Guild Wars 2

I guess you’re thinking something along the lines of how skill runes work in Diablo 3? I wouldn’t mind seeing that. GW2 needs an overhaul in the skill department for sure.

sfxblade.3459:

Here is an update on my Mesmer, i was looking for a more combat look instead of mage, and found a nice Steampunk looking combo, i really am in love with this look at the moment.

Those two behind you picked a terrible place to park their wagon. WTK?

Asumita.2174:

timmyf.1490:

Does anybody else think it’s possible that they have a huge content addition sitting around and waiting for the releases of TESO/Wildstart/EQN and they’ll drop it at the same time to keep people around?

I get the feeling that they’re building something and just not talking about it.

That’s exactly what wow does, and it works. Expansion release around other prominent titles is like using heat to cook. No heat, you can’t cook, period.

It’s all a matter of when. Mists of Pandaria hit not long after GW2 launched right? And it was announced a good bit before that. If they are wanting something to hit when these new MMOs do, then they need to start announcing. And as far as Wildstar goes…isn’t it published by NCSoft? They aren’t going to let GW2 take away any of it’s glory.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Sandpit.3467:

They said that the one big mistake they made with GW1 was blowing up “home”.

I don’t remember them saying that, but destroying Ascalon was one of the best narrative choices they made in GW1. If the writers viewed it as being the exact opposite, I would be really worried. Because it would mean that the writers were not able to recognize a good story decision when they saw one.

Destroying Ascalon raised the stakes, and gave the Searing impact on the player. The desolate feeling after leaving Pre-Sear was one of the most important moments of GW1, and it really left an impression.

Was destroying Lion’s Arch in GW2 a good story decision too? I believe it was, because it raises the stakes, and makes the racial cities more important now. I’m not sure if moving everything to the Vigil was a good decision though. Only a third of the players chose the Vigil for starters. Plus, it kind of ruins the opportunity of making the racial cities matter. I think they should have forced all players to simply go back to their racial capitals, and make that their new home.

+1

I never found myself saying, “Man, the Guild Wars story is amazing.” But it was a lot better than what GW2 has given us so far. I thought the Searing was well done. You start the game in such a beautiful land, then the Charr go nuts and blow it up. Very cool.

Aza.2105:

I have the issue and it has nothing to do with the card being overclocked or hot. My card is almost new and not oc. The card doesn’t go above 60c in gw2. This problem doesn’t happen in any other game. I’ve ran 3dmark like crazy and haven’t seen a single artifact.

Same for me. My card isn’t OC’d. GW2 is the only game I have these issues.

I find Divinity’s Reach much more accessible than LA. Two WPs are right beside each other and you can get to everything you need in that small radius. I’ve always used it.

And I care nothing about the Mystic Toilet. Kitten that stupid thing!

I haven’t tried it yet. I figured I’d let the insane initial zerg die down a bit.

It would be a major QoL feature. It’s just a pain in the kitten to have to keep up with 4 or 5 different armor skins in your bank. But I’m pretty sure that’s what Anet wants you to do. If you didn’t have to save so much armor and weapons, then you don’t have to purchase as much bank space, so adding a feature like this would be hurting their pocket book.

Someone mentioned in another thread though, that this WAS something that was being talking about at Anet, but who knows if it’s already been scrapped because of the reasons I mentioned.

I’ve suggested something like this in the Black Lion forums. They won’t do it though because $$$$$.

Mel ryuzaki.1402:

KeyOrion.9506:

I really do miss my Marhann Grotto druid armor from time to time.

Marhans Grotto <3

I remember late-night dance parties in Marhan’s Grotto, back before Factions released. Good times….good times.

I never like the presets on monitors. I always have to adjust it myself.

I’ve had these problems off and on during my time with GW2. It’s never been a major issue all the time. And I can get rid of it by minimizing the game and bringing it back up. I am using an AMD 7870. I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about this, but I haven’t found anything from an Anet dev about it. I guess the main thing I’m wondering is…

Is this a coding problem within GW2? Or is this an AMD issue (driver)?

I’ve seen people saying that the 7xxx series has this problem. I don’t run into these artifacts in any other game that I play.

P.S. This isn’t my picture. I found it online, but it shows the same issues I have. I also get a weird one a lot, where a shaft will be running from a player to a Waypoint. Very strange.

maddoctor.2738:

Astralporing.1957:

maddoctor.2738:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Nageth.5648:

I’m confused where we aren’t getting new content. Eotm was a rather substantial update.

THIS is a substantial update:
-new story
-41 new armor sets, including rare, stand-alone pieces
-100 new profession-specific skills (10 per profession, none of which are elite)
-50 new PvE only skills including 3 elite skills
-10 new heroes
-18 Dungeons
-124 new quests
-The Hall of Monuments
-4 new regions (which were comprised of 24 zones, yes that’s right, 24!)

