Guild Wars 2

BlameAmes.3581:

So, I’m going to speak for the majority (which I may or may not be a part of) and say:

Your argument is unsubstantiated, your wit is dry, your opinion- yes, your opinion- is unpopular, and you should probably feel bad for berating the character development of others; especially fictional characters.

It just shows what kind of person you are and it’s not a flattering reveal. But, on a personal note: I’m happy to see a healthy minority- critics are necessary.

You speak for you

Ok….I’ll start off with the positive… The STORY itself is better and mildly interesting, but the dialogue and character development is juvenile in the extreme. This group that we are hanging around with is just the saddest bunch of npc’s I have ever had the misfortune to “party” with in all my years of playing MMO’s and RPG’s.

First off Belinda. I mean, I wrote spoilers in the title but honestly, who gives a complete crap about this nothing character dying? My only wish was that she took the rest of the no marks with her. Also, how the HECK is that dumb Bimbo Kasmeer supposed to be some sort of super Mesmer? Not to mention the kitten hiccups again. It’s not cool and it’s not funny and it doesn’t make her “speshul”…it’s just cringe worthy.

Then there is Braham with his kitten leg. He’s a GUARDIAN for God’s sake…He can’t heal himself?? Either way, I am sick of hearing about it…Never seen a Norn act like such a wimp. Rox is merely relegated to bystander status which as a Ranger in this game, she should be used too I suppose. It’s a wonder they don’t boot her from the group for not bringing spotter and frost spirit.

The only character who has any kind of depth is Taimi I guess…but they are doing a good job of making an initially sympathetic character of being extremely precocious and annoying.

The point is, although the plot itself is getting better…the dialogue and the characters are by and large pretty terrible. I’m reading that people are saying Oh Anet I was blown away…Like wtf?? IS this the only game you have ever played in your life??? I say this with all sincerity, Anet could do a LOT worse than look at Bioware games for how to create characters and situations we care about…2 or 3 hours of Baldurs gate has more emotion and empathy in it than the entire season 1 and 2 so far of living story combined.

So for this patch I give it 6.5/10 …Getting better..but..ya Know…

Belzebu.3912:

Mitch.4781:

Imagine they had started season 2 with at leats 3 new FULL maps and a new Dungeon with 3 paths and then said that’s your lot for at least 3 months? Wouldn’t that have been better and more exciting?

No it wouldn’t.
Dry Top as you said takes a few hours, “3 new FULL maps” would take like a couple days to finish, also do all paths of a new dungeon would take another couple days, that is about 1 maybe 2 weeks of content, so … what you would do in the rest of the 2,5 months without any new update?

EDIT: It is your problem that you don’t want to do all the offered content, do all the story and all the achieves from this update would be enough to keep you busy for those 2 weeks, assuming you don’t play 8~10 hours a day.

Well firstly, like I said previously achievements are NOT content…I don’t know why people cannot grasp this fact. Secondly…I did the whole lot in 2 evenings worth of casual play. You’re just being arguementative for the sake of it.

Listen I am on the side of the GAME..I WANT the game to deliver….and frankly it isn’t..sure some of you think whatever dross anet dishes up is awesome, but I can assure you, both ingame and the multitude of gaming forums beg to differ. Can you honestly say after 2 months of waiting and evaluating the tidal wave of criticism that was well acknowledged towards ls1 both here, in game and in the gaming press at large, that this simple dry top map and opening chapter was worth the wait?

If so, then the game at large is on its deathknell.

Then I am done with this game. I’m simply not gonna go through a replication of season 1, where this drip feed of two week content that can be finished in a few hours which is hyped to enormity yet delivers jack crap! And I say that with a heavy heart because I truly believe this game had enormous potential…But they are simply not delivering.

Anybody could have seen everything there was to see in Dry Top within a few hours. Add in the fact that IF you wanted to bother with the achievements you had to go through the story twice yet you cannot skip it. Anet, let me be clear when I say this “Achievements are NOT CONTENT”!

