Guild Wars 2

I swap a lot and I mean a lot.
My main is a GS/Staff Mesmer and I learned to swap weapons as soon as I could because it just makes your life so much easier.
Now that I have a Guardian alt that habit carried over and I play my Guardian mostly as a Scepter/Torch, GS.
I also want to try the focus to see if it is as cool as the torch

@ Crazylegsmurphy- I couldn’t agree more.

I would honestly prefer it if the world bosses were more random, I would even like it if they moved from place to place. It doesn’t have to be by much.

As an aside- It would also be awesome if a big event could actually fail and you had a huge critter terrorizing the countryside.

Atm as it is all you see in Frostgorge Sound, Sparkfly Fen and Blazeridge Steppes is ETA Dragon??
It kills all other DE’s on the map.

/signed as well.
I think it is a necessity since the various modes of play are so different.
It makes no sense trying to balance skills across the board- but I’m not a developer and I don’t know what ArenaNet has in mind.
I just hope they don’t neglect the PvE players in favor of the PvP players.
As a condition /staff Mesmer I am a bit miffed so don’t mind me too much.

Polluxo.4967:

I can’t say what is wrong with it or what can be done to properly fix it. A combination of things would probably help pinpoint a fix. From the beginning combat is so easy you only need to use your auto-attack, at level 80 there are repetitive combos that frequently get repeated on tougher enemies. There are different issues at both sides of the spectrum. What can be done to make PvE more exciting?

I can’t really agree with you at all. I have a lvl 80 Mesmer and if I stuck to auto attack I would never have made it past lvl5.

Even at lvl 80 I find that I constantly have to actually pay attention to what I am doing so that I can use my abilities to the best effect. Especially if I am playing solo.

My husband plays a Ranger and he says he doesn’t have to “play piano” with his skills the way I need to, so maybe it is your class?
I love PvE so much that I haven’t even tried PvP and WvWvW yet- I plan to, I just get sidetracked.
As for the combat and skill/ trait system- it is relatively easy to pick up sure but that does not mean that it is simple, the depth is there if you want it.

I am not a very sociable player by nature and I resent being forced to interact with others- that said I find myself far more sociable in GW2 than in any other game I have played.
I chat in /say, map-chat and I usually have a few whispers going on, on the side.

I have met loads of people in this game- either just by doing things randomly together and running into each other often enough to notice, solving a puzzle or hard to reach vista etc.
I’ve had the great pleasure of being approached by an RPer in LA and we meet up every now and then.
I have even had random party requests from total strangers just wanting help with a skill point or finding something on the map.
All in all I find the game very sociable without the pressure of forcing me into a specific form of interaction.

I personally use Midnight Emerald and Ancient Silver/White Gold.
those are not pure black and white but I really like the look

no, just no!
I love my characters and I enjoy playing the game immensely.
Everything is not as doom and gloom as this forum would lead you to believe.
They said they will fix bots and I have faith in them.
GW2 is an MMO a bit more than a month after release, everything in the world is not instant, things take time. I plan on playing the game for years- I can be patient.

Any idea how the get the cat mini? I see it is a rare but that is all I know, I really like it.

I am on Gunnar’s Hold and there are loads of people on all the maps- I completed Mt Maelstrom and Fireheart Rise this weekend and there were so many people you had to move off a bit if you wanted to be just 2-3 people.
We saw a lot of the same people very frequently and had a great time doing Font of Rand with a random player that me and my husband kept running into.
So in Sparkfly Fen, Plains of Ashford, Mt Maelstrom, Fireheart Rise and Blazeridge Stepps there were lots and lots of people. Ironically the emptiest map I have seen is Frostgorge Sound.
Heck I was even on the overflow server in Lion’s Arch!

