Guild Wars 2

Seems dead to me…………………………………….

defrule.7236:

Happyfool.8951:

if you’re min/max’ing in GW2, you’re going to have a bad time.

It’s not about min/maxing, it’s more about having the right gear for the right purpose.

A player who likes to PvE and WvW for instance needs at least two sets of gear and that is assuming there is only one style of play for each game mode.

They are already planning to add stat changing flexibility to legendaries. If only they could add the same feature to other parts of gear but with some form of earning system it would be great. You would still have to get the gear but it just means you have an easier time experimenting.

Well, so it all comes down to inventory space?

1 greatsword in inventory; Right click; change skin; change stats.

Can’t really see them doing this for all items. Even if you have to buy the certain stats and skins.

Would been nice though.

Tom.6478:

" But the MF gear you have right now, you can change 1 time to the stat you want."

Maybe I’m unaware….how do you do that?

Legendary weapons will be able to change between different stats in the future.

What if current MF gear, can change 1 time to whatever stat you want?

It’s not actually “burning” condition, it’s a special debuff.

defrule.7236:

In GW1 we still had gear but it wasn’t nearly as influential as gear in GW2. In GW1 build experimenting largely involved changing your skill bar. Worse comes to worse if your build fails at least your skill bar didn’t take up inventory space.

Here in GW2 it’s different. Want to try a healing build guardian? You need clerics or magi gear.
The build works great! Another set of gear to store in the bags.
The build is crap! Either keep the junk taking up space or salvage the hours you spent getting the gear.

I would love to see GW1 reskinned as GW2, but it’s not. It’s a new game. Thinking about GW1 makes me sad when I play GW2…

You can try the different specs in PvP, asking anything more than that.. I think is unreasonable, IMO.

Edit; Haha wonder how much whining it would be if we had the same skills as GW1 in GW2, them RA matches with Necro’s and mesmer while playing anything melee based:D

What about the thing they are doing with legendary weapons. You can switch between stats. But the MF gear you have right now, you can change 1 time to the stat you want.

Can’t see anything to complain about that.

defrule.7236:

Heart of the Mists is inadequate because if I where to ask you to find me a setup that replicates, Berserker chest, leggings and shoulders, Knights helm, gloves and boots. You won’t be able to because sPvP doesn’t give such fine flexibility. Knights stat is also had vitality instead of toughness in sPvP so you are already limited there.

Lets give all players all they want.. Because they are inclined to play the game their way. I WANT 3 LEGENDARIES NAOW.

Anet Why do I have to even play you’r game? Why are you forcing me to play this game?

This attitude, really… I get it for accesories. But armor? Really?

Valenthor.4052:

Tolmos.8395:

Karizee.8076:

Valenthor.4052:

Most GW2 boss encounters can’t hold a candle to WoW’s finer boss fights

Hahaha. As an ex-WoW hardcore raider, those “finer fights” boil down to gear checks with trinity training wheels. Tank takes aggro, healers play whackamole, Dps autopilot rotations and every now and then you stack or spread out and get out of the fire. Addons tell you what to do when and the fights are tuned so they cannot be completed with current gear thus giving the illusion of ‘progressing’.

I agree with this. After 4 years of hardcore WoW raiding, starting in 40 mans and ending in 20-25 mans, it pretty much comes down to trinity basics + simon says. The only job that could maybe be remotely difficult is the healer. I main tanked and was one of the main healers (there is no single “main healer” in a 40 or 20 man raid) for the majority of those 4 years. We were always on the cutting edge, and competing with world firsts on each of those raids. I never once felt like it required actual skill on my part, or really the part of anyone else in the group. It just required a basic game of simon says and for me not to mess up my rotation. Every once in a while a boss would have a strange mechanic that required me to not hit them at a specific time, to stand in a specific spot… simon says, basically.

So it’s not a matter of preferring individual skill over group skill… it’s a matter of preferring to be challenged myself, as opposed to standing around being bored and pretending like I’m supposed to be challenged, when in fact I am not.

You basically proved my point. MMOs will never be a good taste of individual skill by nature. They are designed to be played in a group. You aren’t supposed to feel “I am so good!”, you are supposed to feel “We did it!”. A bunch of simple jobs all executed to perfection by each member of the group to accomplish something. The challenge comes in organizing all the group to function that way. I take it you have never tried to raid lead? Or build a guild from the ground up? That is where MMOs succeed, not on individual skill. And I wish more MMOs realized that.

GW2 does this how?

