Guild Wars 2

ooc swapping would be welcome. Its a useful convenience thing and wont unbalance anything.

Good job guys, I look forward to spending the tickets

Milennin.4825:

Make its looks depend on which Element you are attuned to. It would have completely different look for other classes using staff, but since this is purely about Elementalist, I’ll only describe that.

While attuned to Fire it spouts fire from the tip of the staff, and gives the player a fiery aura.
While attuned to Water it gives the staff an icy / crystal look with streams of water flowing around it (kinda similar to Bifrost’s rainbow effect, but with water instead).
While attuned to Air it turns the staff in a style similar to that used for the Lightning Hammer, it gives the player an electric aura (similar to Bolt).
While attuned to Earth the staff turns bigger, with some rocks floating around it. It turns the player’s hands and some of their skin to earth.

I don’t care about footsteps, it can be without those.xP

This is an excellent idea. I have no idea if it is technically feasible, but would be awesome if it could be implemented.

Not in the slightest. The evidence doesn’t really support it from what I have seen, although it does lean more to a close friendship or brother/sisterly type relationship.

Can anyone summarise where things are at right now? Are we waiting for a fix or sending tickets in?
It’s a big thread, too big to wade through for answers.

Yeah ignore my reply, I also just noticed the updated response

dev tracker ftw!

Why wouldn’t you just pay $15 a month for gems and convert the gems to gold? You’d probably end up with more gold than diminishing returns removal would give anyway..

Seems like the system in place is already better

The last official response was that the new system brought things “one step closer”. That was all I have read and that is buried somewhere in the pvp subforums/

Interesting news. There is an extra positive slant to this;

1) Supports an era of more permanent additions to the open world – this wouldn’t work otherwise
2) The quality should in theory improve massively over S1. No one is going to pay for content if word of mouth is overwhelmingly negative towards the content.

More and more intrigued by S2 week on week.

Cool, cheers for the link. Shame they dont re post that info on their comms. Would clean up many repeating threads.

Looking forward to season 2!

I agree with not having to read yet another post on the same topic posted multiple times a day, but can you clarify where the devs said “fully permanent”? I’m not disputing it, but I don’t follow any comms outside of the forums or website, so anything said on Reddit/ready up/social media/interviews, I will have missed.

Cheers for posting, although I’m not sure I’m taken by it. It’s no Llama finisher after all!!!

There have been frequent threads on this, but I have only seen 1 dev response on the forums to date. The answer was that the feature patch and the changes it brought the game a step nearer to having build templates.

It is bugged tonight it seems.

Dark – that changed with feature patch

Wrong area Nimrud. You want the Pavilion in West Divinitys Reach where the rest of the festival is

Please could we get an end date for the festival too? I expect we have 2 weeks minimum, but it would be good to know the feedback about putting this in patch notes etc is on board and we can know when content is leaving

thanks!
:)

I cursed about Liadri, but she was still an excellent boss. The whole gauntlet was in fact. I also remember many saying the same.

So not “everyone” at all. Plenty had high opinions of her, she just wasn’t for everyone’s tastes.

They are highly secretive on developments. for two reasons;

1) They simply do not want to spoil upcoming content
2) The moment they say what they are working on, people take it as absolute 100% gospel that can’t be deviated on. Should the devs make changes or scrap an idea, many in the community accuse them of failing in their promises.

Whilst many (myself included) feel like yourself, these are the reasons stated in various threads over the last year from devs as to why they don’t reveal much until it is ready for release.

oh and as Stormcrow mentions below; The China release is understandably taking up most of their time in May.

There have been major login and connection problems tonight. Not sure if global or just Europe

Azure Fang.8605:

, it’s rapidly become one of those MMOs you wonder how it’s still running, kinda like Anarchy Online.

I still play it (afaik it still turns a profit and a new engine and content are due this year!!)

On topic though, I’d love to play a dwarf, but it wouldn’t make sense now being what they have become. We could help them fight destroyers later down the line though – Ogden is still around to make that link for us

They were an attempt to introduce more events and then deemed a failure because no one knew about them. To my knowledge it is one of the reasons more events weren’t added to zones.

As has been said, they were actually a good start at bringing fresh events and ideas to the zones. It was a shame they weren’t destined to be expanded upon.

Only on 2 handed weapons. Then it is as Inculpatus describes

I always find it funny remembering how many people despised many of the GW armours at the time and that professions like elementalists in particular never got any good armour skins.

I find the GW2 ones a vast improvement on what we had in GW1. That isn’t to say some can’t be imported over mind you and more in game skins to compliment the gem store ones.

I cant help with the solution, but it wasn’t meant to be tradeable. They patched that fix a couple of days after the feature patch.

The whole content would have to be reworked so much I doubt they would be able to commit resources to the library idea. Most of it was designed for large groups of players – including Tower of Nightmares, Battle for LA, MArionette, Twisted Invasions. None of those could be re-interpreted without months of work from the team, by which point it would probably be moot.

