Guild Wars 2

EmoxiHaX.1726:

I can 100% support this statement as I’ve witnessed a deer take down 2 wolves.

The wolves just need to learn to play.

Uberlicious.3956:

rae i find that running in the boarderlands is much more enjoyable . was in EB yesterday the commanders were not speaking to each other, then when they where they where putting each other down . boarderlands though seems to have commanders that work well with each other and comminucate alot more. now im not saying eb is always like that sense 95% of my time is in the BL but thats how it was yesterday when i was in it .

I spend most of my time in borderlands as well. No specific reason, it just seems I have more fun running around in the borderlands.

I can’t grind anymore. I get bored too quickly. I’ve accepted I’ll never have the best gear. I’m not even full exotics yet and I’ve been playing since the first week.

I don’t care, though. I’m close enough that I can still do okay in WvW. I still run around kill who I can, die to the others (frequently) and run back to do it all again.

If I fall too far behind on gear that I can’t even put up a fight, I’ll have to decide what to do, but until then, not gonna worry about it. I’ll just use what I got.

Mif.3471:

Braxxus.2904:

Rifle Engineer 100-0’ing everyone in less than 2 seconds upon initial contact. Most within 1 second
http://youtu.be/PJkTMqJOWvU

That video is of a level 80 glass cannon in full exotics, back in September when the game was new, killing people sidekicked up to 80 wearing their leveling gear 5-10 levels below their own level.

This is why context is important.

Auesis.7301:

I am against the existence of Portal in WvW simply because it makes the Mesmer a more desired profession over any other. I thought we could play how we wanted? It’s simply pathetic to hear the mandatory “sweep for Mesmers” EVERY SINGLE CAPTURE.

What about the people who like playing mesmers? And want to portal? Or the people who like to use portals and want to continue using them? You don’t want them to “play how they want”?

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

xxxzavulonxxx.8413:

Mirage.8345:

/signed. The portal skill is actually the root of what most people are complaining about in WvW, they just don’t realize it. More hardcore WvWers are leaving every day, waiting for a game that gets it right.

You mean softcore…

Is your definition of hardcore ‘Poof into the enemy’s fort and slaughter them without a fifteenth of a fight’? Because that’s what I’m getting out of this. Softcore players are casuals who play for fun. Hardcores play for a challenge, and with portals the way they are a challenge is becoming less and less common on the battlefield.

Wouldn’t the hardcore players be challenged by the softcore players portalling around?

I would like to once again request that we get some sort of display telling us where we are in the WvW PVP queue. I don’t understand why this is so difficult at this point.

If we’re in a queue, you should know which number we are in line and be able to tell us. That way we can gauge where we are in line.

Xetelian.9278:

Am I the only one who wants Dolyak safety to be rewarding?

Absolutely not. I am all about Dolyak safety. I personally equipped all the Dolyaks with a whistle they could blow when assaulted by enemy forces.

The world is just a better place when the Dolyak’s are safe so Dolyak safety is it’s own reward.

HERO.2057:

I am throwing facts, you guys are throwing opinions.

Ahh yes. This is always a good one. The old, “I am stating facts that this stuff sucks while you are stating a mere opinion that you think it doesn’t suck”.

Good stuff. <——— FACT

Please add a queue status for WvW so we know where we are in line.

Because your queue is bugged we have no idea if we’re actually moving up in line or not. Today, again, I waited for 2 hours only to find out I must have been bugged becuase other people were gettign in almost immediately.

Why are not showing us what number we are in line?

Could you please add something to let us know where in line we are?

It is becoming increasinly frustrating to wait around for WvW without knowing how much longer the wait is, especially in light of the fact that the queue can be bugged…so you can be waitign around for hours for no reason.

Apos.5184:

Got to love the “I don’t get affected by the DR, thus everything is ok” joke.

So, whatever is best for you means that it’s best for everyone?

You want to tell us how to play something?
What’s next? You’ll want to dictate others on their job, study or whatever?

This is not the first game ever made with rules and/or restrictions.

So do PVP’er’s get 100% completion just from doing the 4 PVP maps? Maybe they don’t want to look at any of the PVE maps.

I like to grief people and cyber in chat with the womenz. Why won’t GW2 let me play the way I want?

“they reset back to zero at the start of each day and month respectively, at midnight UTC (4:00 PM PST/5:00 PM PDT).”

