Guild Wars 2

Dondarrion.2748:

Enough with the quaggans already, they’re a bad stain on Tyria and all too cutesy in #gw2 for a proper dark setting to unfold… Just too much…

For that purpose they implemented black quaggan. :P

Plus would you help someone who killed your ancestors for their feathers?

I think they react totally sensible from their perspective.

I think it is not so much a matter of release-time but a matter of communication. I went to bed and didn’t care but I can understand that people are disappointed.

On the german page it says 18th everywhere. So I would expect because it’s written in my language on the page for my country that this also means my timezone and not 18th somewhere in the world.

Usually we get the patch on the date it got announced for.

So when they bring out such huge patches that require alot of preparation why don’t they write that the patch will go live in the night from 18th to 19th then?

I wish they would take that into consideration for the next time.

You found them now? oO Have you never entered the bank in LA?

But yup I hope they get saved. The two are on my list already.

Karka as next playable race :P

I doubt it.^^ I don’t want to jump on the Evon vs Ellen debate, but Evon is talking alot about defenses but he isn’t doing anything – same as Kiel. In fact since the captains council isn’t doing anything, what was the point in taking May Trin out of the way? It couldn’t have been worse with her.

sigh maybe we sould use a more outside view: together with two ladies, a cat with horns, a 3meter guy and an assortement of cute stereotypes you hunt down a mad pineapple who is possesed by the murderous dandelion. This CAN’T end well. xD

PeterThomas.7243

^ This. The destruction of Lion’s Arch is the first time that I wish the players had more control over the direction of the Living Story. So far, the only direct control we have had was when we voted for Ellen or Evon, and that was really an inconsequential choice in a lot of ways.

It really does feel like Arenanet is taking us for a ride, destroying things we love about the game and there’s nothing we can do about it.

Well, I think it wouldn’t be a good idea to give the playerbase THAT much power. I’m not really sure that a great majority of players would want to keep LA. In the end something like giving a direct influence on such important places could split the playerbase. In fact I am not really sure if the decission about what will happen to LA isn’t based on players input over the forums etc.

I just wish IF they decided to destroy LA and turn everything upside down that it would be at least an immersive experience and not feel like something which is already decided and prescribed, because the developers want the city out of the way or destroyed or burnt on significant places for whatever reason. (I would rather like if they kept it, but that’s me.) Edit: But meh… let’s wait whats coming…

Sry, my grammar becomes more and more confusing i think…

I think the main problem with Scarlett is that she has no significant weaknesses. She is mad but that is not a weakness but a strength in the stories context, because it takes away any moral limitations of her doings. She is physically weak but it doesn’t matter because all you see about her are only projections anyway.

Instead she is incredibly intelligent, somehow charming for her allies (otherwise she couldn’t manage to make them serve her) and insanely clever. In addition she has unlimited resources.

The storyplot is also some kind of a game after all but it is a game with unbeatable opponent, because you never get a chance to beat the enemy at his weaknesses while you as a player are clearly limited. I think that makes it so unsatisfiing. It becomes even worse because usually you get some kind of credit for doing something but that get erased the next time not even showing you that you did something wrong but only telling you that you did or well, telling you that Scarlett -of course- was more clever than you.

That beeing said I never minded Scalett beeing so one dimensional but now they are going to destroy my favorite hub and it just feels deliberately. I wish I could be angry at Scarlett but the only way I personally can see her is that she is a poor actor who does what’s written in the storybook while she is lacking a really immersive dimension. Even if we manage to beat her in the end I think it will just feel like “Ok, this time I let you win…”

So from my point of view it would be even better if the players lost that kind of game with Scarlett entirely. It would be quite fatalistic but at least it would be consistent as a game you can’t win.

Btw I can understand that it is pretty difficult to create a storyarc over one year but while I personally enjoyed the internal storyparts of each chapter with Rox and Braham and the other figures quite alot I found the Scarlettstory never really appealing. Maybe it’s just simply to long…

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It is my ultimate favourite game-city and tbh I have my doubts that they can replace/compensate it by whatever that can impress me in the same way.

Lol, of course this has a predetermined end and every real impact is an illusion. What becomes quite annoying for me is: you do something everyone is making quite alot of drama about it, you seem to accomplish something get a reward and in the next chapter they tell you “hey, cool what you did, but it doesn’t matter, that wasn’t what Scarlett was after or she got what she wanted no matter what you did, oh and btw it didn’t hurt her anyways, just…because.”

That is at least how I feel right now about the entire storyplot.

This is not happening once this happens over the whole Story arc.

I haven’t done much RP but if Scarlett was a roleplayer I would say she is horribly powerplaying.

