Guild Wars 2

Its end game content, I seriously hope they don’t buy into giving it out pre 80. If they do I have an entire list of requests I fully expect them to give me.

They will continue to work on an balance/fix classes even after release. Who knows maybe next beta will be only Rangers and Engis available for testing. I doubt it but you never know.

I think there will be floods of feedback regarding these two classes which should put them in a decent state for launch, even if they still have some minor tweaking to do.

They might even choose to do a full week test prior to launch just to cement any changes they may need to make.

The tempest just disappointing. I don’t know how else to describe the feeling when trying it.

It certainly does appear that some devs didn’t put as much work in as others or lack the imagination. Its a shame really, some elites are great and very exciting while others are meh. I guess its all option though.

Guard is 1 example, I also played, Warrior, Revanant, and Thief. They all seemed to do just fine with gear setups I theory crafted. If I died to fast or felt my damage wasn’t where I wanted it I went back to the builder and tweaked things.

In the end its your playtime and you can build however you feel the most effective but, I don’t think the mobs are to difficult. Just my opinion though.

It would be nice if they were all 100% come release but, people would still find bug and balance issues even if they had another year. They will continue to fix and balance even after Hot release.

giovr.6538:

Random.4691:

giovr.6538:

I see your point, but in my experience I’m having a lot of trouble playing with the war that lvled up from lvl 25 to lvl 80 with tomes from login rewards and I have (obviously) all skills and specs unlocked.

Go out and clear a zone or two, or go to the mist lobby and test on golems. It doesn’t take long to get the hang of a class, especially warrior.

What about behaviour in dungeons or fractals? You need more training than 3 hours clearing some zones…

You would have to learn the dungeon and fractal mechanics anyways so I fail to see how that statement is relevant to learning the general class.

Its entirely possible to build so you don’t get 1 shot and still have high dos. People have been so brainwashed by zerker meta that they seem to have forgotten how to mix stats for full effectiveness.

They weren’t one shotting me on guard and I was able to kill regular mobs in a timely fashion, as for elites and champs its the same scenario only it takes more people and a bit longer to kill.

If you want to go full zerk go for it but dont complain when you do get 1 shot.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Random.4691:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Probably my Necro. If only because I’ve been waiting forever and a day for the necro to get a greatsword (and because I have the Chiroptophobia greatsword skin). The others, I’ll have to try them out first somewhere less stressful than a new map and hard hitting new mobs.

He is asking who is not planning on using it not who is.

(Rolls eyes) then I probably won’t be using the non necro ones, Mr. Picky. (And what are you here, the thread police?)

Wow settle down Sparky you obviously misread the topic, no need to get all kitten for someone clarifying. Maybe forums aren’t for you if you’re this easily offended.

I believe they stated that wxp will remain for wvw but the skills are being reworked.

Use a mix of gear, find the happy medium. You don’t have to play in all zerker or all (insert gear type here). Min/max your build, its actually a lot of fun and satisfying to come up with an original build that works.

Most servers don’t have long quest at all, usually the quest are for 1 map with the exception of reset. Even on reset most servers are no longer than a 5 min wait. Servers that have big quest are few and far between. I’ve played in all tiers the que’s and times are greatly exaggerated, but if your enjoying your smaller population server then by all means keep enjoying it.

They should have a player request thread stickier because there are so many requests for thing that would be legitimately good for the game.

3 way battles are fine it adds the wildcard scenario, double teams, back stabbing, and uncertainty. If your going to suggest 4 servers you may as well suggest 2 servers. An odd number brings a lot to the table imho.

giovr.6538:

I see your point, but in my experience I’m having a lot of trouble playing with the war that lvled up from lvl 25 to lvl 80 with tomes from login rewards and I have (obviously) all skills and specs unlocked.

Go out and clear a zone or two, or go to the mist lobby and test on golems. It doesn’t take long to get the hang of a class, especially warrior.

I’m no programmer but I’m going to assume what you’re asking for will take more time than they have available not to mention it will take away from any fixes they need to work on.

So I understand that you need to be signed up for the news letter. Where exactly do you sign up for the news letter ?

Knighthonor.4061:

Azure.8670:

First off, anet has nothing against the trinity. What they have always said is they want every class to be able to play multiple roles. You can have dps tank and support, just each class can do it and differently. That’s how they set it up and how it’s always been

Thats not how its alwayd been. Thats PR talk.
a thief cant tank no matter how they spec. They cant provide good healing no matter what they do.
same with mesmers in terms of support.

The list goes on.

Actually a thief could tank just fine with the right stat choices and an evade heavy build. This is compounded by the way gw2 works, instead of facetanking and soaking up damage you are suppose to avoid damage.

They are usually on Tuesdays if I’m not correct.

I main Ele in WvW and won’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. To each their own I suppose.

I would imagine this will happen, it only makes sense but time will tell.

Mesmer because their elite is decent not to mention they are op. Though you do risk the Nerf bat at some point.