This is what we got for one of the gw1 expansions (eye of the north)

And you paid full price for it…

Free content:
Sorrow’s Furnace
Domain of Anguish
Hard Mode
GW Beyond.

All of those together are at least equal to all the LS we got so far… and are in addition to the expansions.

And we got all those after how many years?

For example, the Free content we got for Prophecies was a new zone (Grenth’s Footprint), a dungeon with different paths (Sorrow’s Furnace) and a couple of high difficulty quests in a line (Titan Quests) along with the Unique (Green) Item drops from bosses. Later on, we got the revamp of the Tombs of the Primeval Kings (around the release of Factions)

I’d hardly call those equal to what we got in GW2 so far.

Of course they can do both, the real question is how well will a GW2 expansion sell at this point?

A GW2 expansion would sell ridiculously well. It generates major hype. It brings new players in and lures old players back. You don’t see big feature articles on sites like IGN about the Living Story updates, and they don’t generate the kind of excitement that an expansion does. Just wait and see how many subscriptions WoW picks up once it’s new expansion hits.

Astralporing.1957:

maddoctor.2738:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Nageth.5648:

I’m confused where we aren’t getting new content. Eotm was a rather substantial update.

THIS is a substantial update:
-new story
-41 new armor sets, including rare, stand-alone pieces
-100 new profession-specific skills (10 per profession, none of which are elite)
-50 new PvE only skills including 3 elite skills
-10 new heroes
-18 Dungeons
-124 new quests
-The Hall of Monuments
-4 new regions (which were comprised of 24 zones, yes that’s right, 24!)

This is what we got for one of the gw1 expansions (eye of the north)

And you paid full price for it…

Free content:
Sorrow’s Furnace
Domain of Anguish
Hard Mode
GW Beyond.

All of those together are at least equal to all the LS we got so far… and are in addition to the expansions.

Those exceed the LS. And those are all still in GW1 today, and can be played at your leisure.

LS defenders don’t want permanent content, and arguing with them is pointless.

Like I’ve said before, I don’t mind the LS at all, as long as there is an expansion being worked on in the background. The LS is something merely to tide you over until substantial and permanent content is added to the game. Which surely HAS to happen at some point, I would hope. I’m not going to begin to say I know the first thing about game development, but would it be crazy to have a Living Story team that added content to GW2 while another much larger team works on an expansion? Maybe that’s what’s going on at Anet. I’d just love to hear it from their mouths.

Orpheal.8263:

befoe they add cantha, they should first complete Tyria..

theres way too much left open of Tyria…

• The whole Maguuma Jungle
• The whole Crystal Desert
• The whole Fire Ring Islands
• The whole North of Shiverpeaks and all of the old EotN Map Parts
• The whole Deldrimor Territory
• The Dominion of Winds and the whole Sea of Sorrows/Strait of Malchior Area

Tyria just feels again, like in GW1, as if just only like basically 40% of the whole Continent is explorable.

So Tyria > Cantha for now first.

I wouldn’t mind them going back and forth to be honest. Release some of Cantha, then come back to Tyria. It’d be a nice change of scenery and gameplay.

thaooo.5320:

I usually use my memory, it’s one of those high tech and super expensive gadgets you need to go out and buy. Oh wait…

Btw stop bumping this, there are already many methods at your disposal for dealing with this, so we have NO IDEA what you’re hoping to gain at all here. Memory, write it down, notepad, excel, memory.

They should remove the information on each map of what you’ve discovered and what hearts you’ve completed too, because it will be just as easy to remember.

CureForLiving.5360:

Nat.4029:

This feature is being worked on “behind the scenes”.

Do you have a source, since I personally would like this feature as well and knowing ANet is working on it would be rather comforting.

Yeah sorry, I don’t. I was just being sarcastic. I sure would like to hear what IS going on “behind the scenes” though.

This feature is being worked on “behind the scenes”.

Dawdler.8521:

The maps arent anywhere near big enough to use mounts that improve speed over swiftness and the waypoints are very close to each other. Having beasts that look like mounts and move at the same pace as players would be sort of pointless. They’re already in the game and they’re called Charr.

My guardian wants a Charr mount.

sorudo.9054:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Nat.4029:

If you tell someone who stopped playing after the first month whats new/changed? you really dont have much to tell them do you?

You get to say… “Oh man! They’ve done so many cool things… but…. you can’t play through any of it because it’s gone.”

Exactly

i found something that describes GW2 in a nutshell, left is GW2, right is SWToR:
http://tadhgkelly.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a8f8e2b8970b0148c84ae9be970c-pi

Tell me about it. The voice-acting/direction is great in SWTOR, and the stories and characters are actually interesting.

