Guild Wars 2

It takes 2-3 hours to complete an elite spec. What’s the problem?

They have overcome technical difficulties in the past (i.e. the 25 stack cap which nullified the use of condition based specs) and if they introduce moutns they will overcome this difficulty, despite the ancient engine they use.

kitten arguments always I hear are: too much work with armors and all the personal story kitten.

A game isn’t set in stone. Just set them at a different time, i.e. after the current events etc. and add a different story like in WoW with the death knights. Make some exlusive armor for them and ignore (most) of the rest. Done.

Aside of this they don’t see any gain with new races. In GW2 the race is just flavour. Nothing more. Gameplay wise there is nothing to gain. Still I would welcome Tengu be cause they are awesome!

Prescription or flatulence!

Buy your medicine or the world drowns in a pungent stench!

Er, what the hell? The Draconis Mons JP has a checkpoint system.

It’s anet, they release slowly and slower with every episode. I assume nothing different. Wait til August and then some. Also the expansion will take time, too. At least an additional 3-4 months.

Would be nice, logical and also would help the years old horrible situation with leather prices. I second that motion.

I think the lack of typical boss connected named items is lacking. Also yeah most other MMOs have more exciting loot, but I admit it’s really hard for veterans.

I wonder this always so called ‘you buy gems back with gold which others bought with real money etc. So there should be a limited amount of gems. But I never see it to happen. I can hardly imagine that there is a limit where they tell a willing player who wants to buy gems with real money ’sorry dude, we are out of gems’.

Well compared to the industry 50€ is still overpriced if you see what they delivered. And the capitalism is so well self regulating: it flopped – and a huge reason for it is the steep price compared to the content you get: too few, too much party oriented, too few instanced stuff like dungeons etc. It seems they learned from it and release now a full fledged expansion.

Faaris.8013:

ProtoGunner.4953:

Some players should change their attitude. Asking devs to change it just be cause they feel not able or too lazy to try and complete it (I mean bronze – for real?) is just lame.

Doesn’t matter how easy or hard it is, and btw. what about Mastery Points? You don’t get any for bronze.

If collections and MPs are tied to content that has nothing to do with an MMO, why not tell the developers to change that? Nobody asked for them to be easier, because people don’t want to do them in the first place. Even if they gave gold just for participation, people could ask for collections to be disconnected from them. If the developer’s management decided that time, energy and money should be spent on creating console mini games because few people like them, that’s their decision. The data about participants they have tell them nothing about the success of those “adventures” because people do them not because they enjoy mini games, they only do them for collections and Mastery Points.

Remove collections and MPs from “adventures” and don’t make them dailies, and then collect data on participiation. My bet is the results would show that the time, energy and money spent on creating them was wasted because only a handful players do them. And then they probably only do them once and never return.

But no, “force” people into doing something that’s no fun for them, and the team can prove how much players like it because everybody does mini games, right?

I admit that it’s not a good idea to link adventures with MPs. But it is your opinion that adventures are not fun. I am no fan either, but I don’t mind doing them. Not everything is fun for every individual. There is always something someone dislikes. Get along with it. It is how it is. Anet heard a kitten ton of complains anyway, I think (and hope!) they will do it better with next expansion.

Sounds you are just not as good as your enemies. A meta automatically emerges. There is always a meta which can give you the necessary edge. In my experience 90% of PvP complaints is people who are not good at the time of the complaint.

The rest: an MMO has grind be cause they want to keep players playing. And anet is quite fair with it; if you have BiS gear once you have them forever. Most MMOs release new gear tiers with new content.

The featherwings look super silly imo and every 2nd char is running around with them anyways. There are a lot of better options.

I don’t see a problem: usually you get bored after 3 years of the same core professions, so it’s nice to play 9(10) different ones the next couple of years…

There are much less players than 2-3 years ago. But it’s still okay’ish. Hope there will be a surge of new players with new expansion. I don’t play a lot since 1.5 years. I am super bored and only come back for the new LS episodes generally.

The specs become even more interesting when they release the next expansion. So, chill, wait and we’ll see what we get next. Progression is just normal and if you really want, just go and play a core spec. I play a lot with my core ranger condi spec.

Who the kitten cares, just go with elite spec and get over it if you really need the extra oomph for 5% of the content.

LS 1 was not really good and the concept was a huge failure as this stuff is not possible to implement. Also, I heard they lost a lot of data (i. e. they lost the Queen’s Jubilee content, with Liadri, Queen’s Gauntlet etc.).

Also it was heavily criticised by the community and most people disliked Scarlet.

Don’t get me wrong the very idea of events is a great idea and a lot of other MMO producers introduced it as well. I loved the HoT maps at first and completed all achievements/events within the first couple of months. But I understand people who play off time, want to play alone or whatever and feel a bit off, when they can’t do anything. The idea of meta events on every single map and the few maps they released at first has a lot of people driven off. Understandable, if you ask me.

