Guild Wars 2

This is a lazy solution to a larger problem. I would suggest they admit megaserver is a fail and try something else (districts).

Vol.7601:

I would welcome the components of a legendary to be locked behind something as difficult as Liadri.

You don’t feel superior enough being able to brag about beating a boss?

bhagwad.4281:

From what I remember, you could be using the very highest lvl gear in GW1 and the “Hard Mode” in the low level areas would eat you alive and spit out your remains if you were careless.

This game has nothing in common with GW1, besides the lore (not that I got over it).

So much yes! Good effort, nice list.

Exclussive from Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/21uesj/exclusive_rise_of_the_tengu_mini_expansion/

Oh, ok!
/15 charrs

I never cared much about AP, so maybe I’m missing the point, but isn’t this pointless when you can hoard them from dungeon or salvage repeatable achievements?

Tom Gore.4035:

I am pretty sure they are not allowing transmutations across different armor/weapon types. It would be problematic in PvP, where you will need to be able to identify the enemy’s class without having to click on them.

A guardian will be able to play pvp in cheff outfit, apparently, so why not in light armor?

Which outfits are left as “wearable in combat” then? pirate and chef?

nGumball.1283:

Moss.5371:

No

Massive grinds, zerg-friendly content, skip-and-hide-in-corner-dungeons, only damage builds supremacy, gemstore direction, fugly unrealistic armor/weapon skins and weak, very weak story = not good but hey they can hide behind the “fastest selling” thing so what do I know.

None complained about any of this via release. People are just getting bored. If you actually disliked all of this and still played the game and actually bother checking the forums now, I have no comment.

Because after release all of this wasn’t so blatant, to me at least. I’m saying I don’t like the direction this is taking. It’s disheartening, I see this attitude a lot in the forums “if you complain so much why don’t leave, go play something else, everything’s fine here”. There’s things that I like, of course, which is why I stick around. And while I do, I will have an opinion.

No

Massive grinds, zerg-friendly content, skip-and-hide-in-corner-dungeons, only damage builds supremacy, gemstore direction, fugly unrealistic armor/weapon skins and weak, very weak story = not good but hey they can hide behind the “fastest selling” thing so what do I know.

Those aion sets look a lot more “realistic” than gw2 ones to me. And prettier

Kaiyanwan.8521:

I do not understand why people think traits on the gem store are totally impossible.

Because they said they will be available from an NPC, dude. But I agree with what someone said. It’s funny how people believe this look4pay bullkitten. GW2 is obviously p2w from the moment they allow you to directly buy gold.

Many people putting their money on “all weapons for all classes”. The amount of new skills and trait reworking that this would imply… I don’t buy it (sadly).

Milea.6043:

I think E is Liv-E-a (Livia).

lol? then I think it’s Ogden, E-gden

mtpelion.4562:

In the real world, Lion’s Arch would be abandoned.

No way! There’s no place with a better strategic position in Tyria. It’s not coincidence that LA is exactly there.

LA was already rebuilt after the rise of Zhaitan and will be rebuilt again, nothing else makes sense since it’s home to many people especially merchants and “sea people”. How and how long will take is another story! Saying “boo what’s the point” is just selfish and unrealistic.

Loki.8793:

There are no such thing as tanks in GW1, as there is no hate mechanic to grab the attention of mobs.

what.

Balance and bug fixing are not “features”. I’m tired of being sold the idea of this. Balance and fixes should happen as needed, and not packed as “features”.

I don’t think ArenaNet created the elitists, they’re in every game And they’ll always find a way to pick who they team with: gear, reputation… AP. whatever. On the other hand, everyone’s entitled to choose who they spend their time with, so you can’t exactly blame them neither. Just make your own group or join a more… “casual” one.

Wraithen.6059:

I’d rather have something new every two weeks than every two years.

GW Prophecies: April 28, 2005
GW Factions: April 28, 2006
GW Nightfall: October 27, 2006

That’s TWO heavy expansions in ONE year and a half.

Same problem here, couldn’t move and skills never went off in 15 min.

You can pick weapon type. Not stats.

Shemsu.8721:

You can get ascended weapons with almost no effort absolutely anywhere.

That’s not true. The chance of getting an ascended drop AND with stats you can use doesn’t make that a viable option.

Josh Foreman.8250:

If I cared about cash grabs I’d be working at Zynga where they design based on MTX. We don’t do that here. I’m trying to make SAB (And I mean SAB, not the GW2 rewards, achievements, titles, MTX, etc) a good, solid, fun game. That’s my focus.

Woah I don’t know where to start. 1. You don’t do that here? Infinite coin anyone? 2. Here’s a free idea for you. I’m sure there’s a group of playes that enjoy Zynga games so why not bring them in GW2 too? Let players in WvW after taking a keep open a restaurant in it and customize their menu and stuff. That would be like, so innovative and rule-breaking!

oh kitten :O

dekou.6012:

akamon.2769:

now where is talk of increasing level cap coming from?

They’ve mentioned it in several interviews. Then again, they mentioned expansions in those same interviews, so…

They’ve mentioned increasing level cap in several interviews? Quote / link please

GS looked very nice Wish they were just dyeable though, so you don’t need to craft 2 for stat / color plus buy a transmute cystal -.-

I see many people saying it would cause many balance issues. Oddly enough, I always thought this helped a lot to the class balance in gw1! Not to talk about build variety. Hopefully this would happen at some point

Well sorry, I didn’t mean to beat any horse, just give my opinion. Won’t happen again.

