Guild Wars 2

I’d rather have a floating glowing emblem appearing in the back using the shield/backpack model slot, that you can apply to any chest armor, instead a fixed set of a few models with the emblem put into them, that limits your appearance.

Or some kind of banner you can wear strapped in your back, much like warriors banners. Or decorative shields with the emblem on them, and you never use.

I guess I’ll have to wait until capes are ready.

This very noticeable when playing as an asura, but then again, this is a fantasy game, and asura could easily have made devices to alter the space around them so weapons become smaller when holstered, or some kind of attachment they quickly put on equipped weapons so they become smaller when sheathed.

This isn’t weirder than a weapon becoming huge in the hands of a Norn, but tiny in the hands of an Asura. It just happens in the same model instead across models.

Just imagine Sun Wukong’s staff, smaller than a toothpick when not in use, huge like a tower if the user so desires.

Karma, like skill points, are part of the character’s progress.

As much as may of us would love to have that, this would defeat its purpose.

If you ask me, I’d just have all gold and karma shared account-wide, removing bank gold altogether.

But since you can already share anything you can acquire with karma that they intent to have shared (e.g.: recipes, ingredients) they’ll probably never do something like that.

Unlike dungeon tokens, for a character to get something with karma, that character must deserve it.

It would have to be non-instanced events.

Norn keg brawl doesn’t seem to bring many people, and anyone that does to do that won’t be around.

City-wide events that make people walk all over the city like “Find the lost pets”, “root out the infiltrators/spies” or “play hide and seek with the cubs/kids/children/saplings/progeny” would work better.

When you get racial skills, the engineer counterparts get unlocked even if you are not engineer.
And races share armor visuals across professions, so you can preview any item in any character, even if their profession cannot equip that item.

This means that changing profession should be relatively easy. Provided there’s a way to ‘save’ the unlocked skills just in case you want to go back, and that you’ll have to unlock the new skills.

But race is not the same, as race is linked to your personal story.
Even if you made something up like chaos energy turning you into another race permanently to explain it in lore, then you’ll have to go on with the persona story with a different voice, unless you kept your original voice, and then we’ll have things like an Asura with Charr voice…

Too many complications.

Then you could simply start the story from scratch, but for that there’s already new character slots.

Pointy hats are unpractical and ridiculous.

Have you ever tried to dodgeroll with a pointy hat? You could poke someone’s eye out.

And well, a Charr with tiny feathered hat is bad enough. Try to imagine a pointy hat…
Brrrrr!

A slightly pointed hat, that is something like a mix between a cowboy hat and a wizard hat, like Diablo III’s Wanderer hat, though, would be acceptable.

I would agree with an achievement for being hit 7 consecutive times within a small time window, but just once isn’t that special.

ohboykittens.5203:

[…]The game could really use a dedicated healer […]

Looks like someone arrived late to the party…
http://www.arena.net/blog/?s=trinity

The game will NEVER have a dedicated healer.
It was one of the worst mistakes they had in GW1. Dedicated healer created a boring gameplay focused on looking at healthbars, and an arms race that increasingly pitted healing against spike damage, until there was both too much damage and too much healing, and balancing the kitten thing became hell.

In GW2, builds do not have a fixed purpose. They can’t do everything, but they can do a few things.
If you set yourself to water, it won’t be just to heal. You will always damage, and then there’s some water ‘snaring’ and crowd control.

It’ll save you just a click per reported message, but even a single click saved is good.

Unfortunately, action and platform games can’t be made with people with disabilities in mind. They required fast-paced action that quite often can’t be achieved with certain disabilities.

You are lucky this is Guild Wars, in many other games, you’ll receive a negative, immature response, and possibly silence from the developers, as they’ll rather say nothing over giving the bad news, that could be perceived negatively when it’s just the sad truth.

I recommend you enlist the help of friends in these one-time-thing situations.

20 levels would be way too much.

3 levels above the creature already makes you way stronger than them.

You can try it in Ashford with the harpies. If you go all the way north, you’ll get downleveled just to level 13-14, but harpies around there are level 8-9.

Killing them takes just a couple of hits to level 40 people with level 35…40 fine/masterwork gear.
And that is as trivial as killing enemies should get.

No matter how good you get, an enemy must always be able to kill you if you get distracted, go AFK or doze off.
What you suggest would allow things like water elementalist or any guardian to stand still doing nothing while enemies hit, thanks to their regen and the little damage they’ll take.

