Guild Wars 2

Wanze.8410:

The fact that even after 7k hours, i dont get bored with playing warrior.

The fact you play 7h on average in one game every day sounds rather unhealthy…

I am rather proud I had Sunrise already in 2012 when almost no one other had a legendary (I once saw a Twilight and another Sunrise).

I don’t feel literally ‘proud’ of anything here. I was rather proud to get all 8 stars in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island or 120 stars in Super Mario Sunshine, but not here.

I think outfits are fine. There are still a lot of customizable armor skins. But what I dislike is just one outfit for all three armor classes. It takes away the flavor of weight classes. An ele with Balthazar outfit just doesn’t fit.

He’s just a new player. We all thought at the beginning PVT gear is awesome and my guardian can be the last man standing etc in good old 2012 ^^

The fact that the low dps weapons like GS mesmer and bearbows are the most popular just shows how desinterested most are. I don’t care if they really want to dish out next to no damage and I get that ranged in zergs is very cozy, but don’t use that kittening knockback on cooldown. Even a real world friend told me once (he doesn’t play anymore and was just extremely casually levelling to 80) that it doesn’t matter, he just uses skills on CD.

Imo ele is one of the hardest classes to master. It is unforgiving – especially in zerker gear but you will adapt and get better, you get used to your squishiness. Once you did that you notice how much DPS you can dish out, you also are a master of might stacking and other buffs with a kittenload of utility thanks to 4×5 weapon skills and even more summon weapons.

In short: Warrior is super forgiving and easy to play, does nice damage. It’s really a beginner class (no offense though there are very good warrior players). Ele is hard and you have to learn all the combo fields and skills etc. Not that you don’t need to know this for other classes, but with Ele you simply have to use all you can to reach the goal and survive. You will learn a lot about this game and its mechanics.

Kinda, though with your argument you also can complete the whole map to achieve 100%. It’s similar to vanquishing. Btw. i found vanquishing in GW1 a grind and never finished it. It really is a matter of opinion.

That said, I still think there should be more ‘challenging group content’ in form of raids or what we had with the elite parts of Guild Wars 1 (which were actually raid-like content): Give us a massive area like the Fissure of Woe the Underworld with unique drops, items and quests to repeat. It was so popular and highly appreciated in GW1. Okay maybe you have the exact metrics and you could argue only a minority enjoyed/played it regularly. But even then: there should be a service for people who demand that.

I understand you don’t want to create a divided community with people who get the cool/rare items out of a super hard content which others can’t achieve. You even don’t let us re-arrange the skills or have side bars just because you are so eager to give everyone the same chances. But it hurts the game, it hurts the experience since you don’t need to be good to get all the shiny goods. Okay, there are a couple of rather hard achievements or titles to get, but usually as a part of single player experience. I still want to hear why you don’t want to have bigger groups/parties than 5. I once saw an interview with Colin Johansson where he vigorously neglected the idea of bigger groups than 5. Why? Why not make instanced content with adaptable enemies, possible from 5 to 20 players?

After reading this thread I tried myself and went there, they never were flaming. Okay, there was actually no one doing the heart quest.

But for real: if you see them, just do either the other parts of this heart – you don’t need to kill the ravens – or just do it and live with the flamers and just tell them you’re doing the heart quest. It’s a a couple of minutes to complete. If you can’t stand the flamers then you are not built for the hard harsh world called outside.

Awesome music! Actually, everything I heard from Mr. Diemer just blew my mind! What a great addition.

I’ll have a break too, there are some awesome games out now (like Witcher 3), just take a break and do some other games, or go out, it’s summer soon…

tyu.9470:

I do not expect donations. I lead SW ChestFarm 6 days a week for 5 to 6 hours a day.

Dude, time to change your life… of course they can’t factor in such excessive monotonic gameplay.

Crimson Clouds.4853:

Compare the sword/greatsword from this set to the Dragon’s Jade set- it becomes blindingly obvious how poor the textures are on the older sets. :/

Er what? Have you checked them in game? Be cause I think the Dragon’s Jade have some of the most amazing skins detail-wise. Just look at the dragons of the shield, the details are awesome!

They’re okay’ish. I like other sets better. Like the dragon’s jade set.

No, housing is something I never use, it’s just not my cup of tea.

The permanent items in my characters inventory is really annoying. I have items, I never use, yet it is still something in may keep for the future – like https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pile_of_Phantasmal_Residue

It’s cluttered with stuff like this. And I don’t get why they introduce new currencies like the geodes and bandit badges but don’t implement it into the currency tab.

The original game cost 60$/€, that what’s counting. It’s just 3 years old so, that’s why it’s cheaper. Every company does that.

But why all those “how much will it cost” threads? Does it really matter if it is 30, 40 or 50$/€? Can’t imagine that all of you who can afford a PC can’t afford that.

People are defending the game in view of the fact that we had lots of content updates and ‘living story’ which other MMOs don’t have. This is not the full truth: I played a couple of other MMOs, they all add content from time to time which they also could sell as ‘living world/story’. They add new areas, new story parts as well as new raids and dungeons and sometimes new features. In regard of this hitting a three years mark is really a long time.