Nearly one and a half year of experience in this Forum taught me that the sight of only a half of a Mount can cause an uproar.

But THIS should help to combine our forces against Scarlett. :P:

http://webfounds.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/foodart-01-horse.jpg

oO, I see mounts. :O Half of the playerbase will argue that you should go to WoW. This wont end well…

I could bring some salad.^^

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Pirlipat.2479:

It’s not that she adjusts her plans according to something we did, that she reacts, she does what she wants to do nevertheless.

Yes, we’re always too late, we haven’t figured out what she plans to do (and only then can we pull ahead). But she does adjust her plans according to something we did. Again, it is clearly told in the current LS. The poison. She made a poison (the toxic alliance), which we got an antidote for. But this antidote doesn’t work for the poison she finally managed to make!

And what was our impact then? Finding a not working antidote? Very important and we accomplished quite alot.

And she’s a psychopath (as far as we can see now). Why would she not do what she wants to do? She doesn’t care for anything but Scarlet (and her final goal, which we don’t know what it is). And as long as she can stay one step ahead of us, she can do whatever she wants…

Erm, sure but she is a figure in a story and I am criticising how this story is going on and how I feel about the impact my own game figure has on this story, and how the figure is presented and I am not discussing about a real person.

That is exactely my point. She acts like a machine and is following her plan and all we can do is running behind her and always find out what she’s on to late. It’s not that she adjusts her plans according to something we did, that she reacts, she does what she wants to do nevertheless. So while Scalett might be an intelligent mastermind we are nothing but her pets which follow her around.

And it doesn’t even fell like we are weakening her because all her forces come up again.

Well the problem with this Living Story is actually, that nothing we did really matters. The Figure Scarlett behaves like a Jack in the Box. You beat it somewhere and it Pops up somewhere again in another Location, saying: “Haha, you can’t win.”.

We defeated the molten alliance but it’s still there, we found out, who was responsable for the chaos on South Sun but the mad Karka are still there. We killed the aetherblades and imprissoned their leader but they are still around, we destroyed the Tower in Kessex Hills, but it didn’t change a bit (ok this time we even got a bit of explanation), we killed the Marionette but it doesn’t help to stop Scarlett a bit as it seems and so on and so on. I do not even feel like it delays something, it just has no impact on whats going on at all.

Sarrs.4831:

Pirlipat.2479:

I haven’t read the entire thread but I just wanted to say that I like this Kasmeer-Majory relationship, because it’s just a normal drama-free relationship of normal people.

>drama free
>‘normal relationship’

god kitten i wish i had a ‘normal relationship’

Normal is probably the wrong word. With “normal” I mean something that doesn’t look like it’s just taken out of a romance or a Hollywood tearjerker.

Bazzoong.7145:

Evon eats babies, it is an established fact…

Lies , why didn’t he eat Taimi then. -.-

[Quote]This is funny, people always complain about the living story cause it is never really doing something, now it finally does something big and people whine.

Be more ironic guys or are you paid by Bethesda for hating?
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Look, I wasn’t asking for Ascended-grind to be implemented, I wasn’t asking for my main characters appearance getting ruined by some weired graphic update and especially I wasn’t asking for their artistic masterpiece to get burned down for the sake of a poorly written mainstory.

For me it feels like I was watching my favorite artist preparing to throw acid on his masterpiece for the sake of public effect. Well, we will see if it pay off.

Alukah.2063:

@Teofa Tsavo There’s no fragmentation, everything will be moved to the Vigil Keep.

That’s exactely one of the things I don’t like. The Vigil Keep belongs to the Vigil. Everyone who’s not part of the Vigil is nothing more but a guest. Divinities Reach is the humans capital, so everyone not beening a human is only a guest there.

Lions Arch was everyones City.

Paulytnz.7619:

Pirlipat.2479:

Why don’t they blow up Divinities Reach, if they want to destroy something?

Because Logan is just too awesome (prepares tin foiled hat for all the flaming to come).

They could give you an opportunity to save him and become his White Knight.

Why don’t they blow up Divinities Reach, if they want to destroy something?

This.is.horrible. Lions Arch has been my ultimate favourite game city EVER.

And even if it get’s rebuild I really fear for the worst about what it will become. Some cheesy hearts glowing everywhere, fake Alice in Wonderland Thing with tiny-Tims erm Taimies everywhere? Bah disgusting….

I haven’t read the entire thread but I just wanted to say that I like this Kasmeer-Majory relationship, because it’s just a normal drama-free relationship of normal people.

