Guild Wars 2

I lol’d

Seriously though, I’m really sad that there isn’t more “functional” female armor.

GW2 living story event gives away (GIVES AWAY) free passes to the airship from bags from the event. So, to re-cap, they GIVE AWAY access to this thing, which offers super convenience if you just play the game, and some of you still complain that they also offer a 100% lifetime guarantee entrance ticket IF you CHOOSE to pay for it. Not have to, but choose to.

On top of that, they make it so that more people might have to also go to other city hubs (which people asked for this as well in some of the forums as many city hubs were feeling dead), and you still complain because that means you have to take a few seconds to port there as opposed to taking twice as much time to run across LA.

I honestly do not understand all of the outrage over something that is being given to you. But let me guess, you also think that development of new content every 2 weeks and the people that do this work don’t need to get paid either?

wolfpaq.7354:

Mirta.5029:

because you can’t use the same asura gate to walk back where you started? It’s not warcraft you know, we have fast and convenient ways of traveling.

I feel like you don’t know what the word convenient means. Previously we had access to all that stuff WITHOUT having to deal with annoying loading screens. Now we don’t. Do you even understand the point of having central hubs in an MMO? GW2 used to have one, now it doesn’t. Unless you pay $12.50.

Or if, you know, you get 3904587349537* passes that drop from the bags from playing the game.

*not an exact number

Jett.1239:

PookieDaWombat.6209:

If hordes of people paid real money for such a pass when it was frankly unnecessary in the first place, then they obviously wanted a 100% assurance that they would get in no matter what, and to them i say, sure have fun. Its their money to spend as they please.

See, i don’t need to ever open a BLC, and can go ahead and sell my almost 250 stack of them. i can also decide to buy some keys to see what i might get. That is my right as a consumer. Anet offers X and i decide if i want to buy it. If not, then I don’t. It doesn’t take anything away from the game for me, nor does buying anything give me some distinct “edge”. It just doesn’kittens

like me getting upset with Valve for selling some weapon in TF2 in their store. So what? Someone wants to buy something they can craft or get from a random drop then so be it. More power to them.

There’s not really a point in arguing if you really hold that opinion. Future content for the gem-store hinges on sales for current gem-store items, supporting the creation and solution of artificial problems (Captains Pass) logically leads to more of that being on the gem store.

It’s your right as a consumer to push back and claim that you want more for your money — it isn’t entitlement, it’s the very essence of a buyer-seller relationship. I think we, the playerbase of GuildWars2, deserve better than this. Agree or disagree, but supporting content like this begets content like this.

There is no “creating a problem and it’s solution” here. No one is saying you have to get a captains pass for a single dime. They are even giving them away in those bags you get from PLAYING the game. Specifically PLAYING the NEW content that they make and deliver to us in 2 week intervals. Please tell me any other game with that level of consistent content updating. For free.

Do they introduce things into the gemstore that might make certain things “easier” for you as a player? Sure. Do any of them give you a distinct advantage over another player or over content in the game? Nope. If they made it so you could not progress and play the game unless you bought x, y, or z then you’d have a legitimate beef with Anet right now. Instead, you are getting upset because you might have to get a drop to us the airship or might have to wp or gate yourself to a different map to use a crafting table, etc. Its just goofy.

Vikkela.7261:

So what you actually are saying is that you deserve to get ascended back items without:

a) paying for them
b) doing any work for them

As a comparison you can check what it would cost you to buy the mats for the ‘There with Yakkington: A Traveler’s Tale’-back item, the one with selectable stats. Almost 120g too, roughly.

Remember, it’s not only a nice and unique skin, it also has ascended stats. I’d suggest you guys stick with an exotic version and upgrade it later when you can afford it. It’s not that hard.

Shhhhh, stop it with your silly “logic” and remembering that “its a game”.

If hordes of people paid real money for such a pass when it was frankly unnecessary in the first place, then they obviously wanted a 100% assurance that they would get in no matter what, and to them i say, sure have fun. Its their money to spend as they please.