Imagine they had started season 2 with at leats 3 new FULL maps and a new Dungeon with 3 paths and then said that’s your lot for at least 3 months? Wouldn’t that have been better and more exciting? This drip drip tap feed of "content " is absolutely NO different from LS1 and It’s like they are not listening.

Notice the only dev input on this forum is for people praising the new season…Fair enough..Keep your Ostrich in the sand attitude..there are PLENTY of games out there…

I loved this game…but unless I see PROPER DEEP content then yeh..I’m done and I know for a fact I’m not alone.

Because the whole premise has more holes that an average slice of swiss cheese and Anet couldn’t write a simple, believable story if their lives depended on it??

Why dos Taimi…a supposed genius, still suffer from a simple limp? So you can create all this stuff and a magic golem and all the crap that surrounds asuran teachings…yet you cannot cure a limp??? I mean, I could go on..but you know. AT least give us the option to skip this garbage once we have already been through it!

Lord Kuru.3685:

Day 1 for me (didn’t do the content opening day) and already bored of grinding the same events over and over and over on the same tiny nausea-inducing map in order to get geodes. Will never return after getting the recipe I need. In fact, trying to convince myself I don’t need the recipe at all.

The truth is, you probably don’t need it. You can’t even SELL the crafted item!!!! Wtf were they thinking there lol

I think you mean “cynics”. But, don’t worry, there is still plenty more to be cynical about.

I totally agree with the OP. What’s especially annoying is that if I hadn’t read that the achievements are not available UNTIL you do the story once on Dulfy, I would never have known. The lack of direction and information IN GAME is beyond annoying.

Add in the fact that you cannot skip the bad daytime soap dialogue and you would almsot think that Anet were tryign to deliberatley troll the playerbase.

Jorvych.3064:

Mitch.4781:

Rym.1469:

Sometimes I don’t understand people. Many of them just rushed through whole story, did everything else following guides, farmed a little bit of materials and say they’re done.

I mean, why not ignore all guides and figure out things by yourselves? Why not talk to NPCs, enjoy the view?

This content, unlike previous, won’t go away. Sit down, take your time, don’t rush and have a good time. We’ll have more in 2 weeks.

People WEREN’T RUSHING! There is literally not enough actual content. Even the most lax and casual player can do everything there is to do in 2 evenings of play….And the guides aren’t even out yet or fully completed!

Talk to the NPC’s?? YAY I clicked F and got a one line repeated response AWESOMEEEE!!!!!!

Guys if you want GW2 to survive..we need FULL proper content..Not this bi weekly crap that drip feeds just like LS1…Have anet Learned anything?? Not much it would seem.

I would say something witty, but I decided against it.
Look, the update is better. I agree that the amount of content was less than I expected, but the content that was released is interesting and new: the bosses actually require you to move around. The crystal event is a race against time – you move. And then the sandstorm. Only certain events pop up when the sandstorm isn’t active, and visa-versa.
I honestly think ArenaNet is actively attempting to ween the gamers off of zergs and stacking, which is great. The map is difficult to memorize, it has multiple paths to different areas.
The fact that your completing it fast isn’t a problem for anyone else, it’s a problem for you. Hell, I did the story by myself in 2-3 hours (while going afk multiple times) and got the Adventurer’s Mantle by 5AM. But I still legitimately enjoy the bosses – Moa, Devourer Queen, that half-Chimera thing. The jumping puzzle is challenging – I have never gotten so mad at this game, and then Nochtli. I have never seen a group beat it, much less attempt it.
I commend ArenaNet for releasing this – it’s a multi-level map, with stuff to find and interesting boss fights. Loot to find, places to discover. And this is only one little part in this season. By the time Season 2 is half-way done, we’ll still be running these bosses because they’re fun.
No dungeon is fun anymore. Three-Toed Tootsie? Fun. Engaging. A moa boss. Are you kidding me?

