Guild Wars 2

I am asura. Why should I care about a long gone human kingdom?

I am sylvari. That war is over, and there are much more important things to worry about.

Scykosix.7836:

Ehm and how is that a bad thing? Do you want a conidition spec not EVER being able to kill someone just because he uses some sort of condi cleanse trait/skill?

No, I would like to not waste a slot or two putting in condition cleanse skills only to have them rendered pointless by another 5 or 6 conditions put on me right afterwards.

And, aside from certain builds who can keep conditions off of themselves very well, or certain utilities that just negate them altogether for a time (Berserker Stance), condition specs tend to kill nearly everything now, it seems.

Pifil.5193:

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Seems like you could really benefit from traiting or slotting a condition clear, then, eh?

I’ve noticed that conditions can be reapplied.

This. Conditions can be applied at a much faster rate then you can cleanse them, even if you build with such a thing in mind.

Of course, the only uses PvP has are reward tracks and dailies.

You’ll see that in PvP as well. Nearly 3,000 armor or more? Psh, they’ll still crit right through it in 4 hits if you’re lucky. And you won’t be able to hit them back either. There’s a special place in the Depths for those lot.

Probably back in Divinity’s Reach. Either doing something for the queen, relaxing after that time in Dragon’s Stand, or off getting her own special outfit to not be outdone by the others.

No.

/15 characters blah.

Answer : No thank you. Hard does not equal fun, believe it or not.

You craft the precursor, not the legendary weapon.

You could always try making one of the newer legendary weapons, since those all force you through the crafting method to obtain them.

Reply to opening post : No.

More proof that the dishonor system is an unnecessary useless function that should go away.

Yep. I saw someone link that Infinarium glider, which looks nice, except it’s only in the Black Lion Chests. No thanks. If I’m going to spend gems on anything, I’d rather know what I’m getting, not gamble.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Every HoT map is basically a LFG map. If you don’t get into a populated map, your out of luck for 2 hours. One of the biggest gripes I have with HoT.

kdaddy.5431:

Everyone is like oohhh no its not empty. You mean on the meta map when the event is going?

Please lets have a entire map dedicated to 1 chained event. and then lets do it for 2 other maps.

The boss at Anet was like brilliant!

Djinn.9245:

As I have said at least twice on these forums, I have joined a DS squad early only to have most people join a different group and I’m stranded in a map that doesn’t have enough people.

The problem with DS is that at most times there are only enough people for 1 map, any “extra” people who can’t fit in that map will not be able to do the meta.

People will say “spam and you’ll get in”. Maybe sometimes, but I have spammed for 10 minutes straight and never got in.

What it comes down to is that this is not a great mechanic.

DoctorDing.5890:

The map is empty because of shockingly bad design. You really should not have to use unofficial website timers and a RL alarm clock just to queue up and participate in an open world meta. I’m hoping the devs have learned the lesson…

ALL of this. +10 if I could. Gating an entire map behind one big meta event was neither well designed nor fun. One of the biggest problems with HoT is that they forgot that one of the things that made GW2 great was that it encouraged grouping without forcing it in most cases. In the HoT zones, you need anywhere from a small party to an entire map to get most things done, and the coordination required can be problematic for some, especially during a meta event where if one lane/part screws up, everyone suffers for it.

Mylerian.9176:

MY question is why waste your time? Not really worth it unless you still the mastery stuff……

Map completion. Hero points. Mastery points, like you said. Certain weapons/skins that drop from there, like the boss weapons, or the Plated/Machined collections, which require you to go there twice for each Machined weapon, which you need for the specialization collections as well. All of that, gated behind a not fun meta event.

duster.7013:

I cannot play in the open world content without falling asleep. I would love if there was anything at all to spice things up. Here’s some suggestions:

1. An invisable superspeed trashmob that takes 20+ people to kill and roams around the zone, invading people’s tushes, one shotting them and maybe cursing them.
2. Open world pvp. Do whatever you want to encourage friendly behavior, buff non theives, whatever. Disable wvw for like 1 hour every 8 hours and enable open world pvp for an hour or something.
3. Let people do maplestory style trashmob summoning. I want to be able to summon like 17 leaf archer guys in a safe area. C’mon it’s like 300 copper to res. Disable it in the 1-15 zones, the mists and the main city if you want.

So much of the map is being wasted by not spicing things up IMO.

1 : No.

2 : Hell No. WvW is out there if you want that.

3 : No. Also, it’s not 300 copper, it’s 3 silver. Get it right.