I don’t want to have 100 g after a month, nor am I a rich kid or a server jumping farmer.
I have amassed a grand total of 3,5 g in my entire game so far.
I just would really love to use my 400 tailor skill to actually craft myself some exotic armour eventually. Hence why I am saving my money.
As for bag space- you don’t really need 4, 20 slot bags unless you are a chef.
If you are, you definitely do.
I bought an extra bank tab because I really needed it but I have 4 alts and it fills up really fast.
I have upgraded my Guild to have a Guild Vault- that has been my solution so far. I really can’t afford runes of holding.

An interesting suggestion for sure.
I also solo a lot of content and I have felt the same but I usualy just then redo it later with friends.
I have thought that the spawn rate in some areas of the game needs adjusting.
Several times I have been doing an event with other players when the initial waves have already reset before you can down the final boss.
I am not sure if the spawn rate or the timer on the DE needs to be reset but it would make a big difference. Some of the DE’s are so quickly reset/timed that you find yourself 10 steps away before it starts up again.I just run for my life in such situations

I just don’t know how practical your suggestion is.

Yes please, this would be awesome.
I got an exotic drop that looked great but I couldn’t use- gave it to my husband and bought the staff for myself on the TP.
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It looked so bad I salvaged it.

Yes they are way too expensive I am still on 8/10 slot bags at lvl80.
I just can’t see myself spending that much money on a rune if I could be spending it on almost anything else.
It would be great if we could buy the runes with karma or even just the recipes and then craft the runes ourselves.
A friend asked me to make him bags the other night and I gave him a breakdown of the mats and costs for the different sizes- he wanted 4, 20 slot bags initially after he saw the cost he went with 3, 10 slot and 1, 12 slot I think. It is just sad.

I have an apple and an orange and a banana that are account bound- I think I got them as a reward/drop somewhere.
I think I’ll have to go make them into something to see if I can mail it- I have never had trouble mailing or selling items made with Karma bought recipes or ingredients.

I just got lvl 80 exotic as a reward for completing a lvl 60-70 area so yeah totally worth my time!

I am 80 and I spend a lot of time in lower zones, I like exploring, I do events, I gather and just generally have a good time. I see no point in sitting in Orr all day. Sure it would be nice to get rewards appropriate to my level. The fact that I don’t won’t stop me going back though

I am 80 and I still don’t have my third book.

I blame myself entirely since I am a craftaholic, the moment I hit 400 on my chosen two professions on my 80, I started crafting on my alts.
I would also love to make myself an exotic set – I guess my skill book will have to wait a while longer.

Wow, thanks! This is great since my other professions are hogging the mats.

Welcome to cooking Space is a majour problem- I also have extra bank space but it fills up so fast that I just ended up making really big bags for my chef- I figured that if she wants to produce all this stuff and keep it for later she can lug it around!

Seriously though a bank tab for intermediate cooking items would be awesome- I haven’t found the need for it in the other crafts to be honest but in cooking? Definitely!

yay! awesome post.

Tybalt here too and I think I’m kind of alone in having a liking for Logan :p
my favourite character I play, is my Mesmer, she is such a dork- I love her

I am level 80 and I spend a lot of time in Divinty’s Reach- it is my favorite crafting city so I go there everyday- I much prefer it over Lion’s Arch.
It would be great it you had a free way point though, since it normally costs me around 6 silver round trip.
but meh, I love DR so I go there silver or not

I have max tailoring and max jewelry and I would like to make pretty, special things
What I would suggest would be skins you could buy with Karma similar to the way you now buy rare and exotic recipes at the crafting master.

I think this would go a long way toward perhaps making crafting more special and your goods more sought after .

I would also dearly love it if we could see our crafted Jewelry on our characters, maybe with an option to hide it if you wished?

That is actually not a bad idea, what freaks me out is when they drop weapons and armor- I always feel O-O
where are the claws, hide and blood?
Apart from the fact that it is annoying from a crafter’s perspective it just makes no sense.

Yes I know you don’t want to hear it but just gather everything you come across in any zone, sell it and buy what you need, this has freed me immensely and I now love crafting.

They should at the very least be account bound if not soul-bound. Selling it on the TP just makes the whole effort cheap imo- obviously not money cheap but I hope you get the idea.
A legendary should be a supreme achievement.

