Guild Wars 2

DeanBB.4268:

Plus, haven’t people been moaning about weapon and other skins gated behind either tickets or chests? Isn’t Anet putting the skins directly in the gem store just what people have been asking for? So pony up some cash and quit complaining!

This

I rather have the skins more expensive in the gemshop than gated behind RNG

And like others mentioned GW2 is no pay to play so Anet needs to make profit with the gemshop

those are just on the way rewards….
short matches where you could have super easy enemy teams so it is good that those dont reward so much yet…

The real goal is the monthly tournament and only there you will have the best teams that you need to fight and win against and that one has really good rewards:

1. place 500 gold, 100 mystic coins, 3 Glorious Victor’s Armor Boxes (Ascended),
Gold Llama Box, 4 Weeks VIP Area Access, Large PvP Potion
2. place 400 gold, 50 mystic coins, 2 Glorious Victor’s Armor Boxes (Ascended),
Silber Llama Box, 2 Weeks VIP Area Access, Large PvP Potion
3. – 4. place 250 gold, 25 mystic coins, Glorious Victor’s Armor Box (Ascended)
Bronze Llama Box, 2 Weeks VIP Area Access, Large PvP Potion
5. – 8. place 100 gold, 15 mystic coins, Large PvP Potion
9. – 16. place 50 gold, 10 mystic coins, Large PvP Potion
17. – 32. place 25 gold, 5 mystic coins, Large PvP Potion

So i think the rewards are actually really good (for the hard endfight every month where you deserve the good rewards)
seem like you just didnt bother to read what the actual monthly rewards were…

Edit:
I guess Anet should probably increase the rewards for the daily tournaments since you need to invest so much time to finish one
Monthly Rewards seem fine to me though

yes it is a bad system

I don’t mind the cost and i don’t mind the timegate

But the provisioner token system is just pure annoyance
zero skill needed, no real commitment needed just so incredibly annoying having to put a char aside with all his inventory slots permanently in use until you are done with this thing is just bad design tbh
And combine it with the unnecessary “Waypoint is contested and there is nothing you could do about it” its even more annoying

I understand that there need to be timegates
but they dont have to be so boring and annoying

• Lake Doric
  (Visually unappealing, Bad Event scaling so it is very annoying when you dont play at primetime)
• Straits of Devastation
  (Nothing happening there / Mobs who arent hard but just annoying by chilling, crippling, pulling you / No interesting Heartquests)
• Tangled Depths
  (I dont have a problem with vertical big maps like Verdant Brink for example which was open at least but Tangled Depths took it a bit too far
  Mostly disliking it because important waypoints can also be contested on top of the map being hard to get around already …)
• Dry Top
  (Nothing to do solo, a bit like Lake Doric when it comes to being forced into a very active map to achieve anything /
  I like the aesthetic design a lot though)

Instead of a 5th bad designed map i decided to name a map that i found to be very well designed:

• Ember Bay
  —> Looks awesome (that one may be personal opinion only)
  —> 3 Waypoints and well placed thermal tubes to make navigation over the map easy without just having waypoints everywhere
  —> Nice to do the Events & Content in a group but also soloable!

Just a flesh wound.3589:

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Some skins don’t show by default in the bank, unless you’ve unlocked them. The Lava Skull and anniversary backpacks are among those.

That’s kind of silly of ANet to do that. If they are hidden not everyone will know they are an option and do the content to get them. They should all be unlocked to show all those possible skins and content.

