, as of now I have nothing at all I wish to do in GW2.
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Here is EXACTLY what specialization means (from limited info so far):-
Each class (so all 9 classes) will have a specialization.
A specialization will give that class a new specific weapon (pre-chosen by Anet not you), so example Ranger is getting a staff (5 new weapon skills).
You also get a new class title so Ranger becomes Druid or RangerDruid.
You get 1 new healing skill.
You get 1 new elite skill.
You get new utility skills (no one knows how many).
AFAIK that’s it, so far.
I don’t think it will make any difference at all to balance, since my personal opinion is Anet have not balanced the game in the 3 years they have tinkered with it so far. Just destroyed certain builds with nerfs and promoted others with tiny buffs, with absolutely no plan or reasoning to it.
Just my personal opinion.
Here is EXACTLY what specialization means (from limited info so far):-
Each class (so all 9 classes) will have a specialization.
A specialization will give that class a new specific weapon (pre-chosen by Anet not you), so example Ranger is getting a staff (5 new weapon skills).
You also get a new class title so Ranger becomes Druid or RangerDruid.
You get 1 new healing skill.
You get 1 new elite skill.
You get new utility skills (no one knows how many).
AFAIK that’s it, so far.
They said beta very end of March, like the 28th…
I think it will be a end of August to October 2015 (sales wise this is the best time of year to release any new game/expansion) release date, assuming no major delay.
Don’t hold your breath basically…
Yeah but challenging group content can easily mean another Tequatl ..
That’s exactly what they mean but more like 3 headed wurm but 10 times as hard as that and need more players to do it/more co-ordination and everyone to have some of the new masteries before you can even begin to think of success.
Its basically for hard core guilds/elitists to have a competition over who can be 1st in the world to complete it once GW2:Heart of Thorns is released. It took nearly a week for the 1st guild to complete the 3 headed wurm? So if it takes them longer than a week, perhaps upto a month before the 1st guild does it, Arenanet will be happy.
If your a casual, normal player thou forget it even exists…save yourself loads of time.
I hope its not Mord (the new dragon) himself thou that’s going to be that hard to kill, cause everyone would like to kill him at some point, unless your a salad/Sylvia minion of course!
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I am not surprised by no new race, I was surprised by a lot of posts wanting one thou..
In developer man hours adding a new race to the game is probably equal to if not more work than a new class. Mainly in redoing all the armour sets in the game (there are a lot…) for the new race model and creating a new personal story for that race.
In player game time without doing the personal story, a player will have got over the new look/graphics within a hour or so (especially as every player in game will be of the new race) and perhaps a couple of more hours playing wardrobe with the new race and that’s it. Even playing through your entire personal story, you would be finished in a day or so.
Where a new character class gives 100’s of hours of gameplay.
Its a no brainer from Anets point of view.
Hot human/norn female with big boobies and a Kim Kardashian bum obviously…
People are aware that three BIOMES doesn’t have to mean three zones, right?
In fact it is very unlikely that it will only be one zone per Biome.
Yes, apparently there are 3 vertical levels to the region canopy, ground, trees? So possibly equal to 9 zones at least.
A bit ‘concerned’ it may more ‘joy’ of movement thou, ie… a big jumping puzzle to get from a to b to c.
They have said there is going to be at least 1 very, very hard boss encounter, on a scale of the 3 headed wurm / tqueatl. So need 100+ co-ordinated players to complete.
I am expecting price to be $39-$60, which is by todays standards the ‘current’ norm and its perfectly okay with me! The cost isn’t a problem for me, its my precious leisure time that’s more important and I want a good quality product, just like the base game GW2 was on release.
I clocked up nearly 2,000 hrs from playing the base game and if the expansion gives me 500+ I will be happy.
Also, bear in mind the base GW2 got 40, that’s 40, I think its worth repeating for a 3rd time ‘40’ completely free updates. GW2:Heart of Thorns will no doubt get plenty of ‘free’ updates, perhaps not 40 but certainly 20+…just something to bear in mind when considering buying it.
Yes.
I have nearly 2000 hrs logged up playing GW2, so chances are I will buy it, as you get a lot of ‘play time’ for your money.
So far I am pretty positive about the new content announcements, hand gliding around Tyria probably excites me the most…
Obviously, the devil is in the details thou and I do have some early concerns:-
1) The new region, apparently ‘vertical’ was used to describe it and its got 3 tiers a canopy level, a ground and a tree level. Now hand gliding around the canopy level sounds great and awesome to me. However, I am concerned the new region will largely be a massive jumping puzzle or series of jumping puzzles. Is this the case/true. I HATE were getting from a to b to c is much harder to do than the dynamic events themselves.
2) The new WvW map, it mentions ‘blowing other players off high places to fall to there certain deaths’, I hope this is not the case, certain players will troll other players 24/7 if they can do that. Spoiling all the other activities on the map.
3) Another way besides RNG to get precursors sounds great but Anet are well known for grindy, repetive, near impossible to achieve stuff. So how much ‘grind’ to get a precursor? It would not surprise me if farming gold was still a faster, more certain way to get a precursor. Also, will bran new players after get 100% map exploration on the new expansion areas to be able to craft a legendary?
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Ok new WvW borderland map…check.
Hand gliding / mastery…check.
Does this mean the battle in mists is going to take to the skies now?
If it does that will be a AWESOME addition to GW2.
We will after co-ordinate a ‘air force’ + army battles. Worry about air superiority. Have a new awesome way of travelling the borderlands…
Or is this a pipe dream and wishful thinking on my part?
I want to hand glide around Tyria!
