Guild Wars 2

On my charr I had given up after hours and hours of trying. On my charr, I couldn’t deal with all the camera issues, I was cussing and raging. After seeing how good the xp was in the labyrinth I jumped on my alt (sylvari) did 10 levels, got master carver and everything else but the jump puzzle… So I was like what the hell, I’ll give it another shot, on my 3rd try I did it, no camera issues, no issues with charr/norn being in my way (yes they were there also) but it was so much easier!! I think if the camera was better, people would have a better shot at the puzzle. Some people are just bad at jumping puzzles like my friend. I told him you could get these [item link of slippers] and he was like “I’d love to have those, but I suck at jumping puzzles” Give it a shot? Sure he said.. dead-dead-dead-F-THIS!!! AND OH WELL!!! was his answer, but he knew going in he sucked at jumping puzzles (established this in WoW wall jumping)

1 you are bad at jumping puzzles.
2 you’re having camera issues.
3 you are not comfortable with the games layout. (where your character centers)
3½ you lack patience, or easily frustrated.

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After completing the puzzle I felt zero accomplishment, I was just glad I didn’t have to do it again.

“no to mounts. yuck. they’re always silly and gimmicky and the game begins to work like a freeway, with zero player interaction.”

I’ll go along with gimmicky, but the second one… 3 day head start to now has been zero player interaction. I don’t see how mounts would change the way events work, well other than people getting there faster, saving the village, or whatever and then running off. That is exactly what it is now, mounts wouldn’t change a thing.

Undermine.1678:

I don’t think commander should be bought with badges but as for blueprints, you may purchase with badges or silver.

But if a change is made, I don’t see why you could not buy the book for either 100g or 10,000 badges.

As for me… killing people solo and jump puzzles, I make 50-250 badges a day.

This must have been a recent change then, because last time I done the jumping puzzle I think it gave me 20 badges, and badge drops from killing players were like 1 in 50. Anyways I think they should get the karma and gold out of WvW, and make it work with Glory and badges. Buying a rank should not be allowed, even a voting system would be bad just because of large guilds and trolls eliminating legit players because of flexing kittens, or people who are jerks because it is “funny”.

So it’s impossible to add more classes because of balance? Why would a new class be imba compared to any existing ones? Giving a ranger a staff, is just a ranger with a staff, a ranger with a GS doesn’t make the ranger a warrior. New weapons add to the class options, but new classes add to the game as a whole. Just because they add new classes(professions) doesn’t mean you have to play them.

BTW this is the suggestions forum, tad silly coming to a suggestions forum with a suggestion telling people not to make suggestions isn’t it?

Undermine.1678:

Badges are valued at 1s each.

If badges is the currency for it, it would need to be 10,000 Badges of Honor but to compromise maybe make the book 50g and 5,000 badges.

You can buy badges? Or are you going by sell value listed on the item itself? When I played a lot of WvW I only got 137 and that was while all servers were bangin’ now WvW is imo a wasteland, working on 500 badges is just murder.

incisorr.9502:

@Nels

1: Whats the problem with warrior having shield and sword and doing damage? lol. Your logic is incredibly bad, and you’re implying that warrior can’t just use axe and shield and do hard damage and have shield skills at same time…

2: Thats not my job, its arena net’s job. I’d be happy to offer my knowledge if i were hired and sort this out. And yes, you’re supposed to be able to modify ur stuff as much as u want, thats why its a mmorpg. You can already modify ur traits as much as u want , so whats ur problem with weapons?

3: no , farming 300 hours for legendary and then a new better weapon coming is not my image of a good idea.

4: what? It doesn’t matter if im happy or not with my weapon, i actually pvp , if they put a halberd and its much better than say greatsword – ill be forced to get halberd to keep up with pvp standards. Just like hammer and greatsword for warrior at this point, hammer is plain bad and easily countered so you get gs or you stay low level pvper

Honestly you can’t use logic in a fantasy mmo, you just can’t. If you do, then anyone with a sword should 1 shot a target in cloth, or leather. Also a caster could kill you by simply giving you the plague, or blasting you with a fireball in the face.

Anyways, keep the suggestions coming, somethings gotta give. I’m hardcore-casual and bored out of my mind, need more things to make the game more fun and less “grind-y”.

