Guild Wars 2

We’ve had both sides dissect the manifesto so much that it is pointless to even try anymore.

Forget there was one, ANet have.

I mentioned this in the collaboration thread as my number one, it’s atrocious. The targeting is garbage, it’ll always target something far away as opposed to one of the group attacking you.

I have target nearest enemy as mouse 4 and when I pressed this on more than one occasion I target something out of range. It’s total fail to use auto target (based on the description) or choose closest and you see the words “Out of Range!” while the group near you beat your head in.

Auto Target should become closest enemy and closest enemy should bloody work.

1. Fix the broken targeting. I constantly and I mean constantly drop targets standing within range and in front of me. Make the targeting stick like glue to our targets even if they are behind, above etc. and only cancel when one of us is dead. I also auto-target bizarre choices made by the game. I was fighting the pirates for a heart quest in Gendarran Fields and clicked target nearest enemy. Out of the three pirates close to me it chose a way out of range champion that I coudn’t even see (only the red text name was visible because he/she/it was behind one of the ship wall building things.

2. Fix the condition cap!!! This would be number one for me but since not all my toons are condition specced but all suffer from the awful targeting this is relegated to number 2.

3. DR just get rid of it. Punish the bots not the players.

4. Enough with the immobilise, knockdown, stuns, pull (pass the player like a ball) etc. I have a guardian with 3 skills to remove these effects and still struggle to keep up because every monster it seems has one or more of these annoying skills. Give them some of our skills or even a random skill just not constant KD, KD, KD, IMMOBILISED, KD, KD, PULL, PULL, PULL. Can I have my go now?

5. A much more customiseable UI too. Where we can remove every single part of it so it looks like when we press ctrl + shift + h if we want to.

6. Not really a 6 but you should probably look at the respawn timers. I’m sure I read on here that they were supposed to be around 2 minutes. There are many places in the game though where it’s in seconds. Some places are laughably bad.

I get the impression that the current ANet aren’t the ones who contributed to making the game and are like a bunch of kids who have found their dads gun. Then charge other kids to hold it.

ANet still not playing their own game? Incoming random number and call it a challenge……now!

I have enough space on my main but that last bag slot is only a 15’er so 5 extra slots would be nice. 15 thousand corn though lol, hold on, let me readjust my life so I can dedicate it to GW2’s fun holiday.

Wallace, I think if I quote you now we’ll take the page count up lol.

I’m not asking for faster in WvW or PvP. Just in PvE

I get what your saying I really do but look at it this way. Are cats born the same as dogs?

We all choose different races when we create our toon in GW2, shouldn’t we at least have something special about our choice? Christ lets go extreme, ANet introduce a Werewolf race. The WW race act, run, walk the exact same as any other race. What is the point?

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Paul.4081:

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Paul.4081:

The way Norn are atm they seem lazy. They have these bigger, stronger, longer legs so what do they do? Use them to run fast because the world is in peril? No, it’s plod, plod, plod meanwhile the humans, sylvari and especially the asura are running their little legs off. Same with the Charr. They should be much faster when on all fours otherwise it’s just a pointless gimmick.

Race is (and was) meant to be just a cosmetic choice. Honestly, I like the way race is currently. Your starting story/which of destiny’s edge is endeared to you and some racial skills which are mostly worthless (not saying I like that part, but eh).

All races have the same hit boxes, running speed, and no effect on stats. If you start adding that into the mix, we may as well be playing dnd and min/maxing ourselves even further (who would want to be an asura warrior, who does less damage and is slower compared to a norn or charr).

Even if Charr and Norn were made faster only in PVE? Lets face it those races suck at jumping puzzles and camera angles so make them good at something. If anything it might make Charr a more desirable race (aren’t they the least popular atm?)and maybe then ANet would give them more attention.

Obviously natural racial traits would have to be added to all (races) but I myself would have no issues even if only Charr and Norn ran faster. It would make the game feel and seem more natural instead of the fake slowness that they have now. I get that ANet want everyone to start off on a level playing field but come on, just look at the Charr and Norn, level playing field should be out the window right from the start.

We can dream

Norn are bad at jps? Really? I’ve done every single jp with my max height norn and I think there is one that has one jump that is a big pain (the 2nd one in the starter sylvari zone, one of the jumps ~2/3-3/4th of the way through). The well one in LA also has some major clipping issues with the camera going into my body, but it doesn’t really make it hard for the 1 jump you need to make.

And even in PvE that running speed would make a difference. I finally got around to trying some dungeons and 75%+ of the mobs are skipped, a running speed boost would just make that easier. Or standard PvE, how many people take a swiftness skill or a signet/trait that lets you run faster, giving a speed boost to a certain race would be a big advantage for world exploration, gathering runs, etc.