Dungeons> face roll (Except Arah some parts)

General PvE> zerg fest

WvW > Yes, it does require origination to an extent. But in most scenarios it’s numbers vs numbers.

Dunno really where GW2 succeeds in any of those points you said.

Don’t think anyone has commented on this. Maybe try their twitter. They don’t seem to post on forum anymore.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

There better be a fix to the exploiting of the cursed shore event that allows players to get 40g a day or players will start getting bored and quit.

I honestly don’t see how people can grind something over and over again. Then again I never played a traditional MMO where it required me to do so.

The majority of the population of my server and many others have flocked to this event and are farming the crap out of it. IMO This is wrong because that is not how the game was intended to be played. Am I gonna stop players from doing it? No. There is no way I could , unless I got a party of people to complete the event.

The devs better nerf that event to the ground before the economy is busted and the community gets even more toxic.

I believe we are entitled to play/use whatever Anet puts in the game the way we want.

I have not done Ember farm, simpliy because there are better farms. As for those who don’t want to complete the event, I would say they are not doing anything wrong as long as they don’t start flaming if you and you’r group completes it.

Why people grind? Because we have been left for 10 months with crap rewards and now people take the chance while they have it.

But as I’ve said before, you will never get gold easy in GW2 since you can buy gems with gold.(>Anet gets less $$$/€€€)

Funny how you state that these “toxic” people will get bored because they have too much gold and quit. Woudn’t that be good? :P

Valenthor.4052:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

You aren’t dealing enough damage to qualify for loot. As the amount of people damaging a monster grows, so does the damage requirement.

I’m sorry but that’s not true. Some champions I’m hitting for a minute with everything I have and get nothing. Others I hit once just before they die and get a chest.
I only have this problem with the ember farm though.

Read the second sentence again and think about how many people are at the ember farm. Hint: It’s a lot more than any other champion farm. Couple this with culling and any non-AoE weapon and you get that issue. I suggest getting in a group, preferably with staff guardians (good AoE that tags through culling), and make sure everyone is focus firing a target.

I have done maybe 50k damage do a champion and still no loot. So yea, I think there is a bug rather than not enough damage.

And on the same case I have gotten 1 hit for a non crit under 1k damage and have gotten loot.(Yes, same zerg, yes it was big)

Can I expect a “gold seller” auto ban inc.? Est. value 80 gold ish.

Just want to be prepared, since I’ve seen similar threads here on the forum :P

uberkingkong.8041:

CryxTryx.9208:

uberkingkong.8041:

Troop.1369:

MauricioCezar.2673:

Its RNG, what did you expect?

You had just spend 400G betting in your luck. Almost a precursor, so… you are doing things wrong. Soon A-net will introduce a form to craft precursors, so… stop wasting Gold guy.

After what the OP posted, you’re still gonna defend Arena.Net???

The guy wants his legendary weapon. Apparently that in this game, going on an epic adventure to build your legendary weapon = standing in front of the mystic forge and dumping items.

kittening Legendary.

+1
I’d rather go through a raid and do something epic rather than stand in front of the mystic toilet.

Oh really? Please describe in detail a ‘raid’ that could be done that would justify the reward of a precursor and still be difficult enough too keep Legendaries rare.

Do you want the Legendary status gated by behind skill? I’m all for it! I’ll bet you 300g that the community sets this board on fire should that happen.

This is how you do it.
1. Make PvP tournament Fridays. Make Underworld
2. The PvP tournament is European teams vs NA teams only
3. The PvP team with 5 consecutive wins will have the Underworld for there region (NA or US) (Matchmaking system wont allow both regions to have 5 consecutive win streaks by forcing the one with 4 consecutive ones to face the best of the other region but having them wait a long que. If 15 minutes pass (this is enough time to win a game and que up again) and nothing happens that region faces the another team and if they win they steal the Underworld)
4.The Underworld is a massive zone, that has mini bosses that trigger raid events that prevent you from running to the end, it should take 3 hours to complete it and if you don’t start from the beginning with the raid force you’ll have to wait for it to complete or failed so everyone starts over again. So if you fail at event 2 you have to do event 1 all over again. Finishing event 3 will give you the little chest that pops up on your screen and only 1 random person will get a precursor. Also if your region loses 5+ consecutive win streaks than everyone is booted and you cannot enter until your region has the win streak again.

Promotes raiding, promotes hype, promotes pvp, promotes a lot of things.