See, i don’t need to ever open a BLC, and can go ahead and sell my almost 250 stack of them. i can also decide to buy some keys to see what i might get. That is my right as a consumer. Anet offers X and i decide if i want to buy it. If not, then I don’t. It doesn’t take anything away from the game for me, nor does buying anything give me some distinct “edge”. It just doesn’kittens

like me getting upset with Valve for selling some weapon in TF2 in their store. So what? Someone wants to buy something they can craft or get from a random drop then so be it. More power to them.

Hey, i’m not going to read through 5 pages of complaining since I know i’ve already seen it 100000 times so far since the start of this event. All I’m going to say is this: You know what I’ve enjoyed using since the start of this event? The Airship. Know how i keep getting in there to use it? Airship passes that DROP FROM BAGS FROM DOING THE EVENT. Seriously, can this be a non-issue already? Please.

Easterbunny.6170:

PookieDaWombat.6209:

Easterbunny.6170:

Hi Sniperman:

I used your server as a test of a strategy. I walked up to your gates in an alpha golem solo during a slow game period and knocked the outer gates on hills and bay down to around 5%. Those gates were never repaired.

They stayed like that for well over an hour because I came back to check. I don’t doubt that they were like that at prime time as well.

This may be the answer to your mystery gates that drop with one hit from the mighty flame ram of doom.

I do not like releasing this piece of fairly simple strategy to your server, as it will make it much harder to walk up to your gates with an alpha golem and snap flip your keeps in the future, but I dislike it when people just decide everything in the world must have been cheating.

This is a strategy I have been trying to get our server to use, and had to show it to be practical in real world situations. Its something I learned from AR. (That people simply do not check gates if they are not down and there haven’t been swords)

Cheers.

-Mummies R Us.

Thanks for the head’s up. I’ll keep that in mind next time ya’ll face off with SF.

Yep. I really dislike saying anything because I built a whole plan around it, but I’m tired of hearing my server mates called cheaters because people are too stupid to check their gates.

Don’t you worry, I will think of something else SF :p

No, i totally get ya. It’d be fine if they posted their proof, but as it stands there is none. And really, if there were these hacks, why u no use them on us.

Easterbunny.6170:

Hi Sniperman:

I used your server as a test of a strategy. I walked up to your gates in an alpha golem solo during a slow game period and knocked the outer gates on hills and bay down to around 5%. Those gates were never repaired.

They stayed like that for well over an hour because I came back to check. I don’t doubt that they were like that at prime time as well.

This may be the answer to your mystery gates that drop with one hit from the mighty flame ram of doom.

I do not like releasing this piece of fairly simple strategy to your server, as it will make it much harder to walk up to your gates with an alpha golem and snap flip your keeps in the future, but I dislike it when people just decide everything in the world must have been cheating.

This is a strategy I have been trying to get our server to use, and had to show it to be practical in real world situations. Its something I learned from AR. (That people simply do not check gates if they are not down and there haven’t been swords)

Cheers.

-Mummies R Us.

Thanks for the head’s up. I’ll keep that in mind next time ya’ll face off with SF.

If its any consolation, the other night i was fighting a mezzie and thought they were using some hack to constantly knock me down during the fight that they eventually won.

Afterwards i realized it was because I drank too much from a guild keg.

Prysin.8542:

Fuzzion.2504:

Answer —>

Here is a poll result

Should GW2 have mounts like horses & Dragons?
Should we have our own mounts i.e. Horses, or even rideable dragon ? Like in DAoC and WoW and many other MMOs

Yes. Both in WvWvW and PvE 12% (19 votes)
Yes. But only in PvE 20% (31 votes)
Maybe 6% (9 votes)
No 61% (94 votes)
Total votes: 153

Source : http://www.gw2wvw.net/content/should-gw2-have-mounts-horses-dragons-closes-27feb
________________________________

I voted yes but it seems ~40% want them. I still hope Anet implements mounts in wvw and pve.

Should be a ranger only function. What else should we use the pets for. Albeit, will be interesting to see how we can mount a Owl….

Not gonna lie, that is actually an awesome idea. (And i can see the birds carrying players instead of being ridden. hehe)

They are utterly pointless in GW2. They serve some function in those others games, but here in GW2 they would only be for vanity reasons.

I’ve been playing since beta and lord knows I’ve spent tons of gold on everything from armor, to runes and sigils (good lord those runes and sigils), but I just can’t seem to bring myself to paying 10 gold for something that does nothing FOR me. Maybe 5 gold along with the 250 heirlooms, but 10 is just…i dunno. maybe if i spent 1000000 hours doing dungeons I wouldn’t think too much of the cost, but still.