The relationship between Faolain and Caithe is way to much drama for my taste. In fact for me it never felt like Faolin was presented as a real Person. She was rather acting like an evil principle, like a she-demon, like an excuse why the “good” Caithe should be threatened to fall into the nightmare. The only touching Moment was, when Faolain set Caithe free from the poison that her love had caused.

And the relationship between Logan and Jenna is to full of “oh I’m only a low soldier and you are the queen” stuff.

Duels? Yes, please.

In general I don’t mind that you need to play WvW to get a legendary. A legendary is a Legendary weapon which should show that the player has done a widespread variety of things in this game. If WvW should be taken out why not dungeons too, why need 100% world exploration? You could as well say, “meh I don’t like it, take it out”.

But what I don’t understand is:
The whole thing goes back and forth. At the beginning badges were awarded only for playing WvW, if I remember right. Then everyone gets them out of the achievement boxes, now you need a rank to buy the gift of battle. What’s the sense behind this?

Sorry to crash the appreciation party but I find them pretty tacky. I loved the toxic weapons but those heart thingies are… meh not my thing I guess…

Dawdler.8521:

Fun fact: Anet has already put the foot down on the official forum language. Its English. Says so in Code Of Conduct.

Fun fact: The Code of Conduct for the german GW2 Forum says:

•Die offizielle Sprache dieses Forums ist Deutsch. Bitte postet und antwortet nur in dieser Sprache.

(Official language of the forum is german. Please only post and answer in this language)

So english is only official for the english Forum.
And since there are several language servers I wouldn’t be astonished to hear/see other languages as well.^^

That beeing said a language is a tool for communicating. So try to communicate, translate if you can, instead of insisting in one language or even getting angry at people who use another one.

Lishtenbird.2814:

Seras.5702:

Odd that she’d say “one of those slow sylvari” when she knows that Scarlet is such a genius.

And this as well. Such “tongue slips” make me think that Scarlet has been a hologram all way long, and some cute little asura genius had been pulling strings right from the start. It makes far more sense for an asura to be an extremely gifted engineer and not a max-25-year-old sylvari girl ^^

As someone playing an Asura with the Infinity Ball story I found a few even more disturbing elements.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Split_Second (contains Spoilers)

Steam creatures?, Battle for Divinties Reach?,

Is she me? oO Ok, Ill stop here spreading weird ideas.

Well I played Runes of Magic and most of your stats depended on the use of cashshop-items.

Edit: I’m not saying that GW2 is that way, I’m just saying that the argument that you can buy cash-shop currency with gold or whatever applys for many games (RoM is by far not the only one) which require cash-shop purchases to stay competitive in end-game and pvp. (RoM had a gift function, but the principle was similar: pay gold to someone and get the cashshop-item from him)

hellsmachine.4085:

Gems can be purchased with gold, so I don’t see this as pay to win.

In most real pay to win games cash-shop currency can be bought with ingame currency too.

So this argument doesn’t work for me.

Hmmm, I have not such a huge problem with the mining pick itself but somehow I got the impression that they are testing the waters. How far can we go. For me it’s a similar thing like those mining nodes in the home instance. At the moment those are only tiny advantages but my concern is that it becomes more and more.

Sry for bad grammar, someone resetted my grammar skill(

It’s very unlikely, but I would like it if she was the criminal mastermind behind that mad plant Scarlet. Isn’t she from synergetics? Maybe she manipulated this machine which drove Scarlet crazy.

I like this idea, I thought about something similar, but I think it would be better to have such areas in the same zone as the event. That way it would help to kill time for those waiting for the next try and better players could offer help for unexperienced players without having to wait if someone just shows up in Rata Sum or wherever such a training room is located.

Ceridwen.6703:

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This is by far the best post I’ve read about the whole topic. I am sooo sick about this constant negativity, about this blaming-game, about the picking on people and so on.

I can cope with failure, but this constant moaning of a few after a fail is dragging down the moral of the whole map.

Taimi is so fulsomely cute that she looks like someone taken from a horrormovie to me. And her whole behavior makes her pretty fishy.

Just want to throw in that “realistic” doesn’t have to mean fat or unfit.

I personally find several of the human female body options pretty unrealistic.

I think it has something to do with the way the color of the mask mixes with the original eyecolor.

Her eyecolor without the mask is yellow and now it’s even more annoying because I took this color to get this greenish cat/lizardlike look. In fact she never wore any other headgear but the mask. Unfortunately changing the eyecolor doesn’t seem to help either. It’s less obvious with red eyes but then the eyes with the mask look yellow and not green anymore. :/

But I guess depending on which face you choose the changes are more or less or nearly not noticable at all.

