Guild Wars 2

Any JP achievement would have to leave room for a new higher achievement as new puzzles are added.

Add a separate monthly achievement for Jumping Puzzles too. Complete X# of different puzzles a month. Then take JP’s off the normal monthly.

Permanent gathering tools that have to be repaired would work as a gold sink. It saves inventory space and silver. If fact they would only take up equipment slots.

They could be ungradable like the rebreather.
Or level up with the player.
Lost durability can be scaled to the area.

There’s many ways Anet could make permanent gathering tools work.

Victory.2879:

Enough of the jump puzzles already, this game isn’t called ‘Jump Puzzle 2’ yet, although any more of them and it will qualify as a platform game on a PS2.

Many people like then! Every city and zone need 2 to 3 Jumping puzzles.

Instead of a cut scene. Maybe it can actually a small playable area. A area void of objects but full of particle affects. It would look like you are actually flying through a wormhole.

Ctrlaltdaleeet.6805:

Demanding, are we? This game was intended to have levels.

Not really because of downscaling. Levels just seem to be a arbitrary number once you hit level 80.

Fractal Jumping Puzzle

*no level, fractal just differnt every time you play it.
*Small chests throughout the puzzle
*one large chest at the end "reward based on how well you found the
small chests.
*mini non puzzles
*Descoverable waypoints that have to be re-desovered every time you
redo the fractal.
*Puzzle story
*lore to descover
*gathering nodes
*Each part of the fractal should have it’s own chalenges.
*1 to 3 routes and deadends
*Traps
*party options

1. Duels – I disagree with this parts “When a two players duel they should
only see each others, no other players, no mobs and no NPCs around them
that way they can fully concentrate on the duel.”

2.Race change “This would have to have the same gem price as a charactor
slot.”

3.Add ground mounts – “waypoints are a needed gold sink. Any mounts would
also have to be a gold sink by making you rent a stable to house them.”

7.Lose breath overtime if no mask equipped. – “most people
have a mask equip most of the time. So this doesn’t seem necessary.”

11.New playable races Kodan – “WoW already added a bear race.”

12.Fishing "rod and reel, fly fishing, different fishing rigging and bate,
new types of fish “goliath tigerfish, rays, sawfish”

16. Arena / 2v2 arenas – also add “free for all, no teams, 16 players”

If a weapon has ice damage but the player equips fire particle dye on it. Does that make since.

Particle affects would work better on runes. Or, have the particle affect on a weapon when the right rune is attached to it.

Chaos.3579:

If they could make a 100 dyes that give your armor particle effects, glow in the dark, or both. I would love them.

But other than that. This game needs the ability to dye the weapons, and with dyes that give particle effects

I would tie have particle affects to the Rune’s. That way the particle affect has meaning.

If a player is suspected of being a bot for repeated behavior over a period of time. Anet could send the bot a Captia. This would help detect bots and hacked accounts.

Asum.4960:

I don’t really mind it since it wouldn’t hinder me as PC gamer, but atm there are many way more important things to do for ArenaNet.

Claiming gamepads would be superior to Keyboard and Mouse is the funniest thing ive ever read tho.

I only said the movement on a controller then it is better then a keyboard. But the precision the of a mouse is better then a controller.

It comes down to Better Movement or Better Precision.

xCrusadentx.2784:

Well, the thing here is, as stated by many of you, there are already programs that do this sort of thing for you. Why should Anet bother to make one when there already programs for it? I’m not trying to sound like a bad guy here, however, when you buy a pc game, the expectation is that you play with the mouse and keyboard. There are many more important things Anet could and are working on. When you take a look at many if the features that will be added/ bugs that will be fixed, this issue seems trivial at best. Of course, after all is said and done, I wouldn’t mind them adding support, but I wouldn’t imagine them doing it. I would think it would be outside their scope of priorities.

I agree it’s not necessary for GW2 to have controller support.

But they can do things to help people customize their controllers. I would like a way to lock and unlock the mouse cursor above the player (reticle mode). This would be good a good option for people with a mouse and keyboard too (makes game play like a shooter).

MrMacAndCheese.3907:

I think the important thing to note here is that there already is revealing clothing in the game, just not very much of it. So for those that like it, more options would be appreciated. For those that don’t like it, well it’s already in the game, so I doubt it would hurt you anymore then it is now. (pic 1)

For my Norn Guardian, I got the most revealing clothes I could because 1) I’m a straight guy who loves sexy women, and 2) You can see my star tattoos better. I especially like the little ones on the upper thigh. My guardians name is Jen Nova, so I have a star theme going on here. Full armor with helmet on would make Norn tattoos pretty pointless. (pic 2)

As far as practicality or immersion: There is no blood or mud in the game. You never get dirty, and even when your armor is broken it always looks sparkling brand new. Also, my toon is a barbarian to some humans in a way, so my ways would not neccessarily be your ways. Think about that before you judge.