I think Aion would be better suited to your needs, if you feel like playing that garbage. If you’re looking for something “spiced up” here, then the HoT/LW zones, fractals, and raids are around.

Rifle is in need of an overhaul. I like this weapon the most on engineer, yet it’s somehow the worst choice.

Topic response : Drain your currency first.

While I appreciate them trying something different, and it was an okay map, my problem with it is that matches tend to go on longer than in other maps.

PvP is only good for reward tracks and dailies, nothing more.

Reply to opening post :

I don’t see the point. Personally, I consider the newest version of Lion’s Arch or even the destroyed one (with all those crafting stations) to be an improvement over the original. And they already have a Halloween’d version for the newest version as well. I suppose they could pull up the Halloween version of the original Lion’s Arch, but it could turn out to take more effort than it’s worth.

From my perspective, the only non-playable race so far that has any real chance would be the tengu, since they apparently were going to be a playable race in the beginning, along with having their own space for a starting area and such.

Any other race ideas so far lack enough to do anything with in this regard….and even in the case of the tengu, it would be an expensive endeavor.

Plus one to this suggestion.

TexZero.7910:

Subjective.

Challenging can be fun, it’s just not what you find fun.

As much as i would love to agree with the OP, previous and some current experience says people hate change and “challenge” so much so that they either quit or forum warrior to nerf it to the floor.

Challenging can be fun, if done right. But it usually isn’t, thus becoming frustrating and discouraging. For all the things ArenaNet does well, challenge is not one of them, and that’s not what drew people to this game as far as I can tell. And the people that wanted challenge got fractals, Heart of Thorns, and raids, so making open world harder seems not only pointless, but the “harder is better” people wanting to impose that on everyone else.

Answer : No.

“Challenging” does not equal fun.

When you find yourself 100+ points behind the other team, what’s the point? Comebacks are far too few to be worth the trouble of going for, especially if you’re stuck with an unorganized or incompetent team, and thus your own skill means next to nothing in the long run.

You want less quitters? Try finding a way to keep teams going and motivated. My opinion and all, but harsher penalties sounds like a great way to make PvP even worse than it already is.

You should only PvP for reward tracks and dailies. That’s it.

The new ones seem tougher to me. Also, this isn’t the first time Destroyers have losy their immunity to burning for some reason or another. Being vulnerable when chilled was a nice touch.

Also, challenge/difficulty doesn’t equal fun. Something people seem to forget.

Sell the minor ones. Save the major ones for mystic forging or sell them for a few silver.

Save superior ones for selling (either on the post or to NPC vendors) or use them.

That being said, certain ones could be changed to make them more worthwhile. But that would probably need a post/thread all to itself.

Ugh…regardless of the reasoning behind it, this little bit felt stupid, and out of nowhere. She has no real evidence that he actually returned from being dead. We just know that he was weakened from the last time we saw him, though he’s clearly found a way to live this long (then again, we have no idea how long mursaat live normally, and with their magic, they could extend that.)

Ultimately, Marjory is trying to shadow a being, who, even without a portion of the bloodstone’s power in him, probably has a few ways to remove someone that gets too nosy. And so far she’s given no clear motive for doing so (we can speculate about it, from resurrecting Belinda to wanting to learn something from Lazarus, or…gods forbid, those fools that think a sudden attraction to a Mursaat somehow makes any sense), and no backup plan or safeguard for if things go wrong (which, unless the writers genuinely plan for Lazarus to be a good guy now, things will almost certainly go wrong.)

No. How would something like this even fit in Guild Wars 2?

No.

I don’t want to worry about dozing off by mistake, watching a quick video on Youtube/Twitch/whatever, or having to deal with something in real life, only to come back and found I got suspended for being away.

No thank you. Horrible idea.

Source please? (As in, which conversation bits) I don’t recall those two having any major issues with each other at all.

Marjory herself doesn’t seem to have a bias against nobility from what I recall. The problem is that her family does, which is why she told Kasmeer to stick with the rest of the group instead of coming to Belinda’s funeral.

No. /under 15 characters.

No thank you. Tera is that way.

It seems that you could try logging on to whatever character you played last as well…I tried logging onto one character and got this error (one of my engineers, second from the front of the characters I had played when I was last on) every time, but after trying to log onto the character I was on last before/during this rollback, I didn’t have the error come up.

Then again, I dunno…this seems bizarre. And the insinuation that my internet is somehow to blame never ceases to annoy me a bit.