Wait what? there are no legendary armors as far as I know, are there?
I would Kill to have a legendary armor- please
also at least 3 choices per armor type, so you can distinguish the classes.
This would be my personal wish list

That is a good point- he does take ages to get down.

I think his respawn rate needs to be tuned, he seems a pest atm. They thank you and all but hey here he is again. :p

As an aside do you think that appropriate rewards for this kind of thing would be a cool skin for weapons or armour at the vendor in town? Or even a recipe since it is a boss fight?

I am a Mesmer and I had no repair bills, the second time, the first time he spawned on top of me as I was shopping.

He is not that hard and you are saying you want rewards, really?

Are we getting to the point where if there isn’t anything in it for me I pass?

Echo.7634:

Raids do not make events epic.
Frodo and Sam saved middle earth and it was just the 2 of them. THAT was Epic.

Yes!!! thank you

Also to the person up thread who said the fact that you do not have raid progression attracted them to this game.

I cannot agree more, the things that attracted me to GW2 would be what separates it from the way other MMO’s operate.
I despise what MMo’s have become and raids have a lot to do with that whole – gear, cooler gear exclusion, commitment or you are out idea.

I have a kid that I like to spend time with, I also love GW2- raids would ruin the game for me because it opens a horrible can of worms where if you don’t get the stuff, you can’t do the stuff.

My statement is over simplified I know but it is late and as I said. I have a five year old.

wow! congrats and the staff looks awesome
Now I am going to have to get one for my mesmer, mmmmm see ya all in 10 years!

Thank you Op that is a very insightful post.
I have actually seen a decrease of gold-sellers in just tha last couple of days ( maybe I just blocked them all ) and I only ever saw one bot- I was so fascinated that I followed it around for about 10 min

Just checked- The bugged underwater skill point in Sparkfly Fen is fixed!
Yay
Thanks so much- keep up the great work!

That is awesome and congratulations!
My husband and I also play GW2 together and since our anniversary is on 31st October I suspect we will also be spending it in Tyria

Malaprop.1794:

Morrigan.2809:

Since I never played GW1 I am also very curious. I can’t wait actually. Did they have one day events or longer in GW1?

Bit of both. The Mad King showing up, for example, only happened on Halloween. Decorations would go up in the major cities and special Halloween drops would be around for around longer – IIRC, around a week. There were also seasonal quests that would appear shortly after the decorations/drops started appearing.

oh awesome, thanks! That sounds like great fun.

Randin.5701:

TransparentlyOpaque.1824:

More legendary of all kinds would of course be welcomed.

As an elementalist, I really want to see the bifrost in action. The picture does not seem to do it much justice, just looks like a skeletal staff with an odd “anatomical” shaped head.

Also, any staff with a Skull on top would make a nice addition, maybe a daemon head so it can be “legendary”!
With a name like bifrost, I was expecting some sort of ice shard staff with a translucent water like crystal ball rotating on top.

The name Bifrost is from Norse mythology; it’s the rainbow bridge that leads to the gods’ realm of Asgard.

Evidently, the particle effect reflects that.

Yes I got the reference which is why I want one, but google seems to hate me and I can’t find a pic at all.
Judging from this thread there must be some around can some-one please put a link?
Thank you very much

Since I never played GW1 I am also very curious. I can’t wait actually. Did they have one day events or longer in GW1?

I thought it a bit odd too but only since I play with a GS and can’t decide which one I want.
Maybe it is because everyone just loves the epicness of greatswords?

Maybe they are considering adding more weapons in the future, it would make sense.
I do think that a dual dagger or dual pistol character should have more options but I know for myself I would have to get two of the same ones since it would drive me batty if they didn’t match

O-O this whole thread freaks me out :p
I have never really encountered a horrible player in the game.
I have gone out of my way to help and I have been helped by more people than I can count, either by ressing me, killing the guy I’m targeting if in downed state and it is a huge fight or just to get difficult skill points. even somethinfg as silly as finding a last vista or POI
This has made me feel so positive about the community that I go out of my way to return the sentiment.
Same with map chat- people are asking for advice, linking waypoints for events and just generally chatting.
I think it greatly depends on the sever as some servers definitely are more mature than others

RoninsBack.4023:

tOss.9024:

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What a long and incoherent pile of rambling drivel.

