Guild Wars 2

I wish I had the problem of too much dark matter. lol. I can’t get enough of it.

However, that being said, it would be nice if there were a few sinks for items like this. Sinks or a vendor for trading them.

I like the new icon, but I agree, the blue was much easier to see on the map. Perhaps change the color of the new icon to mach the blue of the old one.

OP does not speak for me. I like the new system

Eight Samurai.6840:

. Secondly, how does one create a trap 50 feet away from them. Physically speaking it doesn’t make sense.

Magic :P

It would make sense and be fair if it was a 100 to 100.

But this is Anet we’re dealing with.

Hoping for a surprise in tomorrow’s patch.

Greymelken.1892:

because they have recieves 3 years of endless rewards for $60 already ohsnapwhydoievenbothernevermind

So you think GW2 should have a subscription fee.

Novuake.2691:

The supply definitely is too low.
But the recipes are not popular so its not that bad.

The recipes are currently popular enough that they nearly outstrip the supply. It goes up and down, but there are times in which there aren’t enough Giant Eye’s available on the TP for any price to fulfill requirements for the recipes.

I’m fascinated by the number of people here and on Reddit that actually believe that Arenanet didn’t plan all this out, and that this backlash somehow caught them by surprise.
They know exactly what they are doing, because they have a massive playerbase that has told them repeatedly what they can get away with.
All they have to do now is a little PR song and dance, and they will still make their profit projections.
Even if everyone here and on Reddit dropped out of the game completely, and bought no more gems, Anet would go full steam ahead, because they have a huge number of people who will blindly open their wallets for new content.
Players on the forums who deeply care about where this game goes are at the whim of people who don’t know and don’t even care about concepts such as artificial scarcity, and other marketing tricks. They just open their wallets whenever something new and shiny is dangled in front of them.

We are the fringe noise, nothing more. Any interaction (CDI’s included) is just a PR show to satisfy the curiosity of potential customers that might visit the forum to “see if the company cares”.

Does naming pets create gem sales? No
Is the lack of pet naming causing a noticeable number of people to leave the game? No.

ETA? Never.

If I were to hazard a guess? They’re “cliquish” and “closed off” because they kicked around and trolled so often that they’ve become cynical and jaded towards outsiders.

But that’s just a guess. Could very well be wrong.

I would have thought that Anet would have done something a little more appropriate for that particular character. Sad.

Torsailr.8456:

I don’t recall a jp that’s required for map completion. Which map is this?

Breached Wall. Viziers Tower. Not to mention a number of Vistas that have jumping puzzle like paths in order to access them.

@OP: Best bet is to get a friend that likes jumping puzzles and has a mesmer.

Now that several items have been removed from the gemstore. There’s room for bunny ears.

Seems there is more than one meaning for “design”.

I think overall I prefer Malchor’s leap for mechanics design. Not just one big event that everyone is eventually channeled to like Silverwastes currently is. However if they are going to do this hybrid of raid content in the main world, I guess it works.

As far as “design” goes for the modeling, texturing, lighting, etc. for a zone, I would have to place the Dry Top oasis area at the top of my list. That section, and the canyon to the east of it are so realistic and beautiful. It’s one of my favorite places in the game.

I don’t recall what it was, but I got a drop that sold for around 40gold at one point. It’s the only thing in my entire time in GW2 that was worth more than 3gold found in world. 3,300hours
If you include Mystic Forge, I’ve had a couple runes worth 10

RSLongK.8961:

This game is slow as crippled fat tree already.
Dont slow mobility down because of your kitten pvp. guess what? its gonna be bad there too.
How making we slow gonna make the game good? :x

Unfortunately, due to Anet’s communication policy and lack of transparency, we are at the point where nothing we, as players, can say will stop them from implementing these changes.

We get the changes they choose to give us, and have no say in it at all.

maddoctor.2738:

Tea.7025:

I just wish jumping puzzles were a bit more rewarding. Sometimes porting to the area costs more than what I earn from those.

As long as they allow players to “park” characters at the end of jumping puzzles their rewards will be worthless. Now why they still allow this “parking” is something we will never know, or maybe we do: they don’t care

Allowing players to “park” at the end of a jumping puzzle has no effect at all on how worthless the rewards are. Nice try. Parked or not, when you get the end of a puzzle, you generally get crap blues and a green. No amount of change to difficulty of completing a jumping puzzle will change the crap value of those items.

There are generally only two reasons people do jumping puzzles now. 1) Achievement Points, 2) to park there so they can roll the dice daily and maybe get a rare once in a blue moon.
I used to rotate 4 or 5 characters daily at a JP in Lion’s Arch. After about a week I realized how much of a waste of time it was.
JP loot is simply garbage. Changing it so that people can’t park there will just relegate JP’s to part of the game that a tiny percentage of players actually do once for AP then never see again.

