Guild Wars 2

Yareon.2835:

You were attracthed to gw2 because of CRAFTING? of all the thing????

This is also a major thing to me , if they dont add many ways to get this gear which 100% does not involve in anyway the dungeon (well if the items can be sold on the TP it would not be absurd either) , it is time to leave.

Still Anet did say they will add ascent to all kinds of content , all that is left is wait and see.

I agree with this partially.

It really should only reset when completed, BUT it should count for the day it was completed on.

Using the OP case for an example , if he passed the reset time even by 5 mins doing the last event. It should count for the day that just started , not allow people to make their dailies late and still get the new day one.

Kuthos.9623:

Guardians have like nothing for ranged combat. Guardians can’t escape as well as D/D elementalist. Guardians don’t have as good group heals as elementalist. Guardians don’t have knockdowns (except the pet, which no one uses). Guardians don’t really good a good form of swiftness. They have it, but it’s not that great.

If you go into the middle of 15 people with a guardian, you’re going to get owned. Elementalist can live just fine provided you have some cooldowns up. There are plenty of things an ele can do that most other classes cannot.

If i can pick any skill set up and have all my cds reset let me break the news to you, my guard can also go in the mid of 15, granted it is something that depends on the situation for both classes to be worthy it.

While what you said is true , while it does exaggerate for the elementalist side. You should also consider one thing you forgot there … Guardians got advantages of their own over the eles…

Quick example is the mass damage mitigation guards offer to their parties , that is something eles can try but guards are FAR superior, and is something that if used right , surpasses the ele ability to heal.

So take into account that , sure eles got the edge on somethings , but guards got the edge on others and in the end guards are much easier to play than eles are.

Still ultimately i agree with you , the objective of the game is to have fun, if people have more fun being hard workers that is nice and it is nice they have a class for them.

PS: sorry but i really lack the patience to make a full list of what each class the upper hand on to compare.

Honestly , norns are a kind of giant , which is said in the game , just like the jotun.

So no , they should be based like the humans. While true the females do look like , it got nothing to do with males.

Well im willing to bet most norns are either warriors or guardians , while for sure there are plenty of all classes (honestly , if sylvari did not exist , then maybe ranger would also be one of the top played , but sylvari attracts many ranger players)

In my case , my lvl 80 norn is a guardian.

The game is not dying , the game is just going to its normal population after release like every MMO that goes out does. Every single one does this and yet people still come to say the game is going to end next month.

Second , this game is about looks , that is what made this game diferent and what made it stand out to the eyes of many who were tired of what pretty much every other offer.

Games are never meant to everyone , they have a target audience. Even MMOs who do try to captivate more kinds of players.

So if you cant stand a basic concept of the game , which is the fact end game grind is for looks , the problem is that this game is really not meant for you , there are plenty of other who already offer what you seek.

Well i cant talk about warrior , dont have one.

But like i said , only thing my ele can do , my guard cant is AoE WvW like crazy , fact is my guard can only do that while his tome lasts.

Other than that , noway my guard would go down before my ele would.

Still i agree ele is viable , but really , it is not more rewarding, when it comes to power , when you win 2×1 or 3×1 , do think people on other classes also do the same. Considering the skills of your opponents is important.

So like others here said , ele is a class that can do the job , but to compensate for being harder to play , all you get is the fun of using the class. Therefore it is a class for those that really love its gameplay.

The problem is , in no time the first pages would be static mostly and no new ideas would be seen by most players.

My suggestion is to go past this idea. Implement this AND an order option , so we can see by most voted AND by recent added.

This away both new ideas and good ones get attention.

All i want is to get javelins and halberds (please add them to guardians).

Honestly , swords are nice , but nothing compares to the beauty of the spear.

pierwola.9602:

*add show/hide name button to the game
*allow whispers between servers
*remove red color from enemies armor

The show/hide button is not bad , let people pick what they want.

The whisper dont open it , it is better without people bothering each other with whispers , or like the above , add a yes/no button.

Dont remove color armor , we can see people much before we can see their name tags , again , could be added a yes/no thing so people can chose.