I’m still trying to figure out why anyone is paying 10 gold for something that is 100% cosmetic.

I accidentally attacked one from AR the other day as well, a thief. We then talked and dueled a bit and I got a feel for some of my toon’s limits. (been testing some new ones this week while roaming to adjust builds/etc as needed ).

Speaking as a boon Guardian, retaliation is one of those things that helps me contribute in an offensive way at the moment and nerfing it would be both rude and further pigeon hole us into a role that many of us struggle to fight against.

My second main is an Engie though, and this is where I am going to speak to retaliation from. i roam a lot with her and on occasion help zerg bust with her as well. To date i’ve yet to be taken down by the other zerg’s retal stacks. Part of the reason for this is becaues i don’t blindly spam my AOE into the zerg, and more importantly, I pay attention to my health bar. If I’m dropping to that zerg its because some guys realized what i was doing and focused me down, and not because I was “hitting myself”. Seriously, please stop putting the blame for your death on not being able to properly read a situation. That’s like someone coming in here and complaining because a necro they were chasing ran off a cliff and spectral walked themselves back to the top while they fell to their death and so therefore SW needs to be nerfed.

Lord Kuru.3685:

You can remove QoL features from the game. You can add QoL features to the game behind a paywall.

But when you take what’s currently a free QoL feature and put it behind a paywall, that’s really bad. And judging from Anet’s response (i.e., none) this is a sign of things to come.

And looking at how Anet creeps these out slowly, here’s likely what’s next:

• Any new map will have a paywall on its WPs. (White knights: “hey, you can just walk so it’s ok, right? Plus, I walk everywhere anyway, who needs WPs?”) Then:
• All WPs will be paywalled. (White knights: “hey, you can just walk so it’s ok, right? Plus, I walk everywhere anyway, who needs WPs?”)

NOTHING IS BEHIND A PAYWALL. Was that clear enough for you now? Nothing.

Outnumbered is fun. No armor repair and when you do get that one rabbit-er or person that wants a solo fight, you know you can get some sweet stuff if you’re good enough at playing. Not to mention yak sniping and camp flipping, etc.

i love it and seek it out on some nights.

this is why I left the WvW maps for last.

Engies apparently still hate it.

(I say this as i main both an Engie and a Guardian in WvW. hehe)

ZudetGambeous.9573:

PookieDaWombat.6209:

Psst, technically its not happening in the past. Its all happening at the same time.

Granted, it does feel a lil goofy, but their only other option was completely re-doing the whole thing, which means getting voice actors to re-do lines possibly in a new setting, and yeah…just not worth the actual money and time to re-do that content. Go with it.

Huh… it’s been confirmed like 100 times that the personal story takes place 1 year before the current LS.

OP report this as a bug, it can’t possibly be intended, not even Anet is that lazy.

Not trying to be a pain, but where was that stated? i honestly have not seen it written anywhere, just that the 2 are overlapping.

it would never get past the drill

It is only “behind a paywall” if that is the ONLY way to get to it. Guess what: the main hub with ALL the goodies there has been wrecked. People are displaced from their homes. It’s SUPPOSED to be less convenient. Go through a gate or pay some silver to WP to a city. For cryin’ out loud, one run through the event should net you enough gold for a few trips to ALL the main cities via WP.

Psst, technically its not happening in the past. Its all happening at the same time.

Granted, it does feel a lil goofy, but their only other option was completely re-doing the whole thing, which means getting voice actors to re-do lines possibly in a new setting, and yeah…just not worth the actual money and time to re-do that content. Go with it.

Ikaros.7812:

Are you an ambient creature by any chance?

Dude, you just made me burst out laughing at work…

Buttercup.5871:

Looking at early artwork (Daniel Dociu) I think the vigil keep is only a temporary hub. Afterwards, we’ll move to the Black Citadel. From there, we’ll flee massively, using zephyrite ships, to Cantha.

We are not going to Cantha. Just stop. Its not happening. We will be opening up Maguuma Jungle, The Northern Shiverpeaks and the Crystal Desert LONG before ever seeing Cantha. The first place outside of our neck of the woods we might see will be Elona.