I noticed the lack of any statement saying that the conversion will be 1 to 1.

I’d like to hear from Anet directly that the conversion is going to be 1 shard for 1 skill point/scroll, and that Mystic Forge prices aren’t going to be changed.

Turtle Dragon.9241:

An Ascended tier Aquabreather with selectable stats, or craftable recipes for Ascended Aquabreathers.
I have been waiting for this since Ascended Armor was introduced at the end of 2013. This is also a piece of equipment, Ascended Armor is not really complete without it.

A Dragonite Ore eater, just like MawdreyII for Bloodstone Dust.
It makes sense that after introducing a Bloodstone Dust eater and an Empyreal Fragment eater, a Dragonite Ore eater would be introduced. Maybe?

A home-instance Buried Locked Chest(requiring a Zephyrite Lockpick to open), just like the Found Bandit Chest in the home-instance.
We all have a bunch of Zephyrite Lockpick that are never used because Dry Top is dead since the introduction of Silverwastes. Maybe at least give us this chest that we can open daily in our home-instance, just like the Bandit Chest?

These would be nice to have. Especially the Dragonite eater, and the Zephyrite chest would be a pleasant thing to have as well. I don’t go to Dry Top anymore, but the keys keep piling up as they are dropped from piles of sand in SW and elsewhere (pvp).

Loot drops would still be a couple blues and a green probably.

I’d mark blue/green sigils and runes as junk in a heartbeat, because that’s what they are.

If implemented, the new “end game” for the most toxic, undesirable individuals in this community would be to obtain that GM status, and they would abuse it ruthlessly, even if it meant getting banned when caught.

AP does not equal experience, nor does time in game, nor does community reputation, etc. No amount of disincentive is going to prevent the worst of the worst from obtaining such a status.

Even real GM’s are subject to corruption (not accusing anyone of that, just stating fact), and their livelyhood (paycheck) depends on doing a good job. Giving such powers to players would be a colossal blunder.

Muusic.2967:

This is kind of a handicap, any way to fix it Anet?

It’s Rangers. They don’t care. lol.

They expected everyone to rush in and make the game Revenant Online.

I haven’t run into to many situations where losing my pet was critical, but if this is a stress test, it removes some of said stress (calculations involved with pet dps, pet defense, pet attacks/conditions, etc.).

Best bet is to roll a Rev. That’s what they expected everyone to do.

..because turning GW2 and the forums into a clone of Eve Online and their forums is a good idea I guess.

Says a lot about Anet’s policy on trolling that this thread still exists.

The biggest problem with taking a break from this game, is Anet will punish you for doing so. They seem to have a constant interest in releasing one-time-only items that come and go in a matter of just a week.
If you are of healthy mind and aren’t obsessed with collections or such, then take a break and enjoy your time away. Just know that there will be content released and removed that you will never be able to obtain because you were on a break.

I would like to see something for all three. I realize I’m probably the only person in all of GW2 that absolutely loved Magister Sieran, but it’s only fair.

Worst targeting system of any game I’ve ever played. I have had mobs right in front of me, attacking me, and hit Tab only to target a yellow critter off to the side of me almost beyond max range.

Happyfool.8951:

Neural.1824:

I don’t think this is possible. It would make things way to easy for gold sellers.

anet could just remove the ability to send items or gold using the “web” mail.

or are you referring to the spam mails? yes, that would be bad..

Yes, i was thinking of the spam. They’d just use a program in game to grab user names and then there’d be a mailing list, etc. Spam to no end.

For the OP: last resort might be if you can find the person you want to contact here on the forum. If they have posted here, you can click on their name (on their post) and choose “send a PM”. They’d need to log into the forum to see it, but if it’s getting down to “last resort” you might try that.

they should sell them as gem store items so that in order to have a bank, TP, MF, and crafting stations, you pay the same price as a permanent access to the Captain’s Airship or the Queen’s area.

I don’t think this is possible. It would make things way to easy for gold sellers.

Wanze.8410:

I agree with Gaile, your request is unreasonable and premature.

Nothing is premature when dealing with a company that has an oppressive silence policy in regards to the future of the game.

Pockets.3201:

Behellagh.1468:

No she said she doesn’t know either because they don’t tell her in advance.

Then they need to step up and give her something to communicate, which is her job. This is not a difficult thing for them to do. They’ve had an exceedingly long time to respond. The least they can do is give a straight answer.

We aren’t asking for something outrageous. We aren’t asking for something that will be a lot of work for them. We aren’t asking to be given it for free.

A straight answer from Anet?

That there is some funny kitten.

My disagreement with the name is pretty simplistic.

