Guild Wars 2

My thoughts:

1 – Adding more rewards for Champion (and Legendary?) mob kills is good. Taking direct gold drop away to have it replaced with items to sell makes little sense.

2 – I didn’t see an explanation on how one qualifies for the new Champion kill chests. Daily? Damage done? What? Putting unique skins in said rewards promotes farming them, thus there will be gating.

3 – Changing Legendary weapon looks should be optional. Let examples like The Predator stand for how people can debate which version is better. As someone working on their fourth Legendary weapon, I’d like some say in which (if any) get changed.

4 – If they keep the same stats as Ascended, Legendary trinkets are useless. Or are they going to have effects too? I’ll assume the armor will have effects, how many sparkles can we cram on one character?

5 – Account bound crafting materials are a bad idea. We already have some and half the time I see “if I could give it to you, I would”.

6 – I am okay with no more Magic Find items, I found it useless anyway. Although I can see those that like it already scheming to get the new items to boost the account stat.

7 – I’m okay with the crafting to 500 and time gating the Ascended crafting. All Ascended gear so far seems geared at making one play more often, not necessarily longer. And the stat increase is minor enough, per piece, for me to not feel pushed to grind it out asap.

8 – SPvP needs more game modes, not more rewards. Other than finally adding Legendary skins, I see no reason to add more rewards. SPvP has no need for gold, etc so keep it separate.

9 – WvW needs more, not even, rewards compared to open world PvE. There needs to be more incentive to get people actually participating, so keep the boosted rewards to Towers, Keeps and the Castle – not Camps and random mobs.

10 – Why no mention of minis? Utilities like looting or things like Polymock are much needed. Some fluff needs use too.

StinVec.3621:

Pennry.9215:

Paradox.5498:

StinVec.3621:

There is literally nothing in, around, or about LA that is worth my actually going to it or through it.

Mystic toilet!

Mists.

EDIT: A port to The Mists is way quicker than loading Lion’s Arch. It’s free and I can go right back to where I was. Lion’s Arch has been broken since the first event they put there.

Once in The Mists, how are you able to return to where you were before going to The Mists?

Click the PvP icon (the two crossed swords) in your menu bar and choose “Go to the Heart of the Mists”. To leave the Heart of the Mists again, click the same button that now says “Leave the Mists”.

Note that the NPC isn’t there to sell Forge materials, so things like Clovers and material promotion aren’t possible (could run through WvW, but that’s just as bad as loading LA). But your standard four items for chance at whatever is easy enough.

Paradox.5498:

StinVec.3621:

There is literally nothing in, around, or about LA that is worth my actually going to it or through it.

Mystic toilet!

Mists.

EDIT: A port to The Mists is way quicker than loading Lion’s Arch. It’s free and I can go right back to where I was. Lion’s Arch has been broken since the first event they put there.

“You may even earn a rare chance at an Aetherized weapon.”

“may” = RNG; “earn” = work; “chance” = RNG

So putting in the effort for RNG at RNG….

The problem I have with Trahearne was that he spent most of the time whining. “This won’t end well” seemed to be all he ever said. He moans when things don’t go exactly as he wants. This baffles me as to why every other NPC wanted him to be in charge. Why would one follow a whining, pessimistic brat? Then add in the fact that he comes out of nowhere, just some NPC telling you they know him.

Kiel follows the standard military leader role. She says go do and people go do, then she takes credit because it was her idea. She progresses with the mindset that whatever she’s having done will work and when things don’t work, she says “kitten ” and moves on (there is no “woe is me” with the player dialog trying to encourage, just player dialog saying “what’s next?”).

With Trahearne it feels like nothing would have got done if he was left without the player. With Kiel it feels like things would still get done, if not by the player, by someone else. Trahearne seems like my child, who I coddle and push to get them to learn and succeed, then I give credit with “no it was all you” so they feel better about their self. Kiel seems like my boss, who I volunteer to report to and get orders from, then gets credit because I’m helping her under her direction, not mine.

Why put them all over the internet, when we know they have a system for putting timers in the game? They really should just use the Daily/Monthly system of a timer on the achievements themselves.

The problem with them being given at all is that they were an exclusive from WvW. You don’t get very many achievements in WvW (if any due to extreme numbers needed). So one can basically do everything else and be handed the Badges, only using WvW for map completion.

If achievement rewards were in the game from day one, there would still be a problem with the rewards being at only 500 achievement point increments. A mere 2000 Achievement Points nets you more than enough Badges for a Legendary.

PvP Locker only holds one of each armor/weapon and stacks of their salvaged components.

I got duplicates of a couple armor pieces and the Forge did accept them. I figured I’d hold out for more duplicates rather than just salvage on the chance I’d get something new (just like PvE Forging where four armor pieces gives random piece back). Is this not possible with four pieces?