This is not one Skritt these are many of them. :P They are part of the Skritt thieving squad and they take shifts to train. ^^ They just change when noone is watching.

The eyes got changed and it completely ruined my look with the trickster mask.

1st is how she looked from the very beginning:

and 2nd is how she looks now:

I think it got changed around Nov 19th. I’m pretty sad about it.

Nightingale.9714:

Bottom line: Bite the bullet and get used to the change. There are new combinations to explore and ONE of them will meet your needs. Thank anet for responding to our cries for this change and make it work.

So why didn’t you guys just bite the bullet and got used to what was, huh? So here is “my cry”: at least keep the rest as it is! So what now?

Kristen Perry.5260:

This currently affects Medium Tier 2 (legs will be re-addressed for better glow and dye alignment, sorry about that, it got past me) and Tier 3, Light Tier 1 (female only), and Light Tier 3. The other weights and tiers will be assessed for a similar pass to give glow or upgrade glow results when possible.

I’ve been hearing your cries to get more glow on the sylvari and am doing my best to give you more control over your character customization.

I appreciate your efford but I cannot appreciate the result. Fortunately my favourite armor light Tier 2 hasn’t got changed yet but what I saw from the other tiers makes me pretty worried.

But what bothers me even more is the last sentence because it addresses a general problem for me. I am pretty sure you didn’t hear me cry just because I had no reason to complain until now. So what does this mean in general? Am I supposed to lurk the forum 24/7 just in case some players come up with an idea about what they would like to get changed? Am I supposed to post in every thread that I like several things the way they are just not to get them changed for the worse considering my wishes?

Edit: This is in no way ment as a complaint about your work in general but as a general issue concerning the communication between developers and community.

I mean it’s just some armor parts and some might say that my post is over dramatising the issue and that it’s just a minor problem but so where the glow requests to begin with.

From my perspective it’s pretty disappointing. I play rather casually and no, I don’t want everything handed to me I can wait a bit and slowly trying to get what I need and actually gathering the mats is part of the fun for me.

I didn’t bother with halloween that much last year, so I just a got a few of the mats, but because the recipe stayed untoched for nearly 10 months I really thought I could collect the mats for it this year and then slowly getting the rest.

Well as it’s now the recipes are completely out of reach now for me. It’s even more disappointing because it’s nothing new. It’s the same recipes as last year just needing insanely more mats. I could now try to get it over several years, each year collecting a bit but since they just changed it I can’t be sure that it wont be even worse next year. Maybe it’s actually 100k nougats or something then, so stoped to bother with it entirely.

1) Ascended items – horizontal vs vertical Progression (i don’t want that gear but I’d like to have some Infos about the future ideas about that gear)
2) Living story – temporary and permanent content; storytelling, update cycle
3) Reward-centered vs experience-centered gameplay – “grind”; Accountpoints; amount of mats needed etc.)

Grimno.6172:

Get three Asura together and you’ll get four opinions.

Now that’s really insulting -.- . What do you hairy thing think we are? We are not narrowminded Charr. If you get three Asura together I’d expect to get at least ten opinions.

If you refer to the latest Statement, it says :

So from this point forward, everybody who personally attacks a member of the studio will get an immediate 2 week forum suspension on the first violation. Any further attack on studio members will result in a permanent termination of your posting rights.

So from my understanding you are banned from the forum not from the game (…in case of…).

A bit more variety would be great I think, so that both groups have something.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

As for female Asura models, I agree, and so does everyone. But we can make it work, see below

I disagree :p . Actually I find the “male” clothes on my female Asura pretty cute.^^

Edit: Sry for rather offtopic.

fellyn.5083:

I think peoples are just blowing things way out of whack here, completely over thinking things.

When I say I made my ascended weapons for “free” all I mean is I personally didn’t spend any gold on them.

That’s great from your perspective but I’m not really sure if this argument is usefull for an outsider. I can’t know how many mats you had already, all I can assume from this statement is that it’s possible to gather enough mats within on year. But I still don’t know how much you played etc. It’s a bit like saying a legendary didn’t cost me anything because I had the money already on my bank. And while both statements are true in a way they are not an objective basis imo.

On the other hand I think people are overestimating this gold-time ratio. My profit from “investing” time and efford is fun not gold or mats. So gold or mats are something on top and tbh I think both are “free”. So the question how one currency translates in another one becomes way less important.

I base my decisions what I want to do in this game on the question if I have fun doing it. Everything else is wasted time for me because I could use it doing something usefull in RL.

So if someone wants to get as much gold as possible from his playtime, that is only one option, but it’s not a general rule that everyone has to play that way.