Notes
1. Have a message saying “such and such from (NA or EU) has won 5 consecutive tournaments in a row”
2. If you won 5 consecutive games its ok to lose but when an enemy region wins 5 games than you lose the Underworld.
3. There should be another leaderboard, and this one contain both EU and NA, the best of the best leaderboard, since these tournaments are special it’ll spice things up because people WANT YOU TO PLAY, being #1 wont mean as much compared to seeing your team name come across everyone screen.

This way a pvp’er feels important, and it could be custom to give them a silver or gold whenever you completely finish the Underworld events because they won those tournaments long enough for you to get all the rewards and loot and you can go through it again and again until Friday is over or when you lose the Underworld, and not only is precursors a good thing but the other loot you get there as well is equally good due to only obtainable on Fridays and when your region is winning the pvp tournaments.

PvP’ers wont feel neglected and PvE’ers will have something very fun and special to do on Fridays, its a win win.

Never gonna happen.

Has quite a few flaws.

But, It would been nice to have something similar. But you know, It’s pretty many teams that win 5 in a fow, and you say on Fridays? What does this mean? The server that wins 5 in a row on friday keeps UW for a week?

Meh, I would rather have something similar to HA.

1v1 Deathmatch >

1v1v1 DM >

1v1 King of The hill(Team with most players on point gains points) >

1v1 Relic run(Speedboosts and teleports of any kind does not work while holding relic)

Hall of Heroes > 1v1v1 > Cycle of Relic run; DM and King of The hill

This turned out pretty much like GW1,,, Wonder why. Cause it was awesome. And the team here should be 6 players. 5 is gay.

No kitten cat downed state, you die you die. Base res every 30? Sec.

Player kills are worth zero points.

If a team holds Hall of heroes 10 times they get a precursor.

That, sir would motivate people to play PvP.

Would been fun as kitten and rewarding.

Might have to tweak some stuff Anet. Look back at the best game you’ve made maybe?

Viking Jorun.5413:

Pandeh.5248:

Omg, finally this game has become P2Win. Now people can buy gems for real money and convert into gold and make the new portal so they can complete JP’s easier and juke mobs.

I wonder what’s next…

They aren’t useable in jumping puzzles either.

Sarcasm… But they really ain’t? That would be the single reason I would even considering craft one if I was struggling with a JP.

Brutal Arts.6307:

I’m not sure if you’re serious or a troll but I’m going to side with the latter. 7/10 attempt. I got moderately upset.

Uhm what?

The new rewards are awesome for people that don’t want to farm. That is what OP is saying and you call him a troll? Why?

Omg, finally this game has become P2Win. Now people can buy gems for real money and convert into gold and make the new portal so they can complete JP’s easier and juke mobs.

I wonder what’s next…

Not quite on topic, but I fought this NPC in a duel in a low level zone.

I killed him and he dealt ZERO damage to me and he said “Let’s call that a draw”.

I said in chat “Yea, right” and a guy next to me said “lol”.

Was a pretty funny moment:P

That mask ruins it for me, the rest of you’r armor looks pretty cool.

The first I thought of when i saw the mask was a “cow”. It fits the style of the armor, but it just looks stupid..

Nice choice of colours and that big weapon seems overkill:D

Anyways, I don’t think any armor can be rated by numbers so I’ll just say I like the whole set except the mask.

Here’s my female Warrior in two different weapon sets. The second one seems to fit most to the armor. Have yet to find a armor set I like that fits in with Twilight.

Here’s two pics of my female Warrior.

and seven ears………………….

GW 1 is the best PvP I’ve ever played. I’m so sad they went from Worlds best PvP to pacman PvP.

Sure, they ruined PvP in GW 1 in the last years of the game. But before that it was so much fun. TA, HA, GvG.

You had 3 completely different styles of PvP, and in each 3 types of PvP you had TONS of different team builds.

Sure. Some you could say were gimmicky, but any build you played could beat another. Depending on you’r skill.

The PvP we get here is just build tanky and delay you’r enemy as long as possible while your team mates cap elsewhere.

Why can’t we get a deathmatch gamemode? With no kittening downed state ofc.

Why can’t we have a HA mode?

Why no GvG?

“PvP in GW1 split the players too much and made it hard for new players to join” This is the exact reason why no one plays this kitten cap and run. It’s so casual in nature and it’s not fun at all.

Amadan.9451:

also don’t forget that when you can shoot lasers from a greatsword they hardly go out of fashion. i mean even in star wars with all their technology, the finest military force of them all still used magic and swords

What else would you use vs slow moving plasma? A shield might have done the trick but I guess they are not quite there yet, them jedis are old skewl.

