When using the auto attack feature characters should target one of the five monsters within touching distance beating them and not the out of range obstructed Moa halfway across the map!
Right click option to use all for magic find/Orrian skill boxes/karma containers since they aren’t tied to titles.
Characters should not randomly lose upwards of 19k hit points by walking five feet down a slope.
Let us run at normal speeds in combat since even the undead with their decaying limbs and rotting muscles can outpace us. It feels like bullet time without the benefits for Charr and Norn. Give us a reason to not want to run past the enemies instead of artificially slowing us down because none exists.
ANet, you know the best thing in RPG games? Levelling up and becoming more powerful.
So when we level up in GW2 and only get skill points towards the few decent skills or circus elites. It actually highlights how bad the skills especially elite are!
GW – Guys I just got Spiteful Spirit by killing a boss wooties!
GW2 – I just finished Clor Island and my toon now has a trait in an stat I don’t use and all other slots are empty!
I think what I’m saying is you have to fill the void you’ve created!
See the problem with this reply is that the guy/gal PAID for an MMO, not a fart about with your network connections game.
What’s next, re-install windows? Delete you email addresses?
Since this issue I have installed Steam, downloaded torrents and even installed Superantispyware just in case. Needless to say, there were no issues with any and speeds were top!
You missed One of the more beautiful areas (Kessex) getting uglified, Teq became pointless to all but the dedicated, new skills which most people don’t bother with at 25 points for crap. More new skills with Necro one being pretty much kittene
Ps. WvW, hah, those guys are never happy, ANet asked them to post footage for a promo vid or something. The cheeky monkeys kinda voiced opinions instead.
You know that birthday where you love your Granny but you know your getting garbage as a gift.
NCAnet have adopted that model. They’ll no doubt release something that undermines the whole point of toons birthdays. Level 80 scrolls for all toons at level 80 or something. Mini Queen Jenna in the fiery tier 3 gear etc. as an eff you lol
I’m throwing in the towel and giving up. I have a free weekend and fancied getting some GW2 in. After this incompetence I uninstalled it since it’s not worth days of hassle and off to check out the Steam summer sale.
Isn’t it taking advantage showing China Godzilla battles from ones they’ll never have? I’m guessing from the request China are too busy chasing the ugly backpacks?
Gaile no offense but I use a site that got hit with this issue, the site shall remain nameless. They resolved it within 24 hours. Granted they aren’t a MMO.
And here we are flipping coins and jumping through hoops hoping it’ll turn up in our favour with solutions that may or may not work. This is great and not your fault.
If it’s any consolation I too am crashing while trying to install (twice now) with a different error message. The combination of this and the pathetic download speeds are nothing short of a shambles.
…even if people say that GW2 is CPU bound it doesn’t mean that you could forget about graphics cards.
Very true, I see someone saying above that gpu doesn’t matter. They do. I had to replace my gpu recently and stuck in an older card I had lying around in the meantime and my fps plummeted to single digits. I waited till I got my replacement before I played again.
Hopefully they’ll show all aspects of WvW and include footage of mappers simply running for 20 minutes to get to a skill point, getting killed by camping thieves then running for 20 minutes to a different skill point or vista :P
So the map completion is to get players into WvW to try it and hopefully some might stay. Ok, fair enough.
I’ve tried WvW when I got Map Completion on my main and hated every second of it and haven’t been back (except using the portal). Wish I didn’t have to suffer it again and again on alt’s if I’ve tried and not enjoyed. Pity WvW maps aren’t optional 2nd, 3rd, 4th time around where WvW’s can do those and don’t have to do 4 World Maps or something to balance their claims of hatred of doing PvE world maps for map completion.
Hmmm… I must admit I’m disappointed with the new release not fixing this. Sometimes, ANet proves they listen to the players. I guess this is not one of those times.
Nah, it’s pretty clear.
They’d rather tell off and put a pointless sticky in the WvW forums than engage us after pages and pages.
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They decided to go with something similar to how GW1 is. It’s actually better than how GW1 is as you don’t have to spend a single piece of gold to get the traits….
Who cares how crappy GW1 was. The new trait system in GW2 is simply worse than the way it was.
Depending how you play. Possible Level 80 with zero traits!
I’m seriously having a hard time getting my head round this. Maybe because I enjoy single player rpg games where levelling up matters. That and every other rpg type game.
Christ as a youngster I grinded by bum off in Flyff. At least there you got stat points per level.
Sure you can say, hey you get a skill point. Oh, like the 5 I got doing map completion for you ridiculous requirements?
Levelling up has been ruined, no question! Well done!
They should have added more desirable traits or skills and locked those behind map completion etc. instead of moving the goalposts after all this time.
I’ve read about people claiming they’ve reached level 80 by playing the way most fun to them and having zero traits when they ding 80. That’s not right.