This has been already done, and it’s therefore, still possible.

I bet that it’ll be even possible to replicate the leveling up, getting more skills as the character kills, although I don’t see it necessary, and GW2 skills and combat mechanics could be used instead.

At least as an experimental map in the sPvP rotation could prove really interesting, with two sides, towers that deal increased damage to players, ‘creeps’ that spawn in waves and structures to protect instead areas to capture.

Adine.2184:

this has no place in GW

Allow me illuminate you with the wisdom of experience:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Great_Snowball_Fight_of_the_Gods_%28PvP%29

They already made a place for it.
All that’s left is brining it to GW2.

Turrent recharge when picked up should depend on its health. With full health it should be minimal or even no cooldown at all, while destruction would give full recharge.

This will also make the wrnch more useful, and a valid option compared to the turrent self-healing trait.

Of course, to balance things out, the turret-self healing would give additional recharge to turrets, something like +10s, since with it it’s more likely to pick them with full health.

When an event is part of a chain or has a continuation, it should have an arrow next to its icon, indicating is has a followup or something like that.

I keep seeing people leaving right after events end or way before they end, and I end up doing the next step all alone. And more often that I’d like to, the next step is a group fight against a champion.

Elementals ‘bleed’ elemental energies.
When they run out of them, they crumble.

garraeth.3267:

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We know all of that.
Everyone does.

Let’s see those pointers:

• if someone is completely down, ignore them (you’ll also go down)
  This should NEVER be something you are supposed to do. It’s true that there’s time to revive and times to void doing so, but in this event, more than 9 out of 10 times you try to revive someone, you are knocked down and killed in less than 3 seconds.
  Anywhere else I’ve been able to revive people under fire by popping an Arcane Shield followed by Obsidian Flesh, you can’t do that here.

• if you go completely down, run back (don’t be upset no one rezzed you)
  Corpse-throwing tactics are not something anyone should do either. The point of a combat-oriented action game is to stay alive, unless you are something like compsognathus in Dino D-Day or a boomer in L4D, but there’s no professions like that in GW2 (there were necrobombers in GW1, but those were an aberration)

• you can skirt the red circles by a hair and not get hit – position your camera high up over your head so you can see them easy
  You can’t. The red circles appear late, and hit outside their area. If your character model is very big, like a tall norn or charr, this gets worse. 1/4 second of lag, and you are down, as you won’t see the circle in time.

• if you do get hit, run across the bridge until you’re out of combat and heal up. The burn can easily kill you
  If you get hit, you are dead. I’ve seen the thing one-hit killing level 80 players with level 80 blue&green gear. The burn WILL kill you, I even tried traiting to lose burning when dodging. It gets instantly re-applied when leaving on of those killer circles. And often there’s more than one of them, plus countless AoEs from Embers.

• if you can, run in (avoiding the circles) and don’t hit any embers to focus the boss
  That’ll give you about 5-20 hits before the embers focus on you. And that’s only if there’s at least 3 other people around. And since you can’t deal 20 hits in the time it takes for them to die, let’s make it 10 tops.
  10 hits, and then you ether run like hell to recover or get downed. Or get downed while trying to run away.

• you can stand right next to the boss (melee) IN the big flames and not get hurt – but the second you start taking damage, GET OUT (and across the bridge), you’re in an ember’s ground aoe and now have a burning DOT
  This doesn’t work. I tried that. Embers focus more on those that are in there.
  Also, right around the elementalist the killer running flares spawn. There’s no visual cue indicating they’ll come out from the main body of elemental they just pop around, so in your way to ‘inside’ one often spawns right there, and you’ll hit without even seeing what hit you. And those things down anything they touch.

• if you want to go after embers (too many are in the area and need culling) do it but be prepared to run out and dont go after the boss while going after embers at the same time
  They’ll get quickly revived. If the number goes down, the next killer circle will spawn one.

• dodge the flames that run along the ground – the burning will kill you – if you get hit, run across the bridge until you’re out of combat and heal up
  That’s easier said than done. Each ember can spam more than 4 AoEs every 5 seconds or so, and they start right away, without a warning. Getting out of one i’s easy, and you get little damage. But here, when you dodge one, you’ll fall into 4 that started right after you dodged. And last time I tried, you could not dodge mid-dodge.

