Guild Wars 2

Grimwolf.7163:

Erukk.1408:

Rainu.6871:

Evans.6347:

On a humorous note, this is one of those topics that shows that we complain about everything ain’t it?

“ain’t” isn’t a proper word in written English.

;)

Actually, “Ain’t” got added to the dictionary.

Webster’s Dictionary is not an accurate list of proper English words, and lists all kinds of slang and contractions and such. It’s used only as a reference to understand what words mean when a person uses them; not whether they are proper words or should actually be used.
That includes the multiple definitions of proper words. If, for example, it became common to misuse Jubilee in reference to an obese house cat, they would add “Obese house cat” as one of the definitions.

So, is there an accurate list of proper English words?

KarateKid.5648:

I happen to like dailies AND I really like the fact there’s enough to choose from to preclude certain things we don’t like (PvP for me).

I AM getting a bit sick of “Kryta events” being on the list, though. It seems like Kryta is given preference (day to day) quite a bit more than Maguuma or Ascalon. As I mentioned in an unrelated post elsewhere: I am getting a bit sick of being crushed by a flick of his mind

As a relatively new player, I can only assume the current crop of dailies was intended to entice people out of farming Orr (?); but whether or not that was true, can y’all please re-look at dailies and rebalance the repetition of some of them?

The dailies cycle through Krytan, Ascalonian, Maguuman and shiverpeaks events (as as the respective “kills” and “veterans” daily achievements); no country gets a special treatment here.

Orr is not part of the rotation for the simple reason that this would alienate new players with characters below level 70. Orr is the only country without a starter zone.
This way, every player can do every daily if they so choose.

draxynnic.3719:

stuff

This. All of this.

Gabby.3205:

Edit: I hope that the Pointy Stick will come back with an update that is called “Pointier Stick” for no reason whatsoever, and a second upgrade called “Pointiest Stick”.

That would be wonderful.

+1

Nilkemia.8507:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Ratchet.5416:

The strangest thing I found was an Ellen Kiel Representative Button (I wasn’t even aware these could drop, and none others ever dropped again for me) from…

A Flame Legion soldier.

Awesome. Please go back and question him, I must know the backstory.

On a similar note, I find it hilarious what any mobs drop; I come from games where different types of enemies have different loot tables (i.e., a rat can drop a ring but not a platemail – platemails are what you find inside dragon bellies).

So I have made it a habit to imagine the enemy was wearing the thing they dropped, and it’s wonderful: from centaurs falling over their plate-mail boots, to spiders with eight tiny pirate gloves, to mosquitos wearing silly hats… GW2 became much more fun the day that started.

But that soldier’s dead now, so we’ll never know. Unless they come back like we do all the time. And yes, imagining the monsters actually holding the things they drop is more amusing.

He WP’ed. I’m sure he was back a few minutes later.

They all do, or we’d all run out of enemies to slay in the first week or guild wars.

The story so far:

• Aetherblades team up with Inquest.
• Aetherblades build a base next to Lion’s Arch. (Dungeon)
• Aetherblades assassinate a political leader.
• Aetherblades have bigger plans. (Thanks, Mai & Scarlet)
• Aetherblades guard their airship that came down. (Jumping puzzle)
• Aetherblades attack the zephyrites, quite a way away in Maguuma. (Dynamic event in Cliffs)
• Aetherblades run off with their stolen goods from another downed airship. (Candidate Trials)

Most of this happened in Kryta, on Jennah’s doorstep.

Jennah’s reaction:

“I know what we’ll do for my party! BALLOONS!”

Watch the skies, indeed.

Chief.5928:

I was hoping it would be a method to instantly teleport to one’s home instance (would make sense given the fact we have the opportunity to unlock the personal crystal node during the current Bazaar of the Four Winds event) or later perhaps the Guild Hall.