The beta is end of March isn’t it…so I reckon a Sep/Oct release of this year. That’s actually the best time of year to release something and usually results in the best sales. You get a massive boom on release day/week obviously and it will be bought as a xmas present between then and xmas. Plus in US/Eur video gameplaying increases massively because of Winter and no one wanting to venture outside into the arctic wastes…
Two questions/two concerns about the new expansion:-
1) The new region, apparently ‘vertical’ was used to describe it and its got 3 tiers a canopy level, a ground and a tree level. Now hand gliding around the canopy level sounds great and awesome to me. However, I am concerned the new region will largely be a massive jumping puzzle or series of jumping puzzles. Is this the case/true. I HATE were getting from a to b to c is much harder to do than the dynamic events themselves.
2) The new WvW map, it mentions ‘blowing other players off high places to fall to there certain deaths’, I hope this is not the case, certain players will troll other players 24/7 if they can do that. Spoiling all the other activities on the map.
Okay, I know we have a hype train going on for what Arenanet will offer tomorrow with Heart of Thorns. I’m just saying to all those who ride the hype train, don’t keep your hopes up too high for what Heart of Thorns will be because if it isn’t what you expected, you’d be sorely disappointed.
To late…the hype train is steaming ahead cho,cho….its even worse on the reddit thread than here on the official forums…
When the hype train is full flow, anything can happen, life’s good, anythings possible.
When reality hits beware the come down, as hopes and dreams are dashed and players vent there hate…
Popcorn at the ready…
Come to Tarnished Coast if you want to RP.though there is this one erotic RP guild that hangs out near the Dwayna statue in Divinity’s Reach.
So they roleplay in there underwear?
I think the most controversial would be a increase to the lvl cap, lets say from 80-100.
They have previously said they would consider increasing the level cap at some point, so its not off the table…lol.
Another totally off the wall / totally never going to happen, would be if the (failed) Wildstar was incorporated into GW2 in some way!?!! I have seen this posted more than once…
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What Will Community Do If HoT Is Not Xpac
Same as I do now play other games from other developers!
So why are you still here?
Duh!
Browsing for news of the expansion see if it excites me / renews my interest. Unlike some people who seem to struggle to play 1 game, I can play several, just switch between them, depending on which is more interesting atm…
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What Will Community Do If HoT Is Not Xpac
Same as I do now play other games from other developers!
Hopefully someone else can release a timeline but I have been playing from day 1, here’s my impression:-
Day 1 : GW2 is released and its AWESOME, everyone agrees, players, reviews, everyone…wow we may have a hit here….
Day 2 – 59’ish : Anet temp/perma ban 1,000’s of players for various things but largely exploits that could ruin there economy.
Day 60’ish : First (or 2nd I forget live event) the Karka invasion anyway. The plan all GW2 players log in at the same time (!!!) to fight the evil Karka. Guess what happens? Yep everyone disconnects/massive lag, utter disaster really…lots of goodwill lost.
Day 61+ish : New tier of equipment released, (Ascended) players outraged, more goodwill lost.
Day 120’ish-present day : New content delivered via Living Story updates (loads of them really), some good, some utter garbage. Players love or hate them. Loads of temporary content means GW2 changes very little compared to other MMO’s and nothing new to do for returning players. Really we the players are just henchmen for Anet’s fav. characters.
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My wish list in order of what I most want to see:-
1) New WvW content, ideally something to keep us going for months.
2) New classes (I would like 2).
3) New weapons for all classes.
4) Dual professions.
5) Hero’s/henchmen.
6) More traits/healing/utility/elite skills.
7) New sPvP maps/gamemodes.
8) More 60-80 lvl zones only.
9) Legendary armour.
My bet:-
B2P Expansion.
I am just wondering if they will allow it to be bought via the gem store with in game gems (unlikely because they will want real $$$ which is fair enough in my opinion).
Are they going to do anything to avoid splitting the player base ie…those with just GW2 and those with GW2+expansion.
And of course the BIG question what’s in the expansion?
Its funny reading this thread, essentially what’s being said is there are several summon builds for different classes but they are all useless/rubbish for playing GW2!
So that’s dozen’s of skills on different character classes, that 3 years later and countless balance patches are still no good in a lot of players eyes.
What have the balance team been doing in those 3 years?
I love it how everyone makes an opinion, writes it here, and after changes come they start raging on forums because the balance is not right in their personal opinion.
I think customers should start acting like customers and just enjoy the game as is.
We try to but then they nerf our favourite character class, or weapon or skill/trait in the name of ‘balance’.
Yet there are dozens, probably over a 100 traits. utility skills, healing skills, elite skills across the entire 8 classes that are ‘rubbish’ and hardly any player uses them because they are so useless. So how can they be ‘balancing’ the game when they never, ever in 3 years try to make those abilities viable by buffing them? Buffing those abilities will not upset balance at all but it may increase the number of useable builds by a lot.
Do they have metrics on all traits, healing/utility/elite skills in the game which show them the most/least popular ones? If they do use them to help balance the game in that positive way.
The OP as summed up GW2 problem really thou…essentially once you reach 80th lvl and unlocked everything on your character that’s a end to any character development.
After that, there is nothing you can do to make your character more powerful, no character development at all. Essentially game over, once you have all 8 classes to lvl 80 with everything unlocked.
Esports….you got to admire Anet’s determination if nothing else! Is there hope in China?
Shame they are happy to annoy there PvE & WvW players with that ‘spvp balance’ rubbish thou. Its why we have so few elite/utility/healing skills and so poor/limited choice with traits. To keep it as simple as possible so Esports can be as balanced as possible.
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Tengu (insert new profession here or none if no new classes).
Here’s hoping WvW actually gets anything in the new expansion…