Again, this isn’t dnd where certain class/race combos are just bad and only taken if you want to punish yourself to be unique. As soon as you say, “oh these races should be faster and do more physical/melee damage, and those other ones should do more ranged damage, and those over there more magical damage” you take away people’s options for cosmetic/story diversity. It’s bad enough you have “LFM X dungeon, Y class only” do you really want to see “LFM X dungeon, Y/Z class/race only”

So it all comes down to dungeons?

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Paul.4081:

The way Norn are atm they seem lazy. They have these bigger, stronger, longer legs so what do they do? Use them to run fast because the world is in peril? No, it’s plod, plod, plod meanwhile the humans, sylvari and especially the asura are running their little legs off. Same with the Charr. They should be much faster when on all fours otherwise it’s just a pointless gimmick.

Race is (and was) meant to be just a cosmetic choice. Honestly, I like the way race is currently. Your starting story/which of destiny’s edge is endeared to you and some racial skills which are mostly worthless (not saying I like that part, but eh).

All races have the same hit boxes, running speed, and no effect on stats. If you start adding that into the mix, we may as well be playing dnd and min/maxing ourselves even further (who would want to be an asura warrior, who does less damage and is slower compared to a norn or charr).

Even if Charr and Norn were made faster only in PVE? Lets face it those races suck at jumping puzzles and camera angles so make them good at something. If anything it might make Charr a more desirable race (aren’t they the least popular atm?)and maybe then ANet would give them more attention.

Obviously natural racial traits would have to be added to all (races) but I myself would have no issues even if only Charr and Norn ran faster. It would make the game feel and seem more natural instead of the fake slowness that they have now. I get that ANet want everyone to start off on a level playing field but come on, just look at the Charr and Norn, level playing field should be out the window right from the start.

We can dream

The way Norn are atm they seem lazy. They have these bigger, stronger, longer legs so what do they do? Use them to run fast because the world is in peril? No, it’s plod, plod, plod meanwhile the humans, sylvari and especially the asura are running their little legs off. Same with the Charr. They should be much faster when on all fours otherwise it’s just a pointless gimmick.

Bezayne.6459:

I would much more prefer a Elona-based expansion, simply prefer an african theme over an asian.

Me too but either way I’d wait for reviews before buying.

Never once have I seen a party to kill Zhaitan, does that make the tool useless or people just give up once they realise personal story is a lie?

Sleuth.7964:

azurrei.5691:

Astral Projections.7320:

If people are harassing you in game and breaking TOS, you report and block.

Exactly.

However, OP, since you now KNOW that FGS is a place that many servers like to farm as a group (inc yours, apparently) it would be preferable that when in this ONE of TWO farm zones (out of a bunch of zones where groups tend to not get together to kill champions regularly) you should join with your community, not knowingly play against it. There are plenty of other zones you and your friends can go kill champions together without potentially disrupting a large group of players.

This

This is so true but at the same time would Conan ask others permission if it was ok if he could kill something that was a threat? Would the Hulk, would any hero?

I love the free trials, makes levelling my alts much more fun. Also funny when the guys with Legendaries come into the low level zones to show them off.

Hi StinVec sorry for late reply, last time it happened on Tamini. It happens a lot though. Surely I can’t be the only one that gets it?

The screen does the transition to down state thingy then next thing I know I’ve targeted the one with most health while the almost dead one runs to a place where when I attack I’ll see the glorious words (out of range or obstructed) when if I hadn’t changed target I wouldn’t have died and been able to kill it

Dr Ritter.1327:

such entitlement because we expect something spooky for halloween

Well if Milton is to be believed, ANet could give him a potato for Wintersday and he’ll say “Perfect”.

We know, they know, we know, they know.

Colin said they have an optimisation team working on the game but a certain thread about optimisation was closed without a “We’ve just done this guys, working on this next” so I have my doubts about his tales of new skills coming into the game.

Elite skills need a 100% overhaul (well, maybe 89%).

milton.1796:

So many entitled kids here…

Please stop with the entitlement rubbish, that’s not how it is. I don’t have a legendary because they are over flashy. I’d simply like a fun representation of Halloween on my toon (all my toons).

If someone turned up at my door wearing that mask as a costume I’d think to myself “effort = nil”.

I thought Halloween was a lot bigger of a deal in the US of A than it is here in the UK, guess I was wrong.

Never mind Halloween that just doesn’t look good. Compare it to the baroque mask from the HoM and it looks like a cheap cardboard thing made from a cereal box.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/8/88/Baroque_Mask.jpg

Any chance of having the game remember our auto attack setting for pickup and skill weapons? At Jormag I keep having to enable auto every time I pick up a weapon. Just got my Charrzooka on my Asura (kidding) and have to enable auto attack every time I use it. I’m sure it’s the same with my Engineers flamethrower.

So can the game either remember the last preference or have it on by default or an option to choose on or off as default.

Thanks.