If you tell someone who stopped playing after the first month whats new/changed? you really dont have much to tell them do you?

You get to say… “Oh man! They’ve done so many cool things… but…. you can’t play through any of it because it’s gone.”

SuperBlunt.7105:

Nat.4029:

I like this, but it’d be better (for long term play purposes) if the token wasn’t guaranteed. For instance, a certain boss might have a chance to drop this token among many other things. Sounds a bit familiar to…..

I would agree with this but the RNG in this game is brutal. I can see myself never getting a token if it worked like that, which is almost the same as it is now. If they made it so every 10th run or so you get a ticket guaranteed or something like that, then it wouldnt be so luck based.

GW2 could have such a better end-game. This is the kind of stuff that is fun to me. I like actually FINDING good gear. Saving up mats/or gold to buy the mats and then crafting a Legendary or Ascended piece just isn’t that fun to me. I’d love to play a hard-mode dungeon and be rewarded by the boss dropping something really good for my character.

I like this, but it’d be better (for long term play purposes) if the token wasn’t guaranteed. For instance, a certain boss might have a chance to drop this token among many other things. Sounds a bit familiar to…..

My Guardian.

Aegon the Conqueror

Goorman.7916:

ChaosKirin.1328:

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If A.net really intented to deliver expansion’s worth of content, then after 1.5 years they would have delivered at least amount of content comparable to FACTIONS expansion. They did not though, despite the fact that they had 300 people instead of 50. Is it okay for me to consider you delusional?

And one more thing most people are skewing about WoW’s first expansion. Saying WoW released in 2004 and BC was released in 2007. While this IS true, WoW released in Nov. 2004 (right near the end of 2004) and BC released January 2007. Which is barely over 2 years development time. Not 3 years in between. Not that it really matters… I’m just nitpicking here.

ChaosKirin.1328:

snippity.

I guess I fall into the category you mentioned because I’ve voiced my opinion several times on what “expansion-style” content really is. And that content isn’t what we’ve had so far in the Living Story. It’s not that I don’t like the Living Story. I think it’s cool. Although, it sucks when you have to take a hiatus from the game and miss things that you’ll never be able to play through again. That aside, I like what they’re doing with it. My biggest complaint is just the lack of permanent content that comes out of it. Permanent content that you usually get from expansions/campaigns.

I know you’re right though. They will slowly release these things (through the Living Story, I reckon). My big thing as of right now though, is the people who say we’ve already gotten an expansion’s worth of content through the LS, when in actuality we haven’t even come close to that. I will be the first to commend Anet, when they finally announce the things that I hope they’ve actually been doing “behind the scenes”. We just have to wait and see.

aspirine.6852:

Zypher.7609:

Nat.4029:

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I guess it all depends on who looks at it, I believe the world changes and zone changes that have been added to the game amount for an expansions worth of content. There have been new zones that opened up for the living story, just because it did not stick around. Which even if it did people would still only play it for a few weeks then be done waiting for the next thing. I really dislike the old model of how expansions were handled, and look forward to how A-Net is handling it. I do not need a new class/race to feel that they released an expansions worth of content. Or a new zone that is added that i visit once beat all the vistas and hearts and then never go back until I create a new character, or kill a champ in the zone.

I think they handled Eye of the north perfectly.

Yes they did. EotN was a great expansion that people played for a LONG time. They weren’t finished in two weeks.

mercury ranique.2170:

Nat,

They also added EotM

Also Kessex hills got some serious redecorations and soon the same will happen to lion’s arch.

EotM is true, but I’m not really a fan of WvW. So I was disappointed there. But you have a point. As far as Kessex Hills goes…changing existing zones isn’t really adding content to the game. In my opinion.

Zypher.7609:

I am not in favor at all of an expansion. I do not want to wait 1-1.5 years for a large release of content, that GW2 has given me in small doses every 2 weeks for the last 7 months. If you look at the large picture you can get expansion worth of content without the expansion. No idea why people want to wait 1-1.5 year for a large release of stuff, that they will beat in 2 weeks and then be waiting another 1-1.5 years for the next one.

I look forward to the bi-weekly updates. And to the expansion worth of content that will come out of them. Yes if you add up 1-1.5 years worth of bi-weekly content you will indeed hit the amount of content that is in an expansion.

So in over a year of Living Story content, how many new zones have they added? One. (Southsun) And it doesn’t even come close to having the content that the launch zones have. And don’t say “They added Labyrinthe Cliffs and the Bazaar”… No they didn’t. If they truly added those to the game, they would still be accessible.