Yes, I would have liked (in order of preference)

• a permanent item that portals me to my home (aka player housing)
• a permanent item that portals me to my guild hall
• a permanent item that portals me to a city of my choice (but then always to the same city)
• a permanent item that portals me to my home instance (less useful for me, as my human character has relocated to Rata Sum, but oh well)

One-time portal-skill portals are okay – I actually would like a “safety net” for use in some jumping puzzles such as Skipping Stones – but if it is very expensive to craft, I’d rather not.

Morten.5387:

This latest implementation of the living story has, if not soon corrected (doubtful), left me with a stain on my once perfect track record; one that I will not soon forget or forgive. Lazily overpowered (anyone can add x more units and + hp) and repeated content that came about as a “fix” after the fact leaves a really bad aftertaste.

My first living story achievement(s) that I won’t get, and yes, I can feel already how it slowly kills my motivation to keep up with everything.

[ ] Married
[ ] Have Girlfriend
[x] Have Boyfriend thanks for your consideration.
[x] Employed
[ ] Have Pets
[ ] Have Children
[x] Are an Adult
[x] Have a Life
[ ] Have no Manual Dexterity

You Think Living World is too:

[ ] Hard
[ ] Time Consuming
[ ] Temporary
[ ] Full of Jumping Puzzles

You are Currently Threatening to:

[ ] Quit
[ ] Uninstall
[ ] Kick Colins’ Dog
[ ] Tell the Internet That You are Upset

Am I the only one who’s happy with Living World?

Ratchet.5416:

The strangest thing I found was an Ellen Kiel Representative Button (I wasn’t even aware these could drop, and none others ever dropped again for me) from…

A Flame Legion soldier.

Awesome. Please go back and question him, I must know the backstory.

On a similar note, I find it hilarious what any mobs drop; I come from games where different types of enemies have different loot tables (i.e., a rat can drop a ring but not a platemail – platemails are what you find inside dragon bellies).

So I have made it a habit to imagine the enemy was wearing the thing they dropped, and it’s wonderful: from centaurs falling over their plate-mail boots, to spiders with eight tiny pirate gloves, to mosquitos wearing silly hats… GW2 became much more fun the day that started.

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

I’m pretty sure this is anets way to ask their players what type of content they want. Completely new lore, or to better expand on old lore.

How is this an either/or thing? The categorization makes no sense to me.

There is stuff that I’m interested in – some of it old lore, and some of it new – and there’s stuff that I’m not interested in – again, some of it old and some of it new.

I’m really not all that interested in the Fall of Abaddon at all, but that doesn’t mean that you or ANet should generalise. There is other existing lore that I would very much like to know more about.

It’s a great idea. If I wasn’t maxed out on both guilds and time, I’d join right now.

Zanshin.5379:

This is Tyria. Not Earth.
They might have different definitions.

It is Tyria, and people speak Tyrian.

For the players’ (and devs’) convenience, the game interface uses the English (French, Spanish, German) language, and not a Tyrian conlang, or even separate conlangs for different cultures.

So, no, they really shouldn’t have different definitions.

Vol.5241:

We just had an assassination already, I doubt they’d do it again so quickly.

A kidnapping? That I could see.

People need to stop kidnapping her already.

Tachenon.5270:

Tom Gore.4035:

Torpian.9142:

Queen Jennah is a babe. I hope they have more loose fitting ‘peek a boo’ dresses for her to wear in the next installment of the story.

Second this. Let’s just hope Logan’s not watching the forums.

It just hit me…

“I’m Logan Thackeray, and I’m running away!”

Logan’s Run

Bravo

smitske.4912:

Also with the visit in divinities reach, will we fiinally see bar brawl working?

One can only hope. But I’m sure it would have said so on the release page.

zaw.6741:

account-wide currency wallet! finally!

… and just like that, I have an additional bank slot. <3

I don’t see the problem. It’s not like Canthan architecture and general arts are mutually exclusive.