I realise also that with my helmet on, I am leaving the most vulnerable organs open to attacks. That is why I have a shield, and Aegis ;D (pic 3)

Did you look at the back of the clothing? Most armors are not form fitting around the hips and butt.

Olba.5376:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Keyboard are not designed right for movement in games. Using W,A,S,D is just awkward

Keyboards don’t need to be designed for movement in games, you can just design the movement in games for keyboards.

I only use the Keyboard for typing, Mouse for menus, controller for fights because it has more movement.

Deanor The Bold.6590:

Using W,A,S,D is awkward Onshidesigns, because you’re probably just terrible at using W,A,S and D.

With a controller I have better movement and can cast magic while moving. While keeping the target in-front of me the whole fight.

You have to stop moving to cast magic. Unless you are using a mouse for movement. But even then your have to re-position yourself to to cast ranged attacks.

The whole game is event chains. The outcome of one event affects the next event in the chain.

Jiiub.7135:

-.- really people want to play using kittenty controllers instead of the great invention of mouse and keyboard? bah do not waste time on this when we have culling in WvW

Keyboard are not designed right for movement in games. Using W,A,S,D is just awkward.

The Mouse is quicker at targeting. But lacks movement because of the keyboard.

With a controller I can kill a large mod by myself quicker then with a keyboard. And pickup the drops as I’m doing it using right analog button. But I still need to use the mouse for menus.

Looney Ranger.2951:

Onshidesigns.1069:

I don’t like gem store skins being soul bound to one charactor. Cosmetic gem store skins should be account bound with the ability to copy them. And send those copies to our alts through mail.

I hear what your saying and generally I’d agree with you because costumes bought in GW1 WERE account wide.

However it’s different here mainly because of the 5 race system. 1 outfit could be used on all 5 races and have completely different looks. Now if they were “heritage bound” maybe……

I bought the Wintersday outfit for a my female. But I still want the men’s version to be included in purchase. And to be able to use both on any race.

If their are multiple versions of the same cosmetic gem store item. It should be like buying the whole group.

I don’t like gem store skins being soul bound to one charactor. Cosmetic gem store skins should be account bound with the ability to copy them. And send those copies to our alts through mail.

Hex Kor.4089:

Nudity is bad and you should feel bad.

Nudity is fine in the confines of your own home, but it certainly isn’t needed in any way, shape, or form in an MMORPG.

If you want nudity in your game, here’s some choices for you :

1)Age of Conan
2) Therapy

Nudity is not bad! It’s just basic biology!

Lafiel.9372:

There are revealing clothing in this game, just most of them are used to death.

If you read the kittening title before the mod changed it. You would know the title of the post was “Whats wrong with more relieving clothing.”

Tumbero.3945:

When i read topics like these and i see tons of boys playign and talking about a female character only need to run on kitten mode, i only assume you dont have girlfriends or wife.

This is about making our characters stylish. And not trying to turn them into some sex symbol. I want to collect different types armor to dress my characters in “Cool, sexy, normal armors”.

I never said that this post is exclusive to female armor. I want to see male players running around like Conan too. And more normal body types for men also.

And other peoples girlfriends are none of your concern.

Kaizer.7135:

Because it’s stupid, why would female warriors on the frontline of battle run around in a metal bikini? Go back to TERA if you want that kind of stuff.

There is nothing realistic about this game. Magic on armor, will protect any metal bikini players.

Weindrasi.3805:

Here are the problems with nudity:

1. There are too many people who would use it to be obscene or perverted. Like someone above said, there would be too many young male players running around with female characters, screaming “BEWBS, BEWBS”. As a female player, I am offended by how often females are degraded into nothing more than sex objects. While there’s nothing wrong with nudity in itself, there is a problem with how people use nudity.

2. Arenanet is trying to appeal to people and cultures around the world. There are nudists playing side-by-side with ultra-conservative religious people. The company is trying to appeal to multiple cultures—and allowing nudity in any form isn’t the way to do that. If they did, they would lose some of the player base—and earn less money—as a result.

3. It’s a teen-rated game. While the rating allows for the portrayal of sexuality, violence, drugs, ect. to an extent—Arenanet is basically trying to make their game child-friendly. They want to appeal to youth, and to parents.