This!
Pls Anet

actually i like that it is not so much only in the “epic” form while weapons are drawn

I like that it looks just as good when standing around as it looks while fighting

DPS is also still so much required because the higher DPS is the more you can ignore the mechanics

You dont need to be so good if you just have insane DPS and dont need to survive as long as a group that has to cycle through the full boss mechanics multiple times

better make loyalty bonus +3

World position is (mostly) population based like Pancake.3092 said so it shouldnt affect that pips more than minimal (1,2,3 is enough)
But i agree that outmanned should only be +1 … a nice bonus but no reason to change to a specific borderland

The only other thing that i think could be done would require major changes so the actual amount of objecties you cap/defend within a time matters more instead of just tagging an npc guard every 10 minutes
And Anet would have to make T1, T2, T3 objectives be much more valuable to defend so people have incentive to keep those secured until T3 instead of just giving it to the enemy in order to recap it later for points

I think it would be a good change

Having 5 points as baseline (once you have proven that you are loyal to your server) would help especially the new players a lot who are coming to WvW now
I dont even want to imagine how it is to just get 1 pip if you are low rank and your server isnt doesnt well….
Veterans could still earn much more with the +1 to +7 rank boni

And people just border hopping only to get outnumbered is not a good thing and should never determine on which map you play

So i would approve the idea
(doesnt even have to be +5 though … +3 for loyalty would be enough already i think)

i could maybe see how they add a stat change like the one for the Bloodstone Fen items

where you buy a “reset item” that resets all T3 Armorpieces

So Legendary Armor keeps its unique stat change but the WvW T3 Armor could get a basic form of stat change with a little cost added (maybe 100-250 Badges of Honor to buy the reset item)

Astralporing.1957:

Yeah, considering the requirement it’s definitely more deserving to be legendary than raid armor is.

it depends

it is way easier then raids
just more grind … but easy grind that a lower skilled player can do too

Yes it takes longer but it is still easier to do

so the punishing for transfering to a stacked server for WvW is basically only 1 week ??

seems really low to me considering that everyone would rather be earning +3 pips for the many many many weeks needed to complete the backpiece instead of +1 pip for server placment

Berelious.3290:

You have to have tier 3 participation in order to get pips. If you stop participating, your participation level drops, and you stop getting pips. If they ARE trying to get pips AFK, it won’t last long.

you need to do 1 random thing every 10 minutes

that is almost afk farming

people watch movies while standing around in wvw and just tab back into gw2 tag something and go afk again…

Why did Anet make the backpiece fiery & red capes style
And the Armor has blue & electro style wings

Both cannot be dyed …

So basically the 2 endgoal prestige items of WvW dont fit together
That doesnt seem right to me… in a game that is all about fashion especially

Possible Solutions that i can think of:

• Since the WvW T3 Armor has just 3 Dye channels being used the 4th channel could be changed to affect those electro wings on the breastplate so that players can chose a fitting color to the backpiece (since you cannot make backpieces dyeable)

• Introduce an NPC who offers alternative Versions of the Breastplate / Backpiece with different colors
  Maybe with 6 basic colors (Red, Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange)

I personally think solution 2 would be better since it actually offers the possiblity to use the Legendary Backpiece with different colored weapons & styles too
If Anet choses that way they could also introduce a Golden Fractal Backpiece which is also heavily desired by many players who own the normal version

Fine with me
As long as Anet finally nerfs the wxp gain from Eotm further so that people without any PvP experience stop gaining WvW Ranks that they shouldnt have…

I have seen too many Gold Ranks without any clue of actual PvP lately….

a nice solution to make the WXP gain fair would be to increase the WXP gain if you capture objectives with less players
(make different tiers maybe: 2 or less players, 5 or less, 10 or less, 11 or more)

No

They shouldnt make it guestable… people would guest to avoid fighting for the Chest/Achievement/Guild Mission and that shouldnt be possible

They should rather make it work like Edge of the Mists so it is always populated
and GvGs can happen much easier without having to wait too long for the right server to be in the same matchup

gf left me coz of ladderboard

All is vain

There is a limit to the blocklist ?? And you already hit that limit?
Seems like it is more of a problem on your side because i have never heard of anyone who had problems with soo many other players tbh…
Maybe try to change your attitude and just dont let those whispers make you mad

I play WvW a lot but i only get bad whispers from enemies rarely (really rarely)
Do you play a cheesy build that makes other people mad by any chance?

