Guild Wars 2

The current state of the LFG is one of the reasons I find it hard to play and it really needs some redesign love to be much more useful.

Filters are the solution and using areas as the first filter is something that just needs to be added. If I were to remake the system I would add tab filters for each of the main game types: Living World/Fractals/Dungeons/Raids/WvW/Personal Story. I’m not sure if sPvP needs the LFG as I don’t play that game type.

From those main tabs the tool would then further filter with area tags, for example:

LW—>Tyria—>Boss Runs
LW—>HoT—>Verdant Brink
LW—>HoT—>Auric Basin
LW—>Tyria—>Sparkfly Fen

Then allow the player who is searching for groups doing specific content to click filter check boxes to weed out all the stuff they don’t want to see.

How would you redesign the tools?

IMO deleting an older character is not worth losing the birthday bonuses and earning gold to turn into gems for a character slot is a better way to go. I’ve deleted a couple 80s early on an regret it.

I personally feel that GW2 is more casual friendly then it was, but there are some game types that are more so than others. That isn’t a bad thing.

My only real issue right now with GW2 is the mega server issues with area disconnects and the taxi and dump behavior that this system promotes. The LFG tool is so woefully designed that it can’t keep up with all the new game areas added.

Fix the LFG tool and do something about the mega servers and disconnects and I’d say that GW2 is perfectly casual friendly.

Not really sure why anyone hasn’t suggested the festival balloon as an option for joke gliding…

In all seriousness, I’d like to see anything that are wings as a back piece have a glider option.

Jethro.9376:

Updating the LFG isn´t the only problem. Players should learn how to properly use it aswell.

People using the LFG tool however is easiest way to get to content the fastest. Lowest common denominator and all that…

The Reddit post about this offered some very good suggestions, but I feel a lot of the taxi groups (which will only get worse as time goes on) wouldn’t be necessary if we just had an instance dropdown like we had in GW1.

Go to area, click on the dropdown, and choose and instance. It would be even more helpful if the instances had a running counter of current players.

Really something needs to be done as currently its a hot mess.

I have a hawk called “Giving U The Bird” and a bear called “Bubba Nubbs”

:)

I’m going to spend a few hours tonight looking for new places to fly….must earn full gliding mastery…

Say what you want about the balance, or the state of the game, but adding gliding to central Tyria was a great choice. Here’s a video of gliding around Tyria that a guildmate of mine made. Thanks!

All this to say thanks for taking the time for this change. It’s really great!

I’ll be more brief.

Yes

With all of the new game types and areas the LFG tool is in a really sad state as there aren’t enough filters or sections for all the different game areas that people are looking for.

There really should be a drop down menu for areas of the game and more filters that allow to find groups easier. The worst part is the constant abbreviation that people use that unless you know what they mean you have no idea what they are for. Tags or check boxes need to be added to make search filters work.

Ohoni.6057:

Would it be possible to glide from the top of Rata Sun to the map zones below it?
Please.

To a point, but probably not all the way. I think there are “death zones” that would autokill you when you got too deep.

At the moment you can get under rata sum through glitching but the zone is locked off from other zones. I would assume that will stay the same unless they add connecting gates from zone to zone.

Will the gliding mastery be moved out of the Maguma Jungle mastery lines and into a general line so that exp from Tyria pve would fill that mastery line?

Please?

Yes, I want to also say THANK YOU for this amazing change. Great add and will make a lot of areas seem like new.

Now all we need are guild races that can be setup by guild leaders throughout the world sort of like how GTA5 has custom races…that would be so much fun.

All that needs to be done is a WPish marker that can only be seen by guild members that work like GTA5 WPs…imagine gliding as a guild race.

Pittcrew.6592:

MokahTGS.7850:

Worst value I’ve seen. Its also really restrictive…only five slots? Why not just a new bag slot for 1000 gems…you would have sold tons…silly greed without thinking.

Here’s the reality of this:

I don’t want to personally attack you, but I want to make things clear to people. They thought long and hard about the prices, and picked a good one for what is offered. You now only need 1 of each item that would usually cost 500-1000 gems per item per character. This is a HUGE deal for people who want those items, and that’s what this is aimed for, in it’s current form. I do hope that they add more slots at a lower price that cant hold these high-price items, but until then, this price is incredibly generous of them, considering how many sales they WILL lose out on now that they have reduced the need for a lot of the duplicate sales in the Gem Store.

