Guild Wars 2

A few weeks ago (after feature patch) I dusted off my (Condition-)Necro to test with minions, just to see if they fixed the horrible AI-issues. And it was abysmal… they just didn’t do anything most of the time. Also since launch the Bone Minion wont approach the enemy upon using Putrid Explotion which is annoying.

This is such a class breaking issue. Since almost 2 years they are not able to fix this kittening problem. It is embarassing and never EVER should have made it out of Beta like this. I played a lot of MMOs and never saw such horrible pet AI. And best is they obviously aren’t able to fix that.

Good I am on a break for this game. Hope the game will be out of beta phase in about 1-2 years…

There is really no tips or guides needed. This is so faceroll easy. Just play what you want.

1. New high quality permanent content (zones, contintents, lore etc.)
2. New class
3. New race
4. New skills and weapons for existing classes
5. Customizable GUI: let me place stuff where I want them to, let us change skill positions, let us have slots/side bars where I can put in my buff food etc.
6. New raid like content: let us fight bosses like Tequatl or the Wurm in instances as a guild. We finally can fight them WHEN we want and don’t have the hassle of the failing sever annoyances.
7. New crafting disciplines or gathering like: fishing or mixing elixirs etc.
8. Many of us – especially the GW1 veterans – want to have answers/stories about all the old lore: Palawa Joko, the Mursaat etc.
9. Give us rewards like new armor and weapons kins via IN GAME GAMEPLAY not just an unepic gemstore where everyone who has a credit card can buy them. It’s extremely unepic.
10. Make legendaries more epic: if you introduce new ones let us do hard content, send us over the world of Tyria and let us gather the materials in hard dungeons/raids etc. and for god’s sake: MAKE THEM ACCOUNT BOUND ON CREATION!!!! Selling and buying legendaries is a huge mistake and I assume this was done to encourage rich players just to buy them via trading post, so just a monetary idea behind this. The money making makes this game suffer and the overall quality suffers as well. I hope you will understand this.

Still no reward chest. It is really incredible how constantly they fail to do it right. I played on my server since release and also bought gems in large amounts. If I compare this to other companies this is just disastrous and embarassing. Do it right for once! During the period of GW1 Anet was such a great company. There were of course bugs here and there, but I always had the impression that the game runs smooth and has constant content added, never crashes, has never problems etc etc. What happened? Also, it seems the only important focus is the Gem store for money making. That’s just sad. I stopped playing and moved on to other games. I will come back periodically, still hoping there will be some awesome stuff. Though since release the game is one of my biggest disappointments – especially how eager I was towards the release. It’s just sad.

Just a question: I only did the meta achievement in Edge of the Mists but didn’t get a reward. Is this due to the bug (lol again you did it Anet) or is it be cause I never was in other WvW parts? My Server was placed 1st.

Was great on release, disappointed after wintersday 2012. It’s now just a fashion gem store party game with no substance. I am extremely disappointed since I was looking forward to this game since the announcement and a huge fan of GW1…

The game became stale and boring about 3-4 months after release. There was nothing real substantial and there was no end game from the beginning. I had my legendary by December 2012 and since then I just do ‘stuff’. There was no substantial campaign, no new profession, race nor new maps etc (well Southsun Cove…).

There is no new full dungeon (only replaced), no raid, not even groups more than 5 people, no new crafting discipline, no new weapons. And still they continue with this garbage called living story which made me skeptical the first time I heard. The game is boring and there is nothing to do. I already completed world twice, ran the same dungeons about 100 times.

The first planned boxed expansions was a great idea and I am again disappointed they continue with this lackluster gem store driven living story crap. Well, I stopped playing for now. Moved on to other games.

As with many aspects of the then so anticipated game, underwater combat was never received well by the audience. I like it too, but let’s face it; it is pretty underdeveloped. With removing them from PvP they don’t have to balance it. Though they even have a hard time balancing the very streamlined professions they have now. I don’t get it. They told it was hard to balance GW1 and they did a pretty decent job. Just seems all the good guys left Anet – is it just me or are there new folks at Anet every couple of months? Something just goes wrong with this company. It’s a shame if you were a fan of good ol’ GW1. But well.. they even can’t fix pet AI from Necro after 2 years… That’s just sad and hilarious at the same time…

I wonder if we ever get additional maps and content (PvE) and if those maps will have underwater content or even an underwater dungeon. It would be awesome if implemented right.