Cantha: the place that has a emperor that is so Xenophobic that he kicked out all non-human races and closed off his borders.

And ya’ll think he’s going to let asura, sylvari, and CHARR back in to his borders sometime soon? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

WOLF is another one on SF that is active in WvW.

Sorrows Furnace: CoSA, ICE, ICED, MvM, Dawn, OTR, LORD, and some others that split their time although I’m not sure as to how much they split it so I won’t list them.

Pretty sure its going to be a pretty perm change. Remember that bridge that used to lead to that lighthouse in LA that was destroyed during the karka event?

OK, just from reading a few things that have also been said, some clarifications: Scarlet was originally doing things that she thought were of her own making but as time went on she realized were of someone/something else’s bidding. She seems to have been pushing back against that more recently and might even be trying to find/combat it. This would explain the original move to try to instill someone on the council and now (having found what she might be looking for under LA), her destruction of LA to find whatever this is that won’t leave her be, so the story still works just fine (if you’ve been following it). This isn’t a destruction of everything just because it’s cool. This might be a real set up for real change moving forward, including with how personal stories are even done.

As for the fight against an elder dragon’s forces: that was a small force trying to gain a foothold into LA. it wasn’t a wholesale invasion of forces, just a glorified scouting party. Scarlet is actually bringing the entirety of her Dredge, Flame Legion, Krait, Aetherblades and weapons to bear on LA, which far out shines what Zee threw at it. Remember, he barely thought of the humans as a threat until we started punching him in his surrogate eyes and mouths. I’m loving this story so far.

I have to guest to TC at some point. I’ve always been interested in the RP side of this and might throw my hat into that ring on occasion.

Oh i know what it what, believe me. We had some float teams, and later a night crew come by to aid in the retaking of things. just wanted to point out that we had been outmanned that night for a bit while you all were in there. We were fairly confidant that our float teams and other defensive groups would be able to get back those objectives that night so we weren’t putting the call out to recall any of our other guilds out there. We knew that we would see a DR force in our BL once i saw/heard that your keeps were dropping to us. In either case, i look forward to those fights this week. I’m going to try to solo roam some to find those fights.

I just want to point out that i was on my home BL as I always am on reset night, and for a good chunk of time WE had the outmanned buff on our BL. There was a group of about 20-25 DR that was able to roll through and do some serious damage to our BL on reset night and we still held our own. In fact, I was kinda disappointed more didn’t stay around to fight for and hold those keeps they took. Once they left it got real boring. Seriously, when you had your groups out there its been fun. Same for mid day on Saturday in SF BL. I honestly can’t speak to what Kain has been up to this week so far, but i hear they are hurting numbers wise too, but seriously, even when we were getting rolled we still tried. I remember when HoD was burying us and we pushed hard against them. did we win? Nope. Did some of them spawn camp us? Sure. But we fought. Come on. Come to our BL again. Please. i want some of those fights. Screw EoTM.

RE: Personal Nemesis -

Where did Anet say that this person was going to be someone we know? I honestly missed that part. All I remember them saying was that this nemesis was going to be introduced with this Living story (back before Flame and Frost really took off) and then after the Queen’s Jube, Scarlet takes direct notice of us, and i took that as she was the nemesis they spoke of for us.

Did I miss something else in there that changes any of that?

JoxerNL.3752:

camped 24/7 for me, if it’s not my own server group, it’s the others, easy way to get kills i guess…
Even checked it out at 4am, and there were people camping it, kinda pathetic.

Sorry to hear that. i was trying to help dudes get to it when i was there. Was only ganked by one of them that didn’t understand that i wasn’t trying to fight him when i laid down. meh.

Sidenote: I’ve seen it now on multiple threads, and I’m not really sure if people are trolling or just dense, but Rox is female. It isn’t a “bromance”.

There have been a TON of deaths of NPCs in the game. Play all paths/decisions and you will see them all. That being said, I’ll say it again, the only one that will die at the end of this will be Scarlet in a kind of crazy “you will never control me <insert big bad that will attack LA> blaze of glory as she helps beat it back after is destroys a bunch of stuff”. She is going to have her Macbeth moment.