I think, Anet was just experimenting and didn’t exactly know if they want to release only LS or expansions. In the end they new the benefits of an expansion as well as the fans asking for it. Hence it took so long.

In regards of ‘it will take ages until we kill all the elder dragons’: guys, just think a bit outside of the box: they could bend and change the story how they want. Maybe one elder dragon changes his mind and will be our ally. Or we will fight two dragons at the same time. Whatever, they can implement what they want. Or kill one off and give us an even greater threat… everything is possible. The writers from Warcraft surely never knew what will happen in 2015 storywise after they created the first WoW or imagine even the first Warcraft game…

Weirwynn.2390:

hmmz.4186:

you mean post a pic with least clothing

Psh, least clothing? Most expensive clothing is obviously better.

That woman doesn’t look healthy, a wonder that she still can stand on their legs as how thin they are…

They are afraid of doing anything else than 5vs5 or 5man groups in PvE. I don’t know why, but this is really strange.

I remember when Sony presented the PlayStation. The gaming community though it was a strange and awkward name. Now it’s an institution and everyone knows what a PlayStation is. You will get used to it, in a couple of months no one will bother about the specialization’s name.

Okay, sorry, my tone was a bit harsh, you are right. I didn’t think much about it, since the game mechanics allows it and even needs timing – so it isn’t super easy to time it right. There is no bug or strange gliching involved. Yes, imo it is different than the Lupi WoR trick insta-kill inside the wall. But what I wanna say is: the line between what’s legit and what not is very blurry and everyone has his/her own opinion about it. Only Anet can tell us and even there; they have to decide at some point what they think is right and wrong.

By your logic ‘disabling a boss from attacking and moving is a legit tactic’ – you cheat your way all the time by speed clearing. Or do you kill Kholer ranged by dodging his pull attack how it is intended by the developers? Think before you direct false accusations under your self-made premises what’s right and wrong, legit and illegit.

I don’t know why they are so eager to keep the UI for every player. Why can’t we customize it? I mean I don’t even ask for UI addons (I always hated those in WoW), but let us add additional skill/side bars for convenience: bufffood, gadgets, tonics etc. It’s so annoying to always open the inventory and looking for the stuff you want to use.

GW1 dungeons were a walk in the park as well. Like in every game if you run meta. It’s the same everywhere.

Instanced all the way. They can keep the open world bosses ofc. but please: make instanced raid content: 10, 20, 50-man or whatever for guilds. Difficulty shouldn’t be too hard, something in the line of Tequatl and Wurm with – and here it comes – UNIQUE REWARDS. I talk about a whole set of new exclusive rewards tied to that instance, special drops from the bosses only this boss can drop.

Why do you want to roll a norn on the floor? I think you have really strange fetishes…

All those baby face humans on those pics – it’s horrendous! They all look like 18 year old calvin klein models. Why would ever a realistic looking game have such baby faces? Luckily, my only male human is the ‘Clint Eastwood’ face.

The problem here you can’t mix facts and fiction: It is purely the imagination of a writer or idea, if the military COULD destroy a creature or not. If the author decides so, it can. If not it can’t. Therefore, your question is irrelevant.

I always had problems with this in fantasy generally: it is pure imagination of the author that Son-Goku is stronger than Vegeta. If the author decides otherwise, the result is different.

So, with other words: the Elder Dragon has magic, the author could set the premise: the Elder Dragon is able to negate the power of an atomic or thermonuclear/hydrogen bomb or even absorb it. You see where this goes?

FFXIV just released a test for their new DX11 client…

For a game like Guild Wars 2 I don’t expect to use a 10(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) year old API given the fact that they introduced DX9 with GW Factions after DX8. Can’t be THAT hard to implement.

2 Humans out of 9 Characters. One female ele and one male necro. Sorry, can’t support your opinion. I don’t RP as well, but I love to dive into other characters/species. That’s what I am supposed to do in games, that’s why I love games: to be something completely different with skills which are not from reality. Well, there are games that are more realistic like Last of Us (gameplay wise) or Heavy Rain.

I always asked this in WoW; why would killing this boss and that blabla keep the area as it is? Just a problem we have in MMOs. Live with it.

This thread is negligible since the poster writes a complaint under a wrong premise: As some others mentioned, every expansion is ‘pay to win’ since in most you have a higher level cap. What a stupid post…

Again, I generally run dungeons with friends/guild, but I usually never kick someone of low level, ap or profession or see almost never someone kicked, I don’t see the issue. If I wouldn’t read those forums I wouldn’t even notice a problem here.

I would prefer to have a 60-100% speed boost over the maps of WvW to reach my goal. Running there with constant skill uses etc. is annoying and also balances classes who have little access to convenient speed buffs. Also, there are maps like the SW where people WOULD use the wayponint after dying at Vinewrath if they have mounts. The argument that they won’t waypoint is it takes a kittenload of time to reach there again. With a speed boost of 100% you would be there in no time. Same goes with contested waypoints.

