Guild Wars 2

GUYS! We won’t have the worst name anymore! I’m OK with this.

bladex.9502:

Sometimes I like to cover myself completely in Vaseline and pretend I’m a snail, but Anet didn’t make outfits for snails so I feel oppressed, time to QQ on the forums!

If you really find this a big issue, just uninstall the game

Pics pls. tyvm.

(Actually, please no. Don’t take any pics.)

Wildkitten.3872:

PookieDaWombat.6209:

Oh for the love of…

OK. Look. Stop it. Please. Just stop.

I think there is already WAY more sensitivity and inclusiveness in this game as it is. Certainly more than other online games out there have ever been. Give it a rest. Yes, they have made the clothing gender specific. No, they won’t nor should they change that. I’m getting REAL tired of every niche group expecting their niche wants and needs expressed in this game. ITS A GAME! Get over it already.

I swear to all things that are holy if the “free the nipple” crowd starts trying to seriously advocate that the female toons get to run around topless I’m going to lose my mind.

Just stop it.

You know you just likely created the desire in some to complain about this very thing. Let’s hope and pray Miley Cyrus doesn’t play GW2 or this WILL become an issue.

Sadly, yes, right after I posted it and re-read it. :/

Oh, and before we start getting into things like gender, heteronorma-don’t really care anymore, we might want to start simpler, like getting Anet to design better face options for the humans/norn that might want to play a POC and not just a Caucasian with a really deep tan and an afro wig. Or even having less playboy model-esque body types.

Oh for the love of…

OK. Look. Stop it. Please. Just stop.

I think there is already WAY more sensitivity and inclusiveness in this game as it is. Certainly more than other online games out there have ever been. Give it a rest. Yes, they have made the clothing gender specific. No, they won’t nor should they change that. I’m getting REAL tired of every niche group expecting their niche wants and needs expressed in this game. ITS A GAME! Get over it already.

I swear to all things that are holy if the “free the nipple” crowd starts trying to seriously advocate that the female toons get to run around topless I’m going to lose my mind.

Just stop it.

I know i am SUPER excited about them offering up a special sale in the GEM store for a whole bunch of dyes (that I probably already have unlocked), and some other stuff i could care less about.

Yeeeeeeah.

:/

Snarftastic.6709:

Hey everyone,

I’ve recently just come back today (never reached max before, just casually played on and off with many up to 70).

I decided to roll Necromancer as it appealed greatly to me and as I’ve been playing I’ve been hearing how borderline useless it is compared to every other class and that I should just re-roll. Am I really going to be auto kicked from certain content because I chose a class that doesn’t min/max as well as say an Elementalist does?

Sucks, I won’t be rerolling as I love the class, just hopefully it’s nearly not as bad kitten many make it out to be.

Two things: First, you can play whatever you like where ever you like and you can do all the content you’d like with like minded people. If you see a LFG wanting specific classes and levels and gear and you don’t fit it, then don’t try to join it. Really that simple.

Second, as for necros, I’ve been playing mime with a GREAT vampiric build that lets her face tank almost everything in Tyria, especially if there are a large number of enemies. Same build has tons of fun in WvW and PvP too.

One thing that I have done is I make a separate tab in my chat window called “QUIET” and make sure to have everything unchecked, then click the little speech bubble icon in the corner and play without any visual noise coming from any source.

Just something to keep in mind.

Wow, ok, Zudet….wow.

First, your leap of ZOMG why u want something for nothing (and please don’t try to say that isn’t what you were going for there) is exactly that, a leap.

I wanted clarification regarding the legendary back item they spoke of (and more importantly from an actual Anet employee).

Now, disregarding the silliness regarding precursor crafting and them locking it behind the HoT upgrade, I get why they’ve done it…mostly.

My bigger question here regarding this lefedary back item was more about it requiring fractals, since i know many people that don’t touch FoM with a 10 foot pole AND the fact that I knew they were locking the other precursor crafting behind masteries only available to HoT players, so I wanted a solid yes or no from Anet on that front.