I play now extremely sporadically (1-2 hours a week if any) and what I see is that in whole Tyria are events no one is doing. That’s the standard case. It’s just there and you don’t really meet a lot of people. You simply can’t expect casual people to check all the timers, taxiing and trying to join a bottlenecked map. It’s just very consumer unfriendly. But this is crucial to just finish the standard procedure in DS for example.

Imo it’s a kitten mechanic in the first place to have to use taxiing etc. to do world events. Additionally, many argue that ‘you are in a low populated map be cause of megaservers, so you have to taxi to a map with more population’. What is this kitten? Why don’t they transport me automatically to a more populated map?

Panda.1967:

Elite specs provide too much benefit. Forced choices are only good when all options are equal. If I made you choose between $100 cash or a sandwich, is it really a choice? No, because only a fool would take the sandwich. This is the type of “choice” that we’ve been given. It’s not a real choice, it’s a fool’s choice.

You’ll take the sandwich a 100 times if you are in the middle of nowhere, where money has no value – and exactly that means situational. That said: I lately used a ranger condi build – ranger, not druid. So there are some uses of old professions.

The original 3(4) HoT maps are pretty empty during European prime times. You can’t just do something – I don’t envy people who are beginning their journey now (and not 1.5 years ago). If you want to do all the map achievements and events you have to use LFG and/or organize groups yourself. But that was the case from the beginning of HoT anyways.

Er… problems with random mobs. I zerker/viper them down in a few seconds, even 1vs4 mobs is no problem. Probably, something is wrong with your gear/playstyle/traits. Also commander rune on engi? Engi has more than 16k base health with medium armor, and you still think that you are too squishy with commander armor?

Oh and also: Don’t forget the Confusion, it really kills you in seconds if you use many skills under confusion with several stacks.

Mounts are an easy and good way to permanently travel very fast. 100% constant speed is much better than this excuse skills we have to use to get around fast.

I never understood the mount hate in GW anyways. What is so bad about it? It’s another thing we can add to character personalisation and a vast amount RPGs have mounts in some form.

The argument that we have waypoints is null and void. Why not have both? Also there are maps where WPs are far away or contested. I hate to run the whole map by foot in Malchor’s Leap or WvW. Annoying and boring.

Killed Vinetooth Prime a lot of time with pugs on the map. Usually if 20-30 players are around it works even if the players don’t know what to do (breaking the breakbar as fast as possible). I even saw kills where we didn’t break the breakbar once. Look for an active map, advertise in map chat, ask an officer etc.

There were far more players back in the good ol’ days, but it is still active. Especially with an expansion at the end of this year.

It’s hilarious how anet tries to ‘fix’ this and of course it doesn’t work. Expect another year of ultra expensive leather.

I wonder what their theory was when they did the following to remove the excess amount of hardened leather:

1. Increase the refining from 2 to 3 pieces
2. Add leather needed for insignias for all weights of armor
3. Added a kittenload of recipes needed for the Scribe

And probably other stuff I don’t even know.

So instead of trying to use one method they totally overexaggerate and even a kitten year after this they aren’t able to fix it. Good lord! Just revert from 3 to 2 pieces for god’s sake. Why the hell don’t you do that!?!?

Some people aren’t used to boss fights like this. If you are a decent gamer with experience from console games like Devil May Cry, God of War etc. this is easy. If not, you have to learn your movement. It’s a matter of experience and learning the mechanics.

Unfortunately, the level of frustration these days with casual gamers is low and that’s why the whole industry tones down the difficulty. At least there is a new trend with Souls and Souls-like games.

Once you saw it a couple of times you know most of the places. I like it with Tangled Dephts one of my favourite maps.

There’s always people who exaggerate. Oh, the excessiveness of humankind. Where doest thou lead us? Take a chill pill and delete some of your chars, really. I am sure you have some you didn’t see or remember for ages anyways.

Mordlive.2913:

I mean even if you get 50 per DS that’s 12 DS for a set of leadership runes, i mean that’s not a LOT but that’s 12 hours of game play, bit excessive IMHO.

You haven’t played during the first months of the expansion. You got about 30-40 ores back then. It took quite a bit to make a legendary.

This is a solo instance. Do it like this and you won’t have this.