Besides: FFXIV has mounts and as well as waypoints. No one complains.
The cluttering argument is ridiculous: we have magic effects on bosses which clutter much worse than anything else.

The arguments of the naysayers are ridiculous at most – besides the resources and of course they had to change some stuff on the maps. In my opinion: most of those people just don’t want a ‘copy’ of a ‘generic MMO’.

I like it a lot, it reminds me of all the great jump n runs and jump n shoot games like Super Mario, Ratched and Clank, Jak and Daxter, Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong and whatnot. If you are kitten at it: you can learn coordination within a 3D room and adapt, you get used to it. JPs are very appreciated and be cause you don’t like it, you are complaining? That’s like: I don’t like PvP; why is it in the game.

Come one folks, what has the gaming community come to? A bunch of whiners who can’t even adapt or aren’t willing to learn.

Who the kitten cares, sorry why make extra a thread for such a minor thing? This forum is so ridiculous when it comes to such things. Same with this ridiculous view of the ‘bugged’ mossman.

You can always swap out for stun breakers and speed buffs. I usually don’t mind and run all over the traps and just use them and voilà: success!

Maybe there’s a bug, but I hear strange music during the videos and no sound effects.

Yeah, I though about this a long time. Along with additional side bars for food, gadgets, minis, toys, tonics etc. Why in hell wouldn’t they add this. Arenanet is so eager to defend their clean and slick GUI that it hurts the gameplay and comfort of an MMO. Almost every MMO has optional sidebars exaclty for all the stuff we use often but have to open the inventory and search the thing we are looking for. It’s really annoying.

This news is not available anymore, maybe it was mistakenly showed up?

Apart from that semantically your title makes no sense – you should rather write coming back or returning – I suggest you just read the synopsis about season 1 in the official wiki. You didn’t miss much though. There weren’t much unique areas or zones you missed:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_season_1

I did it in a party, just hit him a couple of times as ranger and someone else played Caithe. It may take a couple of tries.

But yes: after doing the ‘final enemy of the Season 2’ a couple of times to get all the achievements (they aren’t easy, so you need a couple of tries) I felt annoyed: even if the achievement fails the very first second of the fight you have to finish it to restart with the challenge mote. In other games I just can restart from the last checkpoint which would be the start of the fight. But whatever: better than doing the whole instance again.

Yes, please let us turn that warning off, not for exotics but for rares. In the early days rares were a bit more worth, now I usually get 10-20 rares every day by doing Silverwastes or world bosses and I only sell the ones that are more worth than one ecto (after fee deductions). So, every time I salvage a rare I have to confirm, doubleclick my Mystic Salvage Kit again and redo the process. It’s not THAT horrible, but would make it easier. Just let us choose: make a checkmark if we want that or not. And yes: just let us not again doubleclick the kit to salvage another rare.

If they go for something like Paragon, I hope they will bring back Arias, Refrains and Chants from GW1: maintainable buffs for the group. I loved my Imbagon back then, it was a super awesome build and was truly the ‘last man standing’ on the battlefield who could turn the tides of a battle!

Forget the BS what others say about: “All class has their ups and downs”. Fact is: there are much more forgiving classes than others. A warrior still has 18-19k life in full zerker and highest armor class while an elementalist has 11k and lowest armor, this is very noticeable.

Warrior is by far the easiest class, followed by ranger. I played all classes between 150-800 hours and can safely say that. Comparing the same content I did with elementalist to warrior is like super hard mode to easy mode. I only run zerker builds so you can make it much more forgiving if you go for more tanky gear.

He told he doesn’t like to farm in SW. Also some people have a kittenload of karma and want to spend it for shards. So here’s the way you do it: open the LFG tool and post in world events or what it’s called that you are looking for an uncontested Balthazar WP. Sometimes you’ll find already a post of someone who invites people with an uncontested WP.

Use a mouse with a lot of additonal buttons like the Logitech G600 or Razer Naga and map all the skills on the buttons. Then use the option Fast-Cast Ground Tageting so that you use the skill on release. Its really super fast and you can easily strafe/lock forward to enemy while using such attack skills.

I pay more if I go out for dinner, since I live in an expensive country. I really don’t care if the price is 20 or 60 €.

That said, the price should be 20-40€ (or dollars) for the standard edition. Can’t imagine they ask for a full price of 60 €. Expansions are usually considerably cheaper than the basic game.

Started to be a bi-weekly update in the ‘ever-changing’-world of Tyria. That was the initial idea. Fact is: it’s no different than in other MMOs regular updates now and then. With the fact that living story season 1 isn’t even available anymore they mostly hurt themselves and hence introduced more instanced content in ‘season (ohman I hate this word in connection with games) 2’. We had roughly an update every 2 months what started to be bi-weekly.

Dude, they overhaul ALL traits profoundly and there will be a lot of changes. Try to see the bigger picture: it won’t be the same in any way. Have you never played other MMOs and saw the transitions of Meta after release of en Xpac?

It should be just normal/standard: they implemented it in GW1 after a while. And many games have it. I don’t know why they don’t do this. Can’t imagine this is a big thing to do.