• if you get hit by an ember (knocked down) use your anti-CC abilities and then run across the bridge
  Unfortunately, even if you use stability and get away, the burning and damage will kill you anyways, even if you also bring condition removal.
  And it doesn’t matter if you are able to get away. You’ll have to go back in to deal more damage, so you’ll have to wait for those to recharge (stability and condition removal skills have the slowest recharges), completely breaking the pace of the battle.

All of those, ALL of them, would be solved if none of its attack dealt more than 33…50% of the HP of the average level 15 player with level 15 gear that visits the event, and each ember could create only a single AoE every 5 seconds at most.

K? Let’s see… K is 1000, so 6k must be 1000 copper, or 60s, which is not true.
Fully repairing a level 40 set costs less than 10s. You exaggerate too much.

In any case, repair costs are only a problem for those that are too daring in WvW, and those trying to play the Thaumanova elemental event.
Anywhere else they are just fine.

This suggestion ignores that fact that different people deal with different issues.

One person writing NPC dialogues won’t stop another from finding a problem in a scripted event.

A Tyrian engineer does.

The Engineer in FF6 did weirder things, like jumping all over the enemies with a chainsaw, or confusing the with a huge loudspeaker.

Quoting the wikipedia:
“An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical, social and economic problems. Engineers design materials, structures and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, safety and cost. The word engineer is derived from the Latin roots ingeniare (”to contrive, devise") and ingenium (“cleverness”)."

So “Engineer” fits the name.

The point of the engineer is that he’s the one that made all those gizmos, machines, devices, items and apparatuses. And instead selling them or giving them to others, he gets all the fun.

Although, it’ll be nice if Engineers were able to give kits with a limited number of uses to other players, much like elementalists give conjured weapons.

I wish to do this event just once.

I mean DO IT. Just once. Get in, fight off the embers, revive others, run around avoiding damage as much as possible…

You know, PLAYING THE GAME.

Instead, what I get is over 30 minutes of defeated people chatting about how horrible the event is, and how they have no more money to repair their armors.

As an starting area, there’s lots of people all the time in here, and so the issue is more pressing. This event is to be adjusted A.S.A.P..

You can go on with gear under your level, it won’t scale down more the higher your level. In a level 3 area, you are effectively level 3.

You’ll find better gear as you play and get to areas of your level. Don’t worry so much.

Not only upper price must be capped.

Lower price too.

The Trading post is cluttered with trade requests under the sale price, so no one can sell at those prices, so they are useless data stored in the trade server for nothing.

As for a higher cap, I would limit it to the highest things you can acquire with gold.
I believe that’s the Commander tomes, so it’ll be 100g.

Sentinel.8749:

Bleed! Bleed you Flame Legion turret! Bleed!!!!

They’ll bleed oil!

The main idea of thief snipers is good. But these skills are a bit too strong. One of the skills should a snipe attack, but the rest don’t need all that range.

I’d make 3 of the skills shotgun-like (wait behind corners, come from the shadows and shot at their face) one a long range attack, and the last one the snipe attack, with 1500 range and a long recharge (60 or so).

That I found quite annoying.

And I was thinking that at least burning should work on them.
But then again, corrosion sounds better, as it’ll allow to turn all degenerative conditions useful against objects.

Whatever the case, the difference between direct damage and degen is too big when trying to break objects, and so this would be a great solution for that.

Events ARE dynamic. Once defeated, they will have a cooldown time, but after that time passes, previous events must happen before they spawn.

The thing is, there’s always people around those places, and events are completed quite fast, so the dragons appear at seemingly fixed times, but they do not spawn at fixed times.

People keep asking “when is the dragon up” because they are used o other games in which bosses spawn at fixed times, and they are both lazy and greedy, so they want to appear when the dragon appears, hit a little, grab the chest, and go to the next dragon to grab another chest, ignoring any other events in the area.

That’s what must be fixed.

So, instead a silly timer that will only enforce the false assumption that they spawn at fixed times, what should be made is so you must have done at least one of the previous events to open the chest, and increase the quality of the drops the more previous events you have completed.

That’ll serve all those lazy and greedy leechers right.

I believe we’ll have guesting sooner or later.

Even if you go to other worlds as a guest, you will still keep your own world’s WvW bonuses.

