Guild Wars 2

Diablo 3 PvP is abysmal…

Especially as its a very recent game…

The animation sucks, its just lazy…

Using the sickle is going to take longer than using a normal sickle and personally would annoy me…

So I am not buying the unlimited sickle…

Anyone, who buys it is saying, ‘serve me up any kind of rubbish and I will meekly buy it’…

No subscription is all pro, no downside at all…

A monthly subscription is all CON…

Never, really understood why someone would pay $15 a month subscription fee when over a year that’s 4 $60 games…

4 $60 games will always have more content, variety than 1 game costing $240 per year…

On steam foe $240 you could easily get 10-20 good games…no problem…

I think rezing should reward 10 wxp.

Taging siege should give 2 wxp.

Repairing walls and building siege 2 wxp.

I would like some way of rewarding scouting but I can’t think of how you would do it…so that may be impossible…

Logistics, defending fortifictions, doing the jobs no one else wants to do should be better rewarded by Wxp, normal xp and small amounts of karma. No money reward thou., doesn’t fit…

Some people will complain no matter what you do for them…

Born to moan…

This is a GOOD change, the old system was stuck in a rut…with a lot of UNFAIR matchups…also it unfairly trapped servers in tiers they should not have been in for weeks on end, the old system made it far too hard to get from tier to tier…

This is far better…

I look forward to constantly changing opponents…

Now, which ever server ends up top deserves to be there because they have had to battle more than just 2 other servers to get there…

Looking forward to seeing you in tier 2 Deso…

So how do Elona feel about being up against 2 French servers?

Will Viz/Jade ally against you?

Or will they go for each another?

Who knows?

Tune in next week to find out…

Jade looks like they are heading to tier 1 and Des will be joining Tier 2, nice…

I wonder what will happen with Elona, a german server vs 2 French servers?

Oh well, not my problem…

BossFi.6917:

I’ve stopped running back for some bags now, getting too tedious.

Several of those had exotic drops in and 1 even had a precursor…bad luck…

Dayra.7405:

Meglobob.8620:

Vizunah would dominate NA WvW…

Napoleons alive and well, in command of Vizunah…

I fear Napoleon is currently to busy with his Waterloo to dominate NA.
It didn’t became night, but the Prussians arrived

Nah…

I have it on good authority Napoleon is chilling out with his Josephine atm…

But he will be organising his 300 strong 24/7 every map constant zergs shortly…

They said, ‘discounted’ laurels, I hope Anets version of discount is 75% off not 10-20%, if its just 10-20% plus badges it will suck and be a big let down, especially after a 7 month wait and no new exclusive ascended items that initially can be got only in WvW.

This is a non issue really…

If you swap maps you lose all 25 stacks…

In WvW you swap maps quite a lot, to defend/recapture different objectives…

Its really a lot of hassle for little reward…

Also the +10 25 stacks costs 6g to 8g so your not going to willy nilly transfer sigils in and out unless you have millions of gold…

Vizunah would dominate NA WvW…

You wouldn’t stand a chance…

You would after kiss the feet of your French/French Canadian speaking overlords…

Just like we do in Europe…

Napoleons alive and well, in command of Vizunah…

No its not beta, millions of players have been playing nearly a year now, so how can it be beta?

Not released in Asia because it may effect sales of there other games, once those run out of steam, they will release GW2…

Developers do this all the time…the reason Blizzard didn’t release Diablo 3 for a decade is because they were scared it would effect WoW subscriptions, given Diablo 3 was free to play…

The main reasons games are delayed, released at certain times is down to market conditions…no other reasons…

Doomdesire.9365:

Cannot use turrets for 30s
Cannot use pet for 30s

My engineer is fine with the turrets one, bring it on, I wouldn’t notice…

Also, my pet spends most of its time the other side of the map anyway, so my Rangers ok with the second but can you change it to, ‘permanently remove pets from GW2, forever’, much better then…

On the cost, I really hope by ‘discounted’ laurels they are talking 5-10 laurels for each piece not 20-25 laurels…

Given a choice between 1)20 laurels, 250 badges of honour or 2)10 laurels, 500 badges of honour.