If you want to kill the champion, kill the champion. It’s your game too.

WAAAAH! YOU RUINED THE TRAIN!

I use my real name but lets face it my name could be Engelbert Humperdinck for all you know. Whats next, sending a scan or photo of our passports to ANet for verification of our names?

As soon as I got to the last part of my personal story on my main and was required to group up for a dungeon I lost all interest. Now I skip every part on all of my alts because I know what awaits at the end and it’s not my story. Good XP though.

cherrie.8907:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

I think this is an idea worth discussion for sure. But i have a question:

Would in game polls affect the immersion for the player?

Chris

I’m sorry, but I need to chime in.

You worry about player immersion in a game that has disco-ball wand, a pink unicorn bow making characters leave horseshoe footprints, jack-out-the -box scythe mining pick and some other notorious gem-store items?
You really don’t have to.

I’d just like to add that the top right nag text section of our screens, the (4-ish foot long in my case lol) bright orange unremovable XP bar at the bottom and raggedy frame around the entire border are huge immersion breakers already.

If ANet are concerned with immersion then please, please, please allow us to remove these annoying immersion breaking UI elements. There are loads of threads about this so it’s not just my personal gripe.

I’d also just like to add that occasionally when I have my inventory screen open and move around with it up my fps dip drastically (approx. 20 fps at least when it happens) so I’m curious if even these UI elements could be linked in part to the issue people have with lower performance? Sure you can hide them (ctrl + shift + h) but are they still there running in the background instead of actually off?

Please fix this. What is the point of changing my target from the monster that has 0.5% health to the veteran with full health in a group when I go into downed state? Not really an issue when fighting one or two monsters but when there’s five or more with a veteran, downed state is a short experience. By the the time I switch back to the target the game changed me from I’m lucky to get two hits in.

“Urge to kill rising!”

Always makes me think of Mr Furious from the film Mystery Men

Anet – Buy these character slots from our store. Our special items from holiday events are one use on only one of your characters. This also includes cash shop costumes, bag slots, gathering tools and items from Living Story. So snap up your extra character slots today kids.

I’ve been saying it for ages but all purchasable items mentioned above I would have bought in GW2 had they been account bound but one time use/soulbound = No Sale! I can’t see this ever changing so I really should be grateful that they are considerate enough to save me this money.

I honestly think that Anet would like to go back in time and ship the game with only one character slot. They seem to design everything more and more anti-alt as time goes on.

Good memories – http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Costume_maker

I’ve suffered from this for ages and constantly have to wave my mouse clutching hand around for a few seconds until I can find it again. There’s enough monster skills that take control away from me for a few seconds without having to suffer it with finding my cursor too. Also, Locust Swarm = Nightmare.

Danikat.8537:

Vayne.8563:

The whole point of the team UI is to give you information to help your team. You can always see when you’re losing health and what conditions and boons you have. The idea is to be able to see the team’s information, so you can heal or rez or buff or remove conditions.

The amount of extra screen real estate taken up by your portrait is neither helpful nor, to me, desirable.

Agreed. having a second copy of your health, conditions and boons on screen would just take up space unnecessarily. As would having a picture of your character – surely you know what your own character looks like already?

We have an unremovable long orange XP bar (after 80, why?), a pointless raggedy border and of course the infamous top right part. Anet like adding unnecessary clutter so I’d say the OP is in with a chance :P

I always thought that it was because there is a limited amount of things you can sell at any one time. When I do what you do and sell a bunch of mats I’ll eventually get that error but once some of them sell I can add more to the tp.

Like I said, I was having a rough day. And Anet made the UI exactly how they wanted it to look… Like complete garbage. Even if it was their original intent to make it look like that, it’s still unpolished like many, many other things in the game. I came from Wow where I could literally customize anything on my screen with addons or options from the settings. You have to understand how annoying it is when I think about something as simple as showing my own name not being available in the options when I look for it. Or moving my health orb or minimap wherever I want. Or customizing the chat even. On that day, I looked for about 7 of those options that I had in wow, and when I didn’t find them then that is when I almost ragequit.

You could do it in GW1 as well. Move and drag to expand things on the UI to how you wanted it to be the most efficient for you. A couple of times I even nearly started a thread on GWGuru asking to see everyone’s layouts because no two screenshots were the same.

I’m a minimalist and all I want on my screen is chat, skill bar and toggle-able mini-map. Anet on the other hand want this for us…

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/monitor-post-notes-9830949.jpg

Could be worse, your Aunt could give you globby goo and a hoof.

I recently bought 2 of these weapons for my Necro because they looked really good in the preview. Then once I equipped them it’s like I got versions that the batteries were running out on. Will this be fixed so that they look how they do in preview? That’s what I thought I was paying for after all.