Yes, please no more zones like that place…I managed to 100% every other HoT map despite all the problems, but this one is horrible on a level beyond even them. The frustration of trying to get through it to get hero points for a character even left me with a headache for a time. It’s that bad.

Answer to thread : No. It wouldn’t be worth the trouble and effort necessary to do so.

….really?

I for one was annoyed with how the Shared Storage box mixed with my others at the top, making it seem like I had one excess slot at the bottom when I didn’t, which made it look wonky depending on how I shrunk the window.

That being said, I still appreciated the free slot and didn’t make a thread raving about it…Personally, I think being able to distinguish it from my own bag slots would be a good thing. Although I feel they should’ve given an option to put it either at the top or bottom of the inventory, I’m happy enough with not potentially mistaking it for one of my bag slots.

I dunno. I’ll have to check it out after this long update, but it feels like this is being blown out of proportion

Those ghost trebuchets/cannons in Diessa Plateau…how does that even work? They were never alive, how can they be ghosts too?!

I wanted to like HoT as well. But after dealing with all the crap there, I only ever go back if there’s something I want from there. Otherwise, I stay in the core maps, where the fun actually is.

Ceera runs off after you tell her about Tonn’s death, but you save her from the Risen that she ran into.

You’re probably thinking of Apatia (who did get turned into a Risen and you mercy kill) without realizing it.

…why not just shoot them when they come out then?

Still better than any other MMO I’ve tried. Despite the lack of new content right now, and the annoyances that came with HoT, the game still does more right than other MMOs manage to do, and they at least listen to us at times.

And? Plenty of other MMOs probably have such “death flag” signs to them too…yet they continue on for the time being.

Hmm…presumably it would give non-HoT area dailies to those that don’t have it yet, but…yeah, that seems like a potential problem otherwise.

Um, what?

An instant Lv80 item (albeit one from buying HoT) does not hand everything else in the game on a silver platter…if anything, I’m more troubled that those using it will likely be new players and thus not know what’s going on yet.

That aside…most who bought the expansion are probably people who have played GW2 already to the point of reaching 80 at least once, and thus giving them an instant 80 item doesn’t give them anything more than that.

Unless this instant 80 item also gives out a free full exotic set of your choice of stats or something, I do not see how this really hands out anything on a silver platter, besides saving you time leveling up.

Well…

- Most of the legendary weapons either don’t interest me/look like crap, or don’t fit with my characters.

- No reliable/reasonable method of precursor acquisition. And no, that garbage crafting system for precursors doesn’t count. Without the precursor, any other progress being made towards a legendary is pointless in the long run, and the precursor requires either luck…or a lot of gold.

- The sheer amount of materials needed to make the components was simply not something I felt like focusing on for long. Although I probably do have the material necessary now, the precursor issue still makes it feel pointless to bother making the components right now anyways.

Hype is worthless.

- The different races, along with a decent character creation system with many options for unique characters.

- Asura and sylvari are the best however. Mwahahaha.

- Being able to level by doing whatever you want, basically.

- The account wallet/wardrobe/dye system. One of the great improvements made to this game ever since it came out.

- Everyone getting their own loot and credit for killing something as long as they took part.

- For the most part, very alt friendly.

- No race/profession restrictions

- Kasjory. And Canach. And Carys. And…okay, I’ll think of others later.

- The Super Adventure Box, the best April Fools gift ever.

I’m sure there’s more, but those are what come to mind right now.

Shylock.4653:

Nilkemia.8507:

And even when there is, the sheer number of enemies around when an event scales leave few options that work in one’s favor.

When an event scales the amount of friendly players increase. You don’t have to fight all that enemies alone. In my experience most events get easier with more players.

Except when said players don’t exist. As shown below.

Shylock.4653:

The biggest difference between HoT and Core Tyria is that you cannot facetank every enemy or run into zergs of enemies. I don’t think that requiring the player to position himself and think while playing is a bad decision by anet.

Contrary to what you think, I don’t “facetank” enemies or run into swarms of them. I try to position and use line of sight to my advantage. However, depending on where and when fighting the enemy, there is sometimes no real cover for any advantageous positioning. And even when there is, the sheer number of enemies around when an event scales leave few options that work in one’s favor.

And, it doesn’t change that quite a number of the enemies either hit harder than they should, can CC often, or are just annoying to deal with.

MadRabbit’s statement is accurate. The enemies aren’t harder in the sense that they’re smarter in any way. Their skills are either just really powerful and spamable, or they come at you in such numbers that you can’t reliably fight them off while also having cheaply powerful spamable skills.