Sirbeaumerdier.3740:

Talindra.4958:

i have 10 pieces of leg armor to date now.. and left with under 200 li. and will reduce further once I get enough provisional token chipping down each week.. will be nice if Anet implement title for armor pieces. kinda painful because I only pug my raids. basically entering a group asking for 400 li I will say helloo … let me ping my armor.. ping ping ping ping ping 6 pieces, this is my first set, wait .. I will roll another char for second set, ping ping ping ping, this is my second set.. and spam the rest of li.. this is my remaining li. …. happy? ok? issue? :/ :\ :/ :\
commander then dragged me into second group. thanks after 5 mins later. :p
thanks for consideration anet .. I love you guys a lot.. (if anet is reading… any leak for fractal? heh) … <3

400 LI requirement? And I thought the 300 LI one was dumb!

BTW, how do you ping 400LI? You can never ping more than a stack at a time. If I have a stack and ping it twice will you believe I have 500?

If someone think your raid armor set (worth 300) is not good enough, they are questionable individuals indeed.

you ping the 2 stacks so fast that it cant be a chatcode
sometimes you need to ping stack A, stack B, stack A, stack B, stack A, …..etc very fast to prove those stacks are real
If in doubt they may ask you to split those stacks to 2 different amounts within a certain time and ping them again

can only agree with others here

• Power PS was already worse than condi PS in PvE (except for KC)

• It is usually always better to just tweak the raw damage numbers a bit (10% reduced damage for example) than to change cooldowns / cast times since that kittens up playstyles and rotations and takes the fun out of the fluent gameplay

• The only time when cast time changes can be really justified is in PvP for example when skills are being casted too fast for other players to react
  It doesnt make much sense to nerf cast times vs computer enemies though
  If Anet found it was necessary to nerf it for PvP then they should have split balanced it in this case i think

it doesnt only happen with deathly swarm

it happens with other condi transfers too but i still dont understand it 100%

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Djinn.9245:

I personally wouldn’t even comment on JPs if they didn’t have content locked behind them. If they were purely optional, I wouldn’t care how hard they were as I would simply not do them.

I totally agree with this. JPs where originally optional content, now they are required just to complete a map. More and more content locked behind them and made harder and harder.

which jp is required to complete a map?

Sounds like the first jp that OP did was the one in Draconis Mons

Because what he says is sort of true for Draconis Mons
The new mastery jumps always bring you up a to a bit different heights
(Not as consistant like regular jumps who are 100% precise)
You cannot predict where to go and its just luck sometimes wether you have to restart or you found the right way
That is bad design i think (with more checkpoints it could be ok i guess)

While i really appreciate the work that Josh put into the last 2 big jumping puzzles i would much rather have jps where the path is a bit more clear and instead the jumps are hard
Perfect example of a challenging jp: Mad Kings Clock tower
The path is rather clear but you have to jump precisely to not fall down
The time pressure makes sure you dont cheese your way through the challenge

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Keep. There’s 5-6 ‘eating’ entities now, that use them and give you loot bags for it. Since i have the most recent ones that eat a mix of two, i almost never get more of these items then i use up. So keep them and get the items that (like mawdrey II), and the item for clearing la stuff achievement, etc.

those eating entities are such a horrible solution tbh

Each of them only eats up 150-250 per day (not even 1 stack guaranteed while you get more than that if you are an active player)
Each one produces a different loot bag….
Each loot bags gives you tons of crap with it so you sure have to spend a lot of time selling the crap in between before it fills up your inventory and you cant open more

They should just make all entities give out the same loot bag type and remove the limit of each eater so people can actually use them
but the way it is now is just a major annoyance

What i do atm is just what Illconveived described int he post above mine…
Because those eaters are so incredibly annoying and not worth the hassle

I prefer clipping

Problem is that the floating looks stupid with shields but seems alright for greatswords for example
so if all of that is just regulated by 1 general fix point then it can only be good for 1 of the 2

the 2nd one is the Balthazar outfit of Guild Wars 1
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Agent_of_Balthazar

Dungeons were and still are one of the best contents of GW2

I really wish Anet would have introduced just 1 new dungeon with HoT
Maybe they bring a new one with the next expansion

It is just the perfect content to jump right into that give good rewards for new players but also still great reward for veterans who are able to clear it faster