The DR was implemented after the game was released! It wasn’t part of any vision.

It was a knee-jerk reaction to some serious desgin flaws that became apparent after the game was released.

Vision!? Yeah, right,

I’m all for you putting across a reasoned and balanced argument, but I’m not going to sit here and listen to you make things up, because it supports your short-sighted views on what “good” a DR system does.

Not only that, but the official line we get from ANet is that DR exists to curb bots and automated play. It’s nothing to do with trying to get legitimate players to alter their playstyles to suit a “skin oriented game.”

As has already been said in the thread, quite rightly, the DR is punitive in many different ways.

Your assessment is so far wide of the mark it’s risible.

If you can’t see by the overwhelming community response to DR, that’s it’s hated, then you must be spending all your time in other forums, are trolling or haven’t even bothered to read anything anyone else has says.

What a load of rubbish! I needed a good laugh.

The most imporant and damaging aspect of DR is that is alters standard bot behaviour and forces them into our DEs and has also caused bots to increase in number to fight against the effects of DR.

It’s been explained many times already. There are serious unforseen consequences of DR that ANet just didn’t think about.

They caused a big big mess with this and they’re not doing much to reverse it.

It’s going to cause serious damage. It is causing serious damage right now.

If you can’t see that, then I can’t help you. We’ve said all we can say about it.

Either it’ll get fixed or this game will falter and fail, before it’s even had a chance to be a success.

It is that simple.

Have you considered that the Op might be spending his time inside the game playing and not sitting on the forums spreading negativity?
I assure you that this is made to be much more urgent on the forums- I have not seen anybody complaining about it in the game ever.
Your entire post is hostile, the OP was not however.

Hughs.6549:

The lack of open world pvp makes the game incredibly more shallow.. yeah this is something I really miss in gw2.

“This game is cooperative, not competitive” That’s sad : as we can’t feel any epicness in gw2 dungeons, we can’t feel any “danger” in the open world.

Unfortunately the game isn’t designed for Open world pvp, and I think it was a terrible mistake now that I know what the game feels like.

Too much rainbows and care bears is not necessarily a good thing.

People are telling you what the intent behind the game is- this is a co-operative game, it is part of it’s basic design philosophy, there is no denying it because you don’t like it.
It is also one of the main drawing points of this game.
To then go and throw words like rainbows and carebears around because you can’t attack other players and you think that makes the game somehow shallow, just sounds silly.

Oh and on topic: No thanks- I really would not like to see open word PvP or whatever you want to call it. It will add nothing to the game-play and will actually harm it.

Wintyre Fraust.6534:

MMO’s by their very name are made to “play how you want”…

No, they’re not. As with any designed game system, the only things you get to do are those designed into the system, and beyond that, those things the developers allow. GW2, like any MMOG, has design parameters. You don’t get mounts, you don’t get to play as the bird race, mesmers don’t get to wear heavy armor and Asuras don’t get to start out the size of Norn. You don’t get to take your gear with you to sPvP and you don’t get open-world (in the regular PvE zones) PvP. You don’t get to bogart resource nodes or kick players out of your squad in WvW. You can’t exclude any player that waltzes by from jumping into whatever your guild is doing in the common zones and participating.

You get to play “your way” only as long as it fits the intended purposes of the game designers. When your gameplay (or that of enough players) goes outside of those parameters, they will take action as they see fit. Obviously, the developers of the game see fit, for whatever reason, to put in the DR system. Claiming that they are not allowing you to play as you wish is an empty complaint because no MMOG lets players do “whatever they want to do” in their games.

