Guild Wars 2

Draco.2806:

On the plus side, it’ll all be worth it if the new hairstyles float above their owner’s bald head.

Well if the Charr hairdo’s don’t and people are still running around with floating shoulderguards and shields etc. we will know exactly where their priorities lie. Obviously if these aren’t going straight into the cash shop then fair enough but I can’t see that happening.

Vayne.8563:

Harpoon GUNS are ranged weapons and one type of combat. Spears and harpoons are melee weapons and another type of combat.

It is possible to think too deeply about stuff like this.

Guardians can use spears at range. Well first attack skill anyway.

Flubble.8093:

might have been me sitting there :P

If they ever add mounts to this game your guy will need an 18 wheeler truck

Ken DeBoer.9268:

Please respond Anet

When they’re ready.

Claw and Fire Elemental were also broken last night out of the 3 world bosses I attempted. I hope it’s the cheap timers causing it and they have to get removed

OtakuGamerGal.9843:

And how many hundreds of players were waiting for hours with 8/9 achievements and needed one last Teq run to get the wings? The right thing to do would be to give the wings to everyone who was 8/9, like myself, imho.

Well if they do it like the Karka event even people who already have the wings will get another pair so I’m all for this. That way one of my alt’s can get them

I’m sick of destroying these too and those tickets for the last one. Anet please make it so we can sell these along with unused quest items, BLC and the Ascended materials to the merchants.

Even if they could only be sold for 1 copper a piece I wouldn’t mind as it would be a lot less annoying than having to destroy loads of items all the time. I also wouldn’t hate getting them as drops so much that way (and silently curse SAB when I do get them). Plus I’m sure 1 copper for these items won’t screw up the economy

It certainly feels that way at times Zacchary

I tried this too but every time I move my mouse over the skills everything pops back up again. I tried adding _always after the XP and top right parts in the ICM config*. Is there any way to permanently turn off the XP bar and top right sections with this mod?

*Some parts have _always after them and it permanently turns it off but if I add _always after Xp or Personal Story I get an error and GW2 won’t start.

Haven’t got all achievements for it (got about 3) but can’t be bothered anymore. I’m even doing anything but for daily ‘Here Be Dragons’.

ilr.9675:

kRiza krimos.1637:

Im quite sure that all servers can muster 100 ppl to defeat tequatl

Yeah most servers can…. the problem however is a not being able to kick all the Leechers who don’t even read Map Chat. Even in orr temple and wvw zergs you get dozens of these people who do nothing but suck & die. (a lot of them are Rangers & poorly geared Warriors if you look at Anet’s own Class demo put out recently)

Once all those people stop showing up, usually a decent server will succeed… assuming all of their people went +Power gear, and enough of them are using an Ascended

Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

1. Since the description of Auto-target is – “If you use a skill with nothing targeted, the game will automatically select an appropriate target for you”. Ok, so since this auto-target often decides that bunnies, moa birds, boars and sparkfly are appropriate targets, could you please replace this broken (or stupid) checkbox with Target Nearest Enemy when you use a skill with nothing targeted? Even if it doesn’t target something daft like a bunny it’ll auto-target a monster not in the group I’m fighting but one about 50 feet away that’s not even aware of my presence. Worse than that sometimes even a boar 50 feet away.

2. I was doing the grapes quest in Queensdale and something that has annoyed me for a while was magnified by this quest. Every time I take grapes to the NPC I have to click “Here’s some grapes” then click a second speech option every single time. Can’t we have it so that after the first time we just give them the item and go collect more in these types of quests so we don’t have to click/say “Here are some grapes/or whatever” 20+ times?

Very much so. In this game with my main I’ve been using the same skill bar that I was using back in Oct. I change them around occasionally then revert and that’s about it. In GW1 my main had my all round build, a few dungeon builds, a build for when someone else was using the same elite as my main, blood is power build for the deep, AB, JQ etc. etc.

Some people say there were too many skills in GW1 but I’m not buying it, they were probably the ones that went straight to Ursan and Permasin. I was always trying out new builds with unused skills. Even when I asked others for their builds they would sometimes have a skill in there I wouldn’t have thought of combining the way they had. Then I’d try tweaking and improving on it with different skills than what they had used. In this game it’s just pick the best from your tiny supply and your set for the rest of your GW2 life on that toon. It’s sad when you compare the two

Fishbait.6723:

Complained about this crap for almost a year, not holding my breathe….

Check sig, join the war.

+1 and bumped your thread. Maybe if we complain long enough they’ll at least feel bad when they keep ignoring us. Or maybe they can’t read these parts of the forums because their screens are covered with post-its :P

Those screenshots should be emailed to every Anet employee. It’s a bloody shambolic mess. The whole thing is like some obtrusive consolised thing.

Any chance of having our screens filled with Guild Wars 2 ANet and not some screen obscuring garbage? Let us turn of all the unwanted crap (and that is exactly what it is, just unnecessary crap).

All I want is my skillbar, cursor and chat box. That’s it. Please allow us to get rid of the unhelpful UI elements that we don’t want!

Amadan.9451:

you are constantly feared, knocked back or down, pulled, immobilized and crippled. removing condition against some mobs like krait is a waste of utility since you are always under some condition and potentially even a sparkfly can kill you.

It is annoying and tbh it feels more like you are fighting harder to keep/regain control of your character than you are actually fighting the monsters.

Said something similar before but imagine buying a dvd/blu-ray that had a list of other films, chapter select and deleted scenes obscuring the top right of the screen throughout the film that can’t be turned off. Maybe Anet should think of their game like that too.

Neural.1824:

1.) Targets just dropping
2.) Targets switching upon applying an AoE target area because an NPC/MOB/Player was underneath my mouse when I clicked (this makes large battles a targeting disaster)
3.) “Target Nearest” is the most effective tool I’ve seen in any MMO for targeting the farthest possible mob. To paraphrase what one player said “Target Nearest targets a mob in Azeroth”

Surely you must’ve also had the one where you have almost killed one enemy in a group and you get downed – cue change target for no reason to one with full health mode. Meanwhile the one with one hit left flees the scene before you can change back

Add me to the list of target loser (originally with a MS mouse and now with my G700).

Recently my Thief lost a target (Tamini) as it ran over to my left and I stop firing. I thought, fine I’ll just use auto target and start on a new one in the group as I’m using a shortbow. What does my Thief do when I hit fire? Starts shooting at the original Tamini. Why did I stop firing in the first place?

I wish they would just make it that you never stop firing at enemies until they die, you cancel the attack or change target. Offscreen, into water, hiding behind a tree, on your shoulders etc. etc. you never stop shooting at them until one of you is dead or you cancel the attack yourself.

I can’t stand it either OP so I just don’t play it and that should be the end of it right?

Wrong! I have these bloody tiaras, dresses and continue coins all dribbling over into normal PvE. I have enough junk to deal with and BLC to suffer without all this SAB garbage clogging up my inventory space too.

I only hope that those SAB drops are not replacing what could’ve been a exotic, rare or a dye when I get them. Think I’d jam a bent continue coin in the SAB slot if that was the case

I still go along if someone says “Teq Up” in Guild Chat to try and get the achievements so that I never have to go back.

10 × 15 minutes in overflows of certain people telling everyone how they are the only ones on the entire map that have a clue and that we all suck (in full caps). Dead afk’s everywhere and a pathetic 80 copper reward for time spent is not a fun event for me.

Is there any reason why we can’t get these wings on our alt’s too? I hate playing favourites with my characters. My main got the holo wings because well it was the first back item I got. Then these wings come out so again my main gets them because they suit her armour more than the holo wings did.

I’d like to put them on my other toons too but I can’t. Anet surely want to sell character slots but things like this amongst others are off putting.

In GW1 we could get the same festive hat etc. on all of our characters so obviously Anet had to put a stop to the ability to be creative with all our toons and mix and match.

Takes everything you love about……bunkum!

I get this quite a lot too. C’mon GW2 I’ve not hit or been hit for ages and have no conditions why can’t I regen health or run fast now?

Quarktastic.1027:

xephire.8324:

Paul.4081:

Quarktastic.1027:

JDGumby.7685:

Hrithmus.2583:

This is a free MMO.

You paid $60 for far more content than a single player game of equivalent price would provide…

Skyrim and it’s countless free mods say hello.

Far more shallow content than a single player game like GTA V

I wasn’t aware that GTA V was anything more than another generic sandbox in a giant sea of samey pseudo-realistic sandboxes.

As for Skyrim, I find it to be even more shallow than GW2. Not to mention, the Elder Scrolls series has degraded to a level of difficulty where you have to actively try to fail in order to lose.

I was replying to your post of “You paid $60 for far more content than a single player game of equivalent price would provide…”.

I wasn’t aware you actually meant the difficulty and depth of games. Maybe I can’t read English anymore?

I got some performance monitoring programs to check what my comp. is doing when GW2 is running.

In The Black Citadel I get 45 fps (refresh set to 60hz). Meanwhile my GPU load is only at 70%. CPU is 40% and RAM also at 40%.

Quarktastic.1027:

JDGumby.7685:

Hrithmus.2583:

This is a free MMO.

You paid $60 for far more content than a single player game of equivalent price would provide…

Skyrim and it’s countless free mods say hello.

Stx.4857:

Thats what they do in GW2 if something needs to be harder they just make it have a billion HP.

That is exactly what I said last night while was everyone was auto attacking for 5 minutes and laughing at his health in map/say chat last night

When you check your inventory/salvage/open bags or talk to others in chat during a fight in a game then it’s not a very engaging fight. Or is it just me?

Seems to be a common thing these days. I quit BL2 because of UVHM. Not because it was hard but because loads of health on monsters is just tedium.

Thing for me is that it’s the only possible way to get gear for my alt’s as I’m saving for something for my main. My 80 Guardian was using level 60-70 gear then I started doing the zerg conga for about 30 minutes and got level 80 legs (rare), gauntlets and boots. If the rest of the game actually gave me gear then I wouldn’t have to.

This game has next to nothing for personal character development, even something as simple as being able to go fishing, or customize pets, build house

Maybe we could get to build Trahearne a house? Then be his butler/maid once we build it with our money, blood, sweat and tears.

mhamilton.3095:

I agree with most of these comments on this topic , Respawn times are way too fast
especially when your killing dredge in dredgehaunt cliffs.

I had to ask for help getting the chest at Wormhowl Spikes with my level 30 Mesmer. The Sons of Svanir respawn rate there is ridiculous. It almost felt like I was killing one and two would come back at times.

Anet should should scale the respawn timers the same way they do with the champion difficulty etc. If there is only one player the respawn rate is slow but speeds up if more players show up.

I just destroy them and SAB coins when I’m depositing collectables and salvaging items in my inventory.

The thing that gets me the most is that I always think to myself “I bet that would’ve been an exotic or a rare dye if it hadn’t been another bloody BLC/continue coin!” when they drop

I did get 3 keys in the past couple of days and even got a claim ticket from one (Yay!) but I know that all my RNG luck for the entire year is now gone and still trash them.

I’m using this, found it on a thread here and bookmarked it. Haven’t tried Maguuma yet but it says “To gain this achievement you need to find a total of 167/167 areas.” so they should all be there.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Bluestone/Explorer#Maguuma_Explorer

Opens at Ascalon areas for some reason, need to scroll up to Maguuma.

If you go to Caledon Forest there are places where almost the entire right side of the screen is covered in all the shopping list crap obscuring your screen. Not being able to turn it off completely is pathetic. Sure you can click to shrink it a little but it expands again every chance it gets so I just gave up.

A checkbox in options that said “Turn Off Unnecessary UI Garbage” would be lovely. Or even make it show for about 30 seconds when you enter a map and have it fade out until you move your cursor up to the top right.

Christ imagine trying to watch a film when the entire right side of the screen is saying “This is on the other channel, this film starts at 23:00” etc. You think Anet would like that on their TV’s when they were watching?

AEFA.9035:

comparison of charr in GW2 to charr in GW1

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm298/diomedea13/Guild%20wars/gw084-1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9Yojn.png

I mean look at the mane on that Charr in GW1. That to me is intimidating.

The Charr in GW1 were fierce looking creatures, tall and proud. In GW2 they look more like Igor, Frankenstein’s butler

Play a few weeks, uninstall for a few months.

After a few things happening in game in the past couple of days I’m fast approaching the uninstall phase.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Red Tree.1936:

a race option that (believe it or not) many people actually like.

Well, not really..

I wonder what that percentage would be if Anet fixed the clipping? But since there aren’t enough people playing Charr it’s not worth fixing but many people won’t play Charr unless they do. Round and round we go.

Nuka Cola.8520:

They decided to stay with the same outdated engine just like CoD and its quake 3 engine released in 1999.

Well the CoD series is the same game over and over so why would they need to change the engine? They’ll probably still use it to make games for PS4 and it’ll still be the same game but there’ll be no shortage of mugs who’ll queue up and buy it.

I deleted my Charr because….

I hated the armour.

Pointless on all fours slow motion run (same reason I deleted my Norn, it just felt like I was running through mud with those two races). The Charr look feline not elephantine so at least make them a bit faster on all fours.

Hunchbacked runts compared to GW.

Reading the clipping thread was the last straw, how they are/will continue to be neglected so deleted it, created a Sylvari of that prof. and used my level 20 scroll.

I got two of these from the Demongrub Pits chest. Was a nice surprise to see the value when I sold them on the TP

Intense.8235:

I just got a new gaming machine and am looking for a new MMO to enjoy. Is this it?

Don’t expect GW2 to run well on your machine. My comp. can run all the newest games and I can add multisampling and sparse grid anti-aliasing etc. using Nvidia Inspector. In GW2 without any AA (except SweetFX) it runs like a slideshow at times. LA is a consistent 20-30 fps.

I tried the jump puzzle in LA last night (the one where you drop down the chimney thing from the walkway above) and even in the water tunnel I was getting terrible performance when all that was on my screen was the tunnel and some fish. I think the engine is still rendering all the people above even though I can’t even see them or their names

Anet said they have people working on performance but it’s been 12 months and the game now performs worse than it used to. The performance did go up a little shortly after launch but I think that was the explosion of players calming down that caused that rather than changes made by Anet.

Jabronee.9465:

Since launch i got only 2 exotics loot. Yes sir and i aint kidding.

Big fat zero exotic drops since headstart for me while others get a couple a day. What a joke.

On topic. I levelled tailoring to about 200-ish on my main before I felt my brain starting to dribble out of my ears and cancelled my plans to get it or any other any higher. Nowadays I just craft a few bags or some jewellery on lower alts.

JDGumby.7685:

Neriglissar.8730:

It’s a great idea, and A-net acted upon that, well half of it anyway.
They nerfed the amount of Karma you get from failing events, but didn’t buff the amount of Karma gained from succeeding events

Which, of course, now means that there’s no point in bothering to even try at the harder events that fail more often than they succeed (such as the reactor fire elemental event, which can easily bankrupt players because of repair costs, rez costs, and fast travel costs to get back to try again).

I’ve found myself doing just that levelling my alt’s. I’m avoiding the harder DE’s if I’m alone when normally I’d do every one I came across unless it was a champ.

Gasoline.2570:

seems very excessive. It’ll take hundreds of green salvages to acquire 10 000 luck which is barely anything after 100%..

I have a sneaky suspicion that getting luck to 300% will mean having a drop rates as they were at launch. What a long winded nerf that would be if so.

XelNigma.6315:

Im not a graphic guy, other than the tint changing it all looks the same to me.

If you use it you can turn it on/off while the games running by pressing the Scroll Lock key to see before/after. That link I posted a few posts up, a lot of the screenshots have a slider bar on them that allows you to see a comparison.

http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/screenshot/831/

If you use the slider on that screenie you can see the sharpening and it looks less foggy and washed out. You can do more than that if you want, just posting it as an example

Ah poo, guess I’ll have to wait on support to get back to me then. If I remember I got mail about a week ago with some free karma that was available to all toons even after reading, I don’t understand how the MF and SAB mails got tied to one character and removed altogether when I deleted that character.

I did grab the Hero’s Band with the toon but the other mail was only skim read and take items wasn’t clicked so I would’ve thought that mail would still be there on my other toons, alas, no

LOL! Teaches you for having names of Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs aren’t even alive any more!

Guess Anet should rename the Raptors in Metrica Province then. Besides, haven’t you seen the documentary Jurassic Park? :P

Hey all,

I made a new Engineer yesterday and when I started I had two mail items, one was something to do with magic find removal (five items I think) and the other was continue coins for SAB. I skim read the mail but was planning to fully read/take items on my main Necro who is my spoiled toon that gets everything.

Anyway I had spelt the name wrong (Tyranosaurus instead of Tyrannosaurus if you’re interested :P) so I deleted that character to re-create with the correct spelling. When I got on with the new, new toon I noticed all the mail was gone.

So I was wondering if anyone can tell me what the magic find items were? I’ve sent support a message but if it’s just temp boosters or something I’ll cancel it.

Cheers.

http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/game/1/

I used loads of different variations with it but I think most of the time I was just using the effects because they were there. Now I just use AA, a bit of sharpening (too much gives a shimmering effect) and a little DPX.

That link should give you a few ideas.

So glad I didn’t get my hopes up but even if I had I’m just about numb to the relentless disappointments at this stage.

The fact that we got 3 free minis for buying gems but 1 for a year of playing says it all.

Yet, I don’t have a class that’d be exciting to play and inventive to develop. I’m waiting for new classes being added or new ways to grow the combat abilities of my characters. I watch the GW2 news to hear about the great new branches of combat we can explore, but I don’t see any hints of anything coming up.

Anet are probably trying to work out how best to cash shop a new profession with re-coloured skills no doubt (I sense blue-ish aoe). Gearbox have added two professions and 4 expansion dlc but what do we get free from Anet? Confusing, required 3rd party sites to get anywhere achievement hamster wheel fests.

Let me know when something solid and memorable comes along, in the mean time I’l be having fun elsewhere.

TC – It’s probably the reason I barely play now and when I re-install it’s lucky if I don’t uninstall again within a day. I keep lurking hoping for a change after years of GW addiction but for the most part when I play GW2 I feel like the folks in this picture.

http://files.harrowakker.webnode.nl/200000058-28fec29f90/EscherOmhoogOmlaag.jpg

I never felt like this with GW in 5+ years but as people on these forums are so fond of reminding us GW wasn’t really a MMO. Maybe that’s my problem, I’m just not a fan of typical MMO’s? All this hoop jumping/button pressing could be why this game doesn’t hold a candle to GW for me.

Someone else mentioned this too, the skinner box thing. It made me think “Why am I actually playing?” and was I even having fun? Turns out I wasn’t, I was just going through the mundane motions of jumping through Anet’s hoops and pressing the Pinata buttons (to give a specific example) for a treat and of fear of falling behind (silly in a “horizontal” game I know but it’s how I felt).

But that’s just me. I think it’s obvious that others enjoy it because Anet keep pumping it out and they keep doing it.

Gauradan.8361:

maddoctor.2738:

I laugh as well, a buggy mess like all Bethesda games is coming and somehow people think it will offer any kind of challenge for Guild Wars 2? Yeah right.

Except the game isn’t being developed by Bethesda. Don’t let facts get in the way of your ignorance, though.

Whats the saying, People in glass houses……GW2 had/has it’s fair share of bugs.

All I know is that in GW2 fighting a dragon = Stand in the same place and hit a foot.

In the last Bethesda (only got buggy for me when I modded it to hell and back) game, well, I didn’t hit many dragon feet or stand in the same place for the duration of the fight either especially with the harder dragons mod.

Which fight will people remember the most favourably I wonder? You seriously don’t think things like that will have an effect on peoples decisions?