Reason being because if the answer was “no” on that second point for some reason, then I’d have some follow up questions for Anet AND if the answer was Yes for the first then I’d have a few more comments to make on it all.

Sure we can assume (and it is just an assumption) that they have some other back items planned for the game of legendary status, but the ETA on those will be fairly nebulous. This means that for the foreseeable future the only one in the game will be this one, and in FoM is a requirement for getting the pre made, then Anet may end up with a lot of angry posts in the forums.

So, am I to understand that this legendary back item can only be obtained if you play fractals?

Also, will the ability to get this also be locked away from people that don’t buy HoT?

The biggest problem I have with Scarlet, or more importantly the perceptions of her, is that she is thought of as being 100% evil for the same of being evil.

The truth is, I think she is less evil than those of the nightmare court as they willingly turned from the tree, turned from its protection and embraced that darker part of themselves that was calling out to them so they could revel in that pain and anguish then bring it to others.

Scarlet’s biggest crime was one of curiosity and an almost insatiable thirst for knowledge that lead her to an Asura who was willing to use her as a test subject, and unwittingly unlocked in her mind not only deep knowledge of the universe but also opened a direct connection between her and an elder dragon. The dragon then used her as a champion to find a way to deliver to him the biggest “meal” of magical energy possible. Once she became Scarlet, she was no longer her own being with her own wants and needs. She was acting solely as a weapon for her true master. Her mind had been warped beyond belief at this point when we encounter her, and for this reason I feel some amount of pity for her.

Fun fact: I used to accidentally pull the mobs OUT of my wife’s AOE barrage with that same move on my guardian.

Kitten happens.

Pandaman.4758:

PookieDaWombat.6209:

Pandaman.4758:

PookieDaWombat.6209:

Then Anet has frankly failed at a very base level. Unlocking the elite spec should only allow your character to use the weapon as any other weapon, regardless if the elite spec is chosen or not.

Not that you can really do that now. How many people make condition warriors with greatswords or power necromancers with scepters?

Sure, you have the option to try to use any weapon as any other weapon, but weapons are currently balanced to favor one form of DPS over the other and traits are basically designed to enhance them; it’s hardly traits dictating what sort of weapons you can use, but what weapons you choose to use dictating what traits you should take.

The point is, I can choose to run those weapons with whatever trait (spec) loadout I want. That is on me to find a way to make it work or not make it work. What Anet is doing now is basically telling me that if I want to even run this weapon then I HAVE to choose the spec line its tied to or not even bother. That kills build diversity IMO and amounts to them telling me how to play my toon.

Be fair, it limits diversity, but it hardly kills it. You still have two other trait lines that you’re free to be completely inefficient with

This is very true. I just wish they gave us that option. By limiting it they are also further putting our playing on rails, and I don’t like that.

I get some of the reasons why, but it still doesn’t sit right with me.

Pandaman.4758:

PookieDaWombat.6209:

Then Anet has frankly failed at a very base level. Unlocking the elite spec should only allow your character to use the weapon as any other weapon, regardless if the elite spec is chosen or not.

Not that you can really do that now. How many people make condition warriors with greatswords or power necromancers with scepters?

Sure, you have the option to try to use any weapon as any other weapon, but weapons are currently balanced to favor one form of DPS over the other and traits are basically designed to enhance them; it’s hardly traits dictating what sort of weapons you can use, but what weapons you choose to use dictating what traits you should take.

The point is, I can choose to run those weapons with whatever trait (spec) loadout I want. That is on me to find a way to make it work or not make it work. What Anet is doing now is basically telling me that if I want to even run this weapon then I HAVE to choose the spec line its tied to or not even bother. That kills build diversity IMO and amounts to them telling me how to play my toon.

@CH: if there is no real viable way for a core class to counter the new specs/weapons, then no it will not just be a glorified subclass, and the fact that Anet is making it so you’d HAVE to be in the spec to even use the new weapon hints that even THEY think those skills can be abused when used with other spec load outs.

If I bought the xpac and wanted to play with a bow on my guardian, but not use the DH spec line I should be allowed to do that as long as I have unlocked that spec line.