Blaine Tog.8304:

Elementalists are clearly underpowered, but it’s not as bad as you’re making it seem. They can still be really good, we just have to work twice as hard for 90% the effect.

Ele4Life!

hehe yeah pretty much this , at least from my experience with my 3 lvls 80 , necro/ele/guard.

Well , im not into having extra work to get the same result , so im leaving mine out for now. Still give her pretty equips anyway.

Making MF a main stat would be over the top for example.

Without adding MF at all to the gear , so it would not become hell to balance , it would still be very very hard to balance how much is the fair amount to diminish from the gear total.

Really , it is 2 days from now or less even. People just need to be able to wait a little longer to check it out.

And yes , im one of the people waiting to see if i will keep playing or it is my time to go search for another game.

Hum i can understand you. It is really annoying , still when i relogged putting the char back together took no time since i already knew what i wanted where.

This would completely break PvE balance most likely.

The idea itself is not bad , but it is unnecessary.

Thus , while i agree they should one day do something in order to use the other cities , for now they should be fixing the tons of bugs the game got.

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

Only if there’s a toggle for me not to see them.

I’m still trying to find a way to remove permanent floating player names of party members.

I agree with this.

I understand that people want to show off more , but we got enough things going on screen already. So , adding it would be a good idea , but with it a way to turn off from our screen.

The bot one i agree , they really should work on that , your friend was not the first person i heard that got banned for no good reason.

The name one , in this case , i dont , adding soviet before a country name makes perfect sense to get a name change. You cant represent yourself like you were a country , just like you cant use any famous person name. And soviet is not a simple word either , we both know it comes from the Soviet Union , which on itself bring another bunch of implications.

So , Anet was obviously wrong on the bot part , but i dont see any blunder on the name one.

Cloud.7613:

You’re not forced to do the dungeon and I’m sorry but that poll is laughable, the people who leave are the people who have never played an MMO or probably don’t even play this game any more. Besides, I’m amazed more people didn’t vote no on that poll because those are the only people who are complaining about it I bet. Else they’d be enjoying the game, which, 99% of the population is. I know I am!

Besides, the stat boost is almost insignificant for the work it sounds like you need to put into it AND the Infusion slots are for the dungeon itself – they’re NOT gem slots.

First , i play this game , over 400 hours atm while i know that is not much , it is not that low either , and second played tons of MMOs before GW2 , from free to paid.

Will still quit if the only way to get max stats gear is from dungeons , no considerations to be made. It is exactly because i played so many MMOs that , first i cant stand companies not keeping their word again and second i know another big MMO will launch “soon” anyway.

99% are happy ? .Only if a miracle is happening and the reason so many quit everyday is actually some ghost effect … they are still there we just cant see right?

That said , i will wait and see how this will actually develop , i saw a post saying we will be able to get the gear many ways , all that is left is confirm it.

i think like some said it will be up again next year , either way i would love to see from now on event items account bound.

It is not enough that we , player , spent time on the event? must be one specific char we got?

While not a new emote i would like to see more /dance kinds , even if we had to buy from the gem shop certain dances for our chars.

kagejuin.4713:

Scale up all dungeon lvl 80 equips to ascended tier, otherwise you will have wasted alot of people’s time and effort. seriously.

Arenanet is so bad at making games nowadays. Even I can keep promises better than they can. Why not allow me to design a system that works -.-

terrible, just terrible.

like a bunch of kids toying around with numbers and programming languages. Nobody actually thinking and keeping to the mission statement.

Hum im also waiting to see how this system will be implemented , IF they add many ways to get the new gear , i dont see any promised broken.

Can you point me to any dev saying that exo would be forever max stat gear? Cause the only promise i remember is that would always be able to get max stats gear many ways.

Hum , i can understand where your request comes from. But there is also the problem which is , people that already got full dungeon armor will simple be converted to full Ascension gear , which then would make the whole point of adding the gear , the progression , disappear.

