Guild Wars 2

i like the way how ranger can use it’s pet, in PvE, there is almost no normal enemy i can’t take down in under 5 secs (even karkas)

in my opinion the biggest problem with WvW is that pets are almost always dead.
If you get to a one on one, your pet may stay alive while in fight, but if you go with the zerg, trying to take enemy towers etc your pet is almost instantly dead because of all the AoE

i like to visit the wiki, get to the page for the are i’m in and count how many sub area’s are there

example:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Plains_of_Ashford
has 25 locations

then i look at the map ingame and count the locations i have discovered (they’re named in white on your map)

if the numbers match, i can be sure it is completely discovered, if not i look for what is missing

to look which map does belong to which zone, take a look here:http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Explorable_zone

on the designer side, GS are extremely easy and fast to design

first of all, all three legendary greatswords use the same skin
the only difference are the visual effects which are made once and than duplicated two times and changed in a few minutes, et voila, 3 GS

i feel stupid for not testing this…
but thanks anyway

/totally agree

also, anything that helps making a Legendary a bit more different (in terms of you can do it this way or this way or this way or mix some ways up) is great

i’m pretty sure this is already implemented/planned
why should they stop such a great tradition?

As the title says,

i’d like to be able to use a Weapon in both my sets,
as an example, i want to play Sword/Dagger and Sword/Axe,
at the moment i need to get 2 Swords, but why?
I already have a sword and would like to use it in both sets.

I really think this should be more customizable.
there could be a checkbox between the both sets (or better 2 checkboxes)
if i enable it, it’ll use the weapon in both sets (and disable the second checkbox since it wouldn’t be any usefull to activate both, then i could also just use one set, lol)

Simple thing, simple Solution.
And i’m sure people who like to use one weapon in both sets would be happier (especially if it is a legendary or any other expensive stuff )

How does your build in PvE, are you swapping anything?

Also, in general, wouldn’t it be better to swap Masters Bond for something else since you swap your pet pretty often?

To the people who think i’m just mad because i worked for mine, i’m not.
(i don’t have one yet, but soon)

It just disturbs me, that you can just buy them with real money.
The bigger problem is, that no one will get the gold through gem→gold, almost every Legendary buyer who “bought it from real money” used gold sellers
Or they used exploits
I see way too much people running around with legendaries, some even with multiple legendaries, to believe that everyone earned it from playing the tp.
most of them either bought gold from 3rd party or got it from exploits

So, in summary again why i ask for making them account-/soulbound on aquire:
- You should need to earn them, even when it’s grind. You don’t need them necessary and you shouldn’t be able to buy them with real money
- People get the gold (most likely) from goldsellers or from exploits, i could bet most of them did not play the TP for a few thousends gold

They were intended to be special and not something everyone can buy.
They were meant to say to others, that the owner did invest much time to craft one.
Not to get people to buy them with real money or even worse giving their money to 3rd party sellers

As the title says.

The purpose of a Legendary is to be something special, something you had to put a lot of work in.
Not just a lot of money.
Now, since they can be sold on the TP, everyone can buy them with a kittenload of money
(and those people will mostly buy the gold from 3rd Party sellers )

Instead, you could make them Bind-On-Pickup and Accountbound

I think many players will agree with this.

PS: sry for my english, it isn’t my mother tongue

Lol, if the servers crashed we couldn’t play at all.

The event will start tomorrow and they’re taking their time to check their patches a few times more or so, lol

Will there be exceptions?

What if someone got hacked, changes everything and nothing happens.
Until 3 years later, then he get hacked again, would there be a restoration?

Also, if someone got hacked the first time and changes everything, but get “hacked” a second time (e.g. ‘friend’ watches him while typing the password or even uses the open game as an opportunity)

I can understand that there has to be a limit, but wouldn’t a 1-time-a-year-and-at-maximum-3-times be better?

same here, mostly because i want Rodgort AND Frostfang, lol

Any tipps on traits which are usefull?
(mostly because most traits don’t have any numbers…)

I really don’t get why everyone is complaining.

I’m playing a Ranger as my main char since the beta and pre start of GW2.

Sure, there are bugs that must be fixed, but imo Ranger is not even close to weak.

I never had any problems in PvE nor did i have in PvP (i’m not the best pvp player, but i win about 40% of 1on1’s which is pretty good for me)

And Damage?
As an example, when i’m in a dungeon (mostly with guild mates), mobs -especially bosses- are almost running after me.
I don’t know how bosses decide that, but damage will definitively be a very relevant factor in there i’d say.

Totally agree with this.
Lodestones etc should also get a place there

Title should be:
Improve the forum, more answers for us, better handling for Anet
but was too long
_______________________________________________________
I just found an interesting discussion about the forums.

One thing that came to my mind immediately was, that there (the forums) is just not enough feedback from Arenanet.

Before GW2, iirc Anet looked at the bigger communitys and listened to them and sometimes even answered something.
But now, we have an official forum.
Don’t get me wrong, this is great because it’s a place where every player can post and every player knows.

But Anet just isn’t able to handle that massive amount of feedback.
So i thought of an idea of how to improve this.