Then Anet has frankly failed at a very base level. Unlocking the elite spec should only allow your character to use the weapon as any other weapon, regardless if the elite spec is chosen or not.

This inability to use the weapon if you’re not using the spec actively flies in the face of player choice (again) and shows that Anet has had no intention to balance these new specs with the old.

OR, Anet can actually skill balance their game like they said they would and make it so the new skills/specs aren’t more powerful than the core stuff and therefore it won’t matter.

Seriously if I decide to buy this expansion and later find out I can’t spec my character to use the new weapon if I’m not using the new spec as well I’ll be real kittened off.

Tybalt.

Of all the NPCs, he is the most relate-able, and real. Of all of the NPCs (whom we all get to know for the same amount of time), he is the only one I honestly felt for.

True story: my first play through was with the Vigil. When those gates closed behind him that first time on Claw Island I remember my reaction being, “Oh kitten , that sucks.”

My second play through was with the Order and when it came time to do that mission I distinctly remember going, “Oh nononononononono, not Tybalt…wait…I don’t want to do this mission now.” I honestly hated doing it since I knew how it would end, and his words as those doors closed hit me real hard. Whomever wrote his lines/character should be commended for succeeding so well in that way.

As for the Sylvari, I almost put my foot on her bum to kick her back through that door with a hearty “See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya!” Sorry, she annoys me.
Granted her reaction to and the way she talks to the ogres is funny, but thats about it.

raises a glass of apple cider

Speaking to the WvW thing: I started this game primarily as a PvE player. I only went into WvW so I could get my map complete on my first toon and dreaded having to do it.

Next thing I knew I was logging in specifically just to do WvW and having a blast playing with some awesome people. It has had some great potential, but recently it has not only stagnated, but Anet has chosen to do things (like this week’s event) counter to what the crux of the WvW community has wanted. Quite literally, golems are much hated in WvW yet this week was all about people using them more.

…

Right.

So, do I think its all malicious and that they aren’t listening to us? No, not at all. I like a lot of the proposed changes coming to WvW from the upgrade mechanics, to the map changes and the greater focus on defending, which are all things the WvW community HAS asked for. Problem is, we aren’t seeing that until HoT drops, and until then we’d prefer they not do more to kill the WvW side of the game before they have a chance to implement the new stuff.

Servers in T1 might not feel the shift in players, but those of us in bronze…different story all together.

So, I was going through some of the awesome music that Anet made for the various events and living story and I came across the music for the dancing norn hologram:

https://soundcloud.com/arenanet/guild-wars-2-norn-hologram

Now, am I going crazy or is the guild wars music, when played in this way..does it sound like a slowed down version of the X-Files theme song?

The voice acting is horrible. In some instances is bearable, but good lord, there are some in there that make me physically cringe every time he utters the words. Its as if they surprised the voice actor with a series of lines to read at 4am and just recorded him one time, cold, then put it into the game.

As a character, there is no reason in the game to like him. He whines about being put in charge of the pact, but then sits back and lets you do all the heavy lifting along with the rest of the pact then is all like “we wons”. No “we” didn’t. YOU sat there playing Calad with your bolg while we fought our tushies off.

Please make him kindling.

yeah, going to pretty much avoid it if I can for this week.

Yeah, kits are great, when you build around their use, but then that also makes them a one trick pony. Also, my point was that the same argument they are using for giving the Rev the WS can just as easily be applied to engie and to some extent Ele.

Even more so when they intro the next weapon into the mix for the elite spec since they also seem to be building the specs around those weapons and traits.

Just makes sense to allow for the swap on those toons or it will be needlessly mean IMO.

OK, so having just watched the POI about the Rev and the ability to weapon swap it got me thinking.

All of the same reasons they’ve given for allowing the new class to have weapon swap applies to Engie (and even Ele) as well.

I think its about time they allow us to have weapon swap in the game if they are going to just give it to the revanent.

Thoughts?