To me, it will forever be the Canthan Arts District; the arts district that happened to house the Canthans who brought both their architecture and their culture/arts.

Now everybody shake hands.

Either way, it’s gone, and it’s not coming back; something new is built there instead, and the devs said that it wasn’t the royal garden.

The swamp in Queensdale is well-populated.

Also, Rata Sum Idea Incubation Lab.

Crystite.8915:

It makes PvP boring and dull

What? How?

I enjoy playing with my friends from Oz, the Philipines etc. – I would not want to lose them to another server vault. It’s bad enough that I can’t play with half my RL friends because they’re on European servers.

Latency issues have to be addressed, but I am convinced that they can be done without creating a new server vault and further divide the community into chunks that cannot ever interact with each other again.

Yep, been suggested several times, and been implemented for Flame and Frost (for both audio logs and refuge mementos).

No idea why they didn’t do this for this chapter.

My wrist hurts.

Siliconmana.3816:

Perhaps l’m a little confused, does each daily achievement count towards ‘Gnash all the Blades’ or does it have to be 5/5 to count for one point toward GatB?
I’ve just completed 2/5 daily achievements and still 0/1.
I have used the ‘rep button’ and Gnashblade symbol is active.

The count goes up by one when you complete the dailies for one day (5/5).

You do not have to wear the button throughout the process, only when you finish the 5th daily.

Do this 3 times for either candidate, so it will take six days.

However, I heard (I hadn’t tried it myself) that PvP dailies also count, so you can actually complete both achievements in 3 days.

MithranArkanere.8957:

Martin Kerstein.3071:

[…]

All I read there is “We are fine with people who exploited th bugs to get the achievement, will not fix the scaling so going solo is not way easier than doing it in a group, and we are fine with it being harder for those who attempt it now than for those who attempted it before being fixed”.

Yep.

I read it twice and I got a weird feeling in the stomach area.

Not sure yet, but it could be anger.

There’s two things that I don’t like about the new armours:

• The male phoenix armour looks nothing like the female phoenix armour – why do they even share the name?
• Female Asura are using the human male phoenix set (???!!! according to the screenshots I’ve seen aynway) – is that really necessary?

So Kasmeer’s armour was added into the game, but only for human female characters (and by extension, Sylvari and Norn women).

Or maybe they’d designed a light armour set already and then tried to squeeze Kasmeer’s armour into the existing set when everybody saw Kasmeer in her armour and started screaming “shut up and take my money”.

Lakland.8102:

1. Harpoon uses a “Spear” for its mastery. Device Type: Spear
2. “Speargun” uses a Harpoon gun for its mastery. Device Type: Harpoon Gun
Yes It’s confusing, but trust me I spent hours working it out. Especially since the title of the weapon says otherwise.

Spear = harpoon
Speargun = harpoon gun

Why the use 4 different words for the 2 things (especially as people keep thinking that “harpoon” means “speargun”) I don’t know.

Vextra.6592:

Is anyone else having a problem getting the harpoon master ach? I have kill much more than 488 but it stopped counting at that number. I don’t know if it is just me but I’d like a fix. Not sure how I would report this other than here.

Are you using the harpoon/spear or harpoon gun/speargun?

https://www.google.de/search?q=site%3Aforum-en.guildwars2.com+night+darker

Phantom.8130:

however, if people (not developers, just players) from the NWN/NWN2 community can make sittable chairs, the whole “it’s too haaaaaard” line loses a lot of its credibility.

That’s the one thought that goes through my mind every time sittable chairs are mentioned.

I play the game so I can hang out with my friends, explore beautiful landscapes with them, do events, play through any story content (that includes personal story, dungeons and living world), some PvP on the side when I get that feeling that I’d like to play tactical, and yes, I go for achievements. All of these things are fun while I do them, and none of them (with the exception of some achievements) are grindy. I play the game because I enjoy playing, not because I enjoy the split second at the end of playing that is some reward or other.