Is crafting fun? IMO not really, it was at the start but it’s pretty much the same all the way and while leveling you’r character you won’t really have enough gold to keep you’r crafting level compared to items you need. Atleast it was that at launch.

http://gw2crafts.net/ Gives you an idea how much gold it costs to level all the different crafts.

There are alot more rewards now though in the game so I can be wrong. 100 Achievement points will get you 1g. And the new champ loot will let you get more materials than before.

Look at the costs on the site I linked and decide for you’r self if it is worth it for you or not.

A full set of exotic armor will cost you roughly 20g depending on stat types etc.

So comparing that to lets say Weaponsmith which takes 12-14g to max. I would say it’s not worth it when you are starting.

I’ve invested about 220g myself in something. It’s quite long term, but has a huge potential when I look back on other items that had the same thing happen to it.

As for GW1 experience with Charrs. Mainly from the first few levels of the game / and missions. I would say a Charr is either a Warrior, Elementalist or a ranger.

As for a name; I dunno. Try looking through both GW 1 and GW 2 WIKI for charr NPC’s /enemies and see what they are named. Can give you some inspiration.

Poledo.3256:

I’m with you. There isn’t a single event that interests me that they have put out in these filler events. On the upside, I don’t feel like I have missed out on anything by not doing them. So since there are a lot of people that do enjoy them I’m not looking to see them removed because that would be incredibly self serving.

I would love to see something else besides running races etc.

Same here, although it seems it will be more combat oriented this time. But I would rather wait 3 months for some OPEN WORLD ZONE with HARD and REWARDING events. Southsun cove is “HARD” 100x HP SCALE but was it rewarding? Not really.

They totally have to remake their loot system, they seem to be on their way. But alot of stuff needs to be adressed. I’ve never played an MMO where I’ve felt where the loot I’m getting is so BAD. Except for CoF p1 which just is a grind.

Why is every single rare(yellow) worth exactly 1 ecto? Why are 90% of exotics worth under 1 gold?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again;

When the company let players buy in game gold, the loot you will get is designed to be frustrating and will eventually force X amouth of players to buy gold for real money.

Since the time spent gaining X gold is simply not worth the players X time gaining it.(Except CoF p1 ofc.)

Navzar.2938:

Fractals are getting the champion loot bags, but I don’t think they’re getting the end gold.

You are 100% right.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/jubilee/Daily-Dungeon-Gold-Bonus-also-for-Fractals

ColinJohanson.2394:

The gold bonus does not apply to fractals no, we will however continue to update both content and rewards in Fractals as the year progresses. For example: champion loot bags do indeed apply to Fractals of the Mists.

cesmode.4257:

All that Ive heard are that you will be able to purchase skills via skillpoints.

Hopefully its the same method as we did during leveling…no real “trees”.

If they did trees, it would be terrible, but just more of the ‘same ole’…making the game less of a gem and more run of the mill.

How would it be terrible? This game needs some goal to work towards. All we get is minigames and tiny lore stories. I’m not saying it should be a grind. But some form of character proggression would be nice.

How is the constant happy festivals with a disaster every time a GEM?

Please elaborate.

Cygnus.6903:

Yeah, I’ve tried that hehe. Put in about 10 slivers and free tourney tickets, I got 10 armageddon armors… Is it a bug? Or is there a different recipe?

Hmm, they seem to share the same recipe. So you just have to keep doing it:P

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Heavy_Plate_armor

This one?

You should include a picture of you’r character as well^^

Can’t tell if trolling or not. It’s sad either way:D

Is this new? Never seen that before.

Do these two week mini games we get impact actual content we will get in the future?

I’m pretty sure,, most of your player base wants more level 80 zones, not this kitten mini games every 2 weeks.

Personaly I would rather wait 3 months for a new zone with awesome DE’S and HARD quests, but in GW2 quests are banned. Never thought I would miss quests, haha.

So whats you’r opinion?

Do you want more mini games every 2 weeks, with a tiny lore attached?

Or do you want a new zone with well made DE’s and quests every 3 months?

Chase.8415:

Play world of warcraft with the basic interface and then compare it to this game.

Eh what? Have you ever tried pushing them keys? I bet not. The whole game feels so much better, you actually L O O K AT THE W O R L D they have made. Instead of just looking at minimap and you’r CD’s.

