Guild Wars 2

Maybe the Asura are sick of all the Bookah’s and want them out of Rata Sum and in LA. Ever think of that? :P

cesmode.4257:

You guys make good points…LA has it all. But again I ask the question, why develop the other cities at all? Why develop them at all when you will have a different city with everything the player needs plus more, and then over the course of the year make this city the pinnacle of content.

The only reason I can see that arenanet developed other cities is to give low level players a place to go. Thats about it.

Well that’s the original reason they exist of course as a starting place for new players. But they had also intended for mini games to be spread around throughout all the different cities. They had also intended for some sort of a player house or some such bonuses with our “home instances” that never happened either. However you can see they are FINALLY starting to do that now what with the new crystal node there.

Have patience I’m sure in time you will have the answers you seek, they have just got a little……….. uhhh “sidetracked” is all lol. :P

LA is the HUB of the world is pretty much the answer….

You leave WVW where are you sent to?
You leave sPvP where are you sent to?
Where do you start Fractals and end up afterwards?
What city is the most centre based of the world map?

You want a free teleport to a town what do you do? You go to sPvP to get a free teleport to a bank/shops etc which happens to be in LA.

Perhaps if they allowed all of us a free teleport at anytime to OUR personal starting towns that could be 1 small step into people going back to other cities. I know as a human Main I would use Divinty Reach over LA anytime for banking etc if I had a free teleport there. :P

Sounds like the game did not realize you were facing the enemy. As an engi I have this problem often when enemies run right in front of me to just beyond my line of sight or behind me. It’s annoying but it happens….

Another thing I find annoying is there is an option for us in settings to turn on/off running through mobs yet none to stop them running through us – which is what causes this issue for me most of the time.

I think 99% of the problem is the fact that the “healing” stat is just sooo crap…really it is.

TBH warriors are probably the best healers in the game because if they use shouts to heal they pretty much can’t fail whereas those of us who use fields etc can easily fail and the aoes are always nuked by boss aoe’s so no one wants to use those aoe heal fields. That and they also get bonus’s themselves on top of those heal/shouts.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Stooperdale.3560:

The most annoying game mechanic for me is revive, talk, loot, grab bundles, and utilize objects all activated through the same keypress/click with a target decided by the game. The player knows what they want to do. The game doesn’t let them do it for internal game reasons and offers one other thing to do instead. This is clearly a sign of a failing game mechanic. Even if you’re offered a chance to revive, say, you can’t tell who you are reviving.

I think we’ve all had our moments of trying to pick up a crystal at the Jade Maw, only to have a downed team mate resting on top of that crystal. And the moment you hit that use button, it starts reviving… and then the Jade Maw gets you.

Yeah or you pick up loot instead of crystal – sooooooo annoying…like loot is more important than my life – yeah right!

Well, tbh I have all 8 classes and I always clear every map on my characters before even touching the personal storyline so you def DON’T have to touch that to level up. If you don’t like exploring/clearing maps I don’t know what to suggest to lvl up besides camping events or trying some WvW.

Apart from that I dunno have you tried Engineer? A lot of people say they are the most “fun” class I guess because they have a good variety in kits (weapons) so if you ever get bored of having few weapon choices they have a bit more choice than most.

Sharingandid.1540:

They said that they don’t plan to ever do an expansion.

Somehow I have a feeling this is a down right lie or massively uninformed information….

Makai.3429:

Another mechanic I have trouble coping with is the complete nullification of damage types. Shouldn’t my vapor blade deal more damage to lava elementals? Shouldn’t an oakheart take massive damage from a flamethrower? And why wouldn’t an earth elemental have better shielding against a sword than a hammer? Anet messed up royally in GW1 by having “typeless” damage dominate the game for a vast majority of its life and it seems they just threw the baby out with the bathwater.

Yes……they made it too simple throwing out “magic damage”, “physical damage” etc. Instead they should have brought in Blunt, piercing, slashing, certain types of magic damage etc to help with the creation of different builds/class variety and perhaps even give some classes/builds more of a “role” that some people seem to say does not exist.

Then again having said all that it may have been too confusing for the “Xbox generation” they seem to maybe targeting as the core gamer here. :P

Yamiga.7863:

Paulytnz.7619:

For useless spam clicking……

Thirst Slayer

For some reason clicking these other parts of the game however that achievement just does not seem to work, I wonder why…. :P

Absolutionis.9427:

New Achievement: Go an entire Living Story update without whining on the forums.

What you may call “whining” others might call “observations”, “annoying bits” or "feedback"of the game. Somewhere along the line you may be right and everyone else just forgets that the game is perfect I guess.

Conncept.7638:

Dodge

I don’t mind that the game is so dependent on it, I mind that they implemented it in the most boring way possible. There really should have been a defensive skill slot with it’s own set of skills, similar to how the heal slot works.

