Guild Wars 2

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Magi_Malaquire

Ah the memories.

I started noticing this on Maw now it seems to be spreading (yes I know they are once per day).

What happens is I’ll do enough damage to get a gold medal or the same amount of damage I have been doing for ages on my main with champs but the boss or champ corpse won’t give any drops. I’m not the only one this is happening to because I’ll see “No drops wtf?” or “Anyone else getting nothing from champs?” etc. in chat.

Those ascended armour wearing toons don’t look comfortable in it. They remind of dogs you see where the owner has strapped a coat to them.

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I haven’t and won’t buy any ascended gear (I use my Laurels to buy T6 mat’s to sell and gear alt’s in Exotics and Cultural). If it ever turns out that ascended is required or a new set of gear is released that leaves me in the dust compared to those who hamster wheeled then it’ll be goodbye from me. Ascended and the disappointment it brings is not why I played GW for 5 years and certainly not why I bought GW2.

Bolbo Baggins.8594:

The queensdale champ zerg is an example of the downside of the dynamic lootscaling system. Its suposed to be one happy guildwars family helping eachother. Instead its misused by high level farmers who want maximum reward with no effort wathsoever. Hammering down low level champs who will buckle in 5 seconds under pressure of the great zerg ball of dead. Not a good start for the new adventurers exploring the beautifull lands of Kryta.

If the rest of the game isn’t inviting enough for new players to go explore, then that player is at least hanging out with other players instead of playing on empty maps and getting possible guild invites while also asking for advice. It’s not all doom and gloom.

Killing the champ train would be rubbish imho. I have 10 alt’s and outwith Guild Chat I don’t really talk to anyone else in the game until I go to the champ farm on my alt’s. Sure some knobs can occasionally be rude if you disrupt the choo choo but some players kick others before the end of dungeons too which is surely a much bigger issue?

Champ train is a hell of a nice place to go to after doing more attention demanding things in the game where you can just chill and shoot the breeze, kill and get loot.

It could be argued that the maps are empty because of champ farming but I doubt it. The rewards elsewhere need to be tweaked to make more things equally rewarding so people don’t make a b-line to anything resembling a reward for time spent. Players choices are not the issue here, more the lack of.

Luckily I learned this a while back. I got a ticket but when I went to check the weapons it turned that I needed 3-5. Fortunately the Zodiac weapons were still 1 ticket so I got one of those. I thought it was actually based on how many people bought them that made the amount of tickets increase so I got my tickets asap as soon as the dreamthistle weapons came out.

Seen a Charr called John Dwayneson

And an Asuran called Marvin the Maguuman who had armour and colours to look like Marvin the Martian

My last two were the Chantry hideout and my personal last was the new one in Divinity, I made my guildies go through Arah twice for the poi I missed but it was in Divinity lol

Disconnected 4 times in 5 minutes in Queensdale (so far). It’s pathetic. No issues with Steam, utorrent or general surfing the net, only GW2. No problems at all in GW2 prior to the patch.

Happened again after Crab Toss with my Norn Thief.

Queensdale seems to be the worst.

Shadow Behemoth - Last 3 times I was disconnected just before it died and had severe delays on skills (up to 10 seconds).
Champ Train - 4-5 second delays on skills and possible disconnections too.
Mapping - Not as bad but still terrible.

Phy.2913:

You can complete Kessex just fine, and if you somehow find it too hard, go to one of the other zones.

I’m having trouble even staying there long enough to complete a heart quest on alt’s because it looks like Orr’s ugly sister now. Compared to how it used to look it’s like a depressing deterant of drabness.

My block list is getting quite large now, it had no participants at all last month. Every single one are whispering gold sellers.

This happened and it’s taken centre stage.

I think this is a good idea for a pretty good reason that is ‘THE CASH SHOP!’