You are right. The whole jumping puzzle thing is an attempt to integrate the platform genre into an mmo. GW1 or 2 are not typical mmos, I’ll give you that. But to me, of course this is just my opinion, it’s rather sad that the resources are being spent only in minigames and temporary content that doesn’t fit much with what a regular GW fan paid for or wants to see added to the game. Like liadri (1v1 fighting mortal combat thing genre), SAB (platforms), or the champion zerging (this may be a new genre on its own, which redefines the definition of group play to: “if someone is dead, link them the nearest WP and keep tagging stuff”).

Wolfheart.1938:

They aren’t changing the rules of GW2, they are changing the rules of a mode of a minigame developed as a sideproject. It’s not like SAB normal mode (or the rest of GW2 for that matter) doesn’t conform to the standard rules of gaming design.

I know… the minigame itself is not breaking any rule or inventing anything. Apparently it’s a genre on itself. Incorporating it in a mmo is not subverting the rules of art, is buying a coke and finding it’s filled with… dont know, lemonade.

Josh Foreman.8250:

there are fantastic examples of media that purposefully subvert those structures and the fact that the rules are broken is part of what makes them great

Well Josh, when you go watch a David Lynch movie or buy a Bjork album you’re well aware they’re going to subvert structures and break rules. And yeah they’re great. That’s why you buy their art actually. When you buy Guild Wars 2 you know what you’re buying too. Want us to believe that now changing the rules makes it great? In my humble opinion they’re completely different cases.

So you need to grind the lifes in normal mode before going in TM to randomly die. Enjoy awesome design))))

+1 I find it funny how they talk so much about how they love watching people work together. In the zerg, though, you’ll rarely get rezed, people are too busy tagging everything for the loot. At best they will link you the nearest WP.

Cassius.4831:

Why do you know people won’t enjoy SAB TM?

Because he said so: “TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.”

Josh Foreman.8250:

blah blah

That explains a lot. You do indeed sound sadistic, which is troubling. What’s the point of investing this much time and effort of development in content that only a handful will enjoy AND come here and brag about it? Can only be sadism. Maybe you could try to make more popular content for the people that bought your game(1), which certainly didn’t buy it expecting this.

(1) New permanent content such as areas, skills, classes, skins, dungeons.

marnick.4305:

GW2 is an MMO while GW1 was not.

Howcome? It’s the other way around in my opinion, see I did plenty of actual group play in GW1 in dungeons and story. In GW2 dungeons, you just take care of yourself.

Of course there’s things I like in GW2. Jumping Puzzles for example. Funny, because in GW1 you couldn’t even space jump and wasn’t a big deal because everything else was awesome.

GW2 is going in the exact opposite direction of GW1. In every single aspect of the game. Which is incredibly sad for all the GW1 fans.

Actually, I would like to know if there’s any GW1 fan that likes GW2 better as a whole.

stat boost to legendaries?
let’s definetely bury the manifesto?

> Secondary professions and the infinite possibilities this gave
> Trinity roles and group play
> Templates
> Knowing there wasn’t going to be a higher tier of gear (this too)
> Cantha and Elona

Vanisher.9216:

You don’t really NEED to grind them because they are mostly for cosmetic, so the no-grind philosphy still kinda applies.

you don’t NEED to lie to sell more neither.

Shiren.9532:

I’d just like to point out DoA in it’s current form (at least earlier this year, and this goes for most of GW1’s elite areas over the years) has been played via exploiting the AI and very niche party set ups and strategies. Most of the “casual” content of GW2 I’ve experience, with big DEs etc are a lot more engaging , exciting and enjoyable than GW1 elite areas, because you didn’t design them to be so hard players searched out really exploitable niche strategies which eliminate all the risks it becomes tank and spank (my last few runs through DoA were exactly this, it gets really boring after a while). Many of the threads I’ve read about taking on certain dungeon bosses have been to pull the boss out of a certain area and DPS it safely from a certain location (on stairs, behind doors etc) which completely removes the challenge and difficulty. This is how GW1 elite areas are done and I really hope this isn’t your intention for GW2 dungeon difficulty because I find that incredibly disappointing, it’s not challenging, it just relies on an exploit which needs to be figured out resulting in it becoming trivial.

One of the worst consequences of GW1 elite are design was it often resulted in classes becoming very undesirable for groups (or, resulting in the same situation, some classes so desirable others couldn’t compete) so some player classes saw no end-game action unless the biggest challenge could be overcome – finding a group with a less optimised class.

Spot on.
+1

Efaicia.3672:

Reflects, blinds, interupts, shields ..oh, you only have 1 shield ability? did you know there are several others that you can trigger through combos? That should make staying in melee much easier. There are 5 people in your group, each of which have access to at the VERY LEAST 1 blind 1 knockback/down, and interupts, that, at the VERY LEAST, is up to 15! control abilities that will make it easier to stay in melee.

So instead of “tanking” a mob, we now have to “control” it. Because if you’re hit you’re dead. Fine.
To me this just sounds like ping-ponging, kiting, and chaos. So I guess this is not for me

Dobbelsteen.9273:

This is ONE of the ways you can do it, my group simply chilled/immobilized/snared the entire group and killed em slowly with a lot of kiting.

I haven’t done it myself. Just wanted to point, OP made it sound like there is only one way to do it, with a mesmer.
Kiting sounds fun too. Not.
I like being in melee, and melee is suicide in these dungeons.

Mirodir.1672:

… and portaled my whole team after me. I felt so great not only being useful but CRUCIAL to the success of the mission. I have literally NO idea how else we could’ve passed those groups.

Yeah it sounds like awesome game design that you NEED a mesmer to go past those two groups.

DABhand.2079:

Agreed it would suck to see Sunglasses in middle of Tyria lol

It would enrage a lot of RPers

Then RPers should know tinted spectacles were always part of Tyria