Spiritz Wamphryi.8316:

The reason why sage isnt on any event timer is simple ( and something anyone who runs the tower leather farm should know – note i said runs not taking part in ) sage is the only boss in lake doric who is on a different timer . All other events / bosses in lake doric have preset times where sage run on a timer that starts upon his death . His timer runs something along the lines of 90 – 120 mins from when he was last killed – thats to say , if he was killed at 11:55am he wont respawn till 1:25pm to 1:55pm . When lake doric first came out – he was trouble for me to get a time schedule worked out and there seemed to be a lack of details on his spawn but after talking with other coms who did the runs regular we managed to work out spawn times but that only worked if ppl knew when he was killed last on that instance otherwise its a case of having to watch for him whilst doing tower runs then announcing ( yes some of us coms are nice enough to announce he`s up an loop bk to centaur camp to pick up ppl needing sage then doing him ) . Szu – there are still coms doing the tower runs but its a case of finding a map with little or no engis camp farming – we coms like large squads and its hard to get a big squad when engis have a squad ( no offence to engis as its their only gd farm in the whole game sadly ) . Keep checking LFG or place a lfg looking for tower/hill runs is all i can suggest as we will place lfg when doing them.

Okay, thank you for clarification. Thought it might be something like this.

Once again a good sheet to show how useless Bearbows are. A lynx or tiger literally outdamages those useless ursans by 3-4.

The only use are for special situations like champ bosses or in story missions against annoying enemies.

A DPS Meta build is still better if you are 80% of it dead compared to a kittenty nomad or PVT geared player. So, even if you play bad you still do more than some shiny bearbows out there.

Also a l2p issue. etc. But you have some points. In the end it depends what your group wants, what content you want to do and to adapt. Generally the meta builds show a guidline of ideals but that can be tweaked. You have some breathing room anyway; some people do undermanned raids as low as 1 person

Seconded. Also, they have to overhaul the limiting UI in general: Make customizable side bars for food, (mounts after expansion), gizmos, etc. It’s beyond annoying to open the bags all the time and find the proper food/item/gizmo.

BioDio.3476:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You may be very pleasantly surprised by the location of Expansion Two.

Welcome return, and good luck.

It was my least favorite zone in GW1, but yeah, it changed a lot… even so, I want to get back to Elona again, I loved that place, and Cantha in GW2 should look even more crazier than in GW1. Tyria (continent not world) looks like a normal (yet very VERY beautiful) fantasy world, while Elona feels like something tottally new! and Cantha looks promissing in GW2, even if there is a bunch of Asian themed MMO’s nowadays.

Anyway, let me go to the land of the golden sun please!

We don’t got to Cantha but to Elona/Crystal Desert later this year in Expansion 2! Seems you re-entered the game at the right moment

Why isn’t this on the Boss Timer on dulfy?

If they want to introduce it they have to do it differently. Like the Pandaren in WoW: Only unique armor specifically made fro this new race, no personal story for the old content but a new one for the new expansion or whatever. It would work like this. I’d love it.

Reminds me of Tempest Keep in WoW. There were several instances 2-3 dungeons and a raid what I remember (Kael’thas boss).

As for Anet, I really hope there is something soon. But it would be very anet’ish if they never do anything with it. Why do cool things if you don’t want to :-D

Most of it were open world events and not instanced. And you can’t recreate this easily. It was a big mistake and many predicted it already. Bad, bad idea. Eventually, they realised it and went for instanced personal story like living story.

Really, learn English. It’s the essence to understand each other and the world. You are left out by so many things and that’s a huge problem: People think in their own culture, their own tropes and can’t break out their behaviour and reach a general intercultural understanding.

If you never leave your comfort zone you devolve. English is the language of the world and the internet. Hence learn English, I can’t press this more.

I loved the UW World in WoW Vash’jir. Very atmospheric but WoW did it quite simple, the combat was the same as land combat and you learned a skill so you could breathe underwater and you had an underwater mount. Blizzard style, indeed.

GW2 has very atmospheric UW content and first I loved it. The problem is the following: Skills unfinished, balancing issues, many skills don’t work etc. It’s horrible combat wise. I have no problem with Z-Axis though and my orientation is good generally. That’s a big issue for many players I heard. Suggestions: Play Super Mario Galaxy.

Just forget those adventures, some are just broken and stupid waste of time. I gave up and it’s not needed for mastery leveling anyways.

Clearly Lion’s Arch. I am in DR or Rata Sum from time to time but mostly in LA.

I am ready to resurrect my old GW1 Elona-born character Xerxes. He was a dervish. Looking forward to Elona – pretty excited!

It literally takes maybe 1-2h to fully explore the map (without checking youtube). You figure out most pretty fast. It’s no way near the complexity of TD.

Beside that, I really like the map. The atmosphere is great and after getting the mastery there, exploration is easy.

Can’t you just take the tube thingy? Takes 30 seconds to get up there from the floor or so.

To be fair: the ‘Guild Wars’ refers to a historic event within the GW lore:

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Guild_Wars

Still, one would expect you can fight as a guild vs other guild, which was actually possible in GW1. Don’t know why they never introduced that. Anet seems to be good at things people want but don’t get.

Ah, there shouldn’t be any discussion: You can swap specs on the fly (anet give us kitten templates already…) out of combat. So no issue here.