“Guardian” by it’s definition and such evokes thoughts of “defense” and “defender”. “Protector” and “Shelter”. One who stands his/her ground against an oncoming threat, protecting that which is behind them.

“Dragon Hunter” evokes thoughts of “offense”. “Conquering” and “Attack”. One who takes action and goes ahead to seek out evil.

Of course we have no choice. Anet is going to make it what it is and we can “just deal with it”, but the name “Dragon Hunter” just sounds off to me.

I can see the potential need for some restriction on party hopping, but the current level is way over the top. I needs to be relaxed a lot.

There is no way that Anet sat down and deliberately selected players to receive the portals. Way to much time involved in doing such things for it to be anything other than random selection.

The usefulness of the warning seems to be somewhat dependent on your play style when it comes to inventory management.

Back when I first got my copper-fed, I would just blitz through my inventory with it and salvage all the blues and greens, letting the system warn me with the popup when I happened across a yellow, which I would then skip and use a master kit on.
Now days I organize everything a lot better before I go and salvage, thus all the yellows are in one area of inventory (thus making salvaging the blues a lot smoother so I can forge the greens, etc.).

It’s been a long time since I got that warning window while using the copper-fed, so my system works for me, but even so, it would be nice to have the option to disable the wa5 rrning for when I salvage all the rares (one good 10% to breach to VW run can net 10 rares or so on a good day, and if I skip salvaging them and choose to do more SW cycles, it piles up. Same with doing world boss train. Rares pile up nicely.
Is it a game breaker? of course not. It’s just a QoL request.

I stress though that I’d want an option under the gear menu to disable it and re-enable it. Not complete permanent removal.

Wetpaw.3487:

Ascended Salvage Kit

what I would like to see

Ascended Salvage Kit breaks down Ascended Armor and Ascended Weapons returning materials to the player.

Example Armor (Medium)
Zojja’s Guise (coat)
Vision Crystalx1
Zojja’s Berserker Insigniax1
Elonian Longcoat Paddingx1
Elonian Longcoat Panelx1
Runex1

Example Weapon (Huntsman)
Zojja’s Revolver
Zojja’s Berserker Inscriptionx1
Deldrimor Steel Pistol Barrelx1
Spiritwood Pistol Framex1
Vision Crystalx1
Sigilx1

Possible use for Jewelry.

Salvaging is a good idea, but I think the system programming is stacked against implementing it.
When you salvage a piece of light level 80 rare armor (for example), you end up with silk scraps. Not bolts of silk. or silk armor components.
The problem is that if you back up ascended armor to that level, you have not one but several types of materials. Working it backwards it’s Ascended Armor→ Armor sub-components → Bolt of Damask → wool/cotton/linen/silk-weaving-thread.

So at the base level there’s a difference in how it’s coded.

Sure, it would be nice if you could salvage ascended armor and get wool, cotton, linen, and silk weaving threads. That would be sensible, but I get the feeling the programming code is a different animal from standard armor, and thus incompatible with the current salvaging system.

Tryhard Pants.9745:

Nobody is forcing anyone to “grind” for one. If people force themselves to play just for the sake of getting access then that’s their fault, not the developers.

Nobody is forcing you to play the game in the first place, therefore grind does not exist in any game.

Wanze.8410:

JackSpacer.4320:

A nice even playing field with no terrain to hide behind. A true test of one’s skill in combat!

Kiting in and out of line of sight plays a big part in combat, i dont know why you would want to render it useless.

As I understand it, line of sight is a big advantage when going up against a Ranger using a longbow, as you can dodge behind something to mitigate Rapid Fire. Keeping things in the open would actually be an advantage for Rangers, I would guess.

Vayne.8563:

Neural.1824:

nexxe.7081:

Alexander.9810:

• The fact that you have not committed to a release date for HoT and still hype it up while it’s in early beta shows that you guys do not have the confidence to set a date, do not have enough staff to have that confidence, and will probably release the expansion “unfinished,” which might be a subjective word to you, but, again, FFXIV Heavensward will be a “finished” product. They’ve already gone into detail about what you’ll be getting, a lot more than your cute little “we’re nowhere done yet, even though it’s been 3 years to work on an expansion, but here’s where we think we are and where we think we’re going.”

This is the only part i agree with, but the rest of your post is biased, or unworthy of replying to.

It’s really astonishing that Anet hyped an expansion, with nothing else to do in between.

They get everyone hyped, with no release date in sight. Do they really think people are going to wait? The hype for HoT is dead now. It might be alive within the community, but i’m talking about outside of it. They should have kept interest in the game with upcoming content updates after the HoT announcement, but they failed at that. it’s going to be almost 6 months since the announcement, with nothing to look forward to. GW2 is so boring right now.