Lets face it new skins come out and they are having more and more fancy effects. Look at the Dreamthistle weapons compared to the Mystic ones or even one I planned to get, the Eye of Rodgort. Those skins are losing their appeal faster and faster as Anet introduce newer and fancier skins to the game via the cash shop.

The eye of rodgort creation mat’s etc. v’s just buying dreamthistle scepter (I’ve seen dip as low *kitten gold) was a no brainer for me. I got the dreamthistle. When I now look at the rodgort and mystic weapons it’s like why did I even consider them by comparison.

But beauty as they say is in the eye (pun optional) of the beholder.

• Kittened part was the word “as” and the number 50. Brought to you by Sesame Street.

huggles.5271:

Paul what is your magic find? I spent a ton of gold on my 250%

137%, that is quite a big difference. Think I’ve had 1 or 2 exotic drops since headstart not counting champ bags, probably aound 10 counting bags).

It must be confusing to new players if anything, they’re probably doing fine with the game then see an event and think “Oh goody, some xp etc.” only to get flattened in seconds.

I passed such a poor soul just as they got downed and couldn’t even res them (on a level 80 Necro) because of the amount of hallucinations that kept pummeling me while I tried.

huggles.5271:

I’ve had about 60 exotic drops even had them off regular mobs, not champion silver or even veteran..

This is pathetic, not what you said but the amount of exotics you’ve had compared to myself and many others that are continually spat upon by rng.

Well 200% of 4 is 8. So it’s probably like that. The drop rates are low lets face it. If you have 200% in GW2 it’ll increase your chance at a exotic from something like 0.0005% to 0.0010% (or in a lot of players cases 0.0000000005% to 0.0000000010%).

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

When we suggest the ability to personalize our UI and graphical options ANET reacts with the same horror as if we suggested handing running chainsaws out to babies.

I truly get the “vibe” that they feel we are incapable of messing with “their” stuff.

The annoying thing is there is a mod that hides all the clutter. I could have my UI so all that was shown was the chat box and skillbar ( I ended up putting the minimap back to see nodes). Gone was the needless raggedy edge, gone was the top right part, gone was all the things I didn’t want or more importantly need. Unfortunately, I think this mod could lead to a potential ban for using so I stopped and have to continue looking through the border of clutter at the land of Tyria

Danikat either that solution or have all the elements made transparent until you move your mouse over. Or an option to do both so you can remove the ones you’ll never use but can still check transparent ones by moving your mouse to the bottom right for map or the top left for menu icons. Raggedy border though, just ditch it, period.

Something like this that’s also the introduction of a another dragon.

lordkrall.7241:

I find it quite funny how people shout about how bad and lazy the devs are releasing reskins of armors, but at the same time seem to be fully okay with reskins, if they are from GW1.
They are still reskins people.

Surely they wouldn’t be reskins though? I think they’d have to be totally re-created for GW2.

Mimizu.7340:

There is no off switch.

Trahearne is waiting for you.

He wants you to hurry up and help him finish his personal story.

OP, a lot of people have been asking for the option to remove UI elements such as the annoying top right section which also includes a reminder about Trahearne’s story that never goes away until you kill Zhaitan. A while back though I’m sure I read Colin saying that they would be streamlining the UI, hopefully there will be an option to hide things like this in the not too distant.

Buying alcohol should be easier. I get that using it you should have to click every one because if not you could just buy then click consume all and title done in 5 seconds. Buying it though should have one of those little boxes where you can input numbers with up/down arrows to select the amount you want. I mean, I don’t go into an off license when buying beer and walk to the fridge and back for every single bottle. I just grab a multipack.

I think I read on the specs of my mouse that it can withstand about 3 million clicks, would be nice if a third of them weren’t for GW2.

I don’t suppose anyone would be very happy if they bought say a car that the seller claimed was new but it turned out to be a 2nd hand car with a new coat of paint. I doubt anyone would accept that irl so why accept it in games?