Why would disagreeing with my opinion be personally attacking me? You have a right to your opinion just as I have a right to mine. I don’t think its a good value and you do, you don’t have to make it into something its not. You even admit you believe it is aimed at high cost items meaning whales, which was the point of my picture. In my opinion this addition is aimed at people that have more money than sense…I guess you see this differently. You post your feedback and I’ll post mine…in the future leave your passive aggressive attacking out of it.

Worst value I’ve seen. Its also really restrictive…only five slots? Why not just a new bag slot for 1000 gems…you would have sold tons…silly greed without thinking.

Here’s the reality of this:

Yes…please add new categories and sorting options.

Adding a per area dropdown would be a good way to sort. Also per event.

What this really needs are subsections for “show guild” show friends" and “show party”

I don’t care about scrubs I don’t know…just the scrubs I do.

Argon.1563:

Ive been grinding for more than a few hours now, searching for my Mistward Helmet Lining, which drops from Saurians.

The problem with HoT mobs: They don’t give loot.

Where can I find Saurians that actually have a drop table I can get this thing out of? Because ive been dancing all across Maguuma on a killing spree in search of this thing, and it is nowhere to be found.

HoT mobs most assuredly give loot. Lots of loot. Them not doing so is a myth perpetuated by people that don’t like HoT. Maybe it’s not the bag factory introduced with SW, but there is loot for sure. I get loot from mobs on EVERY event in VB.

I got my Mistward helmet lining just playing the event chain in Verdant Brink. Just play the game…have fun and watch the loot show up.

Vistas – Solvable by requiring 100% world completion.

Jumping puzzles – Make JP work like guild missions where the player “switches on” the JP and while it is active for them they can’t use their gliders. Not a whole lot of coding goes into that. All it needs is a JP trigger that activates at the beginning and makes this happen.

Tyria Invisible walls…yeah this is an issue and probably why this is implemented the way it is. It’s a lot of ground to cover and fix.

I would love to see this change too, but the last point is really why we haven’t seen it happen and most like why we won’t see it happen.

Jhoul.6923:

Here is an Idea!

I love My baby Mawdrey 2, the whole process of having to go around the world, giving him food, etc.

Now with HoT we got gliding… and quite frankly it would be AMAZING to be able to continue my baby’s saga and making Mawdrey 3 which would be able to change form when gliding.

I want to see my baby grow up! (;_;)
I want my baby to be MY wings! \\(^_^)//

Maybe even one day turning him into a legendary backpack.
That… would be a truly legendary journey…

Please think about it ANET. <3

I support this 100%

Lol, I love your assumptions, especially since they are always wrong.

HoT is a grind fest without loot. Those are the facts.

You can try to claim black is white all day but it doesn’t change the simple fact that playing HoT is boring and pointless.

I work for a living, GW1 and GW2 were great for people like me. HoT is for basement dwelling no lifers.

Fact. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Each of your facts are opinion, which of course you are entitled to. Opinion however does not transfer 1 to 1 from player to player. Just because you feel one way about something does not make it a fact. It is your opinion, which has been noted.

Despite some complaints about the ease at which players can now get a Mentor Tag after completing the Pact Commander Mastery, I’d like to say that I really am enjoying the addition of it and have found it useful.

I’d like to suggest adding a function to the tag system that might alleviate some trolling issues (which I’m not personally convinced is a reality) and make it easier for good mentors to upgrade to full commander tags.

I propose adding a way for players to give a “like” or “thumbs up” vote to players that use the new mentor tag well. The reward for a certain level of vote would be a discounting of the price of a full commander tag.

I’ve been using the mentor tag to help my family do map completion, run zergs in the Labyrinth, and even help out players I don’t know in beginning areas, which I believe is the reason ANet added them to begin with. I personally do not have 300 gold…never have and probably never will, but I do like to help people and find the tag very useful. After leading zergs in the Labyrinth, I’ve gotten “Thanks for leading” and “Good job!” from players I don’t know, which is nice and I’m also thankful for people that pop a tag when no one else wants to step up and lead. I wish I had a better way to reward them, other than just saying “Thanks” in map chat.

Can we please have a guild forum so that the guild team has a central place for people to post feedback, ideas, questions, and all the guild related stuff?