They could just as easily make unlimited tools without the effects. You can’t pull the “limited time” card, as the effects items remain limited. The “investment/whatever” bit is solved by keeping the same price point, though slightly cheaper would make sense (the car with all the options is more than the same model without them). And the bit about deciding what to spend one’s budget on is just silly; they chose that the flashy tool was more important to have than the other options, then see point on price point as the amount required to spend remains (near) equal.

I’m severally disabled and thus cannot work, therefore I do not get paid for a job done. If you can’t do the job (JP), then you don’t get paid (Achievement). And don’t throw out the Achievement Reward system as an argument. There are two types of hindered people: those that learn to adapt and accept their situation (in this case knowing it’ll take longer to get the Achievement Rewards), and those that whine about “fairness” and “equality”.

Skipping pages of “uh huh” and “uh huh” to point out that there are no PvP rewards for this activity. It’s more of a joshing competitive Jumping Puzzle than it is PvP.

If they wanted “true competition”, then they would have added ranking, mixing of matches to keep it competitive, and they wouldn’t allow you to join a race with less time left than it’s possible to finish.

I’ve seen one from a random mob and I got three from some 20 supply chests. I have yet to see one from the open-word baskets. That got me thirteen scraps.

So I’ll second the motion for help getting these, maybe even a boost to the drop rate. 250 for a helm with three versions for each armor weight, I’m thinking I’ll be lucky to get one.

Kairnabel.1542:

I hate temporary content, and with these living stories adding cool and exciting mini games to play and explore just kills the purpose of taking your time to do it. I feel like I need to rush through to get all these achievements done and not enjoy Dragon Ball. Why?

I’m tired of people saying they feel rushed to complete mindless “achievements” rather than enjoy the game. People need to rethink what the F they are doing.

I am, however, all for keeping these group instances. Tweak them a bit to fit the existing standard and put them in the Fractals rotation. We already travel time and space in Fractals, so it’s not far fetched to relive these instances.

Mini games? I’ll never understand the desire to cram a bunch of other games into an existing game. However, if it’s what you enjoy, than go enjoy it. Looking at past achievements, they all seem to just come naturally with playing the mini game they’re for.

Xenlai.8694:

Verdelet Arconia.6987:

Its easy to see that alot of the complaints here are mostly from kids whom has never step into the working world .

They think that when they finally get a job,they will be the director or the CEO of the company immediately.

The concept of seniority and reward over time is hard to grasp for them. Thus the concept of having high achivement points from starting the game early and rewards unlocked from having high achievementpoints is hard to grasp for them.

They expect to reap the same rewards as others even if they did not invested the time and effort.

And in the real world the government comes and takes your hard earn money from your bank. Thank god this is a game or else anet might take our moneys from our banks!!
Anyway, I have yet to see a post which even hints of what you say. No one asks for free AP. This is clearly a balance issue.

First, the government doesn’t come and take your hard earned money away from your bank. They ask for payment before your bank gets it. Only if you fail to pay, do you risk your bank assets being seized. To relate to the game: only if you fail to play, do you risk your assets being less. Oh, woe indeed.

Second, asking for achievement points to be taken away is more like the company you work for adding raise bonuses for years worked, then the new hire going “Hey, I just started, why does the ten-year vet make more? You should make it so we’re even.” Play more, get more.

Third, the amount of stuff I have has no effect on anyone else in game. So balance what, exactly? The only thing I see any issue with is the “WvW Rewards”, depending on the other costs (Badges and Blueprints), it could be construed as an unfair advantage. I’ll ignore the fact that the only people likely to chose this reward compared to the others would be the “hardcore” WvWers, and even they’ll be using their blueprint to WvW. I do see the Currencies and Account Reward possibly posing a problem for the economy. But all these aren’t balances to the achievement points earned, they’re balance changing to to economy as a whole. Anyone that plays the time can catch up, it just makes buying things a tad harder until they do. And such should be addressed as feedback on the rewards and not the points.

All-in-all, I’d say looking at https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/new-account-achievement-rewards-incoming/ makes me think that most of the “unlocks” will be limited purchases and not unlimited. I’d say you’d only be able to unlock each Account Bonus once and only the boosters repeatedly with your Achievement points acting as a limited currency. Therefore, without Daily/Monthly credit, one will find more pressure to grind out the more insane achievements (Kill Giants, WvW, etc). Then we’ll have even more complaints about the game becoming more of a grind and less of “play how you want”.

Again, I say “no” because capes are lame. I’d like a cloak though, that’s more fitting the game’s style.

“From now on, you’ll be able to unlock rewards like exclusive new armor skins, weapon skins, and permanent account bonuses as you earn achievement points on your account. You’ll also earn laurels, gems, gold, powerful items, and PvP and WvW rewards as your achievement score grows.”