That’s the closest thing we should get.

This has been mentioned already in Suggestions.

I’d recommend to change the GW1 one to “Ancient Ascendant” as many things from GW1 are described as ‘ancient’.

It’s a GW1 Hall of Monuments pet.

There’s four of them.

Anyone can get them, all you have to do is fill the Hall of Monument.
It takes between 6 and 1 moth, depending on how much you play.

Yeah. Much like with the Staff in necromancers, keep the other 4 AoEs, but make the 1st skill targeted instead ground-targeted, and make auto-attack enabled by default in all offensive kits.

That’ll help a lot.

Click to move was removed because it is incompatible with the new combat system.

It also helps bots to move around easier., and requires pathfinding. If you remove point to click, you get rid of those annoying issues, and the impact to players is minimal.

We’ve been using WADS since before DOOM, and everyone has been able to get used to it.

It has been suggested multiple times, and most people agree with it.

I’d love to dye my weapons, specially staves, greatswords and shields, since they are the ones with bigger, noticeable, surfaces.

Dances in the gem store would definitely be a top seller. There should be:
- Racial dances: Versions of each racial dance, so you can do it with any other dance.
- Legacy dances: Versions of the GW1 profession dances, adapted to all playable GW2 races.

They could be sold either separately or in packs. Things like:
- Legacy Male Ritualist dance for charr: 200G.
- Legacy Male Ritualist dance pack: 800G.
- Charr dance for humans: 100G.
- Charr dance for all races pack: 300G.
- Legacy dances pack: 2000G.
- Racial dances pack: 1000G.
- All dances pack 2500G.

I would definitely get the thing.

Yeah. If you are in a low level area laying with friends, you might find you that they can travel all over the place freely, since hey get enough for waypoints with a couple of drops, but you’ll have to walk after a while, until you have been in higher level areas saving for waypoints beforeand.

A situation in which you have to farm to play normally should NEVER happen.

This solution would require to give each waypoint a level, much like hearts, but it’s the best one I’ve seen so far. If you come from a high level area, you should have killed something and get a couple of drops to play. If you are going to a high level area, what you spend you should recover fairly fast.

Lifetime survivor doesn’t stop if you die, it just resets, like it does in GW1 after previoutitle updates.

It’s bugged, so it wont go past 0 for many players.

It would be nice if each of the rings around the Tenanera arena ring could be used by two players to fight with their miniature toys.

The miniatures could use the same skills their originals have, much like when you are transformed. Use the ring, you lose control of your character, gain control of the miniature, and move around, then fight.

I saw one getting bugged once.

The NPC died instead going back to neutral.
After a while, the corpse was ‘cleaned’, but it didn’t respawn.

This seems to happen with many other events and skill challenges.
NPC dies and is cleaned from memory, and it doesn’t get replaced. Meanwhile, the event waits for the NPC to exist, but that never happens.

Until they fix that, they should reset maps every day, as it prevents completion.

XFire is just a subset of players.

Not everyone uses things like Steam, Xfire or Raptr. Their stats are limited to their own users.

Hey. I just remembered that some merchants sell fish dishes. But you can’t craft those.

We should be able to do so. There should be fish meat.

Pssst! It’s called “Mad King’s Day” now! Don’t tell anyone!

Tell everyone!

I’ve seen several characters in the game mentioning it, but Halloween is no longer used.
It makes sense to stop using that term, as it means “all hallows” and the closest thing to ‘hallows’ we have is Canthan honored spirits, and they don’t celebrate that there.

So much like “Wintersday” is used instead “Christmas”, it makes sense to use “Mad King’s Day” instead “Halloween”.

You can dodge with some forms, like in the forms you get in one of Caledon’s meta-events. But dodging with those is just moving faster for a a couple of seconds, with no animations.

It makes sense for bigger, slower forms not to dodge, like melandru’s avatar, but I wish they at least replaced the dodge action with something else, like a short block.

They look more like ‘infected’ to me.

Palawa’s Mummies and the Lich’s skeletons and ghouls, THOSE were undead.

These? Meh.

Anyways, please don’t make joke suggestion threads. Lots of good suggestions that people should see are getting buried with all the clutter.

This was initially created for posters in the Steam forums a long time ago, but I believe its wisdom can be applied to all forums, and transcends time.

Sometimes lore makes rules, but often rules also make lore.