I think this ties in with his commentary about Anet being short staffed. Everyone is, apparently, working on HoT right now, so everything else is virtually ignored unless it’s a raging fire. Maybe if NCSoft wasn’t siphoning off all the profit to appease Nexon there could be more devs.

To appease Nexon. You’re apparently not following this game at all, are you? Anet would do NOTHING to appease Nexon. They’ve never done anything TO appease Nexon. Nexon doesn’t like how the game is run and wants changes and Anet refused to make those changes.

A bit more reality and a bit less conspiracy theory is needed on this forum.

Read more carefully. I said it was NCSoft attempting to placate Nexon. All that is flowing down hill. Arenanet is tethered to NCSoft, and by one way or another, they are under pressure to meet numbers. This applies some restrictions to their choices.

The Fan focus is a beautiful skin, and as designed might actually have some re-usability. (decorate it differently).
I think 400gems would have been more appropriate, as it’s an off hand weapon, but meh, if people are willing to pay, then so be it.

Test.8734:

More importantly, it’s rather clear that ArenaNet is measuring success through metrics. Do you guys remember:

• When ArenaNet was asked if they were ever going to fix Char and Asura bad armor textures? And ArenaNet said they wouldn’t, because very few people play as one of those races? Is that measuring the success of the Char and Asura based on how fun they are, or based on metrics?

• When ArenaNet asked a designer to overhaul the Ascalon Catacombs dungeon so less people would farm there? And when the dungeon was changed, and less people farmed there, and thus (obviously) less people played there, that designer was fired? Was that measuring the success of the dungeon based on how fun it is, or on metrics of how many people played it?

• When ArenaNet introduced log in rewards? Were those introduced because they make the game more fun? Or because they were meant to increase the number of unique log ins each day, which is an important metric?

• When ArenaNet asked people to grind the Silvewastes and Dry Top for beta access? Was that because grinding for a lot of time knowing most players would not get a portal is fun? Or because ArenaNet wanted to have metrics showing a lot of people playing on those two maps?

So, how do you guys think ArenaNet measures success today? Based on how fun GW2 is?

The defenders aren’t going to like that at all. Prepare a flame suit.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Neural.1824:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Too bad Anet has given up on gem store armor sets. Transmutation charges are very easy to obtain at no cost.

That’s ok, they’ll start charging for dye changes, and suddenly they won’t seem so easy to obtain anymore.

Source?

Go to the dye panel. Do you see the window for calculating the transmutation charge cost when changing dyes?

They wouldn’t have wasted the time creating the programming code to put that in place if it wasn’t intended to be implemented.

nexxe.7081:

Alexander.9810:

• The fact that you have not committed to a release date for HoT and still hype it up while it’s in early beta shows that you guys do not have the confidence to set a date, do not have enough staff to have that confidence, and will probably release the expansion “unfinished,” which might be a subjective word to you, but, again, FFXIV Heavensward will be a “finished” product. They’ve already gone into detail about what you’ll be getting, a lot more than your cute little “we’re nowhere done yet, even though it’s been 3 years to work on an expansion, but here’s where we think we are and where we think we’re going.”

This is the only part i agree with, but the rest of your post is biased, or unworthy of replying to.

It’s really astonishing that Anet hyped an expansion, with nothing else to do in between.

They get everyone hyped, with no release date in sight. Do they really think people are going to wait? The hype for HoT is dead now. It might be alive within the community, but i’m talking about outside of it. They should have kept interest in the game with upcoming content updates after the HoT announcement, but they failed at that. it’s going to be almost 6 months since the announcement, with nothing to look forward to. GW2 is so boring right now.

I think this ties in with his commentary about Anet being short staffed. Everyone is, apparently, working on HoT right now, so everything else is virtually ignored unless it’s a raging fire. Maybe if NCSoft wasn’t siphoning off all the profit to appease Nexon there could be more devs.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Too bad Anet has given up on gem store armor sets. Transmutation charges are very easy to obtain at no cost.

That’s ok, they’ll start charging for dye changes, and suddenly they won’t seem so easy to obtain anymore.

Satenia.9025:

Try killing them… you might be positively surprised about their loot table.

This is a great point too. I’m surprised at how many T6 mats I get off of the trash mobs in SW while running around with a chest train or doing pack bull events, etc.

It’s not about clipping issues.

It’s about easy money.

rapthorne.7345:

Final Fantasy ARR gives out content in buckets because they have a powerhouse brand name and a huge number of subscribers on top of being cross platform, so they are not exactly limited in resources. Comparing Sqenix with Anet is like comparing a heavyweight boxing world champion with the best guy at the local club

Except that this “guy at the local club” talks like he’s a world champion heavyweight.