Guild Wars 2

I just want to ask if this is something other players noticed, too and/whether it is only me or on the revenant or on all offhand professions:

Sometimes after drawing the weapon, the arm doesn’t have the celestial arm. Anyone else observed it? Also, I think it happened recently after the last update. Before it never bugged out.

I made them just with buy orders with the cheapest options. It’s still expensive though and it takes time, and it is a clickfest (one new feature: let us mystic forge recipes queue like crafting recipes).

serialkicker.5274:

And who are you to tell people when and why should they buy xpac? They can buy whatever they want, when they want, if they want.

Exactly, but then they have no right to complain if they are locked out of a feature. That simple.

FrizzFreston.5290:

ProtoGunner.953:

It should be quite evident to understand that in MMOs you are left out without the current expansion. But I have sympathy for people who can’t even claim a simple buff.

Generally though, I think it’s fallacious to complain about a feature they can’t use be cause they deny to buy an expansion. The attitude towards the whole media landscape nowadays is quite questionable: shows, movies and games get pirated everyday. Many people don’t understand that it costs a lot of money and passion to create such a product. If you are – even after hundreds/thousands of spent hours – too greedy to pay a free-to-play game with no drawbacks then you deserve to be left out of certain parts and new features.

It’s fallacious to complain?
Oh dear.

Under these circumstances yes.

It should be quite evident to understand that in MMOs you are left out without the current expansion. But I have sympathy for people who can’t even claim a simple buff.

Generally though, I think it’s fallacious to complain about a feature they can’t use be cause they deny to buy an expansion. The attitude towards the whole media landscape nowadays is quite questionable: shows, movies and games get pirated everyday. Many people don’t understand that it costs a lot of money and passion to create such a product. If you are – even after hundreds/thousands of spent hours – too greedy to pay a free-to-play game with no drawbacks then you deserve to be left out of certain parts and new features.

With an averaging play/day of more than 6 hours you are not casual, you need help.

Lol I always have to laugh if some puberty guys come and want ‘dark themed, intimidating’ crap. If I see such a player online I don’t see a ‘dark warrior’ – no my inner eye sees a 16 year old adolescent who tries to be awesome.

I did it and it’s in the chest. Drop rate should be 100%.

I made Astralaria and I love the fact that the precursor is only attainable through the collection although the mats needed are pretty insane.

I want to point out that only the first precursor (after to get Astralaria I) and the 2nd collection were really expensive, i. e. you needed a ton of ascended crafting material like elonian leather, spiritwood and deldrimor steel. After this collection III and IV were mostly a scavenger hunt with a few elonian leathers here and there. But it was mostly an awesome experience and a lot of fun!

But we talk about Legendary items here, it’s vanity, and not needed. Everyone who complains should just create an ascended item then.

Pretty personal opinion and also the guy there tells a lot of positive things. Like he likes the raid and also the revenant profession. And even in his conclusion that he – although he has a lot to complain – he liked it overall and got what he’s paid for.

I only have a few complaints:
- more maps next time please, it’s basically 3 maps and one meta event map which is on the super lower end compared to other triple A MMOs.
- don’t balance your legendaries, crafting, collection etc. around the TP kitten ups. It is your fault that initially the lower tier mats were so underused and then you make us using this stuff like low tier leather which almost never drops – especially not in the new maps cuz it’s 80ies.
- you made dungeons unattractive and tell us fractals is the new 5man content… without adding a single new instance. WTF? Very bad idea.
- some adventures are too hard or shouldn’t be tied to MPs

I agree, it’s not acceptable to D/C – especially if you really want those Crystalline Ore and after 1.5 hours your PC disconnects.

However, the 64-Bit client greatly improved this. I have almost never any D/Cs.

But people do it anyway, this should be taken out of the EULA. It’s ridiculous. I don’t share my game but for god’s sake between family members? Where are we, in North Korea?

And I like it. I already sank a couple of hundred hours in it. People are different, all my friends I know in real life or online mostly like it.

10k is cuz they want the guys who have money/credit cards to buy it right with money → gem → gold conversion.

Aidenwolf.5964:

ProtoGunner.4953:

The biggest problem with all those whiners is that they interpret their own opinion into the minds of everyone.

Many people like to have skill challenges hard/group content, just be cause you don’t think it’s fun you don’t have to come here like 10’000 others and whine about it for the 10’000th time and tell that it is not fun.

Ironically your post sounds whiney.

