Guild Wars 2

It’s not as near as frustrating as the OP says. It IS however a bit annoying to jump from WP to WP reacting on map chat messages to find events. But usually it’s not more than a bunch of players and you can typically finish this part of the daily within 10 minutes. And that’s the ‘hardest’ part of the dailies.

I still like the old ones since it wasn’t necessary to specifically go to a map to do it, it happened more naturally.

I hate duelling, but I think they should implement it. We just need to turn off duelling requests and that’s it. Everyone is happy.

It’s pretty good to build up bloodlust stacks wiht SB in open world zerg events. Ofc it has no use in serious combat like Dungeons/Fractals.

It had a rather short campaign and horrible voice acting (Shiro, oh my god… so bad). But the lore and the atmosphere, the setting and the music were fantastic. I always loved the Factions and it always had a special place in my heart. I absolutely liked Elona with its longer campaign and story, but Cantha had this special feel for me.

I’d appreciate a 3rd heavy class with magic, either dark or arcane etc. doesn’t matter to me.

My own legendaries, top to bottom:
Sunrise <— my first legendary and still favourite
Kudzu
Kraitkin
Frostfang

I also like the following, no specific order:
Bolt
Eternity
Twilight
Howler
Quip
Kamohoali’i Kotaki
Frenzy
Meteorlogicus
Bifrost

Imho overrated:
Incinerator
Predator
The Minstrel

The AP requirement is ridiculous. Simply post ‘experienced and zerk’ and you will usually get smooth runs. I will never do kittenty runs again. Wiping at endboss for several times (AC p1+3) be cause the DPS is so low that a snail could walk round the earth during this time is just annoying and a waste of time.

5. No transparency and bad communication (communication, showing roadmap of the company/game)
4. Lack of customizability (UI), no addons (DSP meter etc.)
3. Lack of meaningful high-end content and unique drops (see #1)
2. Very little content released (see #1)
1. Living Story – this was the most horrible and bad decision they made in the beginning. This lving story that isn’t bi-weekly since a long time (rather 2 monthly) is horribly executed and didn’t live up to the expectations. Sure season 2 was a bit better and had a bit of more story and at least presistent content added to the game. But compared to the industry standard of MMOs the content added is ridiculous. Most MMOs will add what Anet calls “Living Story” anyway with free updates every couple of months. Adding one or two new maps, 2-3 dungeons and a new raid. Additionally we get an addon with a whole new continent, new mechanics, new classes, additional PvP modes, professions etc etc. The sheer lack of meaningful content – we had nothing at all, there is still one and only ONE PvP mode after 2.5 years! – is just a result of mismanagement and a lot of wasted talent.

Well but now to the point: If they announce something meaningful on January 24 at PAX South I revoke those points. But if there is again a ridiculous announcement with tiny changes here and there this game is dead for me.

There are a lot of things that you may confuse with other MMOs terms. Conditions in this game is a general term that every class can and usually will apply. There are usually no conditions that is unique to a class like in WoW or Final Fantasy. So, most classes can apply a condition like bleeding. But best would be to read the wiki-article about conditions:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Condition

Also, I am not sure what you mean by ‘tank’. Do you mean your characters has to be very durable? Or do you mean your toon is the guy who holds aggro all the time? Be cause that’s not possible, since GW2 has no trinity (DPS, Tank, Heal).

Generally you can play every class as a ‘tank’ in GW2 terms: you can craft/buy armor that has only defensive stats, which makes a generally squishy character extremely durable. There are of course the classes with more durability – either with basic stats like warrior, or class mechanics like Guardian.

EDIT: I forgot something important about conditions in PvE. This mechanic is kinda broken. The problem is, that in PvE the cap for bleed stacks is 25. So in open world with bosses etc. this cap is reched within seconds, newly applied conditions by other sources (even non conditions warriors will apply with some traits bleeds) will overwrite your much stronger bleed stack with a weaker own version.

So generally conditions in PvE is NOT welcome. However, if you are in parties/groups in dungeons who doesn’t care you will be fine. But still; it is not advisable to make a conditions class – it is simply a broken mechanic in this game and well known since the betas and Anet hasn’t changed that.