So you read the info you just didn’t understand what it meant.

Welcome to the age of global technology. Learn timezones, what they mean and how they work.

“This game seems like it was made for 5 year olds.”

Are you saying a 5 year old could figure this game out through trial and error but you cannot?

Where did my Monty Python post go?

grrrrr…

veritech.1048:

Kwami.4356:

In fairness, ArenaNet definitely posted that daily and monthly achievements reset at GMT midnight. Also, the daily achievements have been resetting at that time all month. It’s your own kitten fault for not finishing everything in time.

I thought it would reset tomorrow at 5 when the whole world was in October.

You know, because that’s the logical route instead of shafting certain timezones out before the month ends.

That’s no more logical than ending it at GMT time.

Welcome to the global age of technology where the internet does not necessarily run based on your specific timezone.

Well, now everyone knows. GMT time is what counts.

Experience is what you get, when you don’t get what you want.

I like GW2 as much as anyone, but what WoW did 8 years ago has nothing to do with whether GW2 succeeds or not.

This, I can agree with you on. Not so much that I want less moderation on the forums, but that there should definitely be a stronger in-game GM presence.

Paul.4081:

They asked me how I got to 80. I just logged out after that (I could’ve told them how I strategically optimised my builds with my heroes in GW’s but I think they were already focussing on GW2 and the only answer they wanted was “Lol!” , dungeons not something I gonna be trying much more of. I’ll play other games with crosshairs where skill and not spam is a factor.

So you joined a group, walked into a dungeon, someone said, “How’d you get to Level 80”, and you logged off?

Did you delete an entire paragraph from your post or something?

“A lot of players love to heal. A lot of players love to tank. And I don’t mean the gimmick healing and tanking that Gw2 has either. Removing the Holy Trinity was one of the worst things an mmo could do.”

Not to sound rude, but if you love the trinity and think it’s essential to gameplay, why did you buy a game with a well announced intention to get rid of the trinity?

I just read a thread where someone was complaining about queue times for WvW.

Weird how that’s working out.

Lots of games still have the holy trinity as far as I know…Can always play one of them.

That didn’t really fix anything, that changed it.

You guys who like burgers keep coming to the chinese restaurant complaing you want burgers. Wong’s is right next to a Burger Barn for god’s sake. Go there. Quit telling Wong he needs to server burgers.

The trinity is not essential to anything.

There are loads of trinity-based games. I can’t understand the people who bought a game that clearly and unequivocally said it was getting rid of it.

Hi. I want a burger. I’m tired of Burger Barn, so I’m going to go to Wong’s House Of Super Chinese Food. Then I’m going to tell Wong how great burgers are and how burgers are essential to running a restaurant.

Dopplegangr.9678:

I’d say pretty much every MMO besides WoW is dead. I don’t know anyone that still plays AoC, Rift, Aion, Tera, SWTOR, etc. I’m guessing the same will be true for GW2 soon.

You don’t know a lot of people do you?

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, good riddance to the holy trinity.

SamTheGuardian.2938:

veritech.1048:

The goal is to control everything on the map. How is this so hard for you to understand? The benefit is tons of buffs for the realm.

There’s your reward.

I think it’s fun, but for longitivtiy it needs more. How man times can you really go through this cycle of holding keeps, protecting supply chains, doing repairs, etc… before it gets old without anything more than just “oh it’s fun”. It’s not just that there are no individual rewards, it’s that there is no scenario for a win (to be fair perhaps I’m missing it?).

Would you sit down in the middle of a game of chess and play for 5-6 turns, capture a few pawns and then drop off? With WvW that does seem to be how it works. You come into this never ending battle scenario.

Yea, after months of this, I usually stop and think, “It would be great if all this effort got me a sword that does an extra +5 damage”.

Then it’s all worthwhile cuz I got me a shiny!

It’s deja vu all over again.

Roargathor.2743:

Now I can just WvW and not worry about being “out geared”. In my opinion all item stats should be level in any PvP situation like they are in Spvp. This game has crushed all other MMO’s in that respect. I actually love seeing the gear grinders qq posts too. Finally a game that focuses more on game-play and player skill over item progression.

Some of them are cryng simply because of that.

In the past, lack of skill could be hidden by spending 500 hours in dungeons grinding gear.

Now…everyone’s geared the same. You sink or swim in PVP based on your ability and that sucks for some of the former “gear grinders” who could hide behind their bigger numbers but can no longer do so.