Even if they made them exact to how they were, then the same issue that plagued the content towards the end of each release would happen again – lack of players as interest waned.

I doubt anyone has been tallying it since launch. The gem store as in every single MMO and exactly as expected will have received far, far more updates since that is easier to do.

I suspect the ratio is much closer than most MMO’s though given the number of game updates the game has had regardless of quality/permanance since launching.

However, you could ask the Black Lion subforum. They might know the actual answer – those frequenting are the only ones who’d be inclined to keep track if anyone.

He was up earlier today, so afaik he isnt bugged. However, Ive heard of Jormag and behe and Mega Destoryer bugging on different shards of the megaserver

I’ll c/p what I said in the other thread about it;

It shows how out of touch Joystiq are with parts of this review. The unlimited tools are very popular – you can see that by how many use them in open world. The Llama finisher is exatcly the sort of thing you would want in a gem store. In fact they fall under the same category as the sparkly armour skins they themselves suggest (just sparkly animations instead).
New classes and weapon types in a gem shop? That would a disaster! They even allude to that themselves in an earlier paragraph about pay walls! I doubt many would want to pay for new classes/weapons when they should be free with new content.
Skins is the one thing I agree with them on (except the ugliness _ I like most of them). GW has the worst lock box system I have ever seen in an MMO. A very bizarre ticketing system of skins when you could stick them in the gem shop and leave them there.

The henchies/heroes comment was not required. It was never meant or designed to ahve them. I agree about the NPC’s tho

Some of the other comments are fair (dungeons vs large group content for eg) some aren’t. A very strange review all round I felt

Pandaman.4758:

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/05/09/working-as-intended-what-guild-wars-2-got-wrong/

The gear and lockbox situation is frustrating

Collecting armor and weapon skins in classic Guild Wars was what I lived for, but Guild Wars 2 has trapped way too much of that metagame behind a pay wall and a grind wall, which has more than once stifled my desire to play or pay for anything. The armor available in the current gem store commits the cardinal sin of being infrequent and ugly, and the nicest in-game armor skins require specific dungeon tokens (and associated grinding) in a dramatic departure from Guild Wars, which simply required you to procure the money however you preferred, acquire the materials, and complete the requisite campaigns or maps. The weapon skins are even worse; those you can find dropped or buyable normally within the game aren’t much in the eyecandy department, and the most beautiful skins require extreme grinding or the purchase of lockboxes from the cash shop — lottery tickets that give you a chance at a drop that you can trade for something worth wielding. I know the game needs to make money somehow, but this is a huge turn-off for such a cosmetic-centric game.

The cash shop offerings themselves continue to stump me. I can understand buying gold, but I don’t know who buys llama finishers (see the top image) or weak consumables or overpriced eternal harvesting tools or chef hats or lockbox lottery tickets for weapons and dyes and minipets. Yuck. I am never even tempted by these things. I want to support the game, and when I open up the cash shop, I am there to buy beautiful armor and stunning skins directly. Even better, I’d love to buy new classes, new weapon types, new skins for my minions and pets, new animations, new particle effects, new dailies options, and new explorable maps! Please let me give you my money. And let’s pass on the llama finishers.

Think this is very relevant.

I don’t think so at all. In fact it shows how out of touch Joystiq are with this review. The unlimited tools are very popular – you can see that by how many use them in open world. The Llama finisher is exatcly the sort of thing you would want in a gem store. In fact they fall under the same category as the sparkly armour skins they themselves suggest (just sparkly animations instead).

New classes and weapon types in a gem shop? That would a disaster! They even allude to that themselves in their first paragraph about pay walls! I doubt many would want to pay for new classes/weapons when they should be free with new content.

Skins is the one thing I agree with them on (except the ugliness _ I like most of them). GW has the worst lock box system I have ever seen in an MMO. A very bizarre ticketing system of skins when you could stick them in the gem shop and leave them there. Never understood this need to remove cash shop items. I’ve worked in sales for the better part of 20 years and I’m still dumbfounded by temporary gem shop items..

Very much against it being instanced. I love the idea of these open world raids. Sure they are tough, sure they fail a lot, but there enough faceroll bosses that reward loot that these work just fine.

I agree the spawn times are poor though. UK players really only the option during our days off sadly. And loot remains dire. It should be guaranteeing exotics at least.

Think I will hold off on my request. I’d rather not burden you guys with more tickets especially as I’m not 100% certain I’m covered under the refund terms and the closing date is way off yet anyway.

Hope you guys aren’t stressing out too much! I hate doing even one refund in a day, I dread to think what you guys are going through!!

It was almost certainly removed due to its redundancy in the game, It served no useful or functional role and was likely something they wanted to develop further, but never really got round to prioritising it.

They also said they would be having a break from content after the feature patch and whilst the China release was happening. Considering I imagine some of them are probably working round the clock right now..I’m sure we can cut them some slack over a mere video game’s release schedule

Prophecies and factions had worse stories in my opinion. Only Nightfall and EOTN managed to salvage that for me. Lotro also has a worse main story and is declining at a stunning rate…surprising considering it has a laid down story to follow!!!