Let’s also not forget all of those unfinished asura gates. This might mean that the ones right by the water/nearish to that thumper may get obliterated. I don’t think all of LA is going to feel it, but a lot of it will. I’m looking forward to that.

Kashrlyyk.5364:

Medazolam.3058:

…
exactly, you would likely get a good chunk of these just doing map completion in WvW. ….

I got ZERO ranks from map completion in WvW.

Did you just run into towers and keeps your server already owned or did you help it getting those objectives?

Interestingly enough, my problem with this isn’t the req for getting to rank 30, because its not that hard and really it makes sense to have to do it for the gift of battle, especially before when you had to WvW to even get the badges (which no one was complaining about before, so its just the people that got 10000000 badges from chests that are complaining). The problem i have with this is that those people that are complaining are the LAST ones I’d want taking up queue space in WvW maps since they don’t really want to be there and will detract from overall WvW play.

Oh, someone is going to die in heroic fashion. And i think it will be scarlet.

;)

Undertaker.2731:

Fantastic.5298:

Undertaker.2731:

I really enjoyed finishing off pve-ers in eotm

They stand out like sore thumbs

Anything that says “Invader” is easy loot ty Anet

Except when I have over 100 ranks across all my toons and take one of my recently level 80 toons in there. Really fun watching someone think they are about to get an easy kill drop for me to spike ’em. heh

Zweet Kont.4278:

Haralin.1473:

No leather wearing class is wanted in a zerg fight no zerg wants engis, rangers or thiefs in it zerg.

These classes are good at roaming or 5vs5 but not in zerg fights. Play a warrior and look how easy it is to survive in a zerg compared to the 3 leather classes and do also good damage or cc. I have a engi and a warrior in zerg warrior is way better than the engi.

Engi’s are hard to play; but once mastered an engi can be a pain in the kitten , and a great help to your team.

Yeah, my engie helped keep an enemy zerg from taking a camp by buying enough time and doing enough damage that the rest of the people that wp’ed back could help finish them off. Engies are beasts in zerg play.

Yeah, the annoyance at ranger pets on this boss have made me laugh since i’ve seen more than one platform fail without a ranger in sight and a more than a few with 2 rangers tear through the thing. It just comes down to people knowing the warden and how to beat it, or not knowing and eating it on the platform.

Funny thing is, I’m one of those people that has enjoyed the current LS and didn’t really care for SAB. Difference is I didn’t come into the forums to complain about SAB, I just didn’t do it. Plenty of other things to do in the game if you don’t like certain content.

The sum. So all your toons will be really high level if you have a bunch that have all played WvW in some way.

@Prysin: I’m with ya dude. Seriously, I don’t understand the vitriol against rangers. i just don’t. I’ve come up on my fair share of rangers that wrecked me. They were kitted up well and they knew their skills. have I come across ones that I wrecked? Sure. same goes for EVERY OTHER class as well. Hell, my engie is constantly rolling over people these days, even 1v5. If your server is ever getting real nasty about having a ranger around, come on down to my neck of the woods. Happy hunting dude. Don’t let the fools get ya down.

Aeonblade.8709:

Why would the penalize players for playing WvW the way it was meant to be played, large scale PvP?

Because that scale tends to be horribly unbalanced most of the time. Just sayin’.

here’s the thing that gets me the most about the “If they run away you win” or “Just run away from them, they can’t catch you, and you win” arguments: you’ve not won. They have. Whether they run from you or you from them you have still left an enemy on the map that can flip camps and stop supply from getting someplace, and there is usually nothing you can do about it. If they are really good they can troll multiple people at the same time with these builds.

A good perma-stealth thief with decent enough crit damage can flip a camp by themselves before most defenders can respond unless someone was already anticipating the attack and headed them off at the camp. Same is true for PU mesmers and even highly mobile wars that can easily flip in a LB once they got to the camp, and then if they had to run, change the LB back to main hand sword, etc while running away and breaking combat. I can be fairly mobile on my engie and there is no way i’m catching them/stopping them and they can be absolute game changers all by themselves. Get 2 or 3 on a map ahead of a larger 20 man group and they can get key camps flipped and golems started for a bigger push while playing distraction for that larger force. So no, letting them just run away and saying you’ve won is not ideal nor should it be so easily done.