Great idea, but adding to this they should sell commander status via 500 Badges of honor, give it a purple icon, and all the option you suggest. Sick of running to a commander who is just out farming ore, or dancing on a hilltop. 100g puts money into politics and that is just bad, the people who eat, sleep and crap WvW should have these options, not someone who spends 75 dollars at the gem store.

“Search this topic” does the sifting for you, shouldn’t be to many results since they are constantly merged.

Direngrey.1247:

Please, I would love mounts, they make your character unique and stand out and make traveling easier if you don’t want to pay for waypoints, it gives a nice incentive too.

I’d put money on it that it wouldn’t be “cheaper” if they add mounts I bet that it would be similar to Forsaken World with limited time use, expensive to obtain and expensive to maintain.. In other words cheaper to use WP system, more mundane game play, welcome to B2P/F2P, either splurge on RMT or suffer the grind.

This has been suggested multiple times already, try searching topic before posting.

Also I agree, oh and if ANet used that thing.. oh-whats-it-called-um… Oh yeah communication about what features they plan on working on, or addressing, that would help.

I loved the amount of zoom we had during MK event, though it seems they have changed it back to default which is a shame. I really miss WoW’s camera, imo it’s the best camera in any mmo I’ve ever played and to top it off, if you want more range you can do it via macro.

ANet should just stop controlling people and let the decide by adding a range slider in the options. If you like looking at your fat norn’s back, then go ahead and do that, me, I’d rather not have a headache, so I’d max that baby out!

First things first, fix the camera so it doesn’t bounce, snag, or zoom while “spinning” side to side and then give us a kitten range slider so we can decide!!!

tl;dr Stop taking options away! oh yeah and remove DR’s – its killing our game.

Hastur.6231:

Damon.9783:

can you please add mounts into the game because it takes ages to get around WvW and around the world

It is supposed to be hard to get around WvW so waypoint upgrades for keeps actually have tactical and strategical value, while also making moving troops around a big decision. As for PvE there are waypoints everywhere, they are there is no need for mounts and contested points are not a reason for mounts they are there to encourage players to progress in the area and unlock them. Waypoints are a gold sink required to keep the economy of the game running.

It’s supposed to be hard to get around, or you mean it is supposed to be artificially hard and boring to get into action? When I was leveling my main 3DHS WvW was extremely busy and fun. Now on my alts it’s the extreme opposite, your server is either dominating the maps, or getting completely destroyed. I don’t see how mounts have that great of an impact on the game type. WvW is huge, having 1 central way point doesn’t do anything but remove the action from the game. I understand that there should be a delay in the time it takes you to die, and return, but it can take entirely to much time to run all the way back, missing out on karma, silver and xp that you had work so hard for. The game doesn’t reward you for standing in front of a keep busting the door down, hardly anything for using supply and if you get picked off in the zerg to take the keep, you are SOL. Mounts could assist in getting back to the action, without missing the point. WvW is real expensive to participate in, siege, repairs, upgrades and time – especially time. I am against mounts in the game PvE, but in WvW, limited way points call for something that doesn’t allow instant travel, but travel in a reasonable time frame and running on foot isn’t reasonable.

The whole gold sink argument… The entire game is a huge gold sink, cost of “living” vs “income” is a joke. If you play GW2 for a living, or buy gold via gems(other) means then it isn’t so bad, but as someone who plays the game in spare time wont bother and I think that is what is killing this game off.

If you compare the first month of this game to the second month, the difference is night and day. The game needs to not try and be so different that it makes gameplay mundane, which atm it does. Play WvW for an hour, you are probably looking for action, or getting repairs, maybe 10 minutes of actual PvP (maybe)

Mounts could add to WvW making much more fun, they certainly couldn’t make it much worse..er…well unless ANet sucks the fun out of it as per usual.

Taemira.6847:

Nappychappy.7046:

Looks like your gpu is overheating, or something… Is that the lion in LA?

Yes… really, looks glitchy? My GPU is only at around 35°C, and never goes above around 75°C…

Character model looks fine, but the world looks dull, and the lion wtf? I haven’t logged on today, err.. yesterday – is that something new?

Looks like your gpu is overheating, or something… Is that the lion in LA?

But only a set amount of people per server can do WvW at one time, most cities except for LA are sparse at best. So where are the rest of the people? Is a high pop server only 1,500 – 2,000 people? We should find out server capacity, even though this doesn’t change the fact that zones are nearly dead.