Having said that, there are well documented improvements to be made to the story presentation. I’m hoping we will see something half way between the Living Story and Personal story next season which draws on the feedback the community gave regarding how we felt season 1 played out.

I want 2) from Wasbunny’s list as well. I know that makes me greedy…but who cares!

I fully support Konig’s underwater suggestion. I love the underwater stuff – Kudos to Anet for putting it in the game, but it really needs some work. I understand why it hasn’t been a priority, but suggestions like the above will aid it immeasurably.

My second would be to pack more events into zones. I was in Snowden yesterday and whilst it was fab seeing so many people in the zone again (great job with the Megaserver), there wasn’t much “to do”. Really making zones unique to each other which a high number of events on alternating timetables would make zones fun to re-explore.

It’s not necs an improvement on said system, but it is interesting and it is different. If I want expansion style progression..I’ll play Lotro (which is going downhill with every expansion, but is just about playable) or any of the other countless mmo’s out there that do that. GW2 at least offers an alternative and I enjoy it for that. If others don’t, well that is entirely their prerogative – it is not going to please everyone. I’d prefer Anet to stick to their vision, tweaking it to player feedback rather than wholesale overhaul the game and it end up being something different.

I have also yet to see concrete statistical proof of a declining playerbase. I’d be surprised if the population hadn’t dropped, but not to the extent many have proclaimed.

At the end of the day, it is a video game. Nothing more. It will do what it will do and I’ll follow it whilst I enjoy it (which is likely a long time).

New weapons personally. I’d rather see a large uplift in number of weapon types for variety and that would likely be much easier to balance than adding skills for exisiting weapons. I can see that being a nightmare to track and abalnce (given the insane headache GW1 caused the dev team)

Have you checked the black lion armour npc by the TP in any Home City? A lot of the items will be stored with him as he converts them over to usable skins

Try a support ticket

No issue with it except it would need a reason to exist in the open world post-Scarlet.

It really was an excellent boss fight

Mostly I find them excellent and a huge range to choose from. One of my biggest bug bears with GW1 was how poor the choice of armour and weapons were, this seems to have been addressed here.

Having said that, there is room for improvement. Staff skins particularly need some love, when you you compare to shield, where the attention to detail on shields has been phenomenal.

GW2 is better for me – more to do, less limitation on exploration, far more skins to choose from (ele armour was hideous and limiting in GW1). Much more sandboxy when it comes down to it, which is what appeals to a greater extent.

Whilst GW1 hasn’t aged well, it was an excellent game for it’s time and I thoroughly enjoyed Nightfall – it took the franchise to an amazing level. And Alliance Battles were the first time I ever found pvp in an mmo actually good fun.

Both are stand out (and very different) games, GW2 just edges it for me though.

I think I’d like to see an end to the zerg content. Or at least a reduction in its use. How to do that, I couldn’t really say, but content like Marionette was a perfect example of the devs getting a piece of content spot on. Same with the gauntlet. Even though I couldn’t defeat Liadru and probably cursed every dev under the Sun trying, the whole idea there was absolutely brilliant.

Fishing would add nothing to the game (for me).

Bobsledding however get a thumbs up from me!

Shpongle.6025:

Randulf.7614:

None whatsoever. Afaik, most of the lack of silence is due to the prep work for China release. That’s just a guess, but such a lacking of news indicates they are working overtime to get ready for such a major launch whilst working on the next season as well.

Enjoy the break, we’ll have plenty to do over the summer I would think!!

i hope they don’t economically seperate us and china i hope we will all be on the same BLTP because that would be really awesome. for us. economically. the players, not arena xD

Fairly certain I read they were separate

GAME sell them for sure and they accept traded in games for them if you want to save some cash.

I think how we have it now is absolutely spot on. It would like an unnecs regression to change it and likely cause widespread complaints (esp as it was a feature players asked for)

goldenwing.8473:

Try playing a game that has a 3-day waiting list for an 8-man only group to kill the mobs that give the best exp for those last 5 levels before endgame. Where “endgame” is a real concept (entire focus of the game., not the journey to get there).

A game, where dying causes your exp bar to go backwards, causing you to lose exp for every death.

Where the only exp you get is from killing mobs. Not crafting, not doing quests, no exp boosters.

Where gaining exp is not linear. Not the same ratio for every level.

No one makes games like these anymore. Those games are too grindy.

-Walked uphill to school and back in snow both ways

I still play some like that lol. Nostalgia eh

Sometimes you can really see how MMO’s have moved on by playing those ones and GW2 in a session

This game does not even come close to grindy compared to many mmo’s out there which force the grind for stuff actually needed! Here it is cosmetic only and yes it is grindy, but no more than GW1 for titles. That was more mind numbing I found.

That isn’t to say improvements aren’t needed though so that real rewards are more on the table as opposed to luck rewards

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