I think everyone would prefer the 2nd, because you can farm the badges of honour and it encourages people to play more WvW. If laurels are the main limiting factor then there is no point playing beyond your daily/monthly really…so no need to play more WvW…

Its a lot more ALT friendly and those of us with all 8 classes need some love…

Vizunah is THE most stable, only ever been 1st or 2nd…

Vabbi is very stable too, being last virtually all the time…

You scoff and make fun but the Asura/Charr have collaborated to make a mobile burning oil tank/golem thing…

It moves at the speed of a golem but can spray burning oil through mounted cannons…

Anet have not decieded on range yet, probably 900-1500…enjoy…

Thaia.5146:

I’m currently rank 13 WvW. Rhetorical question: will I get my 13 chests after the update?

You will get 2 at 14 and every level thereafter upto 26, then back to 1 per rank after that…so yes you will get all your chests backdated…

It stops at level 60 thou. so the guy at rank 140 misses out on 80 chests I believe…that will teach him on being a no life WvW player…

I have a 80 level Ranger & Elementalist, so perhaps can give a fair assessment?

I am happy to play either in PvE, both fine, both virtually never die…easy mode…unless Anet has recently upgraded the content…then its unfair to every class…

I only play Ranger in PvP, he can stand a lot of punishment, pretty good 1v1 or 2v1, basically small numbers vs small numbers…

In WvW, I will only play my Elementalist, again virtually doesn’t die and does nice damage, far more than my ranger…gets way more badges of honour…

The Rangers weaknesses are his pet, the secret here is NEVER FIGHT THE PET, evade, dodge, use swiftness, its easily pulled out of position/distracted, then its useless…

The other major Ranger weakness is conditions, they can’t cope with large, multiple condition damage, they have few ways to remove it…once you overload there regeneration they are toast…

The Ranger themselves do very low direct damage but axe/shortbow can deal some major condition damage but that’s no problem at all for ele’s with all the condition removal you got…

Longbow can deal fairly high direct damage but its so slow, shouldn’t be a problem…

Don’t use greatsword personally but the ele conjured greatsword is FAR, FAR better and 80% of Rangers would trade you for it…

I have just got a Ele to 80th lvl and am happy about the performance in PvE, but any class seems fine in PvE…

WvW, I was also pleasantly surprised, my Ele was pretty kitten good…

However, took my Ele into PvP and I was slaughtered, didn’t matter what build…whats going on…are Ele’s rubbish in PvP?

Oh wow!?!

WvW is my favourite activity in GW2, so this is awesome news…

Errr…I think I like it all but the devils in the detail…roll on the 28th May…

Chests, chests, I get to open loads of chest…yippee, yippee…

Loot should go straight into your inventory, no need to click anything.

All Ascended items should be available by playing WvW, preferably by badges of honour…perhaps a small gold cost as well…

Skill lag needs to be improved…considerably…

Other than that I am pretty happy with WvW…

Save another 69 and get the endless cat tonic…

Cooper.8049:

Just one more tip. To do the world vs wolrd events do I have to be max level? Or is Ed game content for all the levels? Is max level 80?

You can do WvW straight away, you get levelled upto 80…however you will die very, very easy…

I think level 30 is about the minium I would go into WvW, you should have your elite skill by then, it costs 10 skill points so at about 20th level start saving 10. Also make sure you have every piece of equipment on your character equal to your level, up grade every 5 levels. Make sure you have runes in all your armour and sigils in all your weapons and jewels or crest in all your trinkets. Finally, have both apple & spanner buffs. If you do all that then going into WvW at 30th level is very doable…

Are we playing a new game?

Line up 3 threads together saying nerf, buff, keep the same…

Are we really that bored?

Wow…what a poor Chinese farmer…

Know loads of other Chinese farmers with far, far more gold than that…

Diva.4706:

Meglobob.8620:

I would have preferred a spend your points wherever you want system with no restrictions other than a total amount of points to spend.

Often, with the present system you may want a trait but not the stats or vice versa…

For example recently built a glyth ele but I am forced to have 20 points of precsion to get the glyth traits, when I really want 20 power…

The current trait system cuts down on build diversity…hugely…can’t understand why developers constantly restrict build diversity…instead of it being completely open ended and allowing players to have what they want…

In a word: Balance.

But the one thing about MMOs is they are almost impossible to balance, this is why they restrict choices. I am all for an open skill based MMO. But such a system would cause some players to be more powerful than others, then the weak complain….