Professor Marvel.7584:

This is normal. The more people there are, the more effort your GPU has to put in to render it all.

This is why, when you look at GPU’s on Newegg, people would state what their fps is when they are in Stormwind (from WoW) because, in the most-populated city of WoW, frame drops are standard.

Hope that helps!

-PM

Only thing is, in WoW characters in the city are visible farther than 5 feet away on low settings. In Gw2 on max settings you are only seeing a hand-full of people x distance away. Whatever that bug is that showed up a bit after release is probably more so the cause than anything else. Just like in PvP you know a zerg is coming even though you can’t see it because of frame drops. Unoptimized code would be my guess, frame drops before anything that renders wouldn’t be the fault of GPU would it?

MarcusKilgannon.5048:

NealCaffrey.6450:

Seen it mentioned a couple times in the thread already and I’ll say it again. We need to know when members last logged in… Also a “so and so has Logged In” would be nice.

I can’t believe this wasn’t added originally. Seems like something that would be impossible to overlook.

People will only ask for so long, but all the bugs, lack of features and things to do at level 80. Maybe I am in the select few that burned through content to fast feeding my MMO appetite, but sooner, or later people will catch up and start to wonder. IMO it’s to early in the games life to be like this, its starting to look like Mortal Online. /shudder.

Rockmontage.1603:

Pfffttt. I hope to get up. I think its seven or eight am for NZ? We may not get the acheivement but at the end of the day Americans only like Americans, Look after number one. Thats why the world hates america. Not me, I enjoy reeses pieces.

No, I’m pretty sure most Americans hate everyone, including other Americans. Also I believe Reese’s Pieces are made in Mexico, but you also enjoy Anet which is also in the US so.. whatever.

On topic, the 1 times event is really unfair, Anet is hell bent on making this community worse and worse.

I am going to miss it, simply I do not want to be a crap statistic for self promotion on a game imo is almost dead and doesn’t seem to have much of a future.

Who actually knows, anet doesn’t communicate anything.

Reevac.1748:

Really? You can’t please everyone. ANET is a US company not Asian or European. Get over it.

Now I see why people hate us Americans, such a crap attitude towards your fellow gamers… If the shoe was on the other foot, you bet your kitten you would be the one here QQ’in.

Jabberwock.9014:

People are missing the point. Anet could make everybody BUT you a skeleton. Or better yet plastic spider. Then you could always tell where you are.

At this point, I don’t think there is a point. Game constantly reaching critical mass in the complaint department, where every idea is better than the one Anet had. I should be enjoying the game that I couldn’t get enough of, the one that had the “GW2 effect” on me, the one I should be playing right now…

More I think about it, I think GW2 was supposed to be for consoles, I really do and the only reason it was ported to PC is because of limitations of either xbox 360, or the PS3. It feels like a console game, it’s limited like a console game, it has the replay value of a console game……/rant – sorries.

The land of progression, and endgame…

As an ex smoker, once in a while I smell a cigarette and pretty much JIMP…

That’s progression and endgame for me at this point.

So much missed potential.. More I read, the more I appreciate Kickstarter.

People will soon learn, if it’s to good to be true, it probably is an exploit and you better use it as much as possible before the nerf.

IMO Exploiters are the only ones that get ahead in this game, sad, sad, sad…

When will GW2 launch?

When it’s ready™

Looks at suggestion section

/le sigh

Bump!!!

It also needs to be smooth scrolling, not scrolling by increments.

My favorite was the other day.

New Build available 60 minutes to restart…

New Build available 55 minutes to restart…

Game restarts…. Thankfully I wasn’t in an instance, or doing anything important.

I think they should do a lot more testing so that they don’t have to hurry up and fix an exploit 3 times a day.

I have 3/5 t3 and 2/5 Karma, I have to use pitch on t3, and abyss on karma to make it match. Some colors have a twin that will match on other surfaces, some don’t.

Good luck.

Sahriah.3792:

5am for me. Im getting up for it. If a one time event in a game means THAT much to you, you would get up to. Deal with beng a little sleepy.

5am for you makes it fine for people who have to get up at 3am? Here how about this, whats a bad time for you to play? Maybe we should have the event then, see who’s QQing then.