I used to have fun on one of my (now deleted) warriors with the DFA trait. Would sit in defense of Hills and wait for some small team to try to hit the cata wall, then DFA/Fear Me them off of the cliff edge.

Good times.

Randulf.7614:

It will get UW weapons since the PS contains UW content. It’s just they chose to not announce that info.

Yeah, there are very few of us that actually enjoy UW combat/content so they probably didn’t care to mention it.

Brother Dulfite.5793:

Proof that the gw2 heroes are weaker than the gw1 heroes when I easily dispatched this villain in Factions, and yet now he is (along with the revenant class in general) supposed to turn the tide against the dragons.

My gw1 Monk would smite these dragons easily… I guess we have experienced degeneration over the past hundreds of years.

From a lore perspective that’s actually true. Remember the dragons are here to consume the magic in the world, so there has been a steady decrease in magical power since they’ve awaken. (Unless you’re the Queen and her Mesmer BFF, in which case you are two of the most powerful mesmers to have ever existed in Tyria.)

Spam 1 on your condi spec. Probably would bleed and/or cause torment in an area effect in the water. That’s usually enough to make most enemies flee from you underwater.

In all seriousness though, they are probably just going to get a trident and some “blink through the mist” to travel quickly in the water skill.

For ease of making a point:

http://dulfy.net/2015/07/01/gw2-colin-explains-why-sab-is-not-returning-soon/

They’ve already explained why SAB isn’t out right now, but in case you don’t want to search for the answer, SAB is essentially broken at the moment since it relied on game mechanics and some tricky dev tricks to get it to work the way it had been working and since the last time it was in the game there have been significant changes to the game engine (how things work, etc) that have in turn broken SAB and while they want to bring it back, they are in spare no man mode for getting the xpac done and out the door because they have deadlines to meet. In short, it will be worked on and released once HoT is out and they can focus a team on it again.

As for a WvW tourney: meh. I’m frankly tired of seeing the bandwagon dance that each one brings to every single server. Megaservers have done enough to kill servers, and the tourney just further wrecks them. They can keep it as far as I’m concerned.

Actually the only “fix” to stealth in this case should be that Mesmers should have less access to it and not the same amount if not more than thieves in the game since their “gimmick” is really the clones and illusions and how they use or shatter them. Sure a small stealth akin to the one that rangers can get, but not too much more.

Them having as much access to stealth is just overkill.

Necrotic.7820:

I find it interesting that many of the folks here apparently siding with the OP are condoning and encouraging the very same behavior they claim to be reporting.

Is it the players fault that re-taking a temple is more rewarding than holding it? And why is their definition of having fun (getting loot) somehow empirically less honorable or worthwhile than your definition of having fun (playing the game as you think it was intended)?

Maybe what those players should do in response to your desire to hold out is call in all of their friends to scale up the event without actually contributing to its defense. How would one or two parties fair against five champions at once?

I want to know why so many of you people who claim to be playing the game “the way it was intended to be played” insist on delivering all manner of grief on those players that aren’t playing it your way?

Let’s be clear here: Events (as per Anet) are meant to be played to succeed at them. Purposefully losing to game the system of rewards is exactly the opposite of playing the game as it was intended, yet when Anet fixes it so farmers no longer get rewards for failing they all complain. Stop. Gaming. The. System.

Frankly if I came across an event where someone rudely told my to F off because they wanted it to fail, I’d sit there and single-handedly complete the event time and time again until they re-mapped. Hey, just having fun in my own way right?

Yeah, not to mention it will be some very short leaps that go from:

“Hey dude, can you play the healer in this run?” to “Hey dude, can you please play that healer Ele spec with these very specific build choices?”

And if they say no, then they get bounced. Nah.

I don’t like it.

And just to add something else: I am really not down on the whole healing spec thing as my main warrior has been running full clerics and some combo of banners/shouts/warhorn since I made her ages ago. Her banners helped a lot during that S1 scarlet nonsense keeping people standing in the tower fights as well as WvW, but its was all secondary padding for those people there.

For a PUG, having people help with healing or damage mitigation might be helpful, but for over all survive chances Anet has made a game that favors DPS simply in the way they made Bosses work while making most trash mobs easy to ignore or roll over regardless of your build.