My guild just freed our guild hall last night and we are finding bugs, have lots of questions and ideas for future expansion. The current HoT forum is OK, but post get quickly lost in all the non-guild related stuff or by QQ posts and anti-QQ posts.

Engel.6029:

Making Hero Points soloable would fix the problem.

This. HoT has plenty of “Hardcore” content and raids coming. Masteries is the progression system that should take time and I have no problem with that. HoT was marketed as having elite specializations and NEVER did ANet make comments saying that it would take 300+ points to get all your skills. This is why people are disappointed.

On Reaper for example they locked the “Rise” skill behind the last skill unlock…that just sucks for people wanting to try out the new minion master builds. It’s a grind just to try out a build.

If people think that the hero challenges wont’ become a ghost town, then think again. It’s already happening. I sat and watched the Creeping Crevasse HP on SATURDAY night and no one came to do it…no one. Map chat was all a buzz so people online but everyone had moved on to the later zones.

The hero challenges should not be locked behind group only content. That’s just bad design and forces zergs. Hero challenges should scale to the number of people and NOT have a zerker DPS burn down timer.

It’s the new meta in testing. It will be a requirement in upcoming raid wings.

Pukc.6328:

StinVec.3621:

It was mentioned in the twitch stream that the new pets are not only for the Druid elite spec, but “for all rangers” as well.

https://youtu.be/K2ZHhJQn0B8?t=1650

Irenio – “’There are new pets that will be available in Heart of Thorns.”
Rubi – “And this is for all rangers, not just the druid.”
Irenio – “That’s right. This is kind of the thing that all rangers are getting access to in the Heart of Thorns.”

This is confusing to me. How can it be “all rangers” if the new pets are only available in HoT areas for those that own HoT? It would not be for all rangers, it would be only for rangers that own HoT.

As the juvenile form of the pet needs to be charmed, a regular ranger would not be able to get them as the juvenile form would only be available in HoT-only areas.

@Gaile (hiya, Gaile!)

• Is this just incomplete information given during the twitch stream by Rubi and Irenio or incorrect words used?
• Do the new pets actually require HoT and the Druid elite specialization unlocked to get them, but once gotten they can be used by non-druid rangers?
• Or is it as it came off as being – that HoT is not required to get the new pets as it was said that all rangers will have access to them?
• And if they are available to all rangers, does this possibly mean that pact Tyria will be seeing Mordrem and the juveniles of the new pets for base rangers to charm so base rangers can charm them outside of HoT-only content areas?

You can probably get them in wvw….

um…the new pets are HoT content…of course only rangers who own HoT can get them.

Is it just me or does the tiger just feel like the red-headed step child of the mix. It even got skipped in the reveal…

Personally I would have liked a raptor instead of a reskinned panther.

If it was an account wide bag slot upgrade I would buy that for gems. That ranks up there with the bank slot and character slot upgrades.

lordkrall.7241:

Random.4691:

Seems logical, so to clarify you’re not lockout of the raid instance itself just the rewards ?

That is correct. You will still be able to do the raids as many times as you want. You simply won’t get the special rewards for clearing it more than once per week.

I do not see anything in the Raid Q&A that suggests that you will get any loot from subsequent raid runs during the week window. In the Q&A they said:

You can only get the loot once from a boss per week.

You will not 2 blues and a green. You will get stuff like Ascended Rewards. All the bosses have new loot tables and the % to get them is way higher because of the weekly lockout (like 10% chance).

So to me that means no loot, not just special rewards, other than once per week.

I’ve been waiting 3+ years for an answer to this one. It was brought up in alpha testing and to my knowledge has never been addressed. Currently if I do nothing but heal (pump out green numbers) I get bronze credit in events in PvE. If I do this in WvW I get 0 loot bags. I understand that in raids, the play style is different and I welcome the druid for that but in PvE, unless there is a change that green numbers count toward tagging, then no one will change how they play.

Tag and bag will still be the order of the day. I very much would like ANet to put their money where their mouth is and make green numbers count.

“We were unable to register an account using the information provided. Please check your information and try again.”

So trying to register a free account and all I get is this…

Is the system broken? All the information is right.

Why ANet refuses to use its own forums for official announcements is beyond me. It really is not that hard…really its marketing 101:

You want to announce something: Use all of your marketing vehicles. Facebook, Twitter, Forums and the live stream.