I agree and have even thought about posting this as a suggestion before but meh why bother right?

There should be another slot next to healing or above it for defensive skills such as block/remove conditions, remove this or that, detect/disarm traps etc etc. Imagine the possibilities in the game with such features….

Wukunlin.8461:

how my 5yo $10 dollar mouse is still fully functional after playing this game for almost a year is totally beyond me.

Heh I still use the original keyboard I got with my very first computer 10+ years ago simply because it has features on it (all the music options you get with standard players like mute, next song etc) that I can’t seem to find on newer keyboards. Funny thing is I have had 3-4 new comps since then too lol.

For useless spam clicking……

Some examples:

1 – Creating 100+ representation Buttons
2 – Buying “bulk” items one at a time, etc….

Oh I am sure you guys can come up with many more examples so come on – let’s make this happen!

Btw this is not a suggestion it’s a discussion about the useless spammy pointless clicking in this game at times…

Egon Vidar.9125:

Sprint game is just unplayable most of the time due to random bouts of latency. I also have periods where I just lag out for up to five seconds at a time, always when I’m doing something “important,” and I generally come out of it downed. It never just happens when I’m standing around crafting or smashing trash mobs while walking somewhere.

Must be their most crappiest servers set aside for this game now. I had little problems with it the first time it came out but now it’s just horrid.

I just had it terrible in that sprint game…..and yes I am in the Australasia area…..

I would just like to say that if you intend to keep adding mini games especially the competitive types it would be NICE if you added a few more servers in other parts of the worlds to help keep it fair for everyone.

For example those of us in Australasia can really suffer. I just tried to play that race thing again and wow just wow couldn’t even make a basic skill 3 jump due to the server/client throwing me in the water due to them not synching……

Really, really sucks…. I stopped and waited literally 10 seconds hoping the server and my client would have a ton of time to synch, still no go.

What’s the rush to 80 if there’s no real difference in the content you can do anyway once you get there?

Just play the game and have FUN while you are playing it…..

I have 6 lvl 80s so far and 2 more to go and I never rushed their lvls. I just clear every map and before you know it they are there very easily and I am ENJOYING the content getting there. I don’t understand the people who have to rush, rush, rush…

If you had a ranger at lvl 70 something and then got bored and deleted I say again what difference will it make if he was 80? None…. maybe you should just have taken a break from playing him and worked on another class instead of a complete start over. You do have 5 char slots you know not just 1. It sounds to me more like general attention disorder or a distraction/boredom thing more than blaming any certain class lol…

Knockbacks/knockdowns ALSO blocking you from using your skill for a certain amount of time. I don’t mind the interrupts but wth with the waiting to use the skill again? Get a few mobs/wvw noobs spam knocking you down and you have a hard time healing, etc…….

When I first learned that heavy classes get more defence than medium and light I thought to myself “surely this will be balanced out by medium and light having more dodges or their dodges regenerating faster than heavy’s”.

Yet no such thing, I really scratch my head why heavies get so much more armour when they can also range, heal etc…….makes no sense to me.

Perhaps light classes should get 4 dodges and medium 3 or some such system to balance all this out?

Azraeel.1238:

lol, I love how all those that are defending this, already played GW1, and benefited from the extra AP.

Again, you didn’t achieve any of the given “500 AP” in GUILD WARS 2. If they wanted to reward you more than just titles and skins, they should have came up with something other than AP.

Oh and I bet many, who never played GW1, paid more real life money in GW2 than those who did.

Oh I wouldn’t be so sure about that. There were not only expansions but also things like here such as extra char slots, bank space, vanity items as well as other stuff not here yet such as extra missions (quests) etc.

Either or that really does not bring anything to this discussion.

Seems to be a monkey type man thing in shiny armour…..O.M.G don’t say we will soon be able to play as MONKEY MEN! O.O

Yay I grew up watching some oooooooooooooold show called monkey magic or something – good times!

When I first saw the title of this thread I thought it meant to do with how many minis they are releasing all the time. Really if you look at the bottom of the page in the bank tab there has been a lot added and it’s not even been a year yet…..

Discuss that perhaps? :P

I went back about 3 weeks after GW2 released as I was due for more birthday gifts and I tried to jump……big mistake. I had to quickly log out, it just didn’t feel right somehow…

Well you do realize they can stack in the bank right? I mean you don’t HAVE to use everything you get, or not right away atleast anyways….

Heck I have for example 250 orange tabby cats etc for a laugh lol – THEY STACK. :P

3 alts can have 1 each, simple really….

Where did I say it was a fact? :S

Only problem I have is that they are all pretty much ugly imo…..but thats no real issue for you guys. :P

Esplen.3940:

It’s not that people doing that is something bad. It’s people doing that and then complaining that there’s all this other stuff they HAVE to do.