Also in GW if I recall I had a full skill bar even without my elite in Pre-Searing or shortly after just from doing low level quests. I didn’t have a quest telling me “To unlock Animate Bone Fiends you must kill your Doppleganger in the Crystal Desert” in Pre-Searing.
Well there were no “utility skill slots” in GW1. You had 8 slots in which to equip skills and could literally put anything you wanted in them, so long as you were only using one elite. Each character class also had approximately 90 skills to pick from over all. So creating a dynamic build was much more involved and took a bit more intelligence than it does today. No skills attached to your weapons. The only skills in GW1 that required you to kill anything was the elites, which were carried by bosses throughout the maps.
I have a hard time saying what I mean. What I meant with that post is that in GW, you had no empty slots, sure you could get elite skills but in the meantime you could fill with normal skills.
In GW2 you have nothing of this sort, you have an empty space as far as traits go unless you bow to ANet’s whim and go chasing traits! Not forgetting We’ve all tasted the good Trait system!
Does that make more sense?
Eg. “Congratulations, you levelled up, enjoy your nothing!”
They should have added more desirable traits or skills and locked those behind map completion etc. instead of moving the goalposts after all this time.
I’ve read about people claiming they’ve reached level 80 by playing the way most fun to them and having zero traits when they ding 80. That’s not right.
Also in GW if I recall I had a full skill bar even without my elite in Pre-Searing or shortly after just from doing low level quests. I didn’t have a quest telling me “To unlock Animate Bone Fiends you must kill your Doppleganger in the Crystal Desert” in Pre-Searing.
Guild Wars, where elite skills were elite and didn’t transform you into a dancing chicken or something equally pathetic. It’s no wonder they used traits instead of elite skills in the new ‘feature’. Nobody would bother hunting down most of the elite skills in this game. Anywhoo…
People say “GW had loads of skills but only so many were useful!” Rubbish, don’t blame the game for your lack of experimentation and using factory builds. I constantly changed and experimented with all skills across my heroes. Some were ultra failures and some were winners. The difference is here in GW2 I’ve had the same build on my main for the past (almost) 2 years, that says it all.
Oh, actually I tell a lie, I swapped my heal skill to the anti toxin one for about 5 minutes.
I’m tired of always fighting on a needles edge size area with AOE that takes almost all the room up. kitten , give us something worth dodging to instead of, hey dodge here it has another red circle waiting for you.
Early fight with the Asuran trio was AOE/HP’s Christmas, I pretty much gave up after that. Expansions worth lol, right.
Boring amounts of HP and blanket the area with aoe circles, can I get a job at Anet now I realise how it’s done?
Okay, so last year, I played this game from about May to late October (during the time of the Halloween update), and in the process, got a level 80 Elementalist among some other characters. However, by the time I had quit, I was simply burnt out. Between the barrage of constant updates that forced me to do them or miss out on them and the money grind for a legendary weapon (which was basically the endgame at this point), all I had left was WvW, which was getting tiresome after constantly doing it (and the having to pay actual gold to upgrade forts).
Now however, I’m interested in this game again, seeing as Wildstar wasn’t as good as anticipated. Yet, I’m aware I missed tons of “living world” content. Would it even be worth returning to the game after having permanently missed out on so much content and story, and if so, would the problems I faced before I quit continue to haunt me now?
Inb4 ignore forum comments as long as they conform to matching white knight dribility
I’d say the brainchild behind this change hasn’t played GW. In GW1 (loose term) the collection of elite skills was all about choice, like I said above, this new guff is not. Magi Malaquire isn’t sitting on a hill here, instead we have consolised devs thinking “YipEEE! SAB!” while watching the Star Wars prequels and wishing Jar Jar minis were in the cash shop!
New gem shop stuff? Surprise, surprise. We haven’t seen a whole new set available outside the gem shop since the beginning. That’s quite unbelievable, really.
Ascended.
Ah, right. There were so many I forgot to mention this one.
Rubber ducking hell. I made a new Ranger. I got to level 36 and you know what I got for my trouble….drumroll…..No pickable traits (power), not one, they’re all locked.
Sure I get the passive benefits but all traits locked what a joke. Who OK’d this? My reward for getting to level 36 is “Haha, suck it, look what you don’t get!”
Haha, I’m not falling for that again. I’ll re-install if the overwhelming response isn’t disappointment and Anet’s motto changes from pay up or shut up.
why did you make it so painful to start a new character? the new trait system forces you to do map exploration for EVERYTHING.
just buy the skills you say? for 50 silver + and 2+ skillpoints!!!! I can live with the cash just means more money for anet >=( but the skill points are a bit harsh, REMOVE THAT REQUIREMENT
Nobody cares, most players are 80 here with cash to back up their time wasted
I’d be up for chatting but…you need to have pathetic looking tardy legendaries
I had the wedding costume which I bought without question in GW. I even got considered on the Pink day for a winner. Stupidly didn’t change my headgear to the tiara.
In GW2…just kitten. Even the chaos gloves compared to GW2 would laugh. Cox has ruined this game!