I have pretty bad FPS as soon as I log into LA, but its fine after that.

Also Black Citadel is fine.

“We didn’t want to make a game where you are watching bars bob up and down”

Designs range finder on ui so you have to watch bars bob up and down.

Someone toss a big stupid hat on this one.

skirge.6421:

Guess I fail to see the point of this to be honest…buy a game and then not play it? just curious

After your main, plus 100% map completion, I’d rather vomit clothes hangers than to level another character. End game is all about having fun, once you maxed out the fun of one character, you should be able to do it again without all that lame kitten leveling all over again.

As a charr I don’t feel bad for you, we run on all fours (close to the ground) plus we are tall so our camera freaks the kitten out when we jump, stand by a wall, or rotate to fast.

Siphaed.9235:

I love the jumping puzzle Mad King’s Clocktower. It’s fun, fast, instance, and a finger on the pulse of my heart. It’s so awesome. Takes a while, and there are some spots that are just “AHHHHH!” painful; but after all that it get’s down right enjoyable.

Here’s a video of my last completion of it: http://youtu.be/hMxV_RaThlk?hd=1
Edit: Music in video is PG-13, just FYI heads up there.

So, do you love it? Like it? Hate it? Why so?

I saw 2 times where your camera went full rtard, as a charr my camera did this almost every jump I made.

Aragnor.4250:

We need an ‘evil’ path. After saving the world what we do is pointless. Pvp And www has no purpose, no connection with the lore, nothing to drive players to hunt each other with a competitive spirit. Red vs Blue or Server vs Server just doesn’t fill the spot.

Nothing fills the void. PvE has no progression and very limited skins that take an ungodly amount of time and resources.

sPvP/tPvP. the Call of Duty of GW2. The grind is so obvious there is all of 3-5 games running at any given time, none of them are full.

WvW, kill people, die and then run for 20 minutes to get back in the action again /snore

They fixed a few problems that mmos had, and royally screwed up the rest of the things that were perfectly fine.

Yuripa.7608:

“Whatever happens is going to be on livestreams instantly and then on YouTube about five minutes later. At least this way, everyone has a chance to experience it in the game, without having it spoiled by the rapid availability of video on the Internet.”

Lots people will be forced to watch this on VIDEO anyway because some idiot decided to make it a one time event.

Fail, complete fail. So many things going wrong lately in this game, this Halloween event one major one and now this. I will prob quit this and buy some co-op games on Steam.

I second that, I’ve actually been bored enough to play Gmod13….

I don’t feel ripped off at all, I have logged a tad over 700 hours total, imo that is good investment for 60 dollars. I however am a bit pissed that I recommended this game to people saying “It’s different than F2P” When in fact it is no different, and those people left because it isn’t no different. So in a way I feel worse, because I ripped my friends off.

If you ask me the Zhaitan encounter was made like 4 hours before launch, I’m not even kidding. The airship is a disaster, more cut scenes than Heavy Rain, and the fight 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

Lame loot, beat the game, Cursed Shore is still Cursed Shore.

Archmortal.1027:

Instanced PvP doesn’t create a community rift. The “community” in this context is limited to the one you directly interact with, i.e. your server. PvP creates a rift as much as shoving spaghetti down my pants creates food in my stomach. It makes even less sense to say that about WvW as your ENTIRE SERVER is on one side.

I’m not going to disagree that a lot of people are looking for more things to do than farm Orr/Dragons but honestly the entire game levels you out so that you don’t outgrow anything. Yes there should probably be some more PvE content to do with some less mundane rewards but the lack of things to do at the moment comes from a misguided notion that max level = extra content.

Enabling PvP in general throughout PvE areas would create a rift, as ANET would more than likely have to label servers as dedicated PvP servers where you can’t unflag. The elitism that would come from such a setup is what would create a rift.

Also to the OP: calling an MMO of this size an excuse for one is kind of… missing the point? I don’t see how that’s even remotely valid to imply.

Freely being able to switch servers is killing community because “you suck, this servers bad, to many bads”.

This game DOES need more content, 1 level 80 zone is a shame, and visiting low level zones? Sure, why not…Ohwaitnooneisthereanymore! So you are scaled down, can’t solo events, or pinholed in the only zone max level players farm events and dragons whoop-de-do!

Yes.