Khallis.5708:

yes this is stupid that because of a few whiny brats this skin will be REMOVED from people who actually bought it because they liked the look. Anet should give people that bought the armor a CHOICE to keep the old skin or the new one that Anet brings into the game.

Whiny brats? It was a cultural armour reskin which has been covered at length in many posts (maybe you should read them and not just the titles to understand the reasons behind the complaints).

Imagine it wasn’t changed and you get your Flamekissed armour. Then, three months down the line Flamedancer armour is released which is just Flamekissed armour with an additional flaming aura and leaves a fire trail, this armour is sold for 400 gems. How would you feel?

Marquie Thomas.1873:

i think people are blind as a bat the new armor is like ten time’s darker then how they originally looked.

So not my memory playing tricks then? I use mostly emerald on my T3 light and it looks much, much darker than I remember it. The rear skirt part in particular is nearly black. The dye is named emerald, not onyx.

I guess we should’ve kicked up a bigger fuss or at least seen the warning signs when this appeared.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lord_Taeres%27s_Shadow

TheGuy.3568:

I got just one that gets me a tad upset. Not being able to see party chat after you leave (or get kicked) from one.

Add to this guild chat disappearing when you switch toons. I hate that when guildies ping a wp then I switch toons only to have them have to ping it again. Map and say chat don’t disappear so why does guild?

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Knighthonor.4061:

Please add more fun to GW2.

Why take so long to add new fun features?

Can you be as little more specific?
Just what is “fun”?
What you consider fun may be completely boring to someone else, so you need to give a few examples of what you mean by fun or it’s a pretty meaningless post.

Maybe they mean adding something that isn’t a temporary achievement grind or solely for the cash shop?

Here’s some that really annoy me in addition to what has been mentioned above.

1. Introducing DR that hurts legit players (not sure if it counts as a design mistake but it’s my biggest bane and have the porous bones and globby goo to prove it).

2. Having a consolised unchangeable FoV. On most games I need increase it to 100-ish for it to feel comfortable and afaik this game is stuck at around the 70’s.

3. Every monster having way to many knockdown, immobilise, pull or generally any type of boring skills that remove control from the player. This is infuriatingly overused. Here’s an example. I was fighting a random monster on my Guardian, it knocked me down, I used a stand up skill, it knocked me straight back down again. Sigh, now imagine there are 2 of them, 3 even. Not fun, boring!

4. Gear system that makes the freedom to try new things more hassle than it should be.

5. Set in stone UI, many parts are even not required after a while of playing and just serve to obscure the view of lovely Tyria.

Samuli.7852:

Hard to say, you didn’t post a picture of yourself.

I seem to have found a screenshot of a previous conversation they had with a Norn.

They could maybe make it that we get a bag/chest like the ones we get from the activities like Sanctum Sprint etc. on top of the standard DE completion reward. Maybe beef them up to have a small chance at getting a rare or possibly exotics instead of just always greens though. That might increase the incentive to take part in them.

I started a thread about this in audio, Anet said they’re looking into it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/audio/Battle-Music-Doesn-t-Stop/first

Someone on Maguuma was begging for gold in map chat the other day. I typed /beg through force of habit from GW and nothing happened, sad.

Yes, I thought it was just me but it honestly feels like every time unless I’m standing stock still when I cast, more often than not it’ll cancel. I never paid it much attention till I read your post. I always just silently cursed myself for messing up using the skill somehow. On saying that though it doesn’t happen with any of my other skills so probably not my fault after all. I owe myself an apology :P

My guild roster was also empty about 1 hour ago (it was at 1/250 members online) and there were other guildies on. One pm’d saying the party function was broken too and wanted to test it. I got the invite but when I clicked accept nothing happened although the game said I was in a party. Might be a Euro’s on US servers thing.

Alt’s are my endgame. I wish it was more alt friendly.