There are two points. First, you don’t need to grind it, it’s an Exotic. It’s just for looks and therefor a vanity item. Second, you are right, it is nigh impossible to farm. I had about 2-3 giant eyes drop in more than 2k hours. That’s ridiculous. Either they forgot about that recipe or they simply want us to buy it – if not with Gold, then with Gems by Credit Card.

The latter is pretty likely, more and more the game is just a cash shop for vanity items and offers nothing else. It’s a shame and discrace for the once so good franchise…

Those are really good and reasonable questions, OP. Unfortunately, they do everything differently and most things they do wrong (not before release, but after…).

It’s literally almost nothing we could do with our characters since release. The game is extremely stale and boring and I won’t play anymore until some substantive content is released (no, not quality of life stuff, this is just expected and no Living (Gem Store) Story with shallow zerg content. I want a new campaign with vast new regions, a new race, new skills, new weapons etc etc. The stuff you’d expect from a soonish 2 year old MMO…

Again some awesome skins behind RNG boxes. kitten this! I stopped until they introduce something I can earn for playing the game – with new content, to give you a hint how to make a game.

Not entirely true, if they Veteran Karkas would drop good loot, people would farm them. But it is likely that they won’t drop ANYTHING. This is so wrong. If the challenge is there, there must be a reward it’s almost a paradigm, a dogma, an axiom!

Yes, champions drop loot. Maybe Anet should implement lootbags for Veteran Karkas. But I imagine it is not possible from a develipment standpoint ;-)

It’s flawed programming and they have other priorities like crappy living story and gem store items loosely linked to those living story abominations.

Such stuff just shows the lack of content in this game. If people have to start their own challenges. I don’t know if it is said or funny. Time to move on to other games.

Different people with different tastes :-) Ultimately, it’s the developers fault: if they make them such huge HP sponges with bad drops (yeah, you get an exotic from time to time – but you will also get them from level 10 mobs in the open world), that have a leash (you lose aggro after a while) most people won’t kill them.

If you run dungeons over and over it gets boring, the trash mobs don’t drop anything interesting usually. So people will skip.

Sad but true, one of several issues that drives me away from this game more and more. There is no significant content added to the game: one new map released and fractals with some mini dungeons. Pretty nothing after 18 months – temporary content doesn’t count as we have nothing from it now.

The game kills totally immersion with this everywhere same-music concept and the parts of the worlds that don’t feel big and epic. I recently palyed a Beta of another game (many may know what this was) and it felt so much more immersive because a) there are many different areas in a huuuuuuge zone and all those areas have music that fits and changes. And the fact that all the zones are not so big and aren’t even interconnected (different instances) kills the immersion even more.

I agree with most points. The game is boring and there’s literally nothing to do. The living story is shallow and only adds temporary stuff to existing maps. One of the worst things is to introduce a new tier of armor without adding any content. Make us EARN those armors via Dungeons or Raids. Standing in front of a crafting station and taking out until-then-excess-supply-materials like slik is not epic at all!

My god, every MMO adds meaningful content, you did it as well with GW1, what happened? I really hope they will sell a box with a new zones/races/classes for the Mordremoth story arc…

Lothirieth.3408:

It very much is an honest assessment. When one sees very little being added to the game available to gameplay but a very heavy focus on adding new skins to the store (and GW1 skins only available through gamble, I mean Black Lion chests), it’s quite easy and rational to see how that could breed feelings of discontent. After all we see this complaint often and people asking for more armors and weapons to be added to the game through gameplay and not the store. I very much believe if more were added to the game that could be earned directly through playing that that would quell discontent because looks are looks and this is a game heavily focused on cosmetics. I don’t even get what you mean by ‘competing’.

Giving people more choice and balancing store and game armor would surely lead to higher player satisfaction overall which would make people more amenable to spending in the store if their finances allow. I know that when the game first started, personally I had a very favourable view of the gem store, but now not so much. That is completely down to the perception of balancing the amount of new store items vs. new game items (such as some new dungeon armor or hairstyle.) The balance has been heavily skewed toward the gem store, people have noticed and some find that a bit off putting. I get ANet needs to earn money, so I largely support the gem store. I just think if they got the balance right where the focus wasn’t entirely on it, the negative opinions of it would lessen. I guess this is a subtle and subjective thing of relationship building, give and take and trust, and not making it blatantly obvious that their primary goal is to sell to us. :P Like the subtle differences between a good salesman and a sleazy one. :P [/rambling]

Very well said! The game is stale, discouraging and boring. No new permanent content (maps, races, classes, towns, dungeons/raids) since more than a year.