The 10,000 number you used twice to emphasize your point is also very ironic. Talking about what you don’t like is actually better than leaving the game as many have done over the last 3 years. Whichever of us is in the minority we’ll soon know. Whining about whining is the new meta.

Whining about whining isn’t whining. But I understand that you hate the game.

It’s normal that you are locked out of better classes and class choices if you aren’t willing to pay for an expansion which you will sink probably several hundreds/thousands of hours. Nothing to complain here. But you complain anyways, it’s the forums.

A laptop is never good for gaming, buy a tower – cheaper and better components, upgradable. To play GW2 with max details on you don’t need a good pc anyways.

I have three questions, that come to my mind:

1. Why no other game?
2. Do you have one single male character?
3. Do you really have such a low screen resolution or is this just cropped?

Anyway, have fun and good luck ;-)

Shoulder skins is one of the most important skins to me that’s why I never was into those effect skins. But for real: before you went through this ordeal you really never previewed this skin? People these days…

No, I tell you why I think it is. There’s a bug while you try to enter the JP and for a short time the Winter Wonderland loading screen appears, shortly after you see the Divinity’s Reach loading screen. This could be the moment you see some people walking off the ledge. It’s just a guess and I am by no means a professional MMO programmer.

But why would people do this to ‘afk’ anyways? You can enter the JP anytime (besides this but which tells you it is full).

The biggest problem with all those whiners is that they interpret their own opinion into the minds of everyone.

Many people like to have skill challenges hard/group content, just be cause you don’t think it’s fun you don’t have to come here like 10’000 others and whine about it for the 10’000th time and tell that it is not fun.

Just don’t do it, it’s just a collection with a silly effect, why do people whine about it so much.

Yes, the requirements are absolutely arbitrary and ridiculous for a small effect like some snowflakes around your body wtf? The intention that they gate it behind those ridiculous numbers (same with precursor crafting btw) is they want you to pay with real cash.

Just play, do your daily, don’t grind and sell the drinks you get for gold and call it a day. Just don’t bother.

Seems more like lag/disconnects while entering/trying to enter and the last command the server gets is that walking forward.

Also, if you want to make a bot, you don’t do it like this. You can just make a macro that jumps all the time. Or at least walks forward and backwards instead of just walking off the ledge all the time, less obvious. At least that would be the thing I’d do.

I am here with Vayne and Wanze.

Also lol City of Heroes, had not even half a million subscribers during the shutdown, it was niche and old. I had to look up a video and omg this looks so horrible… I don’t know one single person who played this game.

I second this. I did story once and did map completion, now I will eventually finish it another 1 or 2 times. But for the rest, let us finish the map, really.

I simply want that those huge maps can have a higher population than 150 people or whatever ridiculously low pop it is. In most MMOs you have huge instances (open world usually interconnected zones, no loading screen, seamless) with several thousands players and GW2 can’t even handle one map with more 150+ players. Something is really wrong…

You have an extremely low resolution and ultra low detail it hurts my eyes.

I agree, 10k drinks is simply stupid. 1k would’ve been completely normal. They started with this kind of collections shortly after HOT hit. What the heck? It’s nothing special, some snow flakes on your shoulders as a reward lol. No, 3 years ago GW2 would make it 1k. They really want us to drive us more and more in the money —> gems —> gold corner which I think is sad. GW1 worked with so much less monetary background. But then again, the past 10 years became a horrible place of monetary thinking within the game industry…

I found it a quite rewarding journey to max the masteries – I still miss one – pact leader – rest is maxed. Took some time of course, but I liked it. It’s an MMO. Give it some time. If you get everything within a short time you get bored and complain there’s nothing to do.

Also, it is account bound, you do that once then never again.

Don’t compare WoW endbosses with the first wing of GW2. I assume the final boss of GW2’s first (!) raid will be harder than the rest. As it stands now it seems on the right place difficulty wise. I can’t comment myself since I still haven’t set foot into the raid.

It’s not so hard. If you know what to do your success is more than 50%. The only a bit unfair part is the parcel part which may screw you up, but the rest is in your control.

It’s kittening awesome! You guys never played Metroidvania games? Or Zelda dungeons?

You won’t usually look from this perspective when you play, so it shouldn’t matter.

You get used to it, I know more or less where to go and where the events are now. Takes 20-30h though…

I like challenges like fungus among us, it motivates me, but for god’s sake, fix it. If you come from games like super mario or rayman which as well have such hard challenges, then you know what I mean: buggy, glitchy, it just doesn’t feel fluent and finished. I know this is an MMO and usually you shouldn’t bother about game mechanics from platformer games, but if you introduce such adventures then do it right.