I don’t play the game to suffer through hours and hours and hours of content that is not fun, and your idea sounds like the least fun I could possibly have in the game.

:)

Lysander Freeman.4186:

I’d rather have full expansions that are completely thought out and finished than have a weak Living Story. The Molten Alliance was well done and then the ball got dropped.

It’s funny that Flame & Frost is used as the example for well-done Living Story content these days.

What I remember is 3 months of absolute boredom (and the majority of forum people agreed) followed by glorious 11 days (!!) of a decent and fun dungeon.

I personally don’t see the appeal.

I guess this sort of content would appeal to a small percentage of the player base, but nobody I know and spend time with in GW2 (all of them between 5000 and 9000 AP, so clearly not “newbs” nor overly casual) has that kind of attitude or expectation.

That sort of content would have appealed to me when I was 16-20, maybe. The majority of GW2 players are not in that bracket, nor dot hey have the time or will to put themselves through such an ordeal just to “beat the game” or even to display a title.

Beorn Saxon.4762:

I Made Pie.8756:

The experience scrolls were nice… if you didn’t already get all your toons past 20. All my toons are to high of a level, making the scroll pointless. Anet really shouldn’t have made it account bound.

Word on the street is that a new race could be in the pipelines…so save your lvl scrolls for that. Like Tengu as a playable race next month for one year anny. It’s all rumor, but hey, I wouldn’t put it past anet at the rate they are going.

That would be oh-so-wonderful; but in that case, I think, I’d prefer to level the character from scratch. Tengu as a playable race would certainly come with their own map(s) and I wouldn’t want to faceroll through them, and their personal story. I’d feel like I’m missing out.

LED.4739:

To basically combine the whip and flail ideas that have already been mentioned, how about a Whipchain? I could see several classes well-suited to a long ranged wep like this, such as thief, mesmer, ele, maybe even necro or engi. It could have a decent amount of cc either in the form of stuns/daze, pulls either toward player, or player toward foe, and it could pierce all targets between you and target, hitting both on release and return, like the lightning whip. Anything like this I’d find super fun.

Awesome, post it in the Whip Thread!

There was an idea for a chain skin for whips… but it seems you’er going beyond that.

Shine.9810:

Dude this ain’t WoW and I sincerelly hope ANet won’t copy new class idea from other game, especially this one xd

WoW didn’t invent this either. D&D classes go back decades…

Anyway, I’m going to say what I always say in these threads:

Whips!

Kiriwar.7382:

Finishing the T3/T4 Candidate Trials was more fun than this imo. (Now waiting for someone to reply to me and tell me I’m batsh** insane.)

Different strokes… but I would happily finish your Southsun Survival games for you and then some, if you could get me the T3/T4 Candidate Trials.

Topher.1684:

BTW, try not to necro old threads (last reply to this was January).

There’s nothing in the forum rules about this, by the way.

In fact, it makes a lot more sense to contain the discussion about one issue to one topic, and not create multiple topics about the same issue. The devs themselves have stated that they use the number of replies as an indicator for which threads deserve the most attention, so creating 30 topics on the same issue wouldn’t be conductive, plus it spams & clutters the forums.

Because you know what the devs don’t have time for? Doing a google search on every bug report: https://www.google.de/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=site:forum-en.guildwars2.com+Itlaocol+bug

Nretep.2564:

Conditions are tied to players, not skills.

Erhm… no? If my pistol skill puts bleed (#1), poison (#2) or burn (#4) on an enemy, and the enemy dies from bleed, poison or burn, then certainly the pistol should get credit for this…?

I love all three sets (a first for me), but I’ve only previewed it on a female character so far.

So, the light set is Kasmeer’s armour, the heavy set is Braham’s, and the medium one could have been Rox’ if her armour had been anything equally special.