Fact is, until healers/support can effectively negate those big boss haymakers that don’t care how much armor you have or how many hit points you have and can still down you in one hit their utility in a group is nil.

All they do is prolong a fight thereby giving the boss that many more chances to use the big “kill everything hit”, which means increased chances of party wipes. And I say all of this as someone who likes to play tank/healer. The game just wasn’t designed well for them.

Now, that being said, newer content (like SW and the Vinewraith) have made my role as a healer/tank much more important and I love getting to flex those muscles, but I also have to remember to spec for some amount of damage or the fights will take forever. Now is it good to have someone out there doing pure healing? Meh…maybe, but its really not necessary as long as everyone can spec enough into their own healing as well as damage the way I did on my Guardian.

They can try to retcon their history and their words all they want, but at the end of the day, the game itself was not built with the trinity in mind. If it were then there would be a way to properly pull aggro and not just some new skill that holds aggro, sort of. There would have been and will be meaningful group/area and single target heals (which still do not exist in the game) where they are beneficial to a group.

I forgot who, but someone already did the math breakdown as to why the meta has been zerk in PvE and its not because people have a chub for zerk, but because the game was designed in such a way that it is the most effective method for killing enemies with the fewest casualties.

I’d love for it to matter that I can go out in a healing build on my guardian and keep people standing in spite of themselves while possibly tanking a good amount of damage and allowing my ranged people space to melt a boss. That isn’t how this game was developed though.

Are you in a guild? Sounds like a lot of your issues are not having people you know to play with and enjoy the game with them. The most fun i’ve had in this game was running around with my wife or guildies and with a group of some awesomely funny people in WvW.

Also, I think you might be approaching this game somewhat “wrong”. The joy of this game (for many) comes from exploration and trying everything as it comes along.

At the end of the day though if you are really that dissatisfied with the game then maybe you might need to seek something else out. :/

Wryscher.1432:

Jana.6831:

DeWolfe.2174:

All the thieves thinking we’re talking about them. Sorry, most of us are talking about Mesmer’s abusing stealth now.

It would also affect thieves though and I don’t think mesmers/engis/rangers would care too much about their stealth being taken away as their class mechanics aren’t based on stealth.

It is actually one of the things that annoys me about my thief. The stealth on my mesmer with PU is like an added bonus. You are decent without and can build for it. Add traited stealth and you are down right nasty. So you can really play either with or without it.

Play your thief and you are a walking loot bag without stealth since the whole class seems balanced around it. It is silly the difference.

Not saying its easy or easier by any stretch, but I have a thief build that has no stealth use as part of the build. Or rather, lie, it uses CnD to set up pistol one for the bleeds, but its not like I’m using the stealth to survive, just to set up part of the condi burst.

I’ve had tons of fun with her on that build in WvW. Too many people are eager to chase even when hurting.

Nick Lentz.6982:

lololololo at saying Invulnerability needs a counter nerf when it lasts for at most 3 seconds with very long cool downs
:P………………..and stealth can be unlimited, op has a point.
It is far abused and needs a cool down, a better one at that, just like everything else. I stopped being a bunk guard with over 20k hp and 3.5k armor because a thief hit me for 9k each hit, after being in stealth. Glass cannons can do what ever they want and still survive. It is sad how anet let this system end up this way, but it needs a change.

I can’t believe this. As someone who played a bunker/boon monkey guardian I cannot believe a single thief was able to do that much damage to you, between Aegis, another aegis, blinds, blocks, more blocks, invuln, more blinds, and oh look, aegis is back. I once had a never ending battle with a thief in WvW that was a glass cannon. He couldn’t burn through all of my defense and I was hitting like a wet noodle which he healed in stealth. It was comical. After a while we just bowed and went our separate ways.

Maybe 2-3 thieves exploded on you, but one thief? Nah. Literally impossible if you are playing bunker guardian correctly.