Just because you want to be able to do something in the game doesn’t mean ANET should provide for it or allow it. As with any game, you have to make your decisions if you want to continue to play any game if they move in a direction that doesn’t suit you. That’s why I stopped playing MMOGs a few years ago; the genre had moved away from what I found enjoyable.

GW2 brought me back, and the DR system doesn’t affect my gameplay at all, nor do I have a problem with them installing it in principle because it fits in perfectly with the overall game philosophy as I understand it.

If you like looking at pretty trees, to each his own, but I rather make the most of my time as I have it rather then get punished for playing a lot in one day.[/quote]

“Looking at pretty trees” and “making the most of one’s time” are not mutually exclusive choices. Nobody is punished for “playing a lot” in one day unless the only goal they have is “maximizing rewards”.
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Very well said!
I agree with you completely and so far I have been playing the game exactly how I want I have never been punished for it or forced into any kind of activity I don’t feel like doing
I got exactly what I expected from this game and I am only getting started.

I would love to see more armour skins in the store.
A permanent Tp/bank NPC- this can be character bound and I will pay $10 for it easy- even more if they think it is too cheap.
I would like to see cosmetic packs for hairstyle changes etc.
If player housing gets implemented I would like some cosmetic stuff for you house

Gw2 will do well because, unlike people are led to believe from these forums, the game is very enjoyable and sociable.
When ArenaNet took node competition, kill stealing, loot stealing and general griefing out of the game it really changed how players perceive and react to each other in the game.
It was a stroke of genius imo- I can’t imagine going back to that kind of environment in a game.

Gw2 also requires that you have the ability to set your own goals to an extent and I welcome that since I don’t feel like the game is treating me like a toddler.

If you look at the vibe in the game itself, it is clear that people are having fun and generally just running around enjoying themselves. It is really ironic that the vibe on these forums seem to be the exact opposite .

Moonthrower.1406:

Berylex, have you ever killed Kol Skullcrusher?

Yes I have and I see what you mean

Raids are not needed, there are already several bosses and event chains I can think of that require more than 5 players.
The difference is that you are not locked into a set path and have someone telling you what to do all the time.
Spontaneous group co-operation is one of the things I enjoy most about this game

Btw someone up thread mentioned the Nageling giant- he has nothing on Koll

Trock Bronze.9625:

Excuse me if I am wrong but DR= Drop Rate yes?
Is it really fun to sit there and grind out some material? I mean who plays the game for that other then bots? How is that remotely entertaining? There are plenty of other more interesting goals to set for yourself that will gather the materials and gold you need to obtain legionaries, which btw require legendary effort to obtain, makes sense. These weapons are basically just skins, thats the point. However should you move between maps and enemy types all day and you played non stop the DR would not drop much. You’d see it, move on, repeat and eventually come back to the start 5ish hours later seems to be the reset time when I am gathering in Orr. I will log out of my main and play my second and when I come back later loot is fine. I don’t get how thats a big deal.

As for all the bugs… the game just released they need time to fix it all up, no release is perfect for a while but this release has been much better then plenty of other MMOs. To me it just looks like people trying to find any little thing to complain about to justify returning to other MMOs they get or just warrant not liking the game. If you don’t like it fine, but trhat doesn’t mean the issues you have with it are fact or are not being worked on.

Lastly, A-Net has said, play other games, GW2 will be waiting. With no sub you have nothing to worry about. If the bugs bother you then come back when you see mention of a majority being fixed.

DR is short for Diminished return you are spot on in your assessment

I see a lot of people in all the zones in the game- actually I have never not seen plenty of people.
I love to revisit areas and I do it all the time, rewards are not really an issue because I enjoy what I’m doing and I can always sell stuff I don’t need and buy stuff I do need. I don’t feel funneled in the slightest.

