Guild Wars 2

Really enjoyed it.

I remember these dying threads a few months after gw1 was released…

At the end of the day, we didnt marry the game, playing other games is acceptable. Opinions of the game are wildly divisive, but i like it and am happy to see where it is going. Forums are only a small gauge of the playerbase. Their own metrics prob tell a very diff story to the forums and in which case, dying threads have no weight.

It’s all part of the forum fun though Certainly better than TV!

Viene la tormenta!

Shadow of the Colossus. Some bits of the soundtrack work well with the Dragons
Elder Scrolls stuff is always nice.
Two steps from Hell for high action stuff

To be honest, prefer the GW1 scores when they loop in to the new GW2 ones, so I often play those, esp the EOTN ones. Factions OST also has quite a nice atmosphere

I agree with the sentiments about meta bosses being hard. I love the reward changes you made, but i personally would be happy to work harder for the same rewards.

Taking out the large luck factor, the guild bounties have some really great mechanics that give you if a satisfied feel when u beat them, (if u r lucky enough to find them). I love the prisoner one for eg….i was almost out of breath for real chasing him!

Jormag – shorten the fight a little, but have it so there is no safe spot to the side when going after the shield in phase 1. Dodging his attacks should be encouraged.

Shatterer – his stomps should have a high dam, large radius aoe. His breTh attack actually should harm players as well as looking cool. I also agree that a bigger build up is needed (eg add in the wall attack event that is there with him flying overhead dropping in the adds)

Behemoth – he could throw ppl around, send out a swamp wave, sweep players aside with fists. Just random ideas really. Hes sooooo cool looking, but an anti climax when he dies so quick.

On the plus side, the centaur in harathi is an epic fight. Death is a real risk and you have a really excellent build up where the army pushes forward. Megadestroyer is the same.

Ari Kagura.9182:

Here’s a novel suggestion: how about allowing the Scouts (the NPCs that would normally reveal uncompleted Heart Tasks on the map) to tell us a rough ball-park idea of where so-in-so bounty could be? Those guys spend a lot of time scouting that I’m sure some of them have some interest in actually helping guilds out in finding their bounties.

As a Living World concept, I think that is a quite brilliant idea!

Def sounds like 1) maybe 2), but that shouldn’t matter for T1. I’d accept T2/T3 needs bigger and bigger people. That’s the point. T1 should be for small groups like yourself.

Judging entirely based on your post, you’ve proven you are skilled/coordinated enough by taking down a T1 so it’s not 3) imo

The women leading the soldier into a house in Divinitys Reach…the door closing…then..

The noises coming from the house weren’t..subjective shall we say

Ack, then yes hopefully they’ll come up with a solution to that, otherwise it’s just silly

Can they be chucked in the forge to try and make a new pet?

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Remember that coordination itself is the challenge. You can approach this in a few different ways. Most of the guild content can be completed by a group of fewer people who are coordinating as well as tons of people who aren’t coordinating very much. Both groups are coordinating, though. It’s micro-management versus macro-management and I’m not sure that excluding either strategy is the right answer. Variety is seems best and so most of the guild content can be completed either way.

I do agree that challenges don’t scale as well as we’d like them to and that’s something that we can hopefully get addressed and we improve our dynamic scaling technology.

Though off-topic, fixes for Sottz are coming in the next release.

Luck is still the driving challenge behind Guild Missions and it should be wholeheartedly driven by skill and coordination (eg boss mechanic, solving a clue, good communication). Once the luck of the draw of who you get Vs finding in the time limit Vs another guild taking out a bounty is taken out of the equation, this will become an astounding piece of content and something GW2 can hold up proudly. At the moment, it just simply isn’t living up to its potential.

For eg, if a boss takes say even a coordinated group 4 minutes to kill, but you find him in the 12th of the allotted 15minutes..well boss is unkillable so why have 15minutes at all? The time limit shouldn’t exist at all imo, but if it has to, it should end when the boss activates and the “time before boss escapes” overrides it. Atm it doesn’t.

Ah final attempt to connect crashed and then refused to reconnect to the game at all for a few mins

Tried to report this in game, but it double bugged out during writing the report.

This is not a problem all the time, but is the 2nd day this month it has happened. When i try to zone to our bordelrnad (GH), the loading screen just sits there. Occasionally I get it and I’m zoned in above the map, but usually it just disconnects. I’ve been in the BL when it is heaving with people, so it could be a population thing, but seems inconsistent if it is.

It seems OK on other wvw maps.

Last time it happened, it was OK the next day (there may be have an overnight maintenance though, I forget)

I wont list 10 since many are quite samey, but I’ll do my top 5;

1- Frostgorge. Great variety, lovely scenery and I can do my entire daily there
2- Metrica. The last zone my Norn fully explored..just a beautiful and rich zone
3- Queensdale. The zone I started in, so extra special in that sense
4 – Southson. Untapped potential and visually stunning. Reminds me of original Kryta
5-Malchor’s Leap. I love Orr, but this is my fav of the 3 by far

and honorary mention to Mount Maelstrom for having a volcano and a cool Meta

Gunnars hold runs very regularly and the zerg often annihilates old balthy. But its usually evening gmt when its open

When you level 80, you just have more choices about where to go and what to do. There is no “this is what you do”. Everything you were told is rubbish. Play what you want, where you want, when you want. Thankfully this game doesn’t rely on endgame and massive treadmills to bog you down in that respecte either!

A legendary is something for us grinders to focus on, but it’s a flashy skin, nothing more.