That reads “unlock system” to me.

Two weeks does seem rushed. A month seemed like forever, and I liked it. At a month I could do other things still and not feel pressured into a set. I wouldn’t even mind a break every so often.

I think if they spread the releases out more, they might be able to pull better content.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

FuriousPop.2789:

This is where a years worth of dailies/monthly need to be made available in order to give the opportunity for new starters to catch up.

None of the other currencies are capped in order to give new players “a chance to catch up”: not gold, not dungeon tokens, skill points, karma, laurels or whatever… ?!

Why should AP suddenly be treated differently from all the other currencies?

“Because new players need to be able to catch up” is not a valid argument, because no one has a problem with any of the other currencies not doing that.

Any more arguments?

Yea, I don’t understand wanting to cap them for this new currency system. I do understand for the Leaderboards, but that’s old news.

I really see the “cap” coming from how much (little?) one can unlock using Achievement Points. Anyone can put in the time to get all unlocked. People that have played since day one already have put in their time, they deserve the head start.

Such player inept strikes me.

Skritt, only to see stats drop when there are fewer around.

Owain – “I-I don’t know what you mean. I’m surrounded by my friends here…”

maddoctor.2738:

The mini-pet Arena is in Rata Sum, not LA, the Asura Gate “leading” there is under construction and has been under construction since release. With some clever jumping (and a Rez Orb) you can reach the actual Arena.

When they start dealing with more mini-games, like for example finish Bar Brawl, which already has achievements but no activity, we might see the mini pet arena as well.

South-east outside the fort, there is (was?) a clear circle with “pets” in it and the NPCs near talk of fighting them.

The main difference to this “overlay” and others is that it’s not a true overlay. It’s more an “always on top” app. True overlays inject their code into the game so that it’s actually being rendered with it. This allows true overlays to run in true fullscreen, while this one has to be in windowed mode. It is that injection that can be (mis)construed as a bot/hack and result in ban.

As far as people complaining about it covering the screen: Take a min and configure it; you can scale the whole window, change font and size, edit transparencies, change colors, etc.

I didn’t say that the dragons as they are are the best story. I’m asking for more on them, make them better. I’m sick of X hating Y so X hurts Z and blames Y for it. I’d like more depth. I was just really hoping for an event called “Dragon Bash” to have more than just yet another sub-faction.

Why more terrorists? It’s got old with Southsun. I really expected some Dragon minions to be sent. I mean we are having fun at it’s expense, let it get mad and blow kitten up.

(Yes, I know the dragons are essentially terrorists themselves, but they are the story here and whet this “Bash” is about.)

Gabby.3205:

Maybe it is because they don’t want people to feel forced to pvp. I surely hope they are bugged, though.

So it is the two Dragon Ball achievements that don’t count? Trying to pick what to ignore.

Thank you, but I can’t seem to reveal it.

There’s a new PoI. I figured it was the mysterious “rock formation” in Gendarran Fields, but that region doesn’t show a new (missing) PoI. Is this yet another thing not quite really in game yet? Or has anyone found it?

I have yet to see the queen spawn and that “defend” event not happen. It’s either “defend” then queen or (worse) queen then “defend”.

The defense events happen way too soon after capturing. If the queen event is up, none of the points should be attacked.

I don’t know if it’s bad scaling or what, but there are way too many mobs that attack and if even one gets past, you fail nearly instantly. On top of that, all the mobs for the events are 84. Then the “defend” event’s mobs just stand around with the mobs that spawn with the karka owning it. Other events it’s either new mobs or the ones that took control, not both.

Astral Projections.7320:

Is this possible to do this to get badges? Make a character, explore your own borderland and get 10. Delete and repeat.

Maybe for those who don’t want to fight, can they do this?

Sure, if your server happens to own all the points needed.

I didn’t recycle characters, but I did pay attention to when we owned parts of the maps and made sure all my characters completed the WvW maps. Not only did I get the boost in Badges (once they added that) but they’ve got a large PitA part of map completing out of the way.

Obtena.7952:

Korsbaek.9803:

the 100 badges per 30 min is sustanible in some chases ….

If there is a case needed to get 100 badges in 30 minutes, it’s not sustainable.

But I don’t think 500 badges is out of the question for someone who is completely uninterested in PVP. At least you know how much you have to farm JP’s to get them, unlike T6 mats, clovers or precursor.

Also note that you can start WvW at level 2. The JPs give fewer badges at that level, but you can do them.

What about a simple resummon when when porting? Or giving them a purpose other then just sitting there?

Pukknub.7368:

Afaik, you won’t be able to infuse it if you transmute it.

This is correct. If you transmute something, you are creating a new item and it will not be accepted in any Mystic Forge recipes.

Kalan.9705:

Hotfix engineer turrets please. The traits are all broken as of 30th April and they are even more laughably useless than normal. Don’t forget Supply Drop while you’re at it plz.