#ReassuranceThread

“The fact that your completing it fast isn’t a problem for anyone else, it’s a problem for you”

Oh really?? I guess you’re ignoring a lot of comments in game and on all the forums then lol. Talk about Ostrich in the sand thinking. (No pun intended lol)

The best part was when you said that Anet is weening people of Zergs, yet you need zergs or at least a decent handfull of people to even do the bosses…Try soloing the moa on your own or doing Nochtli on your own without stability.

Infact on my map, most peopel were only doing the quicksand and lama achieves as part of a zerg lol.

You consistently contradicted yourself throughout that response. If you’re going to defend mediocre content, you’re gonna have to do betetr than that.

Rememebr..there is no grind in this game..Anet leave that to other dev’s..remember?

Rym.1469:

Sometimes I don’t understand people. Many of them just rushed through whole story, did everything else following guides, farmed a little bit of materials and say they’re done.

I mean, why not ignore all guides and figure out things by yourselves? Why not talk to NPCs, enjoy the view?

This content, unlike previous, won’t go away. Sit down, take your time, don’t rush and have a good time. We’ll have more in 2 weeks.

People WEREN’T RUSHING! There is literally not enough actual content. Even the most lax and casual player can do everything there is to do in 2 evenings of play….And the guides aren’t even out yet or fully completed!

Talk to the NPC’s?? YAY I clicked F and got a one line repeated response AWESOMEEEE!!!!!!

Guys if you want GW2 to survive..we need FULL proper content..Not this bi weekly crap that drip feeds just like LS1…Have anet Learned anything?? Not much it would seem.

It’s amazing how the players have to create their own challenges and content because ANET couldn’t provide enough themselves lol

They ahve learned very little from LS1. They honestly expect the majority of people to gridn 1200 geodes??? DREAMING ANET!

ZudetGambeous.9573:

I disagree. I would enjoy the LS significantly less if they changed the things you want changed. Opinions are opinions I suppose.

Of course there will be less people on the map after the LS is over, what did you expect? That is what you get with a permanent map. How many people did you find running around brisband wildlands before this patch? People will still go there for the achievements, and to harvest the abundant ancient wood and ori nodes and to get the recipes they need.

Traveling around the map vertically opens up a whole new dimension and makes the map much bigger for its area. It also makes it a fun puzzle. This was the second best part of the update. Not every map should be like this, but it is amazing that they were able to do it for at least one map.

Every task in the game is completed more easily by a warrior or a guardian, this is just status quo. Hopefully one day that will change, I agree with this point.

The story was the best part of the update. It was substantial, intriguing, and flowed nicely. I will admit that the forced gay agenda is tiresome and annoying though. I wish they would develop the characters without having to scream we’re a lesbian couple! every other line. The story was leaps and bounds ahead of S1. Also how could it NOT be a continuation of S1? Scarlet just destroyed half of tyria and unleashed a dragon… Did you expect us to just forget that completely and go pick flowers in a field or something?

I’d say 8.5/10. Points off for forced lesbian couples and lack luster rewards.

I said dialogue..not story..learn to read if you are going to come back with a smart alek response. And to me, the dialogue was the same cheesy crap we got from LS1.

Just the second day afetr launch, most people have already doen everythign there is to do in that map. If they honestly think that this is gonna cut it for another year, they are badly mistaken. This drip feed of content is NOT WORKING anet. We need a substantial content release and not these snippets that can be completed ina few hours at a CASUAL pace.

I’ll start off with what I thought was good about the patch. Firstly, the map itself from an environment point of view is good. The sandstorm adds a nice unique touch although the map itself is much smaller than expected. The “story” is slightly better in the fact that u had to search for clues about what happened and in this respect, there was almost a tradional rpg element to it. The scene in scarletts apartment was somewhat intriguing.

However, the patch has also shown that MUCH has still to be learned and bafflingly, many of the flaws from season one were present from the get go. While these first few days, the map will be massively populated, once everyone has their achieve, I suspect it will be largely abandoned. Then what? And while it’s great that you can do the story in your own time..how the hell are most players supposed to get some of these achievements on their own?