You go to make lunch and can’t find the discovery tab in the kithcen

I would love to know this too, so far I have had exactly 0 luck in finding them as well.
I Have the rest of the recipes but I would love to make the set for my Ele- I gave up on making for my Mesmer since I’ve been searching since she was about 15 – she is now almost 80

Prophet.6954:

Well, what I’ve done is stop trying to farm mats, salvage all whites, and sell blues/greens.
I’ve also went on to doing dungeons, quests, and finishing zones to get a flow of money coming in. I’m actually enjoying this more, as Dungeons provide cash, karma, and tokens, and chests, and drops from mobs. The same can be said for zone completion (minus chests, but they do give rares and exotics at times). Thus, I sell the salvaged mats I don’t need, and the items I don’t need, and then more then enough to buy the mats I need to level up crafting. And, it was much more fun, then say fighting harpies for 2 hours to get 10 vials of blood. Trust me…

Very well said! once I realized this it was like a light went off in my head Eureka!
I have been having so much fun and I find crafting much more enjoyable now, it really made a difference in my life

Kimhyuna.1035:

Morrigan.2809:

I really don’t understand why people find it necessary to spill venom all over the forums.

Yes we know there is a very vocal group shouting:

I hate DR! , My game is ruined, Anet just want my money!

There are hundreds of threads about it and people who scream and moan and threaten to leave the game and claiming the game is dead… etc ad nauseam.

If someone has the audacity to disagree they are shouted down, called a white knight or a fanboy.

The reality is that this is a very well designed and successful game.
It breaks the mold of a stagnant MMO genre very nicely and Anet is very responsive to their player base, they keep the players updated and they are proactive in fixing real issues and protecting their players.
Also to the person who suggested that because this game is B2P that Arena Net needs to keep their costs down- are you serious? Have you got any idea how profitable this game is?

And everytime we come to the forums with a viable complaint we are shut down with taunts of ‘go back to playing WoW’ and claims that GW2 is the most perfect, awesome game out there. We are given the, ’ I THINK THE GAME IS FINE SO YOU SHOULD TOO’ arguement. And if not that, we are asked to move on – which is always a favourite of players whose games slowly died.

I have never told someone to go back to Wow, I also never said GW2 was perfect- I said it was a well designed game. Since there are multiple threads on this issue you are clearly not being shut down. You have a complaint sure- lot of people don’t you are being melodramatic

Its a double edged sword here, you believe the game is well designed and I cant disagree? I am a paying customer and I am only allowed to post messages of love on the main boards because you believe negativity is non-existant?

Again, where did I say this at all?
I have as much right as you to an opinion.
Why are you telling me you are a paying customer? Do you think I didn’t pay for the game? I pre- purchased it in full and have been playing since the beta’s

And for an issue this large, why should it be negelcted to the suggestions forums where ANET rarely frequent. After all, the only thing they have changed after player complaints are dungeon rewards. Any other suggestion has not been considered at all.

It is not a large issue, you feel it is a large issue and the fact that there are a gazillion threads about it makes it seems large. I happen to not agree with you since it has never affected me in the slightest.

You believe the forums should only praise ANET because YOU believe the game is perfect. I respect your oppinion, as you are a paying customer and you should respect mine when I bring up a legitamate complaint that many others are agreeing on. I dont go into all the ‘praise-anet-as-much-as-possible-just-because’ and flame the individuals who agree with the thread JUST BECAUSE I DISAGREE. It is thier oppinion and that is fine.

There you go again telling me what I believe.
I have never flamed anyone in my life

_And my question to you: Why can I not be negative on the forums if I believe a feature is not fixing anything? Why can I not post about how bots ARE NOT BEING AFFECTED BY DR? Why can I not complain about how I play and spend my LEGIT time only to be punished the longer I play? Why can I not complain about how the market is already out of hand, even though Anet hired an economist? WHY CAN I NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW THE DR-SYSTEM WAS IMPLENTED 2 WEEKS OUT OF NOWHERE WITHOUT ANY WARNING?-

I never said you can’t state your opinoin, I questioned the need for multiple similar threads that achieve nothing but spread negativity.

Also please note that not once in all my posts do I feel the need to write sentences in caps. That kind of emphasizes the point i was trying to make about people screaming