True that I guess, I mean there are still those things called “chat rooms” out there if they just want to sit around and talk about nothing all day long lol….

Ryuujin.8236:

The copious volumes of badges of honour and other hard to obtain legend-components make me wonder if the 5,000 or 7,500 reward isn’t going to turn out to be a precursor of your choice or something.

It WOULD be the most logical way to give players a precursor after a long list of accomplishments…

I have a feeling if this was a possibility it would probably be at the 20, 50 or even 100k mark if anywhere…..

I got 300 badges alone today from this 1 chest. 200 from the chest on the side of the screen and another 150 from the bonus chest in our inventory.

I guess they just want us buying more siege or somethung huh? I see no big issues with this, just more free stuff – never complain at free stoof pl0x! Actually it’s not free since we kinda worked for it but you know what I mean. :P

Absolutionis.9427:

You cannot “pick” a weapon skin once per day. You pick a skin now and can obtain unlimited quantities that chosen skin at a rate of once per day.

I never said you could, try reading AND comprehending next time huh?

Oh nm OP did, my bad, errr I mean his bad lol – carry on…

You can choose to open the chest at a later date if I remember correctly. Having said that once you pick the weapon it is unlocked forever, meaning you can get unlimited amounts of it for ALL your alts. If you have the ticket method instead you would only EVER get 1 of said weapon – not good.

I wish you had set your post out as a list of things so it would be easier for me to reply to each point. Lol oh well I’ll try and cover all your concerns here….

1 – Try and open the page up and open the “watching” page (has an eye icon). If there are any there selected click the icon to REMOVE it from the list and it should remove from the corner of your screen. Do this to remove all and you should have a clear screen.

2 – Get a bigger screen, set the UI to the biggest you can (in settings) just before opening the TP or better yet leave it at that size.

3 – I main an engi myself and this is one of the reasons I don’t use turrets. Besides that turrets just suck all around in most cases especially since you want to always be on the move anyways. Unless you are farming a very small area why even bother with turrets?

4 – The game is designed in this way on purpose with regards to shooting/attacking enemies who can’t reach you. It’s to stop exploiting such as bots etc being able to kill things without risk. Only way you can play “smart” like this is in WVW and really only on other players or mobs under attack from your allies.

TP – no idea, people just don’t pay atention I guess or are too lazy to go to a vendor to sell their stuff…

Hope that answers some of your probs lol…

Wolfheart.1938:

I think Zenith just wanted an excuse to open a thread about zenith weapons :P

O.O

BINGO!

Esplen.3940:

I just wonder how they’ll make the Home instance more open. With items like Quartz, you could invite your friends who haven’t yet harvested their daily Quartz, which would help players who miss this meta-event, however without something like that, it just means that people now go to their home instance once a day (or complain on the forums that they HAVE TO go to their home instance when they want to be doing something else, instead, like sitting in Lion’s Arch… at the bank… looking at their inventory).

In another game I used to play this was something you did a lot – looking your bank over as it was a good pointer as to where to go to gather what next or to just see what you accomplished that day etc. Also it could be a good morale booster from time to time just to see all your wealth and know you worked hard for it.

To this day I do the EXACT same thing even in GW2 and will ALWAYS bank anything I am carrying and give my bank a good look over before logging out right there. lol just a habbit I can’t break…..

locoman.1974:

I’m going to make a bossbattle playlist with nothing but this on it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg

Lol so many good memories from this song, might have to try and find it myself. :P

I would like to add that to me it looks like they REALLY want to make a start on some of these things they said they wanted in the game at launch or sooner rather than later. I say this because they are hiring more people to work on the soon to be faster updates (every 2 weeks instead of monthly).

So yeah I think they want to start planning/testing these things while all these new teams/employees work on the other stuff which would have been taking the real pros away from this stuff. Just my 2 gold. :P

You can only open each one (well get the items from them) once each day. Which means you will have to open all 10 on atleast 3 different maps to complete the achievement in one day.

Hope that helps.

I looked the stats over and they don’t impress me even as a survival build Engi main.

Of course we are all just talking theory here but has anyone actually compared any 2 of these sets out in the field? That is celestial vs say berserker for damage or celestial vs knights for survival etc. Pick a vet any vet and time which kills the fastest, see which takes the most damage or has the most hp left over at the end of the fight – not hard to do really. Just use the same char/build of course and just switch the armour.

Someone do that then come back here and put the results on the table and we can be done with all the theories. :P

Wait a min it’s 5 days to make 1 piece so we will have to wait some time to even do that by which everyone would have forgotton this post and be trolling whatever other post is the highlight of the day, oh well…. :P

It does exist. Play an Engineer and use rifle skill no. 5 “Jump Shot” – bam your prayers are answered.

