Guild Wars 2

Lots of folks are comparing the grind factor to WoW. First of all, WoW did institute the number of times you could run an instance within a certain time period – for the folks claiming nerf from the mountain tops, this is not a foreign concept.

The money nerf: You know it’s always difficult to take something away from players after they’ve had it for a time and it’s totally understandable…but to be honest, I’d like to see ANet tool everything down now while the game is still in its infant stages and then slowly make incremental updates as the game and its players evolve and progress.

WoW nerfs things all of the time – the game still exists after the dust settles from people’s anger.

Are there other ways to make money in this game? Yes. Even in WoW lots of us needed to do a lot of farming to make potions, feasts and needed to get money saved up for those repair bills before we did a raid.

I don’t see what Anet has really done other than take something away and encourage people to venture back out into the world and take part in other money making ventures.

arcaneclarity.5283:

The problem isn’t that the shortbow is OP, it is that the longbow is completely underpowered. It’s the lowest dps weapon the Ranger has

I suspect we’re going to hear something about skill 5 – the AOE with cripple and how the function of the longbow has other uses…

Female Rangers will love that bow…not every player has a beard, male genitalia and enjoys football, boxing and bows that shoot flames, acid and beer.

@spayced And yet, most rangers refer to the bear as the “tank.” Pets are a great mystery to me. Up until a day ago I noticed that my bear would hold (real or imaginary aggro) and I was very rarely attacked or able to pull (alleged aggro) from the bear.

Now the bear is worthless to me as of yesterday…he spends more time chasing mobs around who are in turn chasing me. I don’t know if something was changed or…what…

It’s not a complaint, just an observation.

I never really did play Hunter in WoW – I tinkered with one…but I do agree that a lot of us former WoW players need to change our understanding of certain terminology we have become accustom to over the years playing that game.

We need to be “de-wow’d.”

Excellent post and hope it will get attention.

I agree with arcaneclarity above me, Shortbow – I’m not going to say it’s OP but I’d like to use the longbow…I’m having a difficult time finding a place for it….

There should be a penalty but not what we’re currently being charged. I hope the Devs look at it and come up with a better solution.

Oh dear. Yes Mox…quite right.

I’m going to hang my head in shame. I never thought I would earn the title “Huntard” but alas…

I’m level 49 - it’s not there. How bizarre. I have it on my other toons that have weapon swapping . Sigh.

You mean you don’t like your big fat pet sitting on top of you, healing you for a sad amount and blocking the camera view of the already obstructed camera down state?

I’ve been reading the forums about people switching between longbow and shortbow in combat…and then I saw a trait in the Ranger line about getting a boon or something when you change weapons in combat…

How is this being done if at all? I don’t have a weapon switch skill on my UI lilke I do with my other characters.

(Enter standard disclaimer about how I am over tired and possibly missing the obvious)

Moophious.1735:

Lyuben.2613:

Why is it so hard to solve?

Just make it so that if you, the main character reaches the end point, it skips forward a story step, just skip it.

Stop trying to fix something you obviously have no clue how to fix and give a reasonable workaround.

What a class act. You sound like a 10 year old who didn’t get his candybar. Learn some respect kid.

Or learn to understand that after nearly three weeks, people are fed up not being able to progress through one of the biggest selling points of the game. I get his/her frustration – maybe you sound like an elitist snob who’s beat the game already and thus people aren’t entitled to be frustrated.

I have over 140 dyes or something. Color isn’t the issue I was talking about. I was referring to 3 or 4 models for a mace and that being it.

I am enjoying the game – but I am not enjoying looking at the same weapon and armor models for 40 levels. In the future could we get some variation – it would be nice to feel as though our characters are growing at least from a visual viewpoint. I have pretty much looked the same since level 10.

This sounds like Rift’s Bard…

CameronDunn.6473:

Ponita.8204:

Can we be sure we’ll eventually get our missing guilds back and they’re not lost forever?

That’s how it looks at the moment – the guild system plays it really safe and if it notices any problems with the guild it basically refuses to load it (to prevent it getting more broken). All of the problems we’ve found so far are fixable and after we fix them, the guild loads fine and is available again.

I can’t promise that for every single case in the future – but for every case so far that’s been true.

Cam

Hi Cam,

What about guilds whose vaults are missing? They show as built but the NPCs say we don’t have one?

As of today our Guild stash has dissapeared. It shows as being built, but nobody can access it as the NPC says we don’t have one.

Thanks. Keeping track of frequent fliers this way seems much more difficult than it needs to be and probably more trouble than it’s worth. I don’t think it’s real clear how this fosters community and loyalty…I guess we’ll see how it plays out.

Thanks again.

Tatty.9680:

Yes you can only represent one guild at a time.
Yes you can only earn influence in the guild you are representing.
You could have a social guild which you talk with, and a dungeon or PvP guild to do events with.

Okay. Now, does that mean we need to create all kinds of different ranks? What is to keep people from using certain benefits of the guild?

Example: Player A is in two guilds. They are representing a pvp guild for a month. After a month, they represent our guild and begin using banners and the like after contributing little to no influence for the guild.

I’m trying to figure out how to control potential abuse and it’s sounding like ranks are the way to go?

Hey all,

I am trying to figure some things out related to guilds and thought the community would be a good place to start.

In GW 2 you can be in multiple Guilds. Is it true that…

You can only represent one Guild at a time?

Only the guild that you’re currently representing earns that specific guild influence?

If the two above questions are true, what is the value of being in multiple guilds?

Thank you.