On a slightly related note, I’m still waiting for someone – anyone – to make a cogent argument as to why removing the the water bucket and feed sack bundles from Diah’s farm or the recipe for Eda’s Apple Pie from the game improved the leveling experience.
what it boils down to, is they decided new players couldnt deal well with the concept of bundles, (a new skill bar based on environment) so they cut all such occurences from starter hearts.
I ding level 30 on my Engineer and finally have access to Traits!
I open up the Trait Panel….I have 1 POINT…1 Trait Point to spend.
Yeah, after 30 levels and a handful of Traits Unlocked…I get 1 Point to spend.
Yep…in the old days, one trait point didn’t actually get you anything. You needed five to actually unlock a point. That 1 point is like five of the old points.
kitten Vayne, how about you can only defend this every 7th post, that OK with you?
Actually there are plenty of posts I don’t comment on at all. Just the ones that I disagree with. There’s a post on the main page right now about a guy who’s bored with the game. Not a single post in that thread.
Complaining about 1 trait point, and unlock one trait at a time…that’s how it’s always worked, except in the old days you needed five of them. Why do you have a problem with me pointing that out?
Nah, you have some decent arguments, how would you feel if you could only post on every 7th posts though?
That would cripple your involvement in the forums..Why would that be, because it’s new and good or just tedium forced upon us.
I ding level 30 on my Engineer and finally have access to Traits!
I open up the Trait Panel….I have 1 POINT…1 Trait Point to spend.
Yeah, after 30 levels and a handful of Traits Unlocked…I get 1 Point to spend.
Yep…in the old days, one trait point didn’t actually get you anything. You needed five to actually unlock a point. That 1 point is like five of the old points.
kitten Vayne, how about you can only defend this every 7th post, that OK with you?
Your mistake here is posting things that would ADD FUN to the game, that’s not how Anet rolls. If you had said…
*New cash shop weapon types with no new skills attached
*Healing skills no-one uses (antitoxin) and more that afaik still suck for Necro (how many skill points again, trying to confuse the newbies again by making them think it’s not worthless?)
*Gate existing traits behind a wall, it’s fun to make what you regard as idiots try to scrabble up a wall, animal cruelty ftw.
Nah, if they beefed them up to be more like missions in GW I would but as they stand, I click skip asap.
Odd how the story missions in the mmo GW2 are less team involvement of players than the argueably non mmo GW.
I played countless missions with others in GW but only one time I ever dragged a person, a guildie into my GW2 story and that was for the Clor Island mundanity.
Well, sites usually post numbers when they’re good. Not saying that necessarily makes GW2’s bad but I keep an eye on the Xfire numbers from time to time and they have dropped by a lot as with posters on GW2 Guru. They blame circular threads (?).
One of the main reasons (I personally believe) why people stop posting on Guru is because that forum is even MORE toxic than this one and they don’t have the same level of moderation as here.
I don’t know anything about Xfire so I can’t comment on that. But also, most games like THIS do not post their numbers ever, and when they do mention it they almost always put it in ballpark generic figures.
Xfire’s numbers have dropped from tens of thousands to 400, unless the Xfire community are special snowflakes….
And (personal opinion) about guru, you can have a discussion over there without a mod deeming your post locky McDeletable!
I’ve rambled here and I’ve rambled there, I’ve only ever felt punished for it here.
Painting pretty picure without context….tsk tsk…on xfire GW2 is currently no.11 with regular dips to top 10.
Well, sites usually post numbers when they’re good. Not saying that necessarily makes GW2’s bad but I keep an eye on the Xfire numbers from time to time and they have dropped by a lot as with posters on GW2 Guru. They blame circular threads (?).
One of the main reasons (I personally believe) why people stop posting on Guru is because that forum is even MORE toxic than this one and they don’t have the same level of moderation as here.
I don’t know anything about Xfire so I can’t comment on that. But also, most games like THIS do not post their numbers ever, and when they do mention it they almost always put it in ballpark generic figures.
Xfire’s numbers have dropped from tens of thousands to 400, unless the Xfire community are special snowflakes….
And (personal opinion) about guru, you can have a discussion over there without a mod deeming your post locky McDeletable!
I’ve rambled here and I’ve rambled there, I’ve only ever felt punished for it here.
Guild Wars 2 is the #11 game on Xfire. Go to games and search on Guild Wars 2. It says Guild Wars 2 is ranked 11 in the Xfire rank box.