Oops sorry site lagged and double posted.

laokoko.7403:

so how many bank tab do you think should anet give us?

Unlimited stacking amounts in banks ONLY would be a good start. By that I mean if I want to hold 1 million iron ores all in 1 stack I should be able to!

That simple act right there could buy us another good 6 months to a year of dealing with this problem.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Paulytnz.7619:

I think part of the reason they added the leaderboards was to try and stimulate usually competitive people into trying out more things in game that usually they didn’t bother with. Such as people who usually gave up after first failing a dungeon or jump puzzle.

I thought perhaps now these people who are usually competitive might retry and try other things in game to try and get them out there and doing them. So I never thought of the leaderboards as a bad thing with that regard.

But now we have these reward chests I guess that could fill that role. Problem is they have already created a few “I’m the top of the list elite”s now it might be tough to just simply remove.

hmmm. i think you are right.

what about drastically increasing the achievement points for achievements that are much harder and time consuming to achieve?

I was thinking about this recently myself but not bothered to make a post suggesting it. Certainly some jump puzzles are harder than others for example yet they all reward 10 points.

But then again I guess it’s the same as DE’s. All are not equal yet most pay the same reward……

Remember those events you had to solo that take an actual 5-10 mins (that actually state x amount of time remains) and yet you could do another 5 in that same time and get 5x the same reward?

This game is still so new there is a LOT of balancing (by that I mean appropriate rewards for the time/effort put in) that needs to be done, they will get there one day I’m sure.

I had a laugh when I first figured out what “kitten” meant myself. Considering 1 of the most used offensive words is kind of cat related.

Anet are smart, Anet are tricky, Anet are tricky and smart – all hail the great Gods anet!

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Paulytnz.7619:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

it is fair. those hall of monument achievements takes a lot of time to achieve.

Yes but when we were doing them we were not doing them for AP’s now were we, in fact I bet 99% of us didn’t even know they would impact on AP’s or that AP’s even existed in GW2.

It was the shinies (skins) that most of us were after and titles.

yup! the skins!
i stopped at 31/50 though.

must find time to grind the remaining 19 points.
hnngggghhhh

I hear you I’m at 32/50 lol

I think part of the reason they added the leaderboards was to try and stimulate usually competitive people into trying out more things in game that usually they didn’t bother with. Such as people who usually gave up after first failing a dungeon or jump puzzle.

I thought perhaps now these people who are usually competitive might retry and try other things in game to try and get them out there and doing them. So I never thought of the leaderboards as a bad thing with that regard.

But now we have these reward chests I guess that could fill that role. Problem is they have already created a few “I’m the top of the list elite”s now it might be tough to just simply remove.

Conncept.7638:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Paulytnz.7619:

No keep them, just remove any AP’s from GW1 out of them.

Let us keep our AP’s for the rewards sure no problem Anet can do that AND deduct them off the leaderboards. Not hard to do I should imagine.

For the record I have 300 points from GW1 and really don’t care about the leaderboards but it’s obvious many players who played GW2 ONLY do care.

hmmm. nah. i prefer to keep my extra achievement points from guild wars 1.

the way i see it, the bulk of the complaints comes from people whining about unable to “compete” in the achievement points leader board.

remove the achievement points leader board.

problem solved.

I’m sure the tens of players who actually care about the leaderboard are outraged.

If you ask me there must have been a reason Anet added these leaderboards in the first place. They either thought there was a big enough playerbase who cares about it or wanted to try and create such a playerbase.

In either case I really doubt they would remove such a thing now or not respond to such issues when clearly there is going to be such a moan about it on the forums.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Paulytnz.7619:

No keep them, just remove any AP’s from GW1 out of them.

Let us keep our AP’s for the rewards sure no problem Anet can do that AND deduct them off the leaderboards. Not hard to do I should imagine.

For the record I have 300 points from GW1 and really don’t care about the leaderboards but it’s obvious many players who played GW2 ONLY do care.

hmmm. nah. i prefer to keep my extra achievement points from guild wars 1.

the way i see it, the bulk of the complaints comes from people whining about unable to “compete” in the achievement points leader board.

remove the achievement points leader board.

problem solved.

But you are asking for the removal of the leaderboards entirely which means you don’t care about them. My suggestion is that they ONLY remove our extra AP’s from GW from the LEADERBOARDS and NOT our in game rewards.

So really it should not bother you. Why remove something from the game that you don’t care about which clearly others do? That’s like saying “I don’t care for Jumping puzzles let’s remove them”.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

it is fair. those hall of monument achievements takes a lot of time to achieve.

Yes but when we were doing them we were not doing them for AP’s now were we, in fact I bet 99.99% of us didn’t even know they would impact on AP’s or that AP’s even existed in GW2.

It was the shinies (skins) that most of us were after and titles.