Still it is possible they convert the ones we can buy from now on? dont even know if they would go that far.

neon.4863:

There is an official announcement regarding Ascended gear now that states dungeons won’t be the only way to get it (I could have misread, but that’s what it read like to me):

“Ascended and infusion rewards will be available in both PvE and WvW over time, and be made available through all sorts of content around the world including existing content.”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/A-message-from-our-Studio-Design-Director-Chris-Whiteside/first#post721451

I think the main issue seems to be how the original post about the new gear was worded, but it’s wait and see.

This is exactly what i wondering about , and to me the problem is solved if they really add many ways to get it.

Still gonna wait and see anyway , but it is good to have some feedback that at least leaves an idea that there would be no such problem , really would hate to have such restriction in this game.

My tks you for the link.

BabelFish.7234:

Anet didn’t go back on their word…holy mass crying guys.

That is also why i said im waiting to see how it will be implemented.

IF the gear is really with better stats AND can only be achived by doing dungeons , then yes they did.

IF not , then they did not.

We will only know when the patch is implemented.

mcnick.3150:

SO, you are saying ANet should update What you should like and not the armor tiers becuz you personally do not like it, otherwise you would quit? wow! you are so selfish..you should go create ur own game and thus update what only u like and don care about anyone else…..

I Would like to Thk ANET for all the updates ..they updates all the major contents for all different kind of players…i am so grateful for the FREE updates ..Instead of whinning for Free stuff i am getting i would in future think of suggestions and hope its good enough for implment…I cant wait for the update!

What im saying is that IF Anet goes back on their word that they would ALWAYS add many ways to get max stats gear i would quit.

You suggest me i should get my own game , indeed wish i could , i suggest to you to read and learn to understand what people mean before you go bashing on them.

Makes you look silly.

jollyjolly.3516:

You have a very strange mindset. You believe that by offering armor with slight stat increases they are "forcing " players to get it and grind? With that mindset, does the game force everyone into getting a full exotic set?
Stat boosts this minor will in no way be able to trivialize content, or be necessary to complete more difficult content. This means that the game is not forcing you to get this armor in any way, so i do not know what is “forcing” anyone to get this gear.
(This is again assuming they do not add further tiers, for if they did, these small stat buffs would be compounded until it was enough to trivialize content)

Honestly im still waiting to check out how it will work once it is actually implemented , but i wont take any excuse for better stat gear that comes only from dungeons that is for sure. If Anet cant keep their word , i will try the next company , maybe they can.

Jestunhi.7429:

I want new content.

I just don’t want new tiers of gear to come with it.

pretty much this. I already said in my guild i will quit if the gear really get better stats and only come from dungeons , so these might be my last days on GW2 already.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Well, til then, i’ll ask for linking in chat.

Well no rule saying you cant have 2 sets , one you link , one you use.

But i guess it will work for most players at least before they can make multi sets.

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Ascended gear looks like ANET is breaking these promises. So we will complain because those promises were a major reason why we bought GW2.

Yeah pretty much , well i got : 400 hours +- played atm , spent $100 total.

So if they do add this system im leaving to wait for the next big MMO title , no hard feelings , 400 hours for $100 is not bad.

What is the problem of simple dying them again? It is quite fast to begin with.

And i also think this tool would not be useful most of the time , since usually you got dyes you want together on each position that are not a simple swap of the ones already on.

(On my post i will assume we cant get gear many ways , which could be wrong since the update is not out yet)

The point is not only the stats. Is the in theory fact you can only get the gear from the dungeon itself.

Now , it was obvius they would add gear with better stats at some point , did anyone really tought you would use gear from the game start forever? BUT the game was always about getting max stats many ways. Now it is about grinding dungeons … all over again.

Im still waiting to see , then i will form what i really think about it , BUT IF it works the way people are saying it does THEN i think it is a plain STUPID idea.

To have a better stat gear that we can only get from dungeons IS NOT ACCEPTABLE to me Anet , if this really is what is going to happen im going going to simple jump to the next MMO.

ley.8973:

If they aren’t “geared” properly, they will die too much and eventually get replaced. That’s how it worked before all those “armories” and “achievements” and inspect features, and it was apparently sufficient enough.

You know where this leads, right? People required to have gear from dungeon X before they are allowed to join the group for dungeon X. And I’ve had jolly well enough of that nonsense in other games.