As soon as I discovered the prices I chuckled and groaned at the same time then pretended they weren’t in the game. Really, what’s the point of getting the pail other than for taking a screenshot for the forums or ctrl pinging in game to say “Look what I wasted my gold and time on”

Meglobob.8620:

One point I have never understood about heavy vs medium/light armour debate.

Heavy classes get a small armour advantage, its a clear advantage that warriors/guardians get.

So what small advantage do the other 6 classes get to even this out?

No one has ever said AFAIK and I have never been able to figure any advantage with other classes skills/traits/stats that equal that small armour advantage out.

I’m curious to know the answer to this is too

I just got my Pact Paper Trident. I put the skin over my existing exotic trident and now have to buy another exotic and transmutation crystal to get rid of the pathetic pact skin. If I turn sideways it almost vanishes. That’s something I’d expect in games from years ago not one from 2012-13

Pic 1 – Front view, looks normal.

Pic 2 – Side view, wafer thin stealth mode.

Won’t be going out of my way to kill Zhaitan on my alt’s to get more Pact skins that’s for sure.

I was mapping with my human female warrior doing hearts, skill challenges etc. I can’t remember what triggered the music to start but it probably DE’s I joined on the way in Gendarran Fields and Blazeridge Steppes. Sorry but that’s really all I can tell you from memory.

Audio settings – All volumes far right except music which is halfway. Voip ducking is far left. Audio device is Xonar DS. Sound quality set highest. Music interval set shortest. Mixing buffer size set at lowest latency. GW2 not muted when in background.

1. Enemies fleeing in this game is completely pointless and should either be improved or removed. When you make an enemy that flees hit the health required for them to do so, do they run away, heal, then come back? Do they run away while shouting for help to alert other monsters and heal while you deal with the reinforcements? No, every single one runs 10 feet then runs straight back to die like a good little AI with the exact same health they had when they ran. I don’t even bother chasing them down anymore because I know they’ll come straight back to me anyway.

2. This annoyed me at character creation when I used my makeover kit I got from the achievement chest. There is no indication of how tall your character is in relation to the game world. All you have is a plain background and a slider. I mean the slider bar all the way to the bottom could have you the size of a mouse but you wouldn’t know till you started. The slider all the way down could even have you as tall as a Norn and all the way up as tall as a giant but you wouldn’t know till you started because there is nothing to compare with. I think you should add something else other than a plain background at that point so people can tell how tall their characters will be.

Well the final cutscene might as well have been Scarlet singing Humpty Dumpty for me. I missed the earlier LS so most of what Scarlet was referring to meant nothing to me (some guy and his pants, eh what?). Sure I could read up about it on websites but isn’t it the job of the game to provide this information to me? If I bought a book and chapters 1-10 were missing I’d either bin it (delete if an ebook), get a refund or exchange it.

8.5, the back item suits your toon and colours. When I got the desert rose it looked like I had a second head growing out of my back

Here’s my Sylvari Necro in a happy mood

I added 8 gold sellers to my block list that whispered me over the weekend. Prior to this my block list was empty.

I have re-written the the auto-targeting description to more accurately describe it’s effect. You’re welcome ANet.

“If you use a skill with nothing targeted, the game will automatically select an obstructed or out of range target for you.”

I wish I was joking but 90% of the time, that’s what it does.

Also clicking the monsters isn’t any easier because more often than not there will be players, minions or pets in the way. Why no option to disable clicking these? I’m not a Monk so why would I want to click players or there pets etc. in PvE? Then after not being able to click the monster because friendlies are in the way, resorting to using auto-target which then selects anything but the monster in front of you is infuriating. All the while you are getting battered by monsters without this problem.

Happens to me too and I have to re-log to stop it, I created a thread in audio about it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/audio/Battle-Music-Doesn-t-Stop/first#post3209424

I won’t use black or abyss dyes on any of my characters let alone warriors or guardians. All black to me is just plain old boring and way overused, plus a lot of the armours have details that get lost when it’s too dark.