4. In western countries, eating disorders are on the rise. This is because the media portrays the human body—male and female—in a very unrealistic manner. From a young age, people see many more fake bodies from media, then they do real life bodies. As a result, they come to believe that bodies in the media are normal, when in truth they are edited by computers, and physically impossible for a real person to get. This not only causes people to be uncomfortable with their own bodies, but to be cruel and judgemental about the bodies of others.
The bodies in Guild Wars 2 are super-idealized. NOBODY looks like that for real. We don’t need another media outlet warping people’s perception and causing mental health problems.

Political correctness is slowly eroding the constructional freedoms of this country. When people have overly accommodate feelings of others, it limits their own freedoms. The constitution is meant to protect against controversial speech.

Exploits are caused by bad programming. It’s Anet’s job to fix their programming mistakes. Before to many people take advantage of Anet’s bad programming.

Anet could of disabled the recipe when they first noticed it.

Kraggy.4169:

This is one of the saddest threads I’ve seen on any MMO forum, ever.

Why? explain how this is worse then the violence in games.

Bloodstealer.5978:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Reply to Laufey.5129

Some examples above are way Anet used to limit tone down sexuality in game.

As for you not liking sexualized clothing on women. This is the most basic insistent for the human race. People are attracted to the opposite sex or sometimes same sex.

If your looking to get attraction for your toon or others toons then sorry.. therapy maybe your only real option.
This is a game with a low age rating, the more explicit the content they bring in then the more chances there are that this game will be required to undergo a ratings change and thus limit their market appeal that much more.
People crying for nudity (like the other silly thread on here), more revealing clothes or same sex relationships you really need to question what is is your looking for in this game cos honestly it might be more prudent to go rent a video to share and roleplay with ya sweetheart and leave GW2 to deliver more sensible content.

What do you call more explicit the content? Violence or nudity

If the US government has it’s way. This game will have a mature rating soon anyways because of the school shooting last month.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Onshidesigns.1069:

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

I prefer it when women wear actual armour, not distraction chainmail bikins.

I would like to see Chainmail bikinis for under garments.

Just isn’t practical though. Have you ever worn chain mail before? It pinches. A lot. Thus why people who wear chain mail, wear something under it to prevent it from pinching their skin every time they move.

Now imagine that as underwear. Not a fun time at all. And if they wore something under it to prevent that pinching, then it would be pointless to even wear the chain mail in the first place. Especially if it is just underwear. No one wants to sleep in chain mail briefs when they have on perfectly fine regular briefs underneath.

I could understand wanting different underwear styles or the ability to dye underwear, but chain mail underwear….. I just couldn’t put my character through such torture.

Maybe I want my toon to be unconformable.

Vorch.2985:

OP, out of curiosity, you would not happen to be a Vindictus player, would you?

Personally, I don’t know why there isn’t a bunch of underwear and skimpier armor skins in the cash shop. That’s the kind of thing that’s purely aesthetic and people spend ridiculous amounts of money on. It’s also VERY cheap to produce.

I tried it out but didn’t like it.

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

I prefer it when women wear actual armour, not distraction chainmail bikins.

I would like to see Chainmail bikinis for under garments.

Reply to Laufey.5129

Some examples above are way Anet used to limit tone down sexuality in game.

As for you not liking sexualized clothing on women. This is the most basic insistent for the human race. People are attracted to the opposite sex or sometimes same sex.

What is wrong with more revealing clothing?

Examples of less revealing clothing.

Trench coats covering up the backside of most armors.
Covering charr furr with full armor.
No dying underwere so it looks good when it breaks.
Changing beta armor because of “claw on breast and no underware look”
Most underware looks like a dirty diaper.
Underware and armor Coving up the butt cheacks and horizontal gluteal creas.
butt cleavage
No codpiece equipment slot
No fur linen cloth for men and women

Like leather armor but not bulky lie a coat. Some armors should look like old west frontier clothing. And other fur armors should be sexy and stylish.

Profession required for making Fur armor would be:
huntsman
tailor

Hellfire.3521:

Regardless of how this would affect the current player-base, it would look pretty bad from a PR perspective. It’d be pretty darn easy to put a negative spin on the whole thing, Ex: “Anet desperately trying to find players; CREATES EXPLICIT NUDITY SERVERS!”. Not to mention it would obviously require a rating-change, because honestly, you can put in as many “you must be 18 or older to continue” windows as you want, the kids are still gonna click yes.

Kid already know how to use computers better then most adults. To do things like access porn on the internet.

Story mode shows that Anet can easy create instances anywhere in the game world.

Houses would play like story mode with co-op.

Guild Halls would have to be run off of servers. And may require a monthly fee.

Victory.2879:

Here’s what currently happens at dragon spawn points:

Park appropriate level 80 alt at each spawn point.

Check dragon spawn timer.