Anet doesnt need to rework any old dungeon at all but i really wish they would consider bringing 1 (or more) new dungeons per expansion

FJSAMA.2867:

The worst of all is hovering back items on light. I would rather have items clipping on this bulky skirt than hovering back items…

(legendary vestments vs precursor vestments)

yeh
It definitly looks better when close to the body

I know Anet probably wanted to make 100% sure there are no clipping complaints but this is actually worse than any possible clipping from shields/backpieces

so please Anet reconsider the distance of shields/backpieces on the legendary armor

Xenon.4537:

Orangensaft.7139:

ooor maybe that leak was just all lies in order to make people buy the mushrooms so the leak OP can make profit

If the leak is a hoax, it’s pretty darn elaborate. They have screen shots of fully rendered 3D models of mounts.

So either:

A) Someone photoshopped mounts from other games to fake this.
B) Someone fully modelled 3D creature mounts to fake this.
C) It’s legit.

“A” is possible, but if that’s the case then show me what game that giant rabbit mount is from.

“B” is highly unlikely. No one would go through that much effort for a hoax, especially when option A is 9000% easier.

“C” is looking pretty likely now isn’t it?

my fault

didnt actually see those other leaked pictures until just now
only saw that first reddit topic with just text and without any evidence

ooor maybe that leak was just all lies in order to make people buy the mushrooms so the leak OP can make profit

No Legendary Gear is for prestige reasons only

You already get a nice QoL improvement on top of that:
Stat Change & Sigil removal for free

And IF there should ever be something in addition to that then it would never be acceptable to give it actual combat related advantages
Only things like +magic find +gold find +experience ….

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I agree that enrichment bonuses are currently outdated. However, I don’t think movement speed is appropriate — there are balancing reasons why some professions have access to sustained swiftness and others don’t.

More importantly, enrichments are deliberately designed to have no impact on combat, which a speed buff certain would do.

I’d like to see enrichments start to match the boosts we have from the guild hall:

• Gathering
• WXP and/or WvW rank
• Map Bonus reward progress

This

Anet should reevaluate the old enrichment infusions (especially the Goldfind one)

and in addition to what Illconceived Was Na.9781 mentioned i would also like to see enrichment Infusions for PvP & WvW reward track progress
basically enrichment infusions for the things that we also can choose from the Guildhall 24h buffs

Serophous.9085:

(early days of gw2)
The commander survived the fall, I should too!

haha oh yeah
good times xD

everytime on mining runs that i did back then and sometimes in WVW

thats exactly what i already wrote about how it works

But maybe people will understand it easier with your longer a bit more detailed explanation
Hero panel shouldnt be necessary though – works fine for me when just doubleclicking another weapon in inventory while dancing

Getting weapons to show while dancing takes like 2 seconds to do after you started dancing
Does really not seem like and awful lot of work to me

But considering that it is not designed intentionally by Anet i guess it wouldnt make much sense to introduce something like Pom Poms as long as there is no official function for it

Just re-equip them while dancing
If they were drawn when you started dancing then they will show

ofc it is probably no official mechanic but still not some especially hard trick or anything shady either

Endless Soul.5178:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

When characters dance, or exhibit other emotes, do they have weapons (pom-pom weapon-skin) in hand?

Nooope!

Negative.

Nein.

and No.

a bit of an exaggerated response considering that you actually can show your weaponskins while dancing

So the right reply would be:

Yes, if you want to show them

Sublimatio.6981:

also would love the be able to use it in raids… it doesn’t give any advantage over other players so blocking it in there isn’t fun.