Beldin.5498:

But .. but .. there is all this endgame that we don’t have .. you know you can raid, and
then you can raid even more .. and after that .. what a about some raiding ?
Oh .. and don’t forget .. there is raiding !!

Well, but at least there is something to do after you hit level cap :-)

There is new challenging bosses every now and then. Look at GW2: we are killing the same couple of bosses in 5man instances since 2.5 years. It’s embarassing…

I am lucky I already have all 8 professions on 80 and don’t see a reason to create another of the same profession (did the same in GW1). But be cause I was very curious about the new trait system I tried and leveld another Engineer. Just took the scrool to 20 ofc. And then the catastrophe began: hours of waiting until MAYBE without timer and idea when, the event starts. Sometimes staying in the area for several hours without starting or I couldn’t get the information (never in the game itself, nor the internet) where the NPC would spawn to start an event to unlock a kittening adept trait. What the hell were they thinking? This is an absolute catastrophe and they should revert it immediately!

The game is pretty stagnate, but not worse than 2 years ago. The only really kittenty feature they added is the system how you get the traits (via in game events and stuff which can be annoying due to not happening for hours and you just wait for it there).

It seems, though, that they will announce something rather big in January 24.

Razr products are overpriced and are bad quality. I once had a Razr Naga wireless and this thing got broken after a couple of weeks. I replaced it with a M.M.O. 7 from Saitek/Mad Catz which I really prefer instead of 10000 confusing buttons.

Problem is that it’s annoying to have slow runs with wipes etc. due to weak DPS. It was fun to learn it the first couple of months. But we have now 2015 and the dungeons are all the same (more or less). At this point you just want it done fast. I usually don’t kick a non-lvl-80, but I moan for myself if I see one (even better when they have about 250 AP) :-)

You’re boring, seems so lol. At least try to create a consensus-wise correct title…

For your problem: play something else or do something else, really. Come back when there’s – hopefully – more.

It was an ambitious idea to create a separate underwater combat system but failed at balance, z-axis, different skills and traits that won’t work etc.

In open world PvE this isn’t much of a problem, since we have huge zergs anyways…

But atmospheric wise it is a great feature – the vast waters of Frostgorge Sound or Bloodtide Cost are quite impressive and immersive, I’d love to swim to Southsun though but the ‘strong current’t is holding me back.

Honeystly, it whould have been much easier to just keep the terrestrial combat – many MMOs do that and it’s fine.

Lags/DCs occured quite often to me and my guildies with the update of wintersday 2014/15 but I think they fixed that now.

I play that in PvE.

Why is there always strange music in the videos? I want to hear the game sounds. Or watch you movies while some strange techno-music is played?

I play ranger myself with berserker stats and sword/axe or lb/dps pet in open world from time to time. It’s fun to play and usually no one hurts.

But there is one certain skill that – OBVIOUSLY – many players don’t understand: it’s called Point Blank Shot and is extremely annoying, be cause every time a zerg arrives, one of the glorious bearbows WILL use this skill. Always. Knocking them out of melees and AoEs for NO kittenING REASON.

Aren’t they both just pretty bad and you just should use bloodlust, accuracy, force, of the night or something like this?

Old topic, there are dozens of it. But yes, I want an expansion and no ‘aweseome LS which bring the same content like an expansion’. People want something to do and for an MMO there isn’t much to do for most players who played for 1-2 years.

An additional bar for consumables, tonics, gizmos, food etc. has been suggested several times with no single reaction from anet. It’s just a simple addition that would make the everyday life in an MMO easier. Most MMOs do have additinoal bars if you want them.

I dislike the fact that you simply can’t change anything in the UI. At least GW1 was a bit more free where we wanted to place our UI elements…

Sarcastic I assume. The end battle is just horrible and bad, a huge disappointment.

I don’t give a kitten on housing or duelling, but the complain about lack of content is legitimate, after two years we got 3 small maps and a few chunks of story content. It’s ridiculous compared to the industry standard. But maybe we will see an announcement or release 2015 with a lot of content, we don’t know. If not, I really don’t get what they were doing all the time.

Lol, really, such an easy game and people complain. Can’t do this, can’t do that. What the heck is goin on with the game community? Do we really need a win button to press it? Hell, all those should play Mega Man on NES…

Dude, it’s easy. It’s your horrible PC. Simply don’t complain about it, and buy a new PC kitten …

FFXIV: AAR came out on a similar time is sub based and had rising numbers. But well, it’s hard to compare anyway.