I am now totally intrigued by the “magitech” – do you think it is only a random word/style used as a filler so there would be a medium set to release along with the other two, or will we get magitech content? Because I want magitech content.

Reading all this… now I’m convinced that it is broken.

Because the devs cannot possibly have had this particular approach in mind.

mtpelion.4562:

4. Haunting a player can pay out a lot of points. Use the #1 ability IN FRONT of a player. When they walk into the white ring you will teleport to them and get 1 point.

2 points, actually.

I get between 30 (if I’m unlucky) and 70 points a game. And I don’t even try to die immediately after the grace period, as it is also very fun to play as a survivor. I find both survivor and spirit fun to play, although spirit is more rewarding in terms of points (unless you win… and I never do).

I agree that 2500 is quite steep.

But since you get between 30 and 70 points per game on average, it’s doable, especially if you don’t do it all in one sitting.

Here’s a discussion that you might find interesting:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Achievements-and-Mini-Games

I miss Sieran, too.

aspirine.6852:

I was going to do the survival just for the points. I started out at 13:00 last sunday and suddenly it was 17:00. It was way more fun after a few times and getting better.
This was pretty much on the same level as sanctum sprint. They sure did great with the mini games.
Now the one i do not like untill they fix it is the candidate trials.

I made exactly the same experience.

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

• Make achievements based on how much you WANT to play, not how much you HAVE to play.

For example, in the Southsun Survivor game we are required to reach 2500 points. I would rather the points be open ended, and you receive a “loot bag” for every X number of points. If you’re better, you get loot bags in less games.

This is an excellent suggestion. I really like how you can complete the achievement but then keep getting loot bags if you keep playing, but yes, if those loot bags would have been tied to poitns accumulated instead of games played, that would have been fair towards people who play to win, while still being accessible to everyone (just taking a little more time), and would have obsoleted the 2500 points achievement.

For the record, I think 2500 points was too high. I personally am getting them because I enjoy the mini-game, but if I only did it for the AP, it would be too much. 1000 would have been enough, and I think the “play 15 games” achievement already covers it.

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

• Achievements based on skill, not luck.

Remember Crab Toss? The backlash for creating achievements where all other players had to participate is a nightmare for most. In comparison, the “Headshot” achievement in Southsun Survival was nice because it was based on my skill.

Basing achievements on skill is a double-edged sword, as some people have those skills and others don’t. Headshot doesn’t actually require that much skill, just a little timing (and with additional luck, it will be super easy). I believe that anybody can get the headshot achievement, which is why I like it.

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

• Achievements not based on being “first”

As I stated in another post, there are a lot of factors that contribute to a player being unable to compete with others. Lag, ability, disabilities, computer specs, etc can mean the difference between coming in first, and coming in 13th.

When players are required to beat others on an unfair playing field, it can be very frustrating. These usually result in players just “cheesing” it and helping each other out so they can get out and never come back.

Very true, and I’m very happy to see that over the course of the different mini-games we have progressed beyond that:

• Crab Toss: 50 wins
• Dragonball: 20 wins
• Sanctum Sprint: 1 win
• Southsun Survivor + Aspect Arena: 0 wins

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

In the end, I agree with Pixelpumpkin that these two new mini-games are a nice step in the right direction. The trick now is to create achievements that encourage players to participate and play the game well, but avoid burning them out on the game, or requiring them to “cheat” to win.

I think for me personally, with some very very minor tweaks, this chapter’s mini-game achievements and rewards would have been perfect.

3 different mini-games in 1 month is too much – but they already said to not expect any new mini-games for some time. Instead the existing ones go on rotation. But as far as I know, no new achievements are attached to them, so we can all play them for fun or ignore them.

I agree with the original point, but I do think it got better with this last patch.

Southsun Survival:

• Play 15 games —> simple and easy, and doesn’t take too long. Absolutely doable over 2 weeks.
• Get 10 headshots —> surprisingly for me, that wasn’t hard either.
• 2500 points in total —> Yes, this is grindy, but if you spread it out over 2 weeks, it’s something like 3 games a day, even if you’re not very good. 1.5 per day if you score highly. Maybe that should have been 1000-1500 points.