That means on Xfire, Guild Wars 2 is the second most popular MMO. Only WoW is more popular.
Now Xfire, Raptr and Overwolf all seem to be saying much the same thing.
Well, sites usually post numbers when they’re good. Not saying that necessarily makes GW2’s bad but I keep an eye on the Xfire numbers from time to time and they have dropped by a lot as with posters on GW2 Guru. They blame circular threads (?).
One of the main reasons (I personally believe) why people stop posting on Guru is because that forum is even MORE toxic than this one and they don’t have the same level of moderation as here.
I don’t know anything about Xfire so I can’t comment on that. But also, most games like THIS do not post their numbers ever, and when they do mention it they almost always put it in ballpark generic figures.
Xfire’s numbers have dropped from tens of thousands to 400, unless the Xfire community are special snowflakes….
And (personal opinion) about guru, you can have a discussion over there without a mod deeming your post locky McDeletable!
I’ve rambled here and I’ve rambled there, I’ve only ever felt punished for it here.
At least we have Halloween coming up soon. I heard they are feature packing it. Many players are too stupid to realise what Halloween is so they are going to put masks and costumes into the cash shop to help them learn. Upon purchase they become locked behind an artificial wall and unusable until you have 10 level 80’s!
The Mad King Maze has also received updates in the push to make things easier for the moronic playerbase. Anet has made exciting changes. Due to high player demand, the maze is now empty!
Well, sites usually post numbers when they’re good. Not saying that necessarily makes GW2’s bad but I keep an eye on the Xfire numbers from time to time and they have dropped by a lot as with posters on GW2 Guru. They blame circular threads (?).
Thank god, you know how many times as a youngster I went to the pool and….no wait, even when I was 5 I managed to wear goggles so I didn’t get stingy chlorine eyes underwater….Ok the reason must be…..I’m sure it’s because…..maybe it’s about….?
I have nothing.
If some creepy guy had come up to me talking about metrics before I jumped in the deep end and my goggle elastic had been purposefully tied in a knot behind my back, I’d swim elsewhere.
Sigh, I shouldn’t have bothered, I see where you guys are coming from, I’ve instead moved m interest to zombie games. Just spent £650 on a card and psu for Dead Island 2, Dead Rising 3. You bobbleheads have fun!
Please change a lot back…for eg. and your sake You find me one gamer that finds it now fun that the Asura’n mini lake is devoid of anything. No offense but who came up with that?
Maybe you guys at Anet should chip in and buy them an account
TehPwnerer.7215 it begs the question are the Chinese audience thought of as morons and we must be brought down to their level?
I’ll tell you one thing, I’m an altaholic with sporadic installs, the game now sounds kittene, can I get a refund on my gem purchases in the last 2 weeks, they’re sure as kitten my last! Who the hell is driving @ Anet?
I’ll still be making a Warrior and Thief at some point. Preferably after a new race comes along.
COMING EXCITING SOON! Permanent exciting Kodan transformation in the cash shop, no need to choose character appearance which was needlessly complicated so we just give everyone the same default look. New exciting bonus feature – it clips with everything!!
So, this is how it works? Cherry pick ONE PERSON’s “list of things I don’t like”, while ignoring 40 pages of really good feedback and ideas? OK. I’m done with this thread.
From this response from JonPeters and his initial post it is obvious that Anet is not going to fix their new leveling process or trait system except the individual tasks themselves.
I’m discouraged since I used to like leveling new alts but can live with just playing my level 80s instead.
To be clear we are looking at the system as a whole but recognize that changing that will take longer than is satisfying and are looking for ways to improve the current system until a time at which we can make a better overall system from the ground up. Specific suggestions on what traits are poorly placed are helpful for #1, specific suggestions on #2 are also welcome but are going to be read but not responded too right now.
Thank you, that is nice to hear.
Please be more honest and straight-forward like this in the future.
To be fair, we love being this honest and straight forward normally though it just ends up sounding like a bunch of talk and not a lot of walk and that is because it takes time to be this active on the boards. After today I’ll be a bit less “forum active” again but that means I am working on making the game better.
Or to put it another way, fixing what you needlessly broke.
Inventory overhaul incoming because players are too stupid to press I (or redefine to a mouse button).
I’m sorry but the game has a what, 12 rating? If anet honestly thought that the trait and downed system etc. needed reworked because people didn’t understand it then they must think that their customers are complete morons and they (anet) are some superior race of intelligent beings.