You said it yourself: you are no hardcore gamer. So why should a hardcore gamer get a legendary easily? It’s a long term goal. It’s the typical whining of players who just want everything easily, this mindset keeps influencing more and more the game community in a whole and destroys the good ol’ gaming sector as a whole.

Again: if you want fast rewards and easy achievable stuff, go and play a mobile game.

Consider that GW2 gave out numbers after the 1st anniversary – for example the max amount of concurrent players online (around 400k+). They didn’t do that after the 2nd anniversary which implies that they are lower. If they were even or better they surely had us told that. It’s that simple. NCSoft never gives out such numbers, be cause they fear people’s reaction to bad news.

At least Blizzard told their community that they lost some 3 million players (from 10 mio to 7 mio – oh those numbers, it’s a bit embarassing that a 10 year old sub based game has 20 times the amount of players than GW2).

Honestly, if they want to be in the news and in the heads of the gamer communities, they simply need an expansion or the game will be lost in 1-2 years (well, with a ridiculous amount of players like all the fail MMOs out there).

I think GW2 doesn’t follow the typical gear grind forumal and asian love that! WoW is a huge success in China for example.

Do they mention how many servers they had and now after the merge? I just wonder. I read in some older news that it was worse than expected from NCSoft.

I have never been kicked out of a dungeon run. Even when I played a new class I never played like thief which I main at the moment. It’s really hard coming from guardian and you have to learn a lot, but even then I seem not as bad as people think they want to kick me.

Good point. I must admit I haven’t done the new JP – only the start. Had no time lately, but that sounds promising. The JPs are actually the only part in this game where I felt they excelled themselves.

Yeath the maps are few and tiny compared to the original ones. Also, the Silverwastes has a lot of rocks and mountains in between. That’s maybe okay, but why can’t we go up there? That would be much more immersive. It all looks so 90ies final fantasy style with invisible walls and not a 2010s AAA MMO. A lot of the competitors have much more bigger maps/zones and no portals to other zones (wich was a concern even during first betas when I heard about it). It kills immersion and the weather/day/night-cycle per zone is immersion killing, too.

I use rune of the ranger with a mini pet. But I am not sure if I should switch to strength or scholar.

I think the simplifierd concept of universal conditions and boons over all classes is a fail. It limits one game type drastically: the whole damage over time (DoT) is irrelevant in PvE.

Why did they do this? Don’t know. Why did they do this and limit the max condition stacks to 25? That’s just extremely amateurish and should have never found its way into the game. Even after more than two years and even after concerns during the beta(s) this has never changed.

Don’t know what’s so funny about this Thug Lyfe thing. Anyway, best comedy is brazil’s condition guardian guide. Very funny :-)

Shadelang.3012:

Hey. I gotta say your right. Many people are tolerant. It still doesnt change that ranged players are more likely to be blamed for mishaps than melees. When I first started my guardian I died quite often. Using a new class took some getting used to and I often avoided stacking becuase I simply wasn’t used to being that close to another person. I didn’t understand at the time how much easier it was to play with 4 other melees right next to you ready to pick me up if I died. I never once got kicked.

On my ranger however I range the molten twins. The reason for this is im quite used to pugs dieing there. I often have a 70% success rate in soloing the rest of hte zerkers health down..rezzing my team mates and salvaging the fight. In almost every one of hte remaining 30% though. Im often kicked from the group and blamed as being hte cause of the wipe due to my (pitiful dps they had to carry) despite being the last one alive.

Yeah true. If they blame someone it is the noob with the always ranged weapon :-)

Anyway, it’s really horrible to see all the staff guardians out there. Actually, about 8 out of 10 guardians I see in dungeons run with a staff. They think the might and healing is great and do ‘good’ damage with the 1 skill… I even had a discussion recently with a guardian in our guild claiming that staff is the way to go lol. If people just knew how horrible this weapon in dungeons is…

Shadelang.3012:

Kill speed is very relevant to the discussion as it is the only thing valued in the dungeon community today. Slowing down the dungeon run WILL get you kicked today in many groups. As a ranged player this happens to me quite often even in situations where im actively helping my group at every turn. As the ranged player is easiest person to target for a slow kill time.