Ps. I’m naked from the waist down because the dagger is hidden by the Dryad skirt but that’s a seperate complaint :P

I got it guys thanks. I jumped on the Queensdale zerg train for about 40 minutes then ran around randomly killing eveything I came across and doing any DE. Only took about 2 hours-ish (used 1 XP booster).

Shields float on the back too when running on all fours. Others have posted floating shoulderpads etc. etc. etc. But at least we got some Charr hairstyles in the cash shop recently while this issue persists.

Good advice OP. Also if anyone ever gets a cut on their finger, just cut your hand off. Don’t bother with a plaster.

tigirius.9014:

Paul.4081:

So many traits feel like +10% sword damage when wielding a bow.

They do and it’s even worse to have +% for underwater weapons that AREN’T Attached to anything else?!?! or aren’t automatically attached to those mini +5 trait points in a line, the ones you can’t choose you know? So basically they either need an underwater trait UI window that auto changes for you when you swim, or they need to change the entire trait system to allow for underwater traits to be attached to the other traits you choose for land.

It’s elites and cooldowns all over again. It’s probably the same reason any ‘difficult’ monster takes control away from us the player for as long as possible. lets face it, having no control over your character for 5 seconds during a fight is challenging!

So many traits feel like +10% sword damage when wielding a bow.

CoRtex.2157:

One hundred billion dollars! i mean 1 copper ;(

1 copper because you bought the sharks with frickin’ lasers :P

Max I’ve had is 200g for the achieve. After that I pump it into my alt’s (I’m an altoholic) for the Cultural gear.

If Legendary weapons didn’t look like they came from a toy shop I might save for one. Since they look like they come from the little girls section of the toyshop, I don’t.

Got it by just playing and doing meta events with Guild (still have an allergy to GW2’s pathetic by comparison to GW1’s dungeons).

I’m not saying you’re in the wrong section or anything because hopefully some PVP’r will tell you what you want to know here but if you look below this section in the main part of the forums there is a PVP section. You’ll probably have more luck there and they should probably be able to answer you.

Well that’s just hunk dory burst your head annoying waste of time for hours fantastic.

Why isn’t this in the description in the in game achievement panel? Does Anet think we’re psychic? Instead of putting stupid things up in the top right every 2 weeks maybe they should focus on having accurate descriptions of things that have probably been in the game since launch.

If I hadn’t asked here I would have been killing and doing DE’s at random all over Tyria wondering what the hell.

Thanks all above posters

Hi, I’ve been going after this on my Ranger and I’ve just read on another post that I have to remain in the same zone to get this. Can anyone confirm this is true?

I tried this and for some bizarre reason GW2 runs the exact same performance wise and now I have a excellent crisp looking game

My only issue is that at night if I look at scenery against the sky in LA I get what looks like the marching ants you get in Photoshop when you select something. Is there any way to get rid of this? I’ll put up with it if I have to because the AA makes it worth it but it would be nice if I’m just overlooking some option that would remove them.

Is this why they dropped from 20s to 3 in a day?

Wiz.1543:

Endless trait respec for 800 gems- I am in!
Limited use ,nope sorry going to skip it.

I’m the same with all the costumes and armour they have in there. In GW1 I bought every single costume. In this game they are a one use only item so have bought zilch.

Since this is one of the features I and many others loved about Guild Wars it feels wrong to have to pay for it so I’ll be skipping this too. Just yet another feature that GW1 blows GW2 out of the water with for me.

“Takes very little of what you loved about Guild Wars and tries to come up with ways to charge you for the parts you get.” is how that quote should go.

Named boss monsters not just champion.

Skill capping.

Spamadan.

A non Toys R Us feeling to the weapons.

Interesting monsters and bosses with our skills for difficulty instead of the usual slapping on of 1 billion hp’s and giving them ohko’s.

Heroes and Henchies for dungeons.

Guild Halls.

Costumes bought from cash shop being unlocked for your account and all toons. Instead of a greedy and pathetic one time use only.

Alliances.

Equipment Packs http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Equipment_Pack

Elite skills that are actually elite.

Haha this too

EnemyCrusher.7324:

Great suggestion, but it is exactly that, and belongs in the suggestions forum. Also the title isn’t descriptive at all.

There have been other people suggesting the same thing in suggestions and guild wars 2 discussion. I put it here hoping that since this part of the forum is for new content the dev’s would be looking at feedback for their content and would hopefully read it (and pass on to relevant folks) instead of just being buried in suggestions.

Machiavel.6042:

Just like you said, they don’t care about Charr. It’s all probably made on a human base skeleton and shmucked on a Charr after because they’re forced to do it.

They care enough about Charr to sell wigs in the cash shop. They just don’t care about floating armour etc. because they can’t make money from it.

Marquie Thomas.1873:

Yeah title speaks for itself will we get a free hair change ticket with this patch.

No way, we’ll get another mini Jenna with a different hairstyle instead.