Balance isn’t a issue, because anyone in a open ended system could have the stats they wanted and the skills they wanted with in a overall total, so its equal across all classes…

Also, the current trait system is overly complicated, very, very prone to bugs (the chances are at least one or more trait you are using is bugged, your just unaware) and a lot of the times traits are all over the place and make no sense whatsoever as to why they were put where they are…

I would have preferred a spend your points wherever you want system with no restrictions other than a total amount of points to spend.

Often, with the present system you may want a trait but not the stats or vice versa…

For example recently built a glyth ele but I am forced to have 20 points of precsion to get the glyth traits, when I really want 20 power…

The current trait system cuts down on build diversity…hugely…can’t understand why developers constantly restrict build diversity…instead of it being completely open ended and allowing players to have what they want…

Same thing happens on staff Elementalist, out of range pops up but I do damage anyway…

Just add it to that mountain…called GW2 bugs…

If you have superior runes of speed, does the 6) +5% speed work?

Overall I like jumping, great addition to the game…

Even through I can’t do the hard difficulty JP’s, can’t do eternal battlegrounds, the southsun cove geyser and mad kings clock tower. But even through those are beyond me, I still like JP’s…

The only thing that annoys me with regard to jumping is well travelling about you get slight raised points in the landscape and you after jump them, or your character just runs on the spot. These are just annoying and in the real world you could just step over them or walk up the rise without difficulty. They add nothing to the game, no difficulty at all, just annoying to playing the game…

KibaRO.8372:

Meglobob.8620:

Warriors don’t suck, indeed as far as PvE are concerned they are the golden child…

You just need to sort your build out, go to warriors forum and you will soon faceroll everything in PvE and carry a party through AC dungeon…

yeah i know they dont suck, but mine sucked horibly:))

It must be because of your build, or below level equipment or not using food/spanner buffs then…

If you can’t do PvE as a warrior then you have no chance as any other class…

Any class can do PvE, so long as your equipment is equal your level, you use apple/spanner buffs and learn how to dodge…

I have all 8 classes and the one that died the fewest times to 80 was my Mesmer, those illusions are great…

Warriors don’t suck, indeed as far as PvE are concerned they are the golden child…

You just need to sort your build out, go to warriors forum and you will soon faceroll everything in PvE and carry a party through AC dungeon…

Yes I do want ascended armour and ascended weapons.

Also, how about 80th level ascended sigils & runes? Its always struck me as strange sigils & runes stop at level 60…

Sigils & runes with different abilities from the current superior would give PvP a real shot in the arm, with new builds hopefully being possible. The same to a lesser extent would apply to WvW and PvE.

I also want ascended items available in WvW…its been 7 months since the first ascended items were released and still nothing in WvW…come on Anet…

Also, no new currencies, its stupid the amount of different currencies in this game…

Only a minority of players would be interested but probably enough to have 1 dedicated hardcore only server in Europe and in the US…

It would be PvE hardcore only, its impossible not to die in PvP or WvW…

A hardcore GW2 would have its own unique economy and gameplay style, with a lot of builds designed to avoid death…

Caedmon.6798:

Meglobob.8620:

Is it me or is the supply removal one awesome?

I mean -5 supply from 20 people in a zerg, that’s potentially -100 supply gone like that…

This is fun..how exactly ? It works both ways,i still have to find the fun part in this…Doubt i’ll ever find it.Supply running is already a pain,Think reset…Supplys are low allover the place.Towers are upgrading,camps are upgrading,everything is drained..Then you got some people running around placing traps leaving 0 supps left on a map,that Is a possible situation.What will you do when theres 0 supps,or not enough to be of any use,people placing traps like map men in the meanwhile to make sure all stay at 0 ?