Nah, we don’t need no inspecting, no sorting, no gear assessment committees. Playing supposed to be fun, remember? Being judged and thrown out before you ever have a chance to show your prowess, that is definitely not fun.

They are not really wrong to ask for this , you suggest everyone lose their time going down to test if every player they add can actually do the content? This is a very silly idea.

This is Anet fault for adding the gear , might now go all the way and make the dungeon PUG viable. Cause without this , PUGs will judge your gear by the eye , and that means you cant even transmute the gear anymore.

Honestly , i got 500 hours already out of this game , worth my money , and im glad it did.

Cause by the looks of the direction Anet is going , i will be jumping to the next big MMO soon.

Taemek.1602:

Belligerent.4819:

holy fuark, they just killed all their pve in one patch, good job, now no one will want to do old dungeons because they don’t drop ascendant gear, arenanet in charge of not killing their franchise

But I thought people play this game for skins?

Hmmm, I am starting to sense a hint of contradicting going on now…..

I do , that is the WHOLE point.

IF Anet dared to add WoW style farming where we MUST go into dungeons to get max stats gear , then to me the main pillar of what made this game great will fall.

To me what made this game rise above all others was the fact i could get max stats gear doing many thing , that meant i could simple play in many ways and at most others people would have cooler skins.

IF they add dungeon only better armor on stats , well , i will consider if i will keep playing or if i will go wait for the next MMO big title.

What i agree with is that they should never add a gear that got better stats and can only be obtainable by doing dungeons , which would break the promise of we being able to get max stats gear many ways.

If they add a new top stat gear we can get many ways, like exos now , i would have no complains on it.

Naoko.7096:

It’s still guild wars philosophy.
Players really shouldn’t worry because it’s not gear treadmill.
It’s very different from traditional mmo. (my explanation below)

In traditional mmo, you must grind for new tier equipments to experience new and higher content X. That is called “gear treadmill” where you you must grind endlessly if you want to catch up to new content. In this game, no matter which tier you’re wearing, you’re still able to experience every world content and dungeons this game has to offer. I don’t think casual players should worry about it. The game still live up to it’s promises no matter if they unlock ascended.

IF , only IF , this gear with best stats is only obtainable from this dungeon , i will reconsider to keep playing this game , since to me that would be a major disappointment and would down this game to the level of all other MMOs, still that is only IF , the armor really only comes from that dungeon. There is no proof it does yet.

Dunno why people are going nuts before they can be sure the problem actually exists.

Wreckdum.8367:

There is no if. It’s on the official sight that the armor will be “slightly more powerful than exotics”. What else do you need to hear?

And what of it?

If we can still get the stats many ways , not only from the dungeon , then Anet kept their promise that we would always be able to get gear many ways.

Adding a new tier over exos on stats was never something they promised not to do. or can anyone link me a place where they said exos would be the top stats tier forever?

IF , the gear is only from the dungeon (which we still need to see) , then there will be plenty to complain about.

Everyone lvl 80 is truly not fair , not because it is bad idea to level the field a bit , but because a true lvl 80 will still trash lowbies. Still WvW is not about balance.

Also , WvW is about war , locking any place a is a bad idea , end of story. You upgrade and hope others defend it , to begin with players play on dif times , trying to make other “fit your play time” is pure arrogance.

The announce part i think it is passable , would make guilds have some fun showing off.

SiNoS.2147:

You dont even know how there going to bring this feature into the game. Best to cool down till some info is actually released.

This. Let us make something clear , Anet never said they would not add something strong than exo. What said is that we would always be able to get max stats gear in many ways.

Therefore , what is the problem if this add new gear kind? Does not break any promise if we can still get it many ways.

Just wait and see people , we are almost there.

Fact is , people mostly come and say they want it , while other come and say they dont want it.

From time to time someone actually tells a reason … which the other side does nto care anyway and bash without thinking over.

Ofc the thread would simple spin.

I for one will again be part of the spiral , in my opinion , they SHOULD add mounts to the game.

In a game about being fancy , mounts fit quite well.