That’s not true. I recently ran some pug dungeons and I was in groups with horrible overall DPS and no one got kicked. Still most players just run whatever they want.

But overall, the experience wasn’t that bad. About 70% of the groups I pugged in AC, CM and CoF were rather speed clearers (though no focus on specific group composition) and it was a quite good experience.

pdavis.8031:

ProtoGunner.4953:

About 2.5k since head start and no drop.

There are people clocking over 8.5k hours. That’s roughly 10+ hours a day, on average…

Guys, I am a passionate gamer since more than 20 years but that’s just very, very questionnable… Not only that it would be impossible for most people with work, hobbies, friends, etc.

aroud 1500 hours I believe. No drop, no buying off the TP and STILL managed to make Frostfang :P (It was a gift from a random stranger)

About the hours, while I agree that is an obscene amount of time, I am sure that most of that is AFK. I have people in my guild who do that. They log in, play for a couple of hours, then go to bed/work/dinner/etc. and don’t log off. So it counts those hours, even though they are not actually doing anything.

I am not sure. The client throws you out within 20-30 minutes. Not sure if the ‘/age’ command counts this towards playtime?

BTW, yes I managed to craft Sunrise, Kraitkin, Frostfang and Kudzu :-)

About 2.5k since head start and no drop.

There are people clocking over 8.5k hours. That’s roughly 10+ hours a day, on average…

Guys, I am a passionate gamer since more than 20 years but that’s just very, very questionnable… Not only that it would be impossible for most people with work, hobbies, friends, etc.

Yes, DO IT! I assumed they will introduce that with the free trait refund with the April Feature Pack (anything else would’ve been non well thought out). But yeah, they managed to introduce it without saving templates. I feared that this will happen and it’s still not here.

Why do you implement this like you already did in GW1 with templates and now you do the same in GW2 not giving us the option to save our builds? Sometimes I really wonder how the structures in this company work (now).

aspirine.6852:

MeGaZlo.9516:

aspirine.6852:

joneb.5679:

DeWolfe.2174:

I get such a laugh out of the anti-mount people. The amount of energy used to twist logic to use against mounts is mind boggling. Some players really want mounts, end of story. The issue should be simply choice. If a player wants a mount so they can traverse Tyria’s vast open world, great. If someone doesn’t want a mount and uses the way points, great. It’s ALL good if it keeps players entertained and invested in the game. Telling either side they are wrong and can’t have does nothing but lessen someones experience of the game.

The word for every anti-mount person to learn is tolerance. This isn’t YOUR game alone.

Its such a waste not to implement this and it shows a lack of vision, imagination and ability.

No it doesnt. Copying other mmo’s sounds more like a lack of vision.

Why did you decide that mounts is copying of other mmo? In reality people also used the mounts. By your logic all mmo – plagiarism of reality? And even if we assume that the implementation of the idea of mounts is copying – then what prevents to implement it so that it will be not like in other MMOs?
See? Lack of vision.

Dont come with BS explanations please. People want mounts because they have in in their old MMO and/or RPG.

Your argumentation is incoherent. So, every RPG is copying other RPG be cause they have a horse to ride. This means every (MMO-)RPG is copying Zelda or Elder Scrolls (or what game ever ‘introduced’ an animal to ride).

It’s as if you would argue that wielding a sword is copying another game, be cause it is in a lot of other games… think about it! It is pretty natural that in games with vast worlds you have the ability to ride a horse or whatever. The ridiculous arguments of the anti-mount-faction – if they bring up any – are lackluster, incoherent and illegitimate. The only argument I see they are right is that it costs resources that may be used somewhere else.

I had a relatively freshly leveled thief 80, gave it my ranger’s full ascended gear and off I went to unlock the XIII traits – I already had the rest unlocked since it was level 70+ for over a year.

Okay, now I really wanted to unlock the following trait:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Revealed_Training

For this I need to kill the Risen High Wizard right in front of Arah. I entered Cursed Shore for about 2 ours and nothing happened, I entered another 1-2 hours the next day, finished the map completion did Melandru for the 10000000000th time and still – no Risen High Wizard… I entered another couple of hours the next day: NO Risen High Wizard. The next day, I entered again: NO… GOD kitten RISEN HIGH WIZARD…

I ended up paying the 3g and 20 skill points at the trainer.