I agree with you, I mean’t its very powerful trap…

It will spoil WvW if the traps start being used on mass, no one will be able to take a fortification…because they have no supply to build siege…

I play hardcore alot in other games…

You do not know real pain and loss in a game until you have lost your max level character that you have played for 500 hrs+ that had loads of awesome gear…

Dieing is meaningless in GW2…I don’t care if I die in GW2…indeed I have a character who I am hoping will reach 10,000 deaths soon, I will post it on the forum when I do…

A lot of games that I would have stopped playing a long time before, I still play just because I can play hardcore…you really, really care about your character and avoiding death at all costs…indeed any good session is one one where you live to play another day…

Hardcore in GW2 would be very difficult to do really, often the new content is OP and will kill anyone no matter how skilful a player you are, also the games full of bugs that can kill you as well…so sadly hardcore won’t work in GW2…

Played a few sessions of WvW so far and I haven’t encountered any traps so far…so little impact from my point of view atm…

All the vids I have seen on them, seem to involve thiefs constantly hitting zergs to strip them of supply, slowing down the rate at which they can take a fortification…turning WvW into a grind, more static, with less action…basically with traps/arrowcart Anet seem to be taking the fun out of WvW…

Business as usual really thiefs get a big boost, another way to troll all the other classes…

The stealth reveal trap is really pretty useless and too expensive to bother with really…

But the loots still rubbish and the +200% MF boost just proves how rubbish MF is when you still don’t get any rares, never mind exotics or something even remotely good…

Good job I don’t play GW2 for the loot…

laokoko.7403:

Meglobob.8620:

On the losing population thing, if it has why did I spend 2 hours in overflow last night when I went to Southsun Cove? Never got into Southsun Cove on my server…just overflow…

Also, in the peak overtime, in the evening or at weekends why do I always after queue for WvW maps?

If the game is losing population then it needs to lose a lot more so I am not always put into overflow or queueing ALL the time…

There is no way to prove anything. It’s like people say wvw is always full. Even if every server have 1000 people doing wvw, with 40 server that is 40,000 people. That is very far away from 3 million.

Only thing you can say is you don’t have a problem finding people to play with. The reality is no one knows how many people still logon monthly unless you work for Anet.

It could be anything from 500k to 2.5 million. It is practically impossible to make a good estimation on the retention.

Your right it doesn’t prove anything…

But still, I played an hour on Southsun Cove this morning at 6am, 0600 hrs and I am still on overflow! wtf…

Seafarers Rest (Europe) is my server and the only population problem we got is TOO MANY people…

LightningBlaze.4913:

How can you guys like that back piece, it’s very creepy (goes well with a necro..) o well still having it in my bank as a collection.

Perfect for Necro…

Or if you are roleplay a ‘evil’ character…

Not everyone wants to be a ‘goody two shoes’, you know…

We need Dr. Evils…

On the losing population thing, if it has why did I spend 2 hours in overflow last night when I went to Southsun Cove? Never got into Southsun Cove on my server…just overflow…

Also, in the peak overtime, in the evening or at weekends why do I always after queue for WvW maps?

If the game is losing population then it needs to lose a lot more so I am not always put into overflow or queueing ALL the time…

I have never bought a rng box or a black lion key…

Came to the conclusion they were largely useless due to the rng and every thread on the forum since the game has been released on rng boxes has confirmed this…

BUT still you get loads of players opening 100’s then complaining on the forums…why do they NEVER learn?

Legend of Rogue.5394:

It looks like that one guy from spider man, the scientish with his arms! That or kerrigan possibly

Dr Octopus?

Anyway my Necro’s happy, just got her backpiece skin…

I played 2 hours last night and had the magic buff running, got 1 rare from a chest but it wasn’t a supply crate, during that time 2 different players linked dropped southsun supply crates in chat.

So, they do drop but there chance is extremely low, so even with high magic find the chance of them dropping is still very, very low…

I was on the overflow server the entire 2 hours…

zTales.4392:

Do pets (Ranger pets, Necro minions, etc) trigger the traps? My pet usually runs ahead of me, so…

Yea, rangers pets could be really, really useful if they trigger the -100 supply one, every zerg will suddenly want a ranger…lol

Rising Dusk.2408:

PearlGore.7419:

We all have massive unused karma though.

Maybe I misread the release notes. I thought they costed the 15 badges and the 525 karma. Is it actually one or the other? If so, I’m buying stacks with karma as soon as I get off work!

That’s how I read it too…

They cost 15 BoH + 525 karma…

Is it me or is the supply removal one awesome?

I mean -5 supply from 20 people in a zerg, that’s potentially -100 supply gone like that…

Someone famous playing GW2…

Who is it Cameron Diaz, Angelina Jolia, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt…