Guild Wars 2

Zaxares.5419:

I miss my Assassin’s Ceremonial Daggers from GW1, it’s true.

I wonder who the god was in the Guild Wars universe that decreed that daggers should stop dropping in pairs and at what point/date it happened?

I like my mains (Necro) dagger it has a purple electric flash animation over it, I don’t know it’s name offhand (no pun intended) though sorry.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gallery_of_daggers

killcannon.2576:

Nice. Dismiss me as a pessimist. I’m a “That’s a glass of water” kinda guy.
All players are affected by it, including off peaks. Putting people back in the world helps everyone. I’m not trying to change your mind, believe whatever you wish.

I see the glass and think, I want more water, some ice cubes and a slice of lemon please. Guess that makes me a thirstyist

Wooboost.8527:

If you havin social problems I feel bad for you son I got 99 guildies online

Pic’s or it didn’t happen :P

Underwater is pretty much a chore but I’ll be honest on my Engi it is fun lol

Not enough to do the mega sharks fun otherwise there would be engi’s aplenty but they imho are the funnest profession underwater.

zenleto.6179:

Iron Maiden.7453:

Paulytnz.7619:

Lol if Lornar’s Pass is what crappy for you is just wait it gets worse. :P

How so? What areas?

Don’t ask for personal opinions on the forums! Lol

Make up your own mind

(And I like Lornar’s Pass)

I Liked Lornar’s too

Vayne.8563:

Antara.3189:

Chuo.4238:

Nah. GW1 was not even close to a perfect game. Nobody’s made a perfect game yet.

That said, there are things about GW1 that are different from any other game out there, and those things, I think, are what the community really liked about it.

Now I happen to think that, with GW2, ArenaNet has changed their target audience, no doubt aiming for something bigger than the GW community. Fair enough, but with that about-face, you shouldn’t be surprised to see quite a few very upset and disappointed GW1 players.

So nobody’s saying GW is the perfect game. What I think the old GW community is saying is that GW2 is not an improved version of GW. It actually got rid of much of what GW players liked so much about GW. So many people expected GW2 to be like GW, but better. Instead we got something that’s not like GW at all, and fairly debatable whether or not it’s a better (or more fun) game.

What does this add up to? A bunch of people who spent 8 years as ArenaNet fans, and the last almost 6 years looking forward to a wonderful improvement in the same spirit as Guild Wars. As we can see, that amounts to a large number of people who are disappointed that their years of excitement and anticipation were mostly not worth it.

Well said Chuo; I do not believe it was entirely intentional though. A bigger fan base= more value. I know they wanted to keep the close-knit GW1 community and tried very hard with HoM and the achievements/name reservations, but the game did take another path all together. That said this is not GW1 and the game will make it’s own name for itself, whether us GW1 fans like it or not.

I believe GW2 is going to have it’s own unique fan base with a close-knit community; It just won’t be the same GW1 fans (excluding some ;] )

This is a good point.

People complain this is not like Guild Wars 1, and in a lot of ways that’s true. But people also say this game is becoming more and more like WoW. In a lot of ways this isn’t true. It’s becoming less like Guild Wars 1, true, but a game can become less like Guild Wars 1 without becoming a WoW clone.

And part of the problem is people insist on playing it like WoW even though it’s not. So those people won’t play the game as designed. This is true for a lot of fans in a lot of games or genres. My son, no matter what game he plays, he always plays the same type of character, in the same type of roll, in the exact same way. The game is irrelevant to him, because he’s playing his own game on top of it.

I play alts in this game but a lot of it feels the same nomatter how different I try to make it (Charr, Asuran etc.) Maybe that’s because of me and how I expect it to be when I do.

The good thing is when I do I have a nice strong Guild that allows me to. Others might not.

I really feel sorry for new players to the game, they must take one look at the TP and die inside

I was all three.

Speed Demon = First month I couldn’t get enough, I didn’t play the game like “MUST BE FIRST, MUST BE FIRST.” I played it because I had been waiting for it for years and so had all my Guildies/Alliance members.

Explorer = That’s who I was in GW1, Explorer/Newbie helper. Since no help really required I went out and explored the world. it was amazing until I broke my nose when I ran into a wall with “THOUGH MUST SHALL PLAY WVWVW TO CONTINUE!” which ended my exploration career.

Power Monger – Got my Main all kitted out in Exotics, can’t be arsed with kitten -ended. Sad part is, and it’s the reason I uninstalled again. I just got my Guardian to 80 and can’t even get her any exotics. Unrewarding is unrewarding.

Iron Maiden.7453:

I can discover the point of interest between Ascalon Settlement and Broadhallow Buffs waypoint in Gendarran fields!!

Iron, check on you tube. I don’t mean that to sound get lost I don’t care, but almost all must be on you tube by now.

I’ll search for you if you want lol

foofad.5162:

We have guns and cannons and tanks and you’re worried about a crane? The Charr are an industrial culture, and they are next door neighbors to Hoelbrak. Probably could have borrowed one to build stuff.

Of course, next thing we know the Norn have docks and are importing weapons outwith the TP

Ps, I’m not worried about the Charr at all, they managed to construct a giant deathstar ball of uselessness since my toon in GW1. Christ I’m starting to see why Trahearne…..lol

That’s what happens when you use holiday snaps of a hotel for GW2 concept art in Photoshop.

Unless the Norn have a crane they are working on?

Ursan.7846:

Maz.8604:

And ultimately, it saddens me that people believe that since they got more than 60 dollars worth out of their purchase (compared to a standard game title) that it’s somehow as good as getting what you were marketed with.

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People get sad over differences in individual experiences and opinions? (Because, yes, IMO, GW2 is everything they advertised and more. Sorry to make you depressed.)

Lucky you. I don’t mean that in a condescending way, I mean it. I remember players in my Guild/Alliance telling me about the lack of skills in the game but I bought it anyway. They told me that it got boring fast, I bought it anyway. I could extend this but I can’t lie about having gotten my moneys worth because I bought it anyway.

One thing I won’t admit to is it being everything and more. This is simply not true for me. The only person depressed (not actually depressed, just a lil sad) in this scenario is me after 5 years of GW1 tunnel vision and grinding 50/50.

After Nov 15th I just find myself installing the game sporadically for a weekend or two at best. In the first game I slowly saved up cash, bought ectos with general and lucky drops from fun dungeons and eventually bought what I wanted. In this game I just feel that I have no chance to do that, so why bother?

seabhac.5346:

In the beta and just after beta days, I used to get a few exotics a week. I haven’t had a single exotic drop for me since January.

If it’s any consolation, I haven’t had a single exotic drop ever and been playing since the headstart weekend (7-800 hours roughly I think I’m at, uninstalled again for a while so can’t check my /age.)

Avigrus.2871:

dimgl.4786:

• While the trinity does not exist in the game, only certain classes get accepted into groups because of their ability to be versatile (guardian, warrior, etc.)

My main grievance; Knockback / knockdown….. A-net seems to love mechanics that involve people being knocked down repeatedly.

This is really kittening annoying and adds nothing to the encounter or game in general.

Please stop with the knockdowns already.

This is annoying, sure they can be dodged but give us some variety in monster attacks, it seems almost every other monster has a knockdown attack and when I get knockdown my toon has a little nap, sometimes for about 5 seconds. Also limping for a minute after a fight is annoying.

Is that a Predator out of cloak mode just above the middle of your minimap?

Miserymachine.7512:

Yep I’m not dropping another dollar on an RNG cash grab chest ever again.

If a RL shop had a poster on the window enticing people to come in and buy wonders then when they did they left feeling ripped off and out of pocket, you think they would go back to that shop and tell their friends to?

I bought every costume in GW1 and have no complaints but I wouldn’t touch the rng things with my jeeb jar (jar of change/coins ). Having players have to pay for the carrot is a low move.

tigirius you totally missed the point of my post.

hehe totally kidding.

I have to admit I have to agree with you and if you wanna go back far enough I moaned about about crap drop rates with you. The drop rates are kitten, new players are up a certain creek when they hit 80, I have alts and still my recent Guardian got t0 80 in number only. Exotics, forget it.

There should be at least a point of achieving 80 (jump through the hoop Bob)

I have 7 alts telling me I’m a knob because I don’t use the Gems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmtsXAmKSkA

Lamest ending for me was/is the forced dungeon virus, I done GW1 dungeons to death and always had fun even when the dailies weren’t after a particular, I’d happily help. How can I do this with the cheap Borderlands 2 (we can’t do difficulty) dungeons? 1 billion hp’s = difficult.

I always looked forward to the daily being a dungeon in GW1. In this game…lets face it, me and my hamster don’t talk much!

Rouven.7409:

Aigleborgne.2981:

Seriously? Orr? (…)

Lotta those people left leaving a lop sided response team here…

Seriously. Before it was patched. After many people complained. You can probably still find the threads.

You have to come up with new ones, this is 2013

If complaints match last years then ouchies!

There were no monsters as bland, avoidworthy as boring in GW1 as the Warg in GW2. That imho is just boring enemy in a nutshell, I’d rather take a long route and fight more monsters than walk the quick route and fight one of those uninspired things.

PraetorMortis.8610:

The need to farm has put players in direct competition with each other’s goals.

This is so true, I decided to go back to Orr on my main, yes it was tumbleweed heavy but when I saw an event on my map I thought surely ther’ll be others doing that. Went over and ‘Joy!’ there were other players. I started contributing to the event and for my trouble was told in no uncertain terms by all others there to get lost. Seems they just wanted to farm the infinite spawns or something, how pathetic. I did actually leave because there were enough of them to possibly report me for made up things

Not really big but the Queen Wasp in Queensdale. I still don’t know where I double click to attack her, I always have to use auto because clicking anywhere on or around her does nothing.

This used to happen to me all the time. I’d try to inch my character a little to the left or forward to get a better jump angle or view and weeeeeeeee splat! I changed my dodge to right Ctrl (I use arrow keys to move) and haven’t fallen by mistake since. I do though randomly call out skills into Guild Chat now if I click one to soon before/after dodging but that’s better than falling

Bugged on Maguuma too, some peeps were talking about it in map chat while I was levelling my Guardian there.

Oops, just read the poster above me

So I’m guessing it’s classical music on this album? :P

It sounds nice in theory but I remember getting a darker nights mod for Skyrim and Fallout 3. What a nightmare. I walked off so many cliffs in Skyrim thanks to that. It was more realistic I guess but the Fallout 3 one was horrible, all I could see was the black silhouette of the ground/hills etc. and made me strain my eyes squinting to try and see things.

I suppose if it was in GW2 we could always turn on the show enemy/fauna names for a guide. Everyone would start using torches too

I’d much prefer the blue fog/mist removed instead. In certain areas it looks a bit too weird, almost cyan in colour.

Mate you keep saying you are in constant pain, how is that? I hate hearing that

I can be a kitten for Scotland, but are you serious

Vayne.8563:

Paul.4081:

Vayne I sorry if you actually achieved it, you surely as an intelligent guy see the problem here. In GW Froggy Wielders gor respect etc.

Oh, no worries mate. As I’ve often said on these forums, I have a notoriously thick skin. A lot of times when people think I’m annoyed, I’m actually laughing.

I’m not a farmer by nature, and I’d be bored playing the auction house. Almost all the mats I got from that came from putting ectos, coins and obby shards with some crystals into the mystic forge and see what pops out. About 20% of the time it’s something really useful, like powerful blood or elaborate totems, which I can then sell to get the mats I need.

Basically, since ectos are at this point largely free, and mystic coins are free or cheap, and karma is easy to get and experience points I get all the time, this seemed the best way to farm mats for me.

The biggest pain in the neck was getting the onyx lodestones. I managed to get 47, before breaking down and buying 53 of them from the marketplace.

Edit: I should point out, I now have the mystic clovers sitting there for my several legendaries. lol Going for Kraitkin next, since the precusor was so cheap.

Vayne I sorry if you actually achieved it, you surely as an intelligent guy see the problem here. In GW Froggy Wielders gor respect etc.

Vayne.8563:

I don’t know about this. I have new players in my guild, we don’t give them money (maybe we help out with drops here and there) and they seem to be doing fine. And I know a lot of people who have played since launch and don’t have thousands of gold to throw around. Maybe it’s because my guild doesn’t have very many farmers in it. We don’t have many people who play the auction house either.

There are always “poor” people and “rich” people in MMOs. I put those words in quotes because in my experience, it’s often the rich people that are the poorest people of all.

Vayne you bought the rifle Legendary
That’s lke that politician telling people they can survive on £6 per day while they live in mansions

Dante.1508:

Yes agreed i’m glad i started GW2 when it was easier to actually get items now it would be insane to start over…and incredibly boring..

My first toon Necro was so much fun but now all my others feel more uphill than fun

Warr/Guardian not included, they can knock the moon out of orbit and will get buffed next month

I’m lucky I’m in a good Guild. I’ll be honest if a new player wants to do much in this game then they’ll pretty much require help or be kittened. My Guildies were taunting eachother about thousands of gold earlier, this is not just mouthy, one sent me enough gold to change servers (thanks) on a whim!.

Maybe new players will get lucky and random players will always give them cash. Complete \/\/ank, I miss actually helping players not thinking about cash!

GW Birthdays could be shared with others less wealthy when you got a good gift that would help a less hands on get their HoM. I seriously doubt this will continue in GW2 Cashshopbound is there for a reason.

I have re-installed and been having fun but having gotten now pretty much all professions to the (unlock Elite Skill). I’m like…Umm. Why bother. I’m not gonna stop playing but Christ, there are so many rubbish skills, sure it could be argued that GW1 had many but did GW2 have to take all of the bad ones and amplify them with traits?

Insidious Parasite or Spiteful Spirit, jesus my main is a Necro and I thump things well but I miss skills like that.

It just seems that the dev’s left any creativity out of it and just went and replaced the trinity with damage/damage/damage.

Replacing 3 with 1 isn’t a good idea to me but I still enjoy the world

See, I knew you would. GG Vayne

I’m sorry but if a game is not about ‘fun’ to me it gets the uninstallation treatment. RL has enough monotony without games having it too. Games should be an escape not job 2.0. Thanks but no thanks, I’ll stick with fun games.

zenleto.6179:

Early months even ScottBroChill. Give it time and watch how it pans out. It may end up sucking beyond all imagining or being pretty kitten good. Some people already find it one or the other but time will tell.

I’m all but done on the game, I keep checking here for hope. I think if Anet after years of experience with GW1 were going to pull something amazing out of the bag they would have done it already. My original main is a Necro and from what I keep reading they still are getting no love while Warriors are getting constantly buffed (whats that about?)?

Ps. INB4 Vayne comes to defend all things Anet and tell you that you’re all wrong unless you agree with him :P

It was amazing in the first couple of months but the Nov 15th loot n3rf killed the game for me and it took so long to address or even get a worthwhile response that I don’t think I’ll ever re-install. I keep checking the forums for a faint glimmer of hope that will make me want to get back into the game but with every patch all I see is disappointment

ADFX.6179:

Chickens I tell you… And not dragons.

Thank you.

Colin and his band of Merry Denial Knights are all quite happy spouting garbage from their Ivory Tower. They probably don’t even know what a chicken is. We commoners should just shut up and eat our potatoes.

Tower Guard.5263:

What’s the deal with people asking total strangers for money? And starting at 2 gold? Seriously? I nearly fell out of my chair, when this random stranger whispered me for 2 gold.

Is the situation so bad that people are begging for money now or are they just lazy?

Kinda flattered though, I look rich…. with the poor man’s legendary, the Fractal GS.

Some person spun such a yarn to all in Divinitys Reach for so long that I felt sorry for them and gave them some cash. They promised to return it to me which I knew was a lie before they hit enter to lie about thanking me. They still haven’t returned it since months before I quit. Shock, horror.

Gestankfaust.4216:

Paul.4081:

Gestankfaust.4216:

Why are we still talking about this?

Same reason pilots still crash, to prevent….uhm…nothing!

You have opened my eyes

(but now I see the crash…darn you!)

AIM FOR THE BIG X

Gestankfaust.4216:

Why are we still talking about this?

Same reason pilots still crash, to prevent….uhm…nothing!

Your asking the minority OP and thats a good thing, you guys have Ascended. Maybe you should ask for an actual Circus in the storyline, for that you will be declined I bet! Anet will reply, we gave you Ascended.

Can we have more skills?

Anet will reply, we gave you Ascended.

Will we get more races?

Anet will reply, we gave you Ascended.

The good guys are gone!

Lol, Bon Appe-fecking teet!

Dante.1508:

Skins….Weapon Armor etc Some more GW1 skins would be very welcome.

That is all

Nobody mention the hair!

Lol Dante your the person who an Anet employee told to take off the tinfoil hat. Goose & Gander!

lunarminx.3624:

Paul.4081:

Town costumes are the personification of waste of cash……who-ever dreamed them up needs to play GW1 once!

they need to die in a fiery death!

I’d just like to watch them compare and listen to the BS they come out with

lunarminx – you can dodge 1.0005% faster in own gear (but c’mon, you know you want it), and also your inventory space increases by a massive 0 slot. This is Anet value, we only charge 50$ (bendable) for this minor luxory!

Update, Anet are thinking of increasing 0 slot to x2 0 slots (phew, glad I got that in 0.4 is coming out soon)

Just effing costumes that oversuit armour, is it so hard? people are so sparse now anyway.

I want to look like Chuckie from Home Alone (I know, Chuckie was in the Crow) , Pennywise from IT. Christ other games like Borderlands 2 manage to squeeze so many film quotes in, I’m sure one Hollywood company will let you make Jason or Pumkinhead skins for your customers for a few $.

Town costumes are the personification of waste of cash……who-ever dreamed them up needs to play GW1 once!

I’ve watched all the X-Files episodes many times (big fan of the show, best tv show ever imho). I see no consipracy here. It’s simply like the X-files episode “Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man” where he remembered when he had the chance of doing something he enjoyed as oppossed to becoming who he became! We are all CGB Spender’s A-Net as are you and y/our future is in your hands!

“Life… is like a box of chocolates – a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you’re stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there’s nothing else to eat while you’re watching the game. Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it’s gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper.”

Is the exact quote! Is that what you want?

Thereon.3495:

Only reward would be the fun of killing….in a game with an epic, endless, unfolding storyline with challenges around every corner that enables you to team up with friends to fight against uber-bosses and demon-beasts in the mouth of hell itself…maybe. But even GW2 cant profess to be all that so no

In a world where Evil Dead is remade…

Sythus.2396:

WarMacheen.7124:

1024 posts

33518 views

and not a single kittening answer

I believe after another 10 or 15 pages someone will come and tell us how happy they are with our feedback and that they are still looking into it.

True story.

Colin is happy with our feedback, it gives his bin a reason to have a mini basketball net above it.

https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/61757873/Me.jpg

She is why!

http://www.giochimmo.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/MG_0755-copia.jpg

Here is Anet’s wallpaper.

Gratz Crystin on destroying Guild Wars. What’s next? Give me advance warning of games not to touch!

So no worthwhile reply and with all the irrefutable evidence they still want you to jump through hoops?

When people ask me why I don’t play GW2 after playing GW1 for 5 years I really don’t know what to tell them :P

I have a feeling that drops (rare’s in Orr from DE’s) are stealthnerfed again with
last week patch (not only me, but everybody i ask in party’s are feeling the same),
what means more grinding DE’s in Orr for Ecto’s and less incoming gold.

If this is true, that they have yet again nerfed the drop rates after the (surprise, surprise) brushed under the carpet thread about the previous nerfs only to nerf them even further, then there is no hope for this game.