I guess Anet just disabled EVERYTHING for raids so they dont take the risk that any item that they didnt think of is being used for any (so far unknown) exploit in whatever way

But i agree
If they could put that one on some sort of whiteliste for raids that would be nice

Friend of mine was crafting Kudzu and didnt have enough Karma & World Exploration so he transfered all the materials to his brothers account and crafted the Gifts there including gift of Mastery since his brother still had enough karma & 2x Gift of Exploration
But…
Then when he finished his Kudzu he instantly used it to see how it looks… only to realize he was on his brothers account… xDDDDD

Yannir.4132:

Orangensaft.7139:

• Being able to place animals & different npcs who walk around in the GH to create a unique atmosphere the way you like it

I see this as problematic if they randomly wander around without heeding decorations, randomly bumping into them. They would have to include a route planner for anything of this sort.

yeh probably… :/
Thats why i only wrote it down as the 3rd point

They dont have to walk around i guess … just being able to place NPCs & animals would be nice already

Trolls can disturb anyone with any other instrument too (especially stuff like Trumpet 1 spam or bell 1 spam)

This shouldnt be an argument against equally loud Boom Boxes for people who enjoy those

• Chests that you could place
  for example at the end of selfmade jumping puzzles or hide them for guildmembers to find in a fun challenge
  (even if you have to fill them up with loot yourself that would be totally fine and probably even cooler than generic boring “2 greens 1 blue” loot
  I imagine it like an extra Tab in the Guildbank where you define the amount people get when looting and as long as that Tab is filled with loot people can get loot from the chest)

• NPC enemies/allies for the Arena

• Being able to place animals & different npcs who walk around in the GH to create a unique atmosphere the way you like it

Yes, please

(Only if they also add the option to remove the effect by doubleclicking again then ofc)

@OP: you should finish the collection though and sell the precursor to get a good part of the invested gold back

i wish they would bring the same skin out without that fat skull placed on top of it…

That limits it to soooo few possible styles :/

EU Leaderboards Rank 1 is Mesmer
just saying…

Mesmer is not the best solo queue class though
You need your team to make use of your Moas + Portals!

If your team doesnt do that because you cannot tell them on TS or they just lack the awareness for what their mesmer does then you wont be as useful as you should as mesmer

Anet should just have some monthly automated tournament
with ingame prices that cost them nothing!
(stuff like Gems, Minipets, Temporary/Permanent Titles, Precursors, ….)

This would be really cool but it needs ~2 (or more) reliable shoutcasters to stream those tournaments since we dont have the option to watch them ingame (which would be epic if possible but i doubt anet can do that with reasonable effort atm)

A 200.000 Dollar cash price isnt hyping anyone more than nice ingame rewards…
But the top teams playing in a serious tournment is enough to make everyone interested in PvP watch it
And that could easily be reached by having an automated tournament i think

if it is easy to do (maybe even just an oversight by Anet) then i fully approve your point!

But if it somehow would require more work because of the way gliding works then i wouldn’t want Anet to spend resources on that instead of other things

hey i already unlocked the skin but didnt test it out on a char yet

Can you tell me how it sounded like?
Did it have an actual gatling gun like sound?

It is indeed gone

Doesnt show under the Gemshop “Upgrades” Tab where usually all gliders currently available can be bought

I dont know if it was part of the 7 day sale but i think it should definitly stay until the end of SAB

penelopehannibal.8947:

Artemis Thuras.8795:

penelopehannibal.8947:

What would happen if you bought gems and spent them to join a specific guild, only to get kicked out or the guild disbanded? I wouldn’t want to buy gems for a guild slot that another player has control over.

you’d be free to join another guild?

Of course. I’m more concerned about those who will write support tickets to ArenaNet complaining that they’ve been kicked out of a guild they’ve paid gems for. I don’t see that working well for anyone.

Also, as far as I’m concerned, five is more than enough.

I think you missunderstood something here

What OP wants is the option for a Player to buy for example a 6th Guild Slot
That Player can then use the 6th slot to join a new Guild
Lets say he joins a big WvW Guild
After 2 weeks he gets kicked though because he didnt fit into the guild or maybe he left on his own because he didnt like the guild
Now he just has his 6th slot back and free to use again obviously

I dont understand why you think anyone would have to ask support for anything related to this Topic here?
Why do you think that Guild that he left/that kicked him would still have control over his 6th Guild Slot ??

It would just work how it works right now with 5 Guild Slots
Just that people could have more than 5 Slots