Plus if you could actually give the turrets the ability to survive more than 0.2 seconds in typical WvW engagements sometime this year, that would be nice. This month being the minion/pet month it might have been a nice time for example to remember engineers have also have minion problems rather than breaking the turrets still further.

How are they broken? “Laughably useless” is an opinion and you state no backing for said opinion. I’m saying there isn’t something wrong, just that saying “it’s broke” over and over doesn’t help.

Are we sure the mats aren’t spiking due to demand or being manipulated? Garlic used to be like 30 copper or less, barely worth selling.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Pennry.9215:

I don’t like any of the porting. People just run ahead and, bam loading screen and disorientation. We tell them to stay with the group, but some never listen. I don’t mind lock-outs for fight, where you have to all cross the “gate” together. If you’re going port, put an interaction required before the fight starts.

While I found it kind of handy that I could (some of the time anyway) go repair and was warped back without having to run from a waypoint, in principle I agree with you. I would gladly sacrifice the added convenience for clarity and consistency.

Put port on interaction, done. “You all ready? Starting!” port

“Get the flock out of here” was the best and least corny bit out of the whole place.

I don’t like any of the porting. People just run ahead and, bam loading screen and disorientation. We tell them to stay with the group, but some never listen. I don’t mind lock-outs for fight, where you have to all cross the “gate” together. If you’re going port, put an interaction required before the fight starts.

I don’t mind the temp content. I like seeing things progress and evolve. I can only hope that the concepts and mechanics make there way in to updates for the consistent game.

As for ending in a dungeon, it’s better than a massive world event.

They both died just as much as any NPC before. They’d only try to res us if they were right on top of us, then they’d get attacked and either die or run off. Poor Frostbite died the most, if not at every encounter. Braham’s mass revive is a little OP, considering he can cast it dead.

Waaa waaa waaaa! So sorry you have to support the game via Gems purchase (or be cheap and convert gold), just so your character can be as pretty as you want.

No you cannot……..

You have to remember that events scale based on number of people there, not levels or gear present. Level scaling only works so far.

When we’re down-leveled, we’re considered that level in whatever quality gear we have. It also seems to ignore traits. That means Wurm is being stomped by 16s in Exotic gear (impossible to get as a real 16), with extra traits.

This posses a problem on the dev side. Can they see the true levels of people there and what gear they have to compensate? Shall they just assume that they’re all 80s in full Exotics (and Ascended)? Somewhere in between?

But wait, there’s more! Don’t forget server capacity and end-user systems. Claw of Jormag (Jojo!) becomes a lag fest. The boss dies “quicker” because it’s so lagged it doesn’t cycle properly. People can get less credit because they’re so lagged they can’t get damage skills off, or spend time dead due to heals not working.

Should they have foreseen this with their “everyone, everywhere” mindset? Sure. Will it get “fixed”? Possibly, they’ve already stated several changes coming. It just takes time. I’ll give them a little slack for trying this scheme out. Don’t know many games that try to let you replay lower level areas and still hold a challenge and worthwhile reward.

Falassion.8031:

I am waiting to see them, but they seem nice.

https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/e0197Retribution_screen-1.jpg

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/april-30-2013/

They look kinda silly to me.

No capes! We aren’t a bunch of cheesy superheros. I’d much rather see something like full armor covering/replacing cloaks. Much more fitting a guild game.

No, they’re not even close.

Jemmi.6058:

Hi5’s, you pleased Rytlock

Hoped he got paid well, heard it had been a while for the poor guy.

None………….

Paulytnz.7619:

Pennry.9215:

Paulytnz.7619:

Karizee.8076:

I imagine they went with percentile since ranking numbers would change so rapidly on millions of players.

If you are in the top 1000 on your world, your name is highlighted on the page. 25 ranks per page – just count it up

Umm no this is what I’m saying it is not showing the top 1k by world only. It is ONLY showing the top 1k players amongst ALL worlds.

You can filter the worlds.

Funny it’s not working as I am assuming intended (just like this site in general what with this cursor lag thing!). Please do tell how you are getting it to work and show the top 1k people for your world.

First time I filtered I got some top 125. Just did it to recount to be sure and it’s 1k.
EDIT: So definitely not acting right.

Karizee.8076:

Paulytnz.7619:

Karizee.8076:

I imagine they went with percentile since ranking numbers would change so rapidly on millions of players.

If you are in the top 1000 on your world, your name is highlighted on the page. 25 ranks per page – just count it up

Umm no this is what I’m saying it is not showing the top 1k by world only. It is ONLY showing the top 1k players amongst ALL worlds.

Oh, lol – when I said world I was talking about the planet Earth in the grand all encompassing universe like way

There are other planets that play GW2?!