I too look forward to the bi-weekly updates, I’m not gonna lie. But I look forward to getting some actual content in the game in the future. I don’t really consider all this temporary stuff “content”. I look at it as small holiday events that come and go each year. True “expansion-worthy” content would be several new zones(complete with hearts, events, POIs, and Vistas). New race. New class. New skills for every class. New weapon types (two handed axe for example). A plethora of new weapon and gear skins. At least 4 or 5 new dungeons (complete with dungeon gear). A new world boss for each of the new zones…. the list goes on. I’m not saying ALL this should be in one expansion, but these are the things that should come with expansion-style content.

Like I said, I’ve enjoyed a lot of the living story. I’m not trying to knock it here. I’m just saying that it will NEVER add up to an “expansions-worth of content”.

I don’t really care for either crafting a Legendary or this Ascended armor. I like obtaining the best gear in the game through actual gameplay. But that’ll never happen in GW2.

Oh yay! So we’ll have more existing maps change, because ya know, that’s “expansion-style content” right? Oh and they might decide to release a cool new zone, buuuuuuut only for about 2 weeks. It will be EPIC and LEGENDARY!

I was really happy with the way this came out.

Aegon The Conqueror

The personal story was terrible for me, so I wouldn’t care at all to replay it. Now if they overhauled it with better voice-acting/cutscenes, then maybe. The human storyline was so bland. Every character was a robot. After hearing Logan’s lines delivered, you would never know that Troy Baker was such an amazing voice actor. (Play The Last of Us)

I’d much rather them open up new lands. Once they run out of land to open, then they can go to the sky.

Yeah I see no need at all for heroes in the open world. But I’d love to have them for dungeons/fractals so that I could actually run them without having to worry about going AFK for 10-15 minutes.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Xia.3485:

To the extreme of wanting NPC allies instead of talking to others in game? That’s kind of sad really.

It’s not necessarily that they don’t desire to talk to others. Some of us just prefer playing with NPCs. They don’t kitten at you, they don’t treat you like trash, they don’t randomly go afk, they don’t argue about how things should or shouldn’t be done, etc etc.

Some people just like to play solo. Doesn’t necessarily mean they aren’t social though. Although I’m sure there are plenty of people that are shy or have a hard time reaching out to other socially (ie socially awkward). That’s no reason to judge them so harshly.

I consider myself very social, but I have a 2 month old son. If I get time to play, I may still have to get up at any point if he needs some attention. I’d love to be able to run dungeons, but right now I just can’t even commit 1 hour of constant game time. Having NPC allies would be nice for someone like me, as I could stop at any point and be afk, and my team wouldn’t give a flying kitten whether I was afk for 5 minutes or 30 minutes. THAT would be very nice. But like I said earlier… Anet more than likely would never commit development time to something like this. I would love to see it though.

Dance party in Marhan’s Grotto. What’s up?

The way the AI is in this game though…heroes would be TERRIBLE and you’d be better off doing the content solo.

I would love to have a hero system. I always liked gearing them and setting up their builds in GW1 and see how well certain builds might do. I don’t ever see Anet doing this in GW2 though. GW1 was built from the ground up for that sort of system (henchmen at launch). GW2 isn’t at all.

@OP

Because we’re all a bunch of insubordinating kittenholes.

If you had really wanted to get to people, you would’ve added in structured GvG battles. And GvG tournaments.

Destiny’s Child? haha…

I’ve got no problem with them doing this. The problem I have is, will this be all that we can expect from Anet on the Living World? Will they just continuously change existing zones and not really add any meaningful content to the game? I’m ready for this season to end so that we can see what they’ve been doing “behind the scenes”.

So will this continue to be Anet’s focus with the Living Story? Continuously changing the existing zones, and never really adding anything meaningful to the game? I’m ready for this season to end, so we might see what they’ve been working on.

I prefer to use DR for all my crafting, banking, and TPing anyway.

Red Viper

IndigoSundown.5419:

Dark Catalyst.1028:

The difference is that WoWs cash shop is all fluff, while GW2’s cash shop sells real improvements, like bag slots and bank tabs.

Ultimately, these arguments devolve down to, “Which game do you like better,” where that game is perceived to be superior.

• On bag slots — WoW gives you four bag slots for “free.” So does GW2. GW2 allows you to exceed the 4 bag slots, WoW does not.
• On the bank — WoW allows you to buy bag slots in your bank, which cost gold. You can spend gold in GW2 to buy gems, to then buy bank tabs.

I’m not seeing a ton of difference, other than that I can have more bag slots in GW2.

The only difference there is that the amount of gold you’d have to spend on gems is a lot more than the gold you spend in WoW to open bank tabs. But that’s being nitpicky.

This was a video I made back before launch. I was proud of it at the time.

Hope you enjoy.