The flaw of using the crystals to traverse the area becomes very tiresome, exceedingly quickly. I’m hoping that once this patch is over, that some sort of vertical navigation will become available like the grove as I assume the crystals are not infinite? We had several of our guildies rage quit because of the latency issues combined with the crystal based jumping today, so not a great start for them.

Secondly, once again it seems like certain tasks will be more difficult pending on which class you use. Once again the content becomes quite breezeworthy if you are a Guard or a Warrior. For example, how will necros with no stability do the frog achieve?

Dialogue wise, it merely seemed a continuation of the last few episodes of LS1 to me. And Once I have done it once, I do NOT want to have to sit through all that npc dialogue again and yet again we have unskippable dialogue. The whole Kas and Jory thing..is just annoying and why does Belinda have a completely different accent to her sister (on a side note)? The only character who is remoltey interesting is Taimi…..The rest are largely exposition fodder and have all the appeal of a lengthy trahearne Monologue.

The new recipes were at first intriguing until I saw that the stuff you make with them cannot be sold…which means they will remain largely irrelevant.

I guess the main thing is that it’s the same old pattern of 2 week grind then go back to what you were doing..How is this ANY different from the previous incarnations? Where is the incentive to return unless u want those matts for food u cant sell?

So overall, I would say a 5.5/10 return for living story..6 at a push mainly because I think anet WILL open up the rest of the area…But as an opening chapter to an important season where a lot was riding on it..I think it’s pretty average and certainly NOT the knockout it really needed to be.

Cos I felt like making it..Why are u even commenting?

I think he is with his cheeky grin and smile…

Ok first up..in GW2 it ain’t gonna happen..secondly..why should it???? Why should Devs spend their time creating stuff that hardly anyone will use or port too except a few Rp’ers. I just don’t understand..This ISN’’T the Sims…

Need more zones/classes/weapons/races before trivial fluff like housing.

After spending a good 6 to 8 hours downloading the wildstar beta….I have to say…I am somewhat disappointed. The premise is very cool, but the reality is somewhat clunky.

2 issues stood out for me immidiately.. My Fps was pretty terrible in the starting zone..like 17fps..if I was lucky…and yet the graphics while colourful and entertaining don’t seem that graphically intensive. Certainly Graphics wise..GW2 is MUCH more sophisticated. Wildstar to me feels like a more polished wow.

Much more importantly though..the combat..seems very very clunky sadly You can dodge…but unless I am mistaken, you can only dodge forward or back..not left to right like GW2…ANd I don’t know if it was the class I picked..but the whole cone thing for targeting….did not feel intuitive at all.

The quests seem a mix of good and bad… While its cool you can call in for your rewards rather than running back to the npc..The quests themselves were merely glossed over kill these and fetch that quests..so nothing new there.

The customisation initially feels very expansive..but delve deeper and its actually quite limited….for example..I picked the zombie sort of looking class..and was while I could adhust my eyebrows and my eye sockets etc..I couldn’t adjust the direction of my mouth…which mean’t the entire face still looking VERY similar to the default choice.

I’m disappointed to be honest.and it actually proved to me how SLICK GW2 is..I just wish the devs would give us more permanent and top tier conetent

So the other night, I threw a bunch of exotics in and got The Bard, which is the precursor to the focus. And something struck me….a lot of people spend SO much time and effort grinding for a legendary and when you finally craft it….nothing happens except the standard text of you have been rewarded with such and such…etc etc.

SWTOR had a lot of faults, but when you crafted your first lightsaber, there was a cut scene..and a sense of achievement. I find it odd, that in GW2, they can make cutscenes and nice animations for the ultimately awful Living story, yet one of the biggest achievements in the permanent game gets NOTHING? No cutscene, no voiceover, no nothing special to cap what is supposedly one of the main aims of the game?

Should Anet maybe revise this process?

I suspect it is…. I cannot believe that ANet would let ESO and Wildstar..not to mention the new WOW expansion steal all the headlines and press…Add in the fact they have been MYSTERIOUSLY quiet about content and updates……

Don’t you think something BIG is coming? Maybe it isn’t just simple LS 2..but much bigger than that..like opening up a lot of permanent areas…introduction of Tengu..maybe a new class….Something is bubbling under…….Could just be my gas..But I suspect….something good

I’d rather they put their efforts into decent , permanent content, than immersion breaking fluff like SAB…God I hate it so much

Well the point is….is that surely we have EXHAUSTED all of them???? I love this game…I have 10 level 80’s..but I cannot think of a single modern MMO, that has went THIS long without serious updates to it’s end level permanent content.. Not 1..Even SWTOR, which everyone tore apart has 2 expansions coming out and features permanent updates to content every 6 to 8 weeks..New Flashpoints/ RAIDS/pvp….

Anet, get ur act together..the gem store won’t keep u alive for ever!

I just don’t get it; I don’t. I’m HOPING with the potential release of Magumma that some NEW 3 path dungeons will be implemented with appropriate sets of armour, or at least some HIGH level, permanent content. It’s astonishing to think in 2 years, people are still grinding ac, cof etc etc.. If I do Cof 1..ONE more time, I’m going to go insane.

The living story was an interesting experiment, but ultimately a failure and no substitute for permanent content with depth. Please listen to your fans of GW2 Anet. Sometimes when you are so close to something, you cannot see the wood for the trees and it takes outsiders to make you see the light :|

Its interesting how much nicer some of the low cost mid level karma sets are than some of the exotics…especially the heavy ones

I have to admit..by far the best feature of the patch is the wardrobe…I’m ona mission to unlock as many skins as I can..even though I know I will never use 90% of them…It’s almost become an obsession!

zenleto.6179:

Algreg.3629:

zenleto.6179:

Lishtenbird.2814:

Mitch.4781:

Between this and the toxic chat in Queensdale , I’m seeing some very very poor attitudes from the gw2 community

I would stand my ground and defend the opinion that it is poor game design decisions to blame rather then people who are allowed to play how they want and to grief others by doing so.

Of course you would. Its not Anet being jerks, its players. Nobody is forcing players to be kittens.

people are there playing the game. The game tells them there is an event, “defend the temple” or whatever. People do. Also, if that has not changed, people can get very rare crafting materials as long as the temple stays “open”. So their interest to defend is at least as high as yours having the event fail. You rank trait unlocking higher because you need it. They prefer it the other way around. This is not griefing. Griefing is not “people don´t do the thing I want them to do”. The whole temple events have always been flawed from a game design view (better rewards from failing and redoing events), throwing the new GM traits in there made it only more apparent.

I didn’t say anyone was griefing, I said people were being jerks and its not Anet’s fault. As far as I know the OP was also being a jerk right back.

How the heck was I being a jerk..I was just trying to get my trait!

Frankly I can wait a few more months if it meant SOLID permanent content with new zones opening up. The LS was a decent experiment but ultimately a failure…

Misterdeeply.8764:

Astral Projections.7320:

Azure Prower.8701:

You do know you can buy them straight up for 3 gold and 20 skill points each right?

He did say that people were in chat were saying, “just pay gold noob” so I imagine he does know. But some people would like to earn them by playing the game and not by buying them.

Very much this! I also like the challenge to achieve it myself then buying it with gold. Buying it with gold is the easy way out.

Plus I have 10 80’s..if I was to buy all the traits, I would need at least 150 gold….

Azure Prower.8701:

Mitch.4781:

Azure Prower.8701:

You do know you can buy them straight up for 3 gold and 20 skill points each right?

You don’t say……

So, what’s the problem? You’re complaining that you’re not getting it for free because you don’t want to invest the time waiting for it to open?

God what an awful attitude….Seriosuly..that’s NOT THE POINT! ..and if you lack the good grace and smarts to understand that, then it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if you were a griefer too.

Azure Prower.8701:

You do know you can buy them straight up for 3 gold and 20 skill points each right?

You don’t say……

3 times today I have tried to get the trait that Lyssa gives and 3 times have been prevented by people deliberately killing the risen to stop Lyssa being spawned. Not only that but with people openly laughing in chat and saying “just pay gold noob”. Anet, I love the concept of unlocking traits and skills..but it’s like you didn’t think of the possibility that these events would be trolled….Between this and the toxic chat in Queensdale , I’m seeing some very very poor attitudes from the gw2 community

The Kurt.2518:

They removed Raid on the Capricorn because not having underwater combat in PvP would make it more friendly towards new players, and it wasn’t very engaging (and probably not balanced) anyway

It was like ONE cap in a map of 3..and the only uw thing in pvp…it was utterly pointless to remove it.. I see NO reason for it whatsoever..especially as underwater combat still remains in w v w

No they SHOULD damage. Cry of frustration used to damage in GW1 as well as power block back in the day.

Well no not water on that Map..but they removed the beach/water map..i forget the name..god knows why they did that.. I see no real reason for it

I’ve noticed very little difference…Still the same noob Hambows everywhere

It’s nice there is a new mode..but that courtyard ?? Really? It’s so small and all I’ve seen is a zergfest in the middle. It must have taken them all of an afternoon to design. They removed the water map for this? Lazy design imo…When I think of the variety GW1 pvp had , I could cry…

It is beyond annoying to have your Wings of Dwayna changed to Beserkers bow etc etc.. And totally lacks common sense. Can you please change the way items are named after transmutation to the skin you are changing them to!

I do cntrl T to target myself a player, but infuriatingly it moves to someone else if the player moves out of my los..How do I keep a target fixed permanently until they are dead?

Still can’t get the toxic spider queen achieve cos people think its really funny to run into the fight and get eaten on purpose to prevent people getting the achievement. I think this sums up the problem with 2 week content..the aspect of griefing simply hasn’t been thought about. This along with the deeply flawed knights fight has made the end of this chapter of living story quite bittersweet for me.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

Hey, aris: We don’t have an official Instagram, but it’s something we might consider doing in the future.

If we were on Instagram, what would you like to see on an ArenaNet or Guild Wars 2 Instagram feed?

Maybe some shirtless pics of Colin Johannsen flexing??

How do you guys post screenshots????

Yes….I think I discovered the problem…Had to unequip everything and requip…bizzarely that seemed to sort it o.O

I have several pieces of ascended armour now and full ascended weapons and accessories, yet despite them all having agony infusions slots fully filled, my agony resistance isn’t going beyond 55. Technically I should have more than that. Is AR capped? I see people looking for lvl 50 fractals must have 70 ar…What am I doing wrong?

For god sakes SORT THIS OUT!!!! Sick of having to relog cos of your broken game!

Marax.4938:

Oh look another post about forumgoers who dislike Scarlet. One of the other threads wasn’t good enough for ya? :p

Anyhow there hasn’t been any research. You can’t say everyone hates Scarlet. It may look like everyone dislikes Scarlet to you, because that’s the kind of thing you were looking for and because people generally come to the forums to complain instead of praise.

Well really..it’s not just forums..it is in game..in queensdale and LA..I have yet to see a positive supporter of her and I play EVERY day.

At the very LEAST I expect Crystal Desert, far shiverpeaks and magumma opened up, with responding dungeons available too. If they don’t do something MAJOR like this…then peoples patience will run out.

For some reason I keep getting a bug preventing me from asking anything more than a few words long, but:

Is scarlett the most hated game Character ever?

I see NOTHING but scorn for her in game, out of game, forums..whatever…Seriously..I cannot think of a single character that is so hated by the gaming community.

Wow..just did the golem world boss…not only were people stacking at the end by the chest, but then they were portaling back up to the stairs if the golem knocked them over the edge….

IS this what ANet thought would happen when they redid their world bosses???