I stop playing and go back to monthly fee model where the focus is in interconnected zones without any player limit.

I am hugely disappointed and there was a good game by the company called GW1 which had no monthly fee, a really SMALL real money store and new added campaigns. Go back to this, this gem store driven non-content updates aren’t up to your spirit of yore.

I try to unlock my Grandmaster Trait XIII at Lyssa’s Temple for about two weeks. It’s always open. And I could do the other temples just by accident, also Grenth’s Temple was done by me but didn’t get the Trait. This sucks. You should do those unlocking stuff with things I can trigger, not by server time or things other people are involved. Don’t know that they were thinking.

Buy a better PC, really. My PC is 2.5 years old and handles the event without problems – even with full details. There is no ‘lag’ – it’s your bad machines that can’t handle this amount of polygons created by the huge player amount running around due to the megaserver.

In combination with your account name it’s not that bad :-) 7/10

My Charr Engineer: Ratchet Ironwrench

I always disliked the term ‘Zerk’. I am not a fan of those pseudo-1337 terminology that finds its way into every game. I always refer to berserker as berserker. Same goes with ’nades for grenades, oh I cringe. I always see 15-22 year old CoD-commerce-mass-market-players who never heard something about Doom, Dune II or Wing Commander.

I had the same experience, almost all of my real friends bought the game, some quit right after a couple of hours, others played a bit – maybe to 80 – and quit. All those people expected something ‘similar to other MMOs’.

I think this game is just not made for the average MMO player. I myself enjoy other MMOs from time to time though I think most are just expecting to have more defined roles and dislike zerg content. They also told me that the fighting was ‘just not right’.

I have a profession for every class. Luckily, all are 80 and one is 77, so no issue for me. But for the XIII-traits I have to fight some events which i can’t track, it is pure accident to find exactly this event active. This is very bad design. Do NOT lock such essential stuff like traits behind a time gate which may occur in an area.

I had to rely on guildies who told me if an event starts. The dragon timer pages don’t work anymore since we have megaservers. In fact you introduced a system which made it harder to get skills from the new system WITHIN the same update! That’s really bad design and shows that the Q&A is non-existend in this company.

Also another issue: when I finally managed to find an active Grenth temple event and also successfully finish the event the kitten trait didn’t unlock! What the kitten?

Review your update before it goes live for god’s sake!

It’s quite clear that the game was pushed to a release date (in order to have it released before WoW Expansion) and some content was rushed. Zhaitan fight is a paradigm for that. Unfortunately, they only spent time for this shallow living world content instead of improving some of its lackluster encounter.

It doesn’t really matter… I even don’t say something against Bearbows although it makes me cringe. The run maybe takes a couple of minutes more, who cares, really.

The last time I told something was in a guild run where one player told that his conditions are super awesome. I told him that the condition stat was one of the worst in PvE – soon after that I had all against me, so I stopped. Just let them be. If the run is more or less fast enough I just stopped caring.

I like fast runs but if the players are kitteners I rather do a run with funny people than the typical ‘I feel good and use Twilight/Dark Themed Warrior Berserker and don’t say a word unless it is to bash others’-attitude (yeah, I play Warrior meta too…). There are always 1-2 players in guild runs who are quite new or simply not interested in statistics/theorycrafting and maximizing effectiveness. There are a kittenload of other games out there and you can’t simply expect to have players all on the same level.

After the feature update I gave a try and played my necro. Thought they improved the Minions. I was really shocked how badly they act. Since release the minions are lackluster. They don’t attack most of the time and if they attack the damage is pretty underwhelming.

Compared to the minions masters in GW1 this is just a joke and I really don’t understand why they did it the way they did. At least make them reliable and useful.

Thematically the Necro is a cool class. Please make them a strong profession/class like the Warlock in WoW. This one is a beast.

As long as people will pay real money for gems to convert to gold, they won’t change the mechanic. Also behind this profit-only oriented idea is why Legendaries are tradable. They take the moaning and mourning, whining etc. into account and won’t change it, at least for a certain while, be cause they can make a lot of money with this.

The purpose of maximising profit destroys the experience of the game and that makes me sad.