Anyone 2v1 in PvP is going to get exploded. I just “love” getting wrecked by a necro and engie or 2 engies even. Really, it doesn’t matter the combo, chances are even if you’re specc’d to deal with one of them, the other will have a build to exploit your weaknesses.

It sucks, but that’s the reality.

That being said, I HATE fighting mesmers in PvP. They are just way too much work and can usually tie you up long enough for the rest of their team to dogpile you if you aren’t watching.

Me thinks someone is getting tired with getting ganked by a good stealth thief.

Roll a thief, play to 80 or try a full stealth glass cannon in PvP for a while and get used to the timing. Promise you thieves will be WAY less scary after that.

This is from a guardian main that had the same issues back in the day and have since L2P.

:)

From a level 80 standpoint the trait system is just fine IMO. Sure some builds were completely wrecked, but for the most part most classes came out with more ways to build up their toons, and for the most part, more powerful at the end of the day.

I think it might make for some wonky leveling, but i’ve not fully tested that yet.

All in all I think its in a better place over all and has the potential to improve. Let’s just hope there is no more throwing the baby out with the bathwater when anyone critiques the system. We had over a year of that kind of nonsense, and I’d rather not a repeat of the traits 2.0 fiasco.

Ooooooooh, i get it now…

you’re a ranger that put all your eggs in the “hit 2 on my attack bar from really far away to melt people” and now you are feeling the affects of people that heave learned to fight that meta.

There are plenty of ways to know that your shots are about to be reflected, and the fact that LB 2 skill is on a much smaller CD than many of the reflect skills out there, I can’t feel too bad about rangers that end up eating their arrows on occasion.

Anet: Don’t change this. It works just fine.

Seriously.

Some named exotic that was worth something like 18-20 gold at the time. Think its the scepter on my older necro now.

Never even sniffed a precursor.

Kraljevo.2801:

It’s just for one week for kittens sake.

So is Anet also disabling PPT for that week? Are they going to let the rankings shift based on what happens during that week?

No?

Then there is a problem with it.

Dand.8231:

Spoon.6170:

Uh, no……….

Murksler.5261:

Yep this will be a vacation for me.
One week without playing GW2.

Highly detailed, and well thought out, counterpoints! Now ANet knows exactly why you hate their event! Kudos sirs!
/s

I believe the post you linked to in your OP listed all the reasons why people who enjoy WvW will hate this event. There is no need to rehash it here.

Fact is, instead of listening to MANY people regarding ways to fix current issues in WvW and listening to the MANY players that really don’t like how Golem rushes can already be abused, they have instead made an event not for the “fun” it might bring, but because they want to clear their market place of the surplus there to fix the price of the blueprints.

There will be nothing fun about this event for smaller WvW population servers that already struggle to put up numbers. Enjoy it if you’d like, but understand that it WILL hurt WvW more than help it.

the biggest fix for underwater combat would be trying to find a way to make things above you appear as a different color from something “on your level” and also from things below you. So if enemy is above me in water they are bright blue on the map and if below me a bright yellow.

There are definitely things I have disliked about this update. Of all my toons only one was really able to stay the way she was and might even be better at what I had made her into.

My two mains since the start, my Guardian and my Engie are wrecked. I basically need to re gear them to make them viable, although my Guardian is mostly workable as is. He’s nowhere near how I had him, but I can live with that. My engie? Nope. She’s fairly unusable in WvW at the moment and feels “off” even in PvE. Luckily there’s nothing in PvE that is that scary, but still. I don’t like it that she feels so different after the patch and I have to choose between mobility and being able to survive an onslaught.

My other toons are in various stages of meh and the gold cost for re-gearing them to not suck or be viable again more than anything grates me.

Still not enough info regarding HoT to consider buying it IMO. Some of it has been intriguing, but with that price point they REALLY need to wow me or I’m going to refrain until it goes on some ridiculous sale down the line.

I have ZERO motivation to talk to this Skritt. Seriously. There enough gambling built into this game with horrible RNG. Why would I opt to lose both gold AND a valuable material in a gamble???

I’d rather take 500 dollars to Vegas and play some blackjack.