I’m actually in favor of forcing people into other parts of the game to learn and test. I mean its perfectly fine when WvW players are forced to PvE but as soon as it affects a PvE player the sky is falling. Keep it at 80 anet, if they want to learn it they can go to PvP.

80 is fine, if you’re wanting to test/learn it there’s always pvp.

Can’t really tell you if its worth it for you or not. For me the Rev is well worth it, the raids sound great, and the people I play with plan on raiding frequently. Ive never been a pve player but I do enjoy playing with my guild mates so that makes it worth it.

Reavan.8753:

So did any of you who are not going to use the new specs already buy HoT?
If so why? was it the new raids or what ever that sold you or did you feel it was ‘required’.

The raids were a selling point for me. I’m actually glad I did because I enjoy the Rev that much. I would still recommend people wait until they are satisfied with the content from a personal point of view.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Probably my Necro. If only because I’ve been waiting forever and a day for the necro to get a greatsword (and because I have the Chiroptophobia greatsword skin). The others, I’ll have to try them out first somewhere less stressful than a new map and hard hitting new mobs.

He is asking who is not planning on using it not who is.

On Guardian I won’t be using it because the elite is a joke. Its like no work went into it what so ever.

Ele is also lacking so I won’t be using it there either. Ranger and engi are TBD.

AR is a great server. Its one of the only servers that had never had a bandwagon. They are man for man arguably one of the strongest servers I have ever had the pleasure of being part of.

If you’re looking for a strong server that never throws in the towel and knows how to fight when out manned than AR is the server for you.

Its a minor inconvenience. Nothing more.

There is no need to have 101 different threads, combine them so it is easier to view all the feed back and some of it doesn’t get buried 2-3 pages away.

I think this is a great idea, is there more important things ? Of course.

So if it’s going to take away from features that need work I would say keep it in mind for post release, but if you can squeeze it in I think this would be a small yet good feature. As it is, there really isn’t a point to activate the guild armor/weapon merchants. Weapons don’t even have a skin for all weapons and the armor has been limited to 1 skin for 3 years.

I love showing of my dedication to my guild but there are better skins out there so it has kind of lost it’s appeal. Having more armor skins would be a perfect idea to go along with all the guild focus in HoT.

Ya I got an ascended ring.

Dawdler.8521:

The horror, the horror!

Seriously, doing a little PvE wont hurt. I know there are people that brag about how they are 100% WvW and never set one foot in PvE… You dont have to help. Really, you dont. Remain in WvW if you wish. I’m sure there are plenty of members even in the most “hardcore” of guilds that are willing to relax their principles a little and do stuff with the guild in PvE as well. If its anything like guild missions, you only need 5-10 peeps anyway.

For even smaller scouting guilds, I recommend working together – join each others guilds, make a guild hall, then make the other guild hall. It will probably go much faster the second time around. Or the third. Well, assuming there is no member limitation on maintaining a guild hall.

While it wouldn’t be bad, the fact that you can accomplish everything you need in PvE without ever stepping foot into WvW is a little unfair. So the point is legitimate, if they are going to say they want players to play all aspects of the game then they need to practice this in all areas not just WvW.

Moonlit.6421:

Random.4691:

Go look for many of the statements made by Devon if you want to see the hollow promises. Why people think others need to prove anything to them is beyond me, to be clear I don’t care if you want to stick your head in the sand, if you’re curious do the work and look, it shouldn’t be to difficult.

Because basic logic dictates if you make a point then you should have something to back it up. You said something and the guy asked for the evidence that made you come to that conclusion, telling him that you don’t have to prove anything to him and that he should find evidence to back up your argument himself just makes your own comment look pointless.

This isn’t a court of law, basic logic would dictate that if you have spent any amount of time on these forums you would have at some point seen one of the many many threads with proof in them. Go look at the new thread about up coming changes to WvW, you think that many “we’ll believe it when we see it” posts just come from thin air ?

Don’t be lazy, either you’re curious and thus you should go search, or you don’t want to search and therefore do not care at which point you have no reason to even argue the point.

Crystal Reid.2481:

They will be disabled.

Can we finally just take them out of the game ? Seriously if half your items aren’t going to work in areas whats the point just stop giving them out as rewards.

I honestly don’t care if they can be used in Raids or not but I think its a valid statement to say remove them, they just take up space in my bank and/or inventory.

Of course you see us and our as in run things by us and get our feedback as to include everyone in the WvW community. Yes you would see less complaining, there will always be complaints but it would be less. The Golem event had what several thousands of replies ? Most of which were against it.

Go look for many of the statements made by Devon if you want to see the hollow promises. Why people think others need to prove anything to them is beyond me, to be clear I don’t care if you want to stick your head in the sand, if you’re curious do the work and look, it shouldn’t be to difficult.

I personally would rather wait for HoT release and then see if they hold true to their word about putting some serious time into WvW. I’d rather a fun WvW for the foreseeable future then a gimic event that would probably enrage the community because it was slapped together in 5 minutes.