I am always shocked how many just play humans. It’s so boring, Fantasy games are here to create something differnt. Not just another human. I only have two humans, rest is Charr, Asura, Norn and Sylvari. And they are either female or male.

The game is not grindy. But it is still a very, very, very bad idea to implement a new tier of gear without any new content (higher fractals aside).

This was just a Anet panicking and implementing a next tier with mere improvement but huge grind (yes, but not needed) to please the standard MMO crowd.

In my opinion it is bit a childish behaviour to believe they will answer ‘all the questionts’. Sometimes they just have to read and to expect ‘yes, we read the thread’. What does that change? Also, what does it change to know when what is coming? You can’t do anything until something new is out anyway.

There will be updates, whether they are good or bad. I personally still hope the new ‘season’ (I hate this word related to games) will be a boxed expansion/addon with a new race and/or profession (class), new zones etc.

BumbleBee.8456:

Urgoz when it first came out.
30-45 minutes to build the 12 man team.
6 1/2 hours to get to the last section.
Mega wipe!
Rage Quit!

Awesome. Bring it all back please.

Oh, I remember that. I had a blast when it first came out and it was so extremely hard at the beginning. I even had dreams of it. And when I first killed Urgoz. It was a good time :-)

The Llama Finisher is very funny (as was the Minstrel Finisher). But it’s by far too expensive. 10€ for such a thing is a ripoff. I would pay 2€ however.

Doesn’t make sense. The Gearscore only represents the sum of rarity you have equipped, not the kind of gear you have. So this means: an Elementalist with only exotics but full berserker is more effective than a guardian with full ascended but clerics gear only.

They even now don’t react. There is still a 2-5 second delay until they use the kitten F2-skill. This has been an issue since the betas and there were several updates where they told, the pets are more responsive. Maybe I handle it wrong but yesterday I played with my Ranger and the F2 skills were all delayed. Like it was in betas/beginning.

It’s obvious: warrior is the most accesable class and therefor the success has a higher probability.

An average player does more help with a warrior than with an ele. Although leet players know that ele is superior IF played right.

It’s the same why I retraited my guardian to hammer/GS with more protection, since I often play in pug and you all know that pug tend to be less effective than organized groups.

In my opinion it is not up to date with other games’ technologies. Blizzard introduced phasing in 2010. With this method it was possible to have altered versions of the map even when other players were around. And anet doesn’t even manage to have this with an INSTANCED version. It’s embarassing and doesn’t fit a AAA game. It’s goofy and not well-thought-out.

If an online game is for some people their only meeting ground… I really feel sorry for them.

But aside from this: I was sarcastic and theatrical and wasn’t too serious.

I was shocked. Back in 2006 when I heard that couples play together WoW and Guild Wars. Dead were my dreams that only geeks and pizza eating nerds were playing games. No, MMOs destroeyed that dream and I always cringe if I here ‘me and my wife’ don’t like that blabla. kitten? Just play as an individual, you aren’t siamese twins.

Immersion is one of the most important elements in games for me. Especially in MMOs or open world Games like GTA or Skyrim.

On the other hand a lot of immersion in GW2 gets killed by the fragmented world (zones and portals to an adjacent zone).

Yeah, found that a bit immersion breaking too. This doesn’t fit. First there was almost to no music in orr, than they added some tunes. It’s ok to play the Echovald Theme from Guild Wars Factions there but if I hear a cheerful Kryta song, I just wonder a bit.

Lame that they didn’t add a set of tunes just for Orr.

Sounds like a backlash. It seems they are so intimidated by the ‘aggressive zerk only 80ies’-parties that they don’t trust any 80s anymore.

Taygus.4571:

ProtoGunner.4953:

Taygus.4571:

ProtoGunner.4953:

Is that so? But still. You level to 80 within a week if you play normally. So what’s the problem if you have to wait a bit until you have fully developped? It shouldn’t be a problem to do without certain traits until 80.

play normally? Whats “normal”?
and how many hours is that?

you’re “week”, is different to my week.

Sorry for the typo. But yes, of course I made my thoughts about ‘normally’. There are people with less time who need – let’s say – more than a month. But then those people could complain that it takes ‘months to reach max level’ as well.

Again, you’re throwing timelines around without any hours.

How many hours does it take you, doing WHAT, in game to level from 1-80.