SamTheGuardian.2938:

What kind of rewards were given out for this? It seems to me the play mechanics are there, the reward system is what needs work…

C’mon. Was that sarcastic or real? I can’t tell.

In other news, I’ve recently taken to surfing the curling forums. I tell them I now attend curling matches and watch curling on TV, but I miss football, and ask them to make curling more like football.

I am generally met with resistance, but I am just trying to help them make their sport better.

Since I’m an Asuran, all you bookahs seem like giants to me.

About 1.5 but I’ve probably spent a couple gold on siege equipment in WvW.

Not really trying to do anything to earn or save gold either.

I’d be fine if the prices of the waypoints varied on usage.

Usage increases, the price increases. Usage decreases, the price decreases.

Let the populations willingness to use and pay determine the price.

Lance Coolee.9480:

deriver.5381:

Altho the I never minded walking a bit just to reduce my waypoint fees… Guess that’s exactly what people should do and it really doesn’t hurt.

Are you going to start walking the moment gas prices get too high to drive? Likely not – people will beat down the walls until those prices become reasonable. I see no difference on this topic.

You see no difference getting up at 3AM so you can walk 4 hours one way to work and spending 5 mins on your rear virtually walking down the road?

I just hope ANet gives everyone in this thread who posted multiple times a reward for their forum grind.

Gauradan.8361:

I’m just pointing out that it does require the completion of several hundred dynamic events, which makes it, in the common definition of the notion, a grind, which in turn was contradictory to their statement in the manifesto

You’re looking for a game where you do everything exactly one time?

You’ve been complaining for almost two weeks now that you are bored and have nothing to do.

You needed to start another thread about it?

I am having a grand old time. I bought GW2 mostly for the PVP. I have been very pleasantly surprised with the PVE side of things. The world is fantastic, the quests are setup much better than most MMO’s and I am having fun levelling.

Gauradan.8361:

Porky.5021:

There is no grind required. You can have the same abilities and stats as everyone else without grinding anything.

“We just don’t want players to grind in Guild Wars 2, no one enjoys that, no one finds it fun.”

Can I have the dungeon armor that I like without grinding? No.
Why are dungeons a grind? Because they’re not fun.
Why aren’t they fun? Because they’re poorly designed.
Why are they poorly designed? Because the difficulty is artificially created via huge health pools and huge damage on mobs, instead of clever mechanics.

Oh, so I can’t have that dungeon armor then? Nope.

You can’t just say that to people. ArenaNet need people to buy their expansions to keep the game going. How do you get people to buy expansions? By making the previous content entertaining.

You’re mad because you can’t just have everything you want?

There’s a word for that…spoiled.

There is no grind required. You can have the same abilities and stats as everyone else without grinding anything.

Derpinator.2894:

Porky.5021:

Derpinator.2894:

I just hope you never procreate or vote.

You’re the one who just threw yourself off a bridge. Not sure you should be telling other people not to procreate or vote.

No. I pressed a button. And on most other “skills” it would be smart enough to realize I didn’t mean, “Hey, let’s leap off a bridge because it looks GREAT! And, that’s the… best looking way to position ourselves for… the next best looking thing!”

So I maintain my argument. If you think this is good, or that skills like “automatically attack everything in range, even that helpless moa that’s just standing there eating… whatever moas eat” is good…

Never mind.

I’m laughing too hard to finish now.

Maybe you should go play something less stressful.

Derpinator.2894:

I just hope you never procreate or vote.

You’re the one who just threw yourself off a bridge. Not sure you should be telling other people not to procreate or vote.

WvW PVP as endgame works pretty well for me.

PVE is scripted and finite. No matter how much PVE content you add, people will get through it all. That’s why I think PVP works so well…it’s not scripted and people can be very unpredictable.

What game is perfect for a lot of people?

Doctor Ivo Robotnik.3879:

Hate to be blunt about it. If there is no reward in what you are doing, then why do it in the first place? I know that what I just stated might be considered selfish, but honestly, the human race generally is selfish.

People who are quit willing to state they refuse to do things that don’t reward them, then spend their time playing games are strange.

Shouldn’t you be working or getting an education? Something that rewards you?

Agrias.2391:

With gw2 they obviously tried to reach out to a broader audience and failed so far at keeping those.

How do you know they failed at keeping them? What data do you have access to that the rest of us do not?