Anet has never done marketing or communication very well. This is another announcement that was done half way.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Anura

There ya go…

Why can’t the Jumping Mastery negate the fall damage when used, that way people could learn by damage that points in that line are worth while.

I refuse to call it Warhorn and will from now on be calling it a Battle Tuba. It’s more high concept…

Assuming that this is not a troll thread, there about 50 bazillion charities that would appreciate the donation and would use it for more good then “accelerating” game content.

Either search for one that inspires you or take a walk through a local children’s hospital and just hand them your wallet.

Smoky Diamond.7468:

I agree that $50 dollars for the expansion is ridiculous for those of us who already own the game. $75 if you want any extras at all is just plain stupid. I have a household that all plays Gw2, and it gets expensive very quickly. Looks like I’ll be sticking to other online games. :/

This exactly.

Well I’ll just respectfully disagree

Phat Stackage.5329:

$49.99 is the standard price for a full expansion. For comparison, GW2’s original price was $59.99 and the deluxe was $79.99.

You are not reading that they are charging for the Exp and the core game…there is no exp only option. That is what people are upset about and rightfully so.

Yep…what is going on? The exp preorder should have been announced right along with all the other version that include the base game. Especially if you spam in-game with a flashy icon to get people to click on it.

Get your stuff together ANet…

I’ll just hear them all in my head like this:

I’d pay for these nonsensical threads to go away.

I think people need to relax about this portal selection process. This will not be the only beta coming in the future. There will be many. There will be stress tests, pvp betas and even public betas that everyone can log into and get to play. This one test is being done with an in-game selection process that I bet ANet thought would be fun.

Hear me: The intention was to be fun. They mean well…so at least give them that. Why anyone is grinding 30+ hours for this beta event is beyond me but if you grind for hours and hours and don’t get one you don’t really have anyone to be upset with accept yourself. You choose to do this. ANet planned this to get a random sample of active players. They didn’t need 10s of 1000s of players, so they did it this way. They will get the numbers they need…which for this test might be quite small.

Do people not remember that they are selecting people for testing? Not access to play fun stuff…you aren’t Charlie Bucket getting a peek inside Wonka’s factory…you are helping them make a better game.

Those selected should take it seriously and those that don’t get in should grow up a bit and just be patient. HoT will be out when it’s ready and other beta tests will come along.

Sephas.8793:

Old skill points in excess of those earned by leveling and skill challenges will be converted into crafting materials for the Mystic Forge. Items and activities that were previously repeatable sources of skill points will now also provide that same crafting material.

What Material?

This. I’m very concerned that the “material” given is going to be some useless account bound thing like bloodstone dust turning valuable skill points that are worth gold right now into useless junk filling my bank.

If ANet turns them into something like “Forge tokens” that can be traded at the forge for anything we can currently buy for skill points then I will be ok with that.

I think all rewards that I have completed should be compensated retroactively. I’ve been playing since release and have always been disappointed that nothing happens when you get another level after 80. I think all accounts should be given mastery point due. I don’t care if some people just started. How is that any vet players fault?

How much was/will the entire pack be for those that don’t have any ep unlocked?

Lauree Akhtar.3205:

You can also put four minis of the same rarity into the Mystic Forge for a mini of the same rarity

Sure would be nice if that were the case with the usless Jenna minis…

Sarisa.4731:

The major issue is that there is was a double nerf on silk, that didn’t apply to any other material (the ultra-common materials just had single nerfs, ie leather, iron, and soft wood). Bolts moved from requiring two scraps to three scraps; and released at nearly the same time, Damask required 100 bolts rather than 50.

This is what should be fixed. Just normalize the material usage and prices will fix themselves.

Bolts require two scraps and Damask requires fifty bolts. Done. There is no need to add any new mechanics to the game. Just have a coder fiddle with the dials after their lunch break.

It isn’t complaining. It’s feedback and it was constructive. I agree with you that GW1 birthday presents were better and felt like more of a gift.

I would prefer that they go back to the old model of GW1 birthday gifts that give you a random mini.

IMO, all areas of equipment need the legendary level. It’s the end game for GW2. People say that the stat difference isn’t that much but if it’s BiS, then it’s BiS. End of discussion. Plus legendary items have the stat swapping option that makes them a vary nice QoL item.