In fact, create a new character now and tell us all exactly how many hours it takes you. Then we can talk timelines.
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The issue isnt leveling to 80, its that trait unlocks are boring/out of reach for the level they are meant to be accessible. Even if some people can level quicker than others, it doesnt change this fact.

It makes no sense, if one person playes 5 minutes every year it takes yeras to hit 80. If you play 15 hours a day it takes a couple of days. What do you want to hear?

Maybe I was a bit rude. Having 7 80ies and one in the 70ies (all classes) and not planning to create another chracter I am not affected by this new trait system. Only for the XIII-traits.

But to be accurate: you need around 50- 80 hours of normal play to hit 80. If you play only one hour a week, an MMO isn’t simply for you. The trait unlock system makes not much sense, of course. But on the other hand: just wait for max level, you can’t be taken serious under 80 anyways.

Taygus.4571:

ProtoGunner.4953:

Is that so? But still. You level to 80 within a week if you play normally. So what’s the problem if you have to wait a bit until you have fully developped? It shouldn’t be a problem to do without certain traits until 80.

play normally? Whats “normal”?
and how many hours is that?

you’re “week”, is different to my week.

Sorry for the typo. But yes, of course I made my thoughts about ‘normally’. There are people with less time who need – let’s say – more than a month. But then those people could complain that it takes ‘months to reach max level’ as well.

Is that so? But still. You level to 80 within a week if you play normally. So what’s the problem if you have to wait a bit until you have fully developped? It shouldn’t be a problem to do without certain traits until 80.

That is pretty embarassing. Time to introduce some phasing…

I am astonished why people create 64 characters. I am a gamer, but even I think, this is completely out of whack. Anyway, thanks for the info. Maybe 2 or 3 other players need that information ;-)

Prophet.6257:

Guild Wars 2: Rise of the Titans
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Basic: $30 : 2 character slots
Deluxe: $50 : all previous, + 1 bank tab, 1 Tengue Legacy Armor set, 1 Skritt specialty armor set
Collectors: $100 : all previous, week early access, Tengu or Skritt figurine, Guild house deed, other stuff…idk

GENERAL:
- Account bound map exploration
- Level Cap increased to 90

RACES:
- Tengu added as playable race
- Skritt added as playable race

NEW ZONES and MAP:
- Maguuma and Janthir regions unlocked (6 total)
- Regions west and north of Maguuma and Janthir unlocked (4 Total)
- Underground zones added (Living world lead off to build from expansion (4 total)
- World map changed to a globe of all of Tyria
- Tengu Home City (in the air)
- Skritt Home City (underground)

PVP:
- New PvP game mode: Open world pit duels view able by other players
- LA gauntlet: Teams of 1-5 fight a gauntlet of other players and NPCs

DUNGEONS:
- Scalable dungeons: (1-8 players)
- Dungeon Difficulty Option: (Easy=1g, Normal=1.75g, Hard=2g, Master=3g)

CRAFTING:
- Level 500 crafting recipes for level 90 gear
- Carpenter Crafting discipline (requires 2 level 200 professions to unlock)
craft furniture, paintings, shelves, rugs, taxidermy, weapon racks, etc
- Constructor Crafting discipline (requires 2 level 200 professions to unlock)
craft anything for the exterior of guild halls and houses

HOUSING/GUILD HALLS:
- Guild hall instances that allow members to claim houses and guild leaders to add buildings
- Houses to display rewards, titles, and favorite unlocked gear
- House owners able to add up to 4 NPCs as residence (maybe more, not sure about lag potential)
- Custom NPC text at houses.
- Add Guild House Deed item needed to purchase a home in a guild hall (refundable, 1 per guild membership, once per guild, craftable, not account bound)
- Guild Hall able to add NPCs for practical use (like merchants) or for aesthetics (flavor)
- Custom NPC text at Guild Halls
- Guild Hall Access: (Private, Public, Restricted, Custom)
- Guild Hall Locations with associated themes: Kryta, Ascalon, Shiverpeaks, Maguma, Southern Shiverpeaks)

TEASER ZONES:
- Mini-zone access to Elona
- Mini-zone access to Blood Legion homelands
- Mini-zone access to Northern Shiverspeaks
- Sample Enemies
- Unbeatable world boss for each mini-zone

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After writing all this I just realized how much I’m asking for. O_O
Sorry…

I would SO buy that… sadly they never will release something like this I fear.