Log into alt at stated dragon spawn time (there is a site that has the spawn times on it).

Watch 100 people do the same, not even bothering with helping with pre event.

100 people kill dragon in 3-4 minutes, collect loot, log off to next alt.

What really needs to be done is to make every dragon in the world all respawn at the same time by removing the pre event and making the respawn time random (between one and eight hours) so that people get a world message ‘the dragons have appeared- please help us!’ marked on your world map by big red dots and then you can go and kill whatever one you want to.

That would give it a lot more flavour as a dynamic event than the current ‘it will respawn in X hours every time and you can farm every dragon on every map, set your clock’ method.

Isn’t meta events created by completing event chains? That has to be completed in order for the dragon to spawn on time.

Meta Boss, Fight the gods
*Boss shape-shifts and takes the form of the 6 human gods
*Randomly shape-shifts three times during the fight.
*Playing the meta more then once lets you see the boss in the form of all the human gods.

Some of the future dragons should be smaller. Theirs only so much a dragon can do when their is no room for it to move around.

Many people are doing a server transfer to play PvE on a more populated server.

They could make it so players don’t get any rewards in the active WvW game right after a transfer. So they have to wait until the next game starts to receive rewards.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Azjenco.9425:

Will there be a January focused blog to detail the changes coming? Or will the incoming blog summarizing the plans for the first half of 2013 effectively cover everything that’s happening in Jan?

There will be a blog post in around week or so that summarizes the high level plan for the first 6 months of 2013 for Gw2.

Then each of the individual releases for January, February, etc. will have their own release pages on our website, as well as blog posts describing specific important new features where appropriate.

More info coming in about a week once it’s all edited and localized!

Just give us the notes and we will help you edit it.

Artifacts could also be like a gathering node. Except you only see the artifact and it disappears once you gathered it.

Their would be more artifact nodes then say mineral nodes. But only a selected number will be available to gather from. Artifact node location change once a week or so and the type of artifacts within them.

Artifact could also work like dyes. They are a item that can be sold on the TP. But double clicking on them will apply it to your artifact attachments.

Artifact could also different levels of rarity like armor.

Completing artifact attachments should come with a heavy reward. “Ex: a item to help you get a legendary faster”

Some Artifacts could be also be pieces of lore from GW. The Artifacts would be so in the form of book pages. Finding all the Artifact pages in the book would be an attachment that allow you to read the whole lore book.

The pages of the mad king book could have worked like this if it was read-able.

Agree,

And can we have a animation emote hud or a list of animation emotes. So we don’t have to remember and type the command for animations.

Charismatic Harm.9683:

It probably won’t happen for one simple reason….

Underwear + Flesh Tone Dye = Naked

It would have to match the shade of the skin perfectly or close to it.

Even if you did have dye that matched your skin. Anet could disable any shades that are too close to your skin color. That wouldn’t be to hard for them to do if they are going by hex color codes.

Yes that was it. thanks

You should rip off their idea with the gods.

When the game was in beta, I was searching YouTube for GW2 beta videos. I seen a game mode that looked like Conquest mode. But it also gave the best players in the ability to transform into Gods/deities and fight for a limited amount of time.

I’m not sure that they were the human gods, as they looked somewhat different. One of them look like a Chinese monkey God that fought with fireworks. The game did look like GW2 and the video said it was. But I can’t find the video on YouTube.

Does this sound familiar, if not could it be future content? Or is it a GW clown?

Divinity’s Reach, Upper City-Go full out here with Wintersday decorations,like in Lion’s Arch.
*Lights on the trees with presents under them.
*Snow, Snowmen, Snowball-fights
*Have Queen Jennah out in the Upper City having fun.“Ex throwing snowballs”
*SPvP Wintersday mini-game npcs
*Add Lore from GW Wintersday’s
*Events around the Gods alters, Gods making guests apparences.

Wintersday Gods-they might not be active but their lore didn’t go away.
*events-collect pieces of Wintersday lore, Find Wintersday ghosts and relive their memories of past Wintersday’s. “maybe at gods alters”

Agree

We should also have different styles of underwear and swimsuits in town clothing. With diving abilities attached to them. Instead of having to limited diving to one spot with those ugly diving glasses.

joe.9815:

I think they should make like a easier version of the jumping puzzles for people like me that are bad at them but make the reward less but give the achievement

You should use your mouse for movement. If you are not doing so now on JP’s

Overall to was a good event.

What can be improved for the event next year.
*add some of the lore from GW1 Wintersday.
*add large fully decorated areas it the other cities.
*add some Wintersday event chains in-world with large Wintersday themed meta event bosses.
*improve rewards for gifts.