There will be other champions guardian skill points later on. If you cant get used to cooperating with other to achiv things … well you wont get far.

Well … i cant disagree of what your guild seeks in a game , that is for sure.

But i can disagree that this game should at any point in the future implement “raids”.

I honestly like the 5 man dungeons , and i remember doing the raids back in WoW … it was annoying to say the least. To even think i would need to do it all over again … god no.

Honestly , even without legendaries … it is a very positive way of seeing things to believe someone will then redirect their money to others.

Personally , i would simple keep getting more and more ,even if i never had any use to it.

A player should earn what they want/got , no point in giving money to others.

Time … well i agree with this one , without the eternal farms , i think more people would help their guildies for sure, but it is impossible to earn gold without spending time.

Ok … you forgot the “IN MY OPINION”.

Why? just because you think they are bad , that does not mean AT ALL that to tons and tons of others players they are.

To me for an example , skins work perfectly fine.

On a second point , IN MY OPINION , their legendaries are far better than what you got there is design … (to begin with i think that sword is similar with the order of whispers one)

Honestly , while true they could make it easier, you can find the map on the internet and just match the points. most likely i assume you miss a POI.

It takes a little time (at most 5 mins) , to find what you are missing , people simple do not want to spend the little time.

Hum , while im bad with names so i wont be saying them , im quite sure there many JPs that fit you description around the game.

Lutharr.1035:

DBM made WoW raids evolve which is a quote from Blizzard themselves. They knew it was there so had to incorperate it or have trivialised content. Just saying its down to number is utter BS. Every MMO has numbers involved just as GW2 has (u have noticed those numbers flash up i assume) so just breaking it down like that just shows either ignorance or blind hate.

The thing thats really starting to piss me off about these forums is that every sugestion breaks down to people liking it or brainless drones harping on repeating the same crap they do in every thread. Duh go play WoW. From what Ive seen peopel aint trying to turn GW2 into a wow clone (otherwise they would just play wow) they are trying to think of elements that will improve GW2.

Since WoW straight up stole ideas from those that came before it, and those after stole ideas from it people just saying go play wow proves just how little the actually know about the subject.

WoW has dungeons so can Anet please get rid please. WoW has dragons to. Another thing we should get rid of. The list goes on and on. And tbh its getting boring to listen to.

While i dont agree with the go back to WoW posts (since i dislike people telling others what to do), i think people should pick games with the elements they like the most , this is the suggestion forum , thus it is a valid put forth the idea of raids here , still it is just as much valid to players to come here say they dont want this.

What some think it is a improvement , to others seem a regression.

I for one oppose to WoW style raids 100% , seem a hellish obnoxious system , that GW2 will always be better without.

To me dungeons are quite good already , even more now that they are adding the new kind where the deeper you get , the harder it becomes.

aliquis.9180:

Rightly or wrongly, Anet designed Orr to be a very dangerous (some people would say, down right miserable) place. There are a lot of mobs, they are usually grouped, and they pull you, knock you off your feet, immobilize you and do all kinds of other nasty things to you. Repeatedly. You can’t ride through that.

To make riding possible you would have to introduce, like you said, some sort of limited immunity that allows you to stay mounted for some reasonable amount of time. But as soon as you do that, you have made Orr a much less dangerous place. Now you can get from point A to point B without much fear of getting killed. And that would be a very different place from what we have today.

I’m not even saying that this shouldn’t happen. But this is what it would take to put mounts into the game. And as much as I love mounts personally, I have accepted the fact that Anet is unlikely to do a 180 on their whole game design to accomodate them.

I never said it should be impossible to dismount , just 3/4 hits , this would allow to pass few mobs , but if you pass in the middle of many , you will be dismounted , end of story. Just like it was on other games.

The “fear” (honestly i got 3 lvl 80s , only class that can actually go down from running in orr is my ele , my necro/guard … nop i just run around knowing i wont die) would still be there , you would still take into account what is the best way , so you dont get dismounted and then get into troubles.

I think everyone would be able to understand they cant hope to pass a mob infested area using the mount without problems , that would make little sense at all. It is not that strange to find zones where mounts simple do not fit well i think.