Norns can’t hold their form indefinitely. Svanir was the only one that has ever seen holding his form, and it was because of Jormag’s liutenant’s icy corruption.

If you roleplay as a Norn that shapeshifts, it would make sense to follow Norn rules, and don’t hold the form permanently, because very nasty things may happen if you do that. And we don’t want those very nasty things to happen.

Skritt often have bottles in their backs. I’ve seen humans with some backpacks. Several charr have something like a briefcase strapped with belts to the back. Some silvary have wing-like sprouts.

All of those could be nice as backpacks.

They should make a tinker crafting profession, able to make them (also able to craft environmental weapons, techno-gizmo headgears like googles and monocles and breathing apparatuses). Plus put some of them in some Heart karma merchants, and at least one in each dungeon and cultural armorsmith.

It may seem annoying but they are there so you think ahead, and pay attention to your conditions. They can be seen both as icons and as changes in your character.

Out in the wild, you are not fighting just that one monster. You have to watch for other enemies that may appear around, and the battle may take longer.

It would be nice if both skills and conditions decreased faster once it’s sure there’s no enemies around, but when here’s still enemies within range, it’s on.

Well, the main focus of the game is still action and combat.

There’s a quite some events with more than one thing to do, like the bandit attack in which you can kill bandits, but you can also water the bales.

More of that could be nice, but the kill X Y will still happen.

It’s just that instead having to go were the Y spawn and kill X of them, you accompany an NPC to where the Y are, and kill X of them until a bar is filled. And once the chore is done, maybe there’s something else to do, so you keep following the NPC.

Yeah. That is annoying.

At least they should let you keep the offhand item in the slot like in GW1.
If you equipped a 2H weapon, the offhand weapon stays there, with a Forbidden symbol over it, indicating it’s not in use.

That way, if you change to a 1H weapon, you get the offhand back there instantly.
If you change to a 2H weapon, the offhand won’t randomly move somewhere else in the inventory, it’ll stay in the offhand slot, just disabled.

It’s not ‘dumbing down’ as much as ‘adjusting to mass mind’. Anyone that has ever studied social behavior will tell you how it changes depending on number of people. The crowd is dumb.

You can’t imagine how many times I’ve tried explaining to people that events do not happen exactly ever X time, but depending in previous events and other factors.
But even if a single individual listens, the mass won’t. Because the mass is composed by many people. Some that have heard of it, some that just ignore it, some that hear of it and won’t believe it…

If we make an analogy with ‘objectives’ being glasses, and fulling them putting a ping pong ball inside of each, glass:
In the end, massive events will be like a room filled with mousetraps with ping pong balls in them. Some ping pong balls will end up in the glasses, each glass may end up with an ping pong ball, but it won’t be as much as a collective effort as a trial and error on the spot, with people mindlessly running around, ad maybe one or two players actually trying to give order to chaos.
And separate instances of less people would be like actually having someone aiming for the glass.

Note that with ‘separate instances’ for extra battles I don’t mean just 5 people like in dungeons. But something more like squads, or guilds, or 5 parties banding together. All informed by others and with a more or less accurate idea of what they are supposed to do, or at least who are they supposed to follow and obey.
It’s like taking a huge boss battle, making it harder not by rising numbers, but by adding more complex mechanics, and instancing it.

The problem with massive events is that pople tend to do the same, even if you give them multiple options.

Put something required to beat the boss, like shooting a cannon, and you may get things like a bunch of griefers hogging the cannon, and not using it.
Ad complex sequences required to beat the boss, like defeating enemies in certain order, and you will still get people mindlessly attacking.
I’ve seen a guy attacking a Determined creature for 15 minutes. >_<.

Overcomplicating things is never a good idea for massive fights, as even if you may make it interesting for many people, it may become impossible for others, and overall it won’t work.

That’s why a difficulty adjustment that is more on the side of the player than on the side of the monster works better for massive events.

Now, when it comes to non-personal instances and dungeons, there you can put the good stuff.

Maybe there should be some kind of partial mini-instances, smaller than dungeons, big enough for a decent boss fight, and people can enter in smaller groups. Like organizing themselves in squads, or joining several parties or something, for example a rift opening after capturing a God shrine.
Save the chaos, serging and marabuntas for massive world battles, and the complex, better rewarded and harder stuff stuff for instances.