I wouldnt say it was essential. I had yellows and greens first entering Orr. The stat diff isnt huge. It’ll help sure, but I’d echo the sentimenst about how your traits and stats are – they will make more diff.

Playing around with builds is the fun bit – mine changed several times in Orr

My warrior is stacked toughness and vitality and uses axe/mace or mace/shield. That’s just a set up which suits me and not necs something you should go with, but vit/tough are big factors in staying alive

What class are you? The light armoured classes do get kicked around badly at the later stages. I have a Guardian and a Warrior, both are fine in areas of group mobs. My ele…well he just dies. But he looks cool so I dont care

It can be as simple as playing a class not suited to your playstyle.

Two replies, keep prodding guys

See if we can get him to let slip if the dragons will be made more into more intense fights!
Offer him cake or something!!!!

Yeah, a great boss – one I really enjoy the events for start to finish, but a bonus chest would be the icing on the cake. Not a biggie – I’ll still do it for the fun

Very little, which is a tiny shame, but could easily just be me missing things as well. The feel of each zone is slightly less distinctive than it was as well, but again it’s a minor gripe and just a bi-product of the game design.

There is a great map out there which overlays GW1 onto the new GW2 map and you can see where things were/are/should be. It’s really interesting to look at.

I spent a lot more time in the Nightfall continent Elona than Tyria, so I suspect if we ever go there, I will be forever noticing little bits.

I get the same issue, even when the slider is up to shortest as Zeefa suggests trying.
I long since put it down to a random music bug as I can’t seem to replicate a consistent cause for it.

Simplified the way i put it, yes it does. But no reason a teamwork based mechanic plus ship skills couldnt work if done right.

Obv not going to be something on their plans, but its fun to i imagine how it could work…then perhaps in the years to come…who knows?

But lets avoid the arguing, i quite like the discussion that could come from this thread, rather than see it locked..

They do listen to their players, id just like to know more about what they are working on or what they want to work on.There was a dev response about why duelling isnt a high priority on their list, which was a well reasoned and informative post. I’d like to see more of a blog about their plans going forward in one place, rather than hunting thro the dev tracker. I know one was promised back in jan.

Ive certainly not played an mmo so enriched with costant content. Ive playing anarchy online for 10 years and for the last 5, almost nothing of the promised additions has appeared. Gw2 is a refreshing change from that, i just hope they dont burn out trying to push put too much

As a pvp scenario…this would be awesome!!

I could see guildies manning cannons, waving banners, all sorts of shennanigans.

Thanks for the reply gaile, hopefully itll turn out to be a one off. You guys have a great game, would be a shame if it wasnt backed by sterling support. Ill forward the info when i get a mo for you

Edit – ive sent you a pm with the ticket info you required

Yeah, we all stayed in until the timer was done just to be sure

OK, this has happened again.
We had the Ebonhawke training bounty, found her quickly, killed her with 5 minutes, got a message that said completed. Then history said failed and no influence was rewarded. It’s bad enough these things are so awfully designed, but when we finally beat the system, we don’t get the rewards. We’ve also sent support tickets, which are replied with dismissive responses.

If support wont help us and clearly we’re stuck with a bug…what can we do?

Yes, but that wouldn’t be a valid argument in any shape or form for a customer service operative to ever use, esp as I work in customer service

Anyway, I just want to raise a valid issue we came across. I’d email support with my feedback, but… well you get the idea

Sadly the TP is being manipulated on some of them. The number available has been the same on one for 2 days, yet the price creeps up 1g a day..

I don’t want to make a huge deal over this, but I request that the team which deal with Support tickets..read the support ticktes in full and not just the subject line. We sent one about a bug concerning lost merits on a guild mission, stating that we had already filled out a bug report and could they help us.

The response from support? To fill out a bug report. It’s great they responded so quickly, but they clearly only read the subject line. I appreciate you can’t have in game GM support like other MMO’s who can sort things there and then, but there is no excuse for not reading a ticket properly before replying either.

thanks

The new colours are exclusive to new dye packs in the gem store Tol. But you arent guarenteed a new dye even if you buy the new packs. Its basically like buying the old gem store dye packs, with a small chance of an exclusive new one.

What i would prefer to see would be these new packs only give the exlusives, but a random chance of which you get. I have no issues with the way the original dyeacks worked.

You are correct though, buying these new dyes from the tp will be better (when the price settles down…18g for glacial teal is pushing it a bit for me)

No there was only 5 of us. And we were all on the same map. It doesnt make sense to us either. Bizarre bugs happen i guess

I find it refreshing having no classic end game and my gear treadmill being for skins rather than stats. I recently stopped played lotro as its gear treadmill got out of control and now i happily potter in gw2 doing, well anything really. Its surprisingly free when you just immerese yourself.

Would i like raids etc? Not really. I like the outdoor metas better as an idea. They just need tweaking to makke them more interesting mevhanically.

We are conditioned to believe gear treadmills and raids are endgame because thats all we have known. Always good to see a change to this philosophy a d so far it seems to be working. Not that they get everything right mind…cough..guild missions..cough

Hopefully theyll gauge the community reaction before any lvl increase. There was a weighty petition against it further back on this forum. I would say the game is less designed for it than gw1. That then leads to items. If you have to grind for new items, that will be a new treadmill. If they level items with you..why have the level raised?

No, a level raise would be silly imo and add nothing to a game working perfectly well doing what it is doing

We had a success message, but also a failed message. Prob a bug, but an annoying one

Our guild can back up the statement about finding zero barrels on the map. We’d have expected to find at least 