Also, I found sanctum scramble (though I haven’t tried that too often, maybe a gameplay vid helps), fallen masks, punch-o-matic too hard. I consider myself a pretty good platform gamer and finished a lot of mario games with the maximum of stars etc. which have some really troublesome mechanics like this:

you forgot raids. Just to mention.

Took me mayb 1.5 hours, I had to restart the fight about 5-6 times due to bug and first not knowing what to do. Also after knowing what to do I got hit by his stupid rocks several times, which aren’t always easy to dodge and/or are just kittenty visualized/clunky to dodge.

But never 6 hours, my god, dude what the hell Also the fight itself takes only 10-15mins.

It’s fun as I remember exactly how many disliked Factions and it got criticized a lot by fans for having a rather short story, horrible voice acting, a lot of duplicate skills (remember touch ranger who took advantage of this?).

Don’t get me wrong, I loved the expansion, also the areas were great looking and also the elite areas were awesome.

You also can’t compare the map and map sizes. The maps in GW1 are extremely simple, there are no meta events, no multilevel and you couldn’t even jump. Yes, sheer landmass was rather big, but there were a lot of parts you can’t go, which was there only for decoration.

Is this a new map, I have never bin in Auric Bastion, sounds awesome!

I’ve done it a couple of times before this nerf and it used a lot of effort. Especially, it was a DPS check and I don’t think this belongs into an open world. Hence it’s a good decision to tone it down.

I agree 10k drinks is ridiculous, but I understand that vanity items should be hard to get. But I want this title. A booze title is always great.

I slowing down after the initial hype is very normal. I played a lot the past 2 months and now it’s getting less a bit. Maybe I buy a single player game for a change, but I will come back of course. And I didn’t even try raids which I plan to do (and finish my new Legendary Astralaria).

I wholeheartedly agree: saying their new 5party main content is fractals instead of dungeons (remember: we have some 20+ dungeons) and then adding 0 to fractals sounds just ironic. It may be a question of working force but if they don’t put out a couple of new fractals I wonder where our money goes.

For me a two edged sword: Yes, I think they look ridiculous, it’s stupid and surreal, especially the small wings and holographic wings which are so popular and I don’t get it. It looks stupid and attached and still so many run around with it.

Anyway, the angel wings and bat wings are far less bad imo, they are very well designed and you can use them to glide.

I nearly broke my keyboard in Fungus Among Us due to the skill #2 not working properly. Very very annoying, and frustrating. The race itself is fun though. But implementing jump n run mechanics into an MMO is problematic. Ever played a super mario? That’s the responsiveness I look for.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Dashingsteel.3410:

Central Tyria’s maps are infinitely better than the maps in HoT. I am not talking about the difficulty level of the enemies just the map design itself.

Agreed. I’m kind of surprised anyone thinks the HoT maps are better. But I will admit I’ve enjoyed Tangled Depths the most . . . as hellish as it can be.

Because HOT maps are infinitely better than the ridiculously easy and flat original maps. What they create since Dry Top is just absolutly marvellous and seeks its own in the MMO universe.

I don’t see a lot of toxicity, it’s also subjective. There was a discussion in map chat in DS yesterday be cause we almost failed the boss and even the 3 bosses right before took ages be cause south wasn’t doing great. I just have to laugh about stuff like this, so I don’t really care. After we still managed to kill the boss people got easy on each other. Maybe there are people who feel here ‘massive toxiciy’ etc. but really; gamer’s are quite direct and toxic, ever played an MOBA? :-) Just get used to it and don’t take it serious – it’s a brutal world outside.

Now they introduced raids which finally is endgame and you don’t even mention it lol. Do raids and/or legendary collections. Will keep you online for a while.

Let’s face it most Central Tyria maps are boring and ridiculous once you were on HOT maps for a while. It’s like a child’s play.

But actually only one HOT map is really complex and that’s Tangled Depths which really has multi-layers. VB has almost no root level and the canopy isn’t that big either. Still a great map though. Auric Basin is mostly one layer like most maps and Dragon’s Stand is mostly one layer.

Also they aren’t that big. Compare the map size with Lornar’s Pass for example. They aren’t bigger although they may seem bigger.

Zebulous.2934:

I don’t want to be forced to wear a head piece

You don’t have to. Turn off head armor in wardrobe or equipment tab and you will turn off the head piece item of outfits, too.