They should have a team of players from each mode, once a week or biweekly or even monthly they should have a short Q&A session with those designated players about bugs, exploits, upcoming changes, things that need to be looked at ect ect ect. Not just one guy that sends them emails not knowing if they are even registering what he is telling them.

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

Random.4691:

If they would work with us and run things by us and actually listen to our constructive feedback you would see a lot less complaining.

Not saying this is always true but, some of the changes that are coming with the guild upgrade system and changes players have been asking for a lot. Yet we still see lots of people saying they don’t like these new changes and it will destroy WvW and so on without even trying. The problem with the golem event is people take the game too seriously sometimes, chill and enjoy the one week event it’s just a game after all. I do agree that the Glicko ratings should not have changed from that event but it was just one week of messed up Glicko. It is not just the players or just ArenaNet both sides are a bit at fault but aren’t trying to help the other. ArenaNet tries to change things up a bit but gets lots of complaints from the players, in turn players suggest things to change it up and they just hesitate because of previous flak.

So the massive bugs during the Golem event that had even casual non WvW players screaming for bans weren’t a big deal ? Players are bitter because it’s been 3 years of slaps in the face. We deserve to be bitter, we have been made promise after promise and they never follow through. The era of Devon was god awful, there are still blogs players have posted about the changes Devon assured us were coming, and yet, here we are, they still haven’t been touched.

They don’t even listen to the constructive feedback is the major issue. How many CDI’s full of constructive feedback were there ?

It was explained that we did not desire the Golem event, and if they were going to go ahead with it, they needed to limit how long it lasted, they ignored it and the die hards didn’t log in for the week.

You can’t put this all on the players, judging by some of the comments made by Anet staff they have proven that they are completely out of touch with their WvW community. Promises that never see the light of day, I think its fair to say some of the WvW players know more about WvW then the devs. If they would work with us and run things by us and actually listen to our constructive feedback you would see a lot less complaining.

They will never please everyone, I work late but I completely understand that whether they do it Morning, Mid day, or Evening, someone won’t be able to play.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Random.4691:

Apophis.2498:

What I have experienced from my ventures into WvW, that a guilds will vacate their original server to move to a “higher tiered” server to get more exposure. I was a member of two guilds that have done this rather than help cultivate the WvW culture on their original servers.

Now a days, it’s pretty hard to cultivate a low population server, mega servers took care of that. Back when you could go into PvE and get players on your server to hop in to WvW it was possible but long gone are those days.

On the contrary, it’s easier now. Previously, low-pop server recruiters had few options for bringing in fresh blood. Now, every PvE map includes people from other servers, increasing the potential recruitment population by leaps & bounds.

(Of course “easier” doesn’t mean “easy” — it’s definitely challenging to get people to consider WvW and even more difficult to convince them to move, since the minimum cost is 500 gems, ~75 gold in April and ~125 gold this week, although that’s less than $10 if you use cash to buy them.)

That is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read. You’re really reaching there aren’t you ?

Its an unfortunate side effect for the PvE player, if it was only PvE I honestly wouldn’t care but sadly it’s not just PvE. It would be obnoxiously OP in PvP and WvW.

I agree %100 it should be difficult but when they decided to make it difficult to catch them they didn’t have 1200 range. Aside from that I’m talking about the sniper spec people are mentioning, not rifle in general, though it might effect a non sniper rifle build as well.

I don’t hate thieves, but it’s not a case of hard to catch from 1200 range, it’s a case of impossible to catch. In PvP of course. The only class that could maybe catch a rifle thief that can Shadow Step, is another thief and even then the rifle thief has a 1200 head start. On top of that how many shadow steps are available ? 1 utility, 1 signet, #2 on sword, and steal if they have a target available. Melee thieves are forced to come back in to melee range if they want to kill you, maybe this is why their ranged weapons are sub par currently.

There is more then just stealth that’s a problem with sniper specs, think about shadow step and all the other abilities available to thieves that allow then to escape.

Do people honestly think they should retain these skills ?

Stealth wouldn’t even really matter if you still could shadow step away, it’s hard enough to catch a melee thief that decides to abandon ship, if they start that process from 1200 range you would literally never catch them. Skills and abilities would need to be taken away from the thief for a sniper spec to work, which in turn would make every other thief spec useless.

The thing about classes is, it doesn’t matter what mode you play, it has to be balanced in all modes.

This was not directed at you Devil.

Naw it wasn’t the CDI it was just after the xpac was announced.

Substance E.4852:

Random.4691:

I said it before, I’m almost positive I read somewhere that pets were going to be optional, but for the life of me I can’t remember when and where I read this.

I think what you mean is you read that pets are never going to be optional and you read it in every post that a dev makes addressing the question.

Pets aren’t going anywhere. No one else lost their class mechanic or got it replaced entirely.

We shall see.

They could simply just introduce a new hat that is HoT specific, could be a like an Indiana Jones type cowboy hat with the HoT logo on it.

They should just do midnight, that’s what they did for GW1 release if I remember correctly it was 12:00 am EST.