So, what the HELL were ArenaNet thinking about this? Do they really think it is fun to run the same map for hours and hours just to HOPE the god kitten event starts accidentaly? This is just one of the worst game designs I have ever seen in an MMO (and yes, there ARE extremely bad designs in many MMOs). You guys want to go ‘directly to the fun part’, then why do you do that? Why do you change this to such a god forsaken bad concept?

I liked the skill huntin in GW1, but there were two points which made it fun instead of tedious and frustrating:

- you could do it on your own (no group content)
- you could do it AT ANY GIVEN TIME <—- THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was instanced, and I could do it when I felt I wanna do it. Do change that. Let us hunt those things, make it instanced or an open world fast spawning thing/event.

Yes, we need it. We need content. The industry’s standard is ‘deliver and deliver and deliver till they choke on it!’. MMOs do this, GW2 doesn’t! They don’t listen to what the people want, the player base is getting smaller and smaller, people already forgot about this game. The income is getting worse and worse – just check the report from NCSoft. All my real world friends left since there was and is not much left to do. And it’s like 2+ years.

The problem why Aetherpath floppend they are afraid of doing other dungeons is as follows:

- no meaningful rewards
- no universal dungeon tokes which we can buy ascended gear (a hard dungeon to get best in slot gear would be an incentive to do ‘challenging’ content what aetherpath is)
- if they do a new dungeon it’s always gimick. Just do an A to B dungeon, no fancy, strange crap with riddles and jumping stuff. Do some interesting boss encounters, that’s what people want.

I did this dungeon once and found it very original. But anet seems really NOT to understand, why people run dungeons after they did it just for doing it once… I sometimes wonder if they want to come out of their Ivory Tower or not.

Ayrilana.1396:

You can’t do both.

Yes, you can. Most MMOs, or at least AAA MMOs, do this actually. That’s why I called it ‘by industry standard’. The living story – once announced with thunderous fanfares – is nothing else what most MMOs do between expansions. Some short story snipplets here and there to please the community. Fact is that other companies managed to cater regular expansions every two years. Expansions with 10-15 maps, new races, campaign, raids, dungeons etc etc.

Besides; that ‘release every two weeks’ is a joke by now. We get 4 releases after months of nothing and then after months of hiatus again some story snipplets.

You really seem biased by the talking of Anet that everything takes sooooo much time. It’s true that Anet has a different approach which takes longer. But the little amount of content we got after more than two years is ridiculous compared to other MMOs in the industry.

Fact is that with no expansion there is no publicity and with no publicity there is no new players (at least not the big masses). Hence the income goes down and down. I know not a single person pesonally who still plays GW2. They are all gone, it’s only the longterm hardcore fans, the guys who can’t afford a monthly fee or newcomers who are in this game now.

Ayrilana.1396:

ProtoGunner.4953:

Well, I hope the LS are just fillers. Everything else would be ridiculous compared to industry standard. I hope they work on an expansion with a new campaign with 10-15 new maps, dungeons and raids, new skills, traits, weapons, classes or races. Everything else would be a letdown.

So you’re expecting them to release an expansion roughly the size of the current game? Do you realize how long it took them to make GW2?

Yes, I follow this franchise since 2006. They released 2 campaigns within 1.5 years, about 1/2 and 2/3 the size/content of the original game with 4 new professions and features.

Yes, I know games become more complex. But I mentioned the ‘industry standard’ not just be cause; there are numerous examples that release amounts of ‘living story’ AND in addition expansions every 2 year. Just look up some of the leading MMOs (no, not only WoW).

Well, I hope the LS are just fillers. Everything else would be ridiculous compared to industry standard. I hope they work on an expansion with a new campaign with 10-15 new maps, dungeons and raids, new skills, traits, weapons, classes or races. Everything else would be a letdown.

I am by far no expert, but I would appreciate it not to buy or farm those damask again. It’s 7 or 8 times the amount of leather/ingot. Isn’t that a bit out of place? No one cared that silk was worth nothing (well 7c). Maybe you are just a slik farmer and defending your own interests? :-)