*Turn off tooltips checkbox, I know I’m not the only mouse skill clicker that gets annoyed when skill tips take up half my vertical screen in the worst place when I hang my mouse over them.
*Move Heart completion and other similar messages to either the left or right side of the screen. Even your favourite spammy place, the top right!. Why on earth are these messages popping up in the middle of the screen like a custard pie in my face when there are monster around?
*Option to Target closest enemy when you use autotarget instead of the yellow & certainly not that spider that is obstructed and out of range.
*Checkbox for all harvested mats to automatically go to bank, same with salvages.
Just suggestions. These are annoyances for me. Unnecessary clicks or in the way obscuring gameplay.
OP – Bollox is all I’m saying, you tell me not to be greedy, I tell you not to tell lies.
If you think this LS junk is equal to an expansion then your standards/expectations have been brutally lowered.
Ask yourself this, seriously. If you paid for season one and two of living story and that was all you got for your money (excluding the rest of the game). Would you be happy and content? To me the LS feels like a bloody app. I’d buy on my phone and twiddle for an hour and not a actual worthy addition to the game bearing the name Guild Wars.
In the first game when I bought Cantha and Elona I was satisfied and happy with my purchases which gave me countless hours of fun. L Story season 2, I just don’t even bother anymore.
Gaws you ppl are sooo overreacting over this just because you’re lazy!
How is it lazy to be disappointed at a trait level up to see a big empty slot for your trouble. Not to mention all the levels in between being pointless since you get more skill points mapping than you do for a level up.
Levelling up should be “Yay!” not “Sigh, 4 more levels to go before I get an empty slot with no trait to put in it!”
I think the current dev’s were trained on consoles, hence the crappy console FoV. Any decent PC gamer worth their salt would know that anything other than 90 degrees is problematic, headache inducing and just wrong!
Guess I’m the only one that misses that darkness in my heart that I could express with my online persona. Now I get to be Mrs Lesbian Pacman Hipster the 3rd!
The colours should be free after forking out 100g. After that Anet should have got off their lazy kitten s and made commander symbols that were desirable like a little skull and crossbones (colourable from original tag colours obviously) or a Jack O Lantern at Halloween then fine and let mugs buy them to show off how much gold they have!
…but to shaft commanders like this is horrific. What’s next Anet, commanders who haven’t sank enough cash after having the blue one for a while gets it removed and making them homeless? Scum moves!
I can’t believe the defense of this
As usual it’s the least work possible for the most financial gain and people still take one in the chest for ANet!
That Dry Top one cements my decision to continue ignoring the LS.
Apart from that, why did he map to the Skritt maze place. Nice choice. You forget the MMO part? I’m lucky if I’ve ever bumped into 2 people at the skillpoint.
Caledon Forest, Queensdale, Kessex (no wait, ugly now), Diessa, Norn starting zone (northern parts)….The list is endless of WP’s to pick where there would be people and have good looking scenery. Instead, they pick a Skritt cave with limited players. Did they just get this guy off the street?
It’s said as a joke but things like this really make you wonder if Anet actually even do play their own game.
Granted I watched with the sound off but one sure as hell thing I would have done with my pathetic 11 toons is park at least one in an interesting place before I was due to do a presentation so thousands of people don’t have to watch me fanny about in ugly boring looking areas.
Loading something like this and making a game of it could slow down players with lesser computers loading times even more than with a plain old picture.
After watching that Twitch thing it looks even Anet have terrible loading times. I’m lucky like Ashandar.2570 though. Guess while my account drops rng is cursed my load times rng are blessed. Swings and roundabouts
Oh I thought you meant like caves etc which I’m sure has another topic about it. What your asking for is defeating the purpose imho. That last POI is what mapping is all about, if you have a green arrow system pointing you to it then it belittles your efforts and those of all the people who map completed and scoured the maps for that elusive POI.
Did Captain Cook have green arrows when he set sail?
Penardunn didn’t it get written in your journal? Some of the Nerraverine quests were crazy, I could fly over mountains and walk on water but couldn’t find a kitten cave or was it a shrine no matter how many times I read the instructions, god that was a good game. If only I hadn’t been tortured by those bloody cliff racers while I tried lol
Not everyone, everyone with bad taste you mean. I’d be interested if they didn’t look like the ugly sister of my little pony weapons that leave puddles of vomit footsteps on my screen when others use them. I wish there was a checkbox to turn off the effects tbh.