But what didn’t we have?

• Win games of Survivor.
  That would have been hard and potentially very frustrating!

Aspect Arena:

• 15 games playes —> Even faster than Southsun Survivor, as the games are short.
• 10 crystals carried —> A matter of time. You can also still do that after the game officially ended.
• 15 crystal carrier killed —> the hardest one (but still 100 times better than winning 50 games of Crab Toss!!!) These, too, can be done after the game ends. And I think you don’t need the killing blow, so the kill counts for all people who tagged the carrier. But I can’t confirm that now. Maybe that should have been 5-10 kills instead.

What didn’t we have?

• Win 20 games of Aspect Arena

(All numbers from memory)

I’m really not very good at these mini games – I really suffered through an entire night of Crab Toss for the achievement, and Dragonball was unplayable for me due to skill lag.

Sanctum Sprint was better, easier in terms of achievement, and I felt the achievement rewarded me for trying out things and playing the game instead of grinding it and forcing so and so many wins. 1 win is all I needed, and I got it in the end.

And the new mini-games continued in that direction. And they’re rewarding in terms of silver and special item drops (that you can also buy from the TP). Perfect.

I’m pretty happy with the development.

So, overall, the only thing I want to change at this point is that I would like to be able to play with and against my friends.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

I find that add to the realism, though.

In real life, if I want to know what’s going on, I have to get informed, too.

At least in GW, there’s only a limited number of sources for info: website/blog announcements (which you get emailed, too…), wiki, forum (in that order) or if you want to save some time, dulfy.

It’s really not that hard.

…if you follow it constantly. If you are new to the game it might get a bit difficult to find the story of Mr. Sparkles or Canach for example. It could be so easy, those book-carts in Divinity’s Reach could simply contain real ingame books with a few pages of the website/blogpost/wiki-content. And every newcomer or people who missed it the first time would have easy access to it.

I’d also love to re-read such wonderful pieces while waiting for the WvW queue or something like that, without having to leave the game and look for long-forgotten bookmarks in my webbrowser.

btw: some stories aren’t even available anymore on the official Anet blogpost page.

I know, other people suggested to put all the info into the Priory’s library.

The thing is… most people don’t even read the books and journals that already lie around in open world. In book carts, the information would be pretty well hidden from 9 out of 10 players, so I don’t know what that would solve.

Duke Nukem.6783:

it has nothing to do with the minigames at all aspect arena is hated by all players evenly southsun is very fun but very unbalanced so based on minigames evons hould be ahead

But.. I like both games… Aspect Arena is fun!

Is this a technical or moral question?

I’m a member of a guild called “Commendation” whose sole purpose it is to give players the possibility to gain commendation whose primary guilds are too small for guild activities. When GC hosts events (several times a week), I represent them for the duration of the guild activity, get my commendation, and go back to my own guild. So technically, you have to represent the guild during the activity to be able to participate and get commendation.

There are many guilds who ask members to represent them 100% of the time (this guild ^ isn’t one of them).

Rosen Myst.7641:

Yes I know that, but I believe the limit is 15. Now if I"m trying to survive to the end and I die late in the game my chances of finding 15 motes is much less. So I’m saying that in addition to finding motes, setting traps, or killing players, I think you should get points for the amount of time you survived as well.

15 is the maximum you can hold, but you still get points for running over more emotes.

I agree that surviving on the whole should be more lucrative.

Right now, I find what gives me most points (other than winning, or going on an amazing killing streak), is to die in a mob as soon as grace period is over, be the first ghost to pick up all the emotes, and then play the traps for the rest of the game.

And that’s fine – I’m having fun anyway – but I don’t think that that was supposed to be the point of the game when it was designed…