If you don’t understand anything, please ask here.
English is not my native language so there may will be some errors in here.

The plan
In one line: Anet <-> X <-> Forums
You may ask, what is X?
X will be a group of people (maybe volunteers or as a side job for a bit of extra money)
I’ll just call them Listeners, because that’s what they’re supposed to do.

The Listeners will see an extra board on the forums which is only there, so they can share what they found to be important.
Anet will look through that forum and answer questions, the Listeners will then post the answers in the normal forums.

How does that improve anything?
Anet doesn’t have that much people to watch the forums, but we post a lot of things here. Also, they don’t have time to answer every post we submit, because they just don’t see everything we submit (due to limited time)
The group of Listeners will consist of a lot more people.
Those people will see a lot more stuff on the forums and submit the important stuff to the Channel between them and Anet, so Anet will get the important things faster

But what if they do post things twice?
They won’t.
The Listener channel will be like the real forums, with sub forums.
(if they see a suggestion, they’ll post it in suggestions etc)
Before they post, they simply look over that forum to see if there already is such a post.
If the thread is answered and there are no follow-up questions after a day or two, the thread will be locked.
Again after a few days, maybe a week or so, the thread will be moved to the “finished” section.
(i don’t know the word, but there should be a better one for this)
That last section is only there so Anet and Listeners can search if they think, there already was an answer.
Then again, after a longer time, post of the last section will be deleted permanently (depends on how much space Anet has left on the servers etc)

Since this was my idea, i think it is great, but other people may have other views, so please let me know, what you think of my idea and/or if i made any mistakes in my thinkings.

Regards,
GotDamned

PS: Again, i’m very sorry if my english isn’t good enough, but since this forum get’s the most attention, i thought it would be better to post it here.

Since this is the forum which is visited by more people, i thought i’d post it here too.
The original post is in the german forums.

This suggestion is mainly about the Events which happen every month

Less Lags
This is the main point of the suggestions which takes me/us the fun from the Events.
Without a question, the events are really great. Sometimes a bit to long/hard (the part where karka gets support, twice), but all in all they’re great.
The only thing that have to change are the lags, if there would be no lags, GW2 would have -imo- a feature that no other MMO can catch up with atm.

Same Dropchance
This mainly is about the Chest at the end of the Events.
Many players got precursors and i think, it would be a great possibility for everyone, if the dropchance would remain the same in future events.
in a few months, players could get the precursor they’re wishing for.
Also, the prices in the trading post would be relative stable, they’d drop a bit in front of an event and rise a bit after one.
Most important: the players who are angry about not getting one (or even not having the chance to get one) would have a reason to be happy and look forward because it wouldn’t stay a “one time only chance”, but instead be a “one time a month” chance (if they got time for that weekend)

I hope the suggestions (mainly the part with the loot) will have enough appeal to stay the same.

(original post: https://forum-de.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Weniger-Lags-geiche-Chance-f-r-weitere-Events)

Hello,
as many of you may have noticed, there is something called SweetFX that makes the game look even more fantastic.
But there are so many rumors about that you’ll get banned etc.
On the german board, the thread even got deleted and we got an answer from a gm that caused ‘panic’ for those, who use(d) it.

We already have a thread here and there are some statements in which are more vague but point out that it does nothing against the rules as stated in the 3 points for third-party programs.
The Problem here is, that there are still many players who are worried about getting banned for using ist and even some (or more in the german board) players who keep posting that it’s illegal (with no good reasons mentioned)

What we want
SweetFX and other SMAA-Injectors are pretty popular and i think we deserve an official statement on what’s ok and what’s not.
Also, it would be nice to know a bit about your bot detection. (in context with the below, just to know if SweetFX would be recognized as one, because it does not interact with the game)
Does it scream alarm if a textfile is in the GW2 folder? or a dll?
Because, SweetFX only hooks as a DirectX-Function so it only gets the data, that the directx function would usually get and is not able to manipulate things like only enemies or walls etc.
I’m pretty sure that it’s not bannable and probably never will be, but please give us a bit more exact statements for such things and clarify what falls into modifying the game and what not, because SweetFX modifies the graphic, but does not touch the game in any way.

Thanks

we just got an answer in the german forums:

Alicse.9854:
Als, ich kann von der Verwendung nur abraten, auch wenn die Grafik kitten zweifelsohne besser aussieht. Der Support schreibt dazu wie folgt:
“Hallo,
vielen Dank, dass du dich an das europäische Support Team gewendet hast.
Leider ist es im Fall SweetFX Shader Suite nicht möglich dieses für Guild Wars 2 zu verwenden, da es die unerlaubte Modifikationen am Spiel verursacht.
Sollten weitere Fragen oder Probleme auftauchen, stehen wir dir jederzeit gerne zur Verfügung.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
GM Anni
NCSOFT Kundenbetreuung"

That was the answer on a support-ticket.
Basically they say, that SweetFX would do forbidden modifications and you should not use it.

I still hope for an official answer from a community manager who’s in contact with the devs, because even if it’s an answer from the community support it doesn’t mean it’s 100% correct (we know that SweetFX doesn’t manipulate anything in the Game which would give us an advantage, don’t we?)