Try it, and you will se how different this game feels. Please let us choose what UI to see and not to see.

When playing w/o UI you can truly see the beauty of this game. But you are missing some essential information, CD’s etc.

But my god, it’s beatiful. You guys say you want to to look at the screen and not at the toolbars. Why not let us make them toolbars smaller and let us enjoy the beauty of the game?

I challenge ANET to press CRTL SHIFT H and see how beatiful this game really is. After you press those keys, the game feels like a totally different game. But I would like to see my HP atleast, CD’s you can memorize, but you’r HP is kinda hard.

Players, you should try this. It just feels so free, you actually notic the world when you press them keys-

It’s like playing skyrim, but you actually have good combat.

Please Colin, let us alter our UI. It would let us enjoy the beauty of GW2.

Warzaw.2708:

My computer can handle the game on better setting, but still not as great as most people, usually in LA nothing will load for a good 10 minutes in some instances.

Here’s a beautiful scenic screenshot I managed to get in Queensdale.

Edit: It’s also my current desktop background.

That’s a pretty relaxing picture to look at;)

Put my graphics to max, I was blown away how nice this game can look!

I feel sad I can’t play at this graphics :S

Post you’r awesome pics!

Badur.2730:

Anyone who thinks that you can make any profit from crafting in this game should go back to the elementary school and learn how to use calculator.

The crafting material’s price is always bigger than the price of the final product on each level and each rarity.

If you think I am wrong – give me good example and I will send you the difference in gold.

Dont forget about the 15% fee on succesfull sale, folks.

Nice necroing 4month old post;)

Last month I’ve made atleast 50 gold from crating. Think even more. Havn’t done much crafting last few days since very stupid people tank the price for no reason.

Was crafting Berserker GS, the first day I made 20 gold. But each day, people just kept undercutting 10 silver at a time, resulting in a price drop from 5,8g to 4g.

Also crafting destroyer weapons, you will get a profit.

DrDivine.5378:

Pandeh.5248:

Haha, IM A TWIG

12 charrmanders

Thanks for the updated photo! I saw that elite skill and was thinking “Wow this is badass!” but it’s notably smaller than it used to be.

There was a skill while in that form that says you do a massive swipe, sounding like the form was rather large.

The skill is totally useless, you are better off not using a elite skill at all compared to it.

Haha, IM A TWIG

12 charrmanders

I’ll upload a picture, 90% sure it’s way smaller than that.

Equip an axe in offhand as warrior and use #4 with no other weapon equipped!

kokiman.2364:

Pandeh.5248:

kokiman.2364:

Ascended Armor isn’t exclusive to crafting.

So, where do we get it else where?

This new tier of crafting material, along with the new guaranteed material rewards mentioned earlier and some other materials we’ll introduce will be used to craft ascended weapons, armor, and more. These weapons and armor will also be able to be found as rare drops from locations in the world. Ascended weapons and armor will remain account-bound like other ascended gear.

There you go

So pretty much you have to level crafting to 500 to get the stats you want and the type of armor(Heavy,medium,light).

kokiman.2364:

Ascended Armor isn’t exclusive to crafting.

So, where do we get it else where?

Have I understood this correctly? You need 500 in armorsmith to craft ascended armor, it is account bound and thats the only way?

I’m 400 in both Armor and Wep smith, so not that big deal to ME, but what do other people do?

Very nice of Anet to give us that item, I’m considering leveling a Thief so that would make it alot faster. Those early levels can be so long sometimes.

What did you use it on?

I have been thinking they will release all 3 in a bundle.

But you know how much you have to gather to gain back the gold/gems that could been sold for gold? It’s so not worth buying, sure is handy but not good for your vallet.

Had 9/50 after 6 years, went pretty fast from 9 to 46, but you have to consider I had a lot off stuff almost done and a good amount of cash to spend.

If you don’t enjoy the game, it will take too long for you to be worth it just for 500 AP.

Jex.6482:

Okay I’m somewhat confused… Are you saying you’re going to craft wep/armor for people and then charge them? You do realize all it takes to find someone with 400 crafting is to say 5 words to your guild/map chat?

Not everyone has that option, plus the things I craft will be cheaper than buying it on the TP. In some cases many gold. So I don’t see why you would be so negative about it.

I just want to do some crafting and make a small profit while I help people out at the same time.

You do realize if a item costs 40 gold at TP and lets say I can craft it for 33 gold which is the case for many Destroyer weapons, I would been able to sell it to you for 34 or 35 gold.