There’s always next year, then again since this game can’t fall back on F2P it might be hosed by then.

They wont nerf it, it wont be available long enough for them to figure out the code and how to change it.

I said the same thing on FB site for our server, everyone lol’d fact is even before the event I gave up leveling my alts because nearly every zone was dead. Villages that get attacked, and taken over, are always taken over, champions spawn and roam with not a soul showing up to take it down. I’ve even noticed that Cursed Shore is dead most of the time.. The game is more busy now during the holiday, but not much more. Longest I’ve spent in overflow was about 2 minutes, and I haven’t been in overflow out side a town in 6-7 weeks.

@ Bonzoso

To true, but at this rate its inevitable. ANet constantly shoots themselves in the foot, the number of players are most definitely dwindling faster than SWTOR even. I really have no idea how they can stop the bleeding, it seems they are trying to make a game no one wants to play.

Bobudo.7943:

Nappychappy.7046:

If they wanted Carebear: Carealot, they screwed up and added WvWvW and sPvP.

They really need to start thinking outside the box at this point. It’s been 2 months, and people are begging for something to do.

You really don’t see how, by having Wv3 and sPvP instanced away from the normal PvE world that they’re preserving the PvE experience for people who don’t want to get ganked?

Plus, that’s not what OP is suggesting.

If I understand it right, choosing a side would be like flagging, if you don’t want to be “ganked” don’t flag?

My point about pvp, was that the “anet doesn’t want a rift in the community” which is done alone by sPvP, tPvP and WvW.

If they wanted Carebear: Carealot, they screwed up and added WvWvW and sPvP.

They really need to start thinking outside the box at this point. It’s been 2 months, and people are begging for something to do.

I’ve been against mounts ever since I’ve heard of GW2, but at this point, I’m so bored, I’d welcome mounts and the mount grind, or achievements.

Getting to know ANet better and better since launch, my guess is that mounts would run 100% with food (costing 50 gems a day) or 35% without food.

Nah never mind, I forget how this game sucks the fun out of everything fun..

I’m against mounts, again…

My guess is that you are priory and found out how everything priory disappointing?

I can relate, but maybe in time our decisions will reward us with more appealing items in the future, the game is young, the items are really low tier. My guess there will be teirs, and this the first teir is lack-luster in both stats, and look (for some) depending on taste.

I hope any ways…

2 months into the game, and this thread… I agree!

More to the point, the game needs 3 to 5 level 80 zones, needs to emphasize guilds, guild only events and endgame, a reason to be apart of a guild and loyal to a guild.

Less small meaningless event system, more in depth large scale events.

The game just needs more everything – except for bugs, bots, and exploits.

I wonder why its a 1 time event… Even more so why is it a secret? Should I make plans to make sure I show up, or is it some crap I don’t care about?

I don’t know who they made this game for, but it sure in the hell isn’t for me.

MilConDoin.3420:

Highlighting the players achieves nothing, because you can still not see the ground to know, when you should jump.
Make all other players (nearly) invisible, that’s imho the only viable option.
I’m wondering, if the devs have ever played the tower with 5+ Charr/Norn sharing your instance. You can just guess where to go and when to jump. A heavy time-constraint is not a problem, if you can see where to go. But if you add these big characters on top, everything is reduced to guesswork. I just hope, that this will be fixed before the end, so I can try to finish the tower. With this, I won’t try again.

Doesn’t much matter, the people who design this stuff have 5+ years under their belts, plus in depth understanding of how everything works. A great deal of this game is artificially hard, the puzzle, and timing part is very easy, but the jumping with 15-20 other people is what makes it hard. Err well, the camera doesn’t help at all either.

I’ve scaled mountains in vanilla WoW that make this puzzle look like a joke, to take credit on the design is laughable since it’s not the hard part, it’s dealing with people hogging up your screen, or using elites like those stupid kitten trees, and horrible camera design /le sigh.

MF should be removed from the game, honestly there isn’t enough to be had in this game to justify MF based stat. Some people are luckier than others whether its good RNG or bad RNG there should never be a modifier that runs the entire game. People should play to have fun, and also part of that fun is the random awesome drop, MF makes people want to increase that awesome drop and instead of playing the game for fun and awesome drops, they set out in pursuit of only awesome drops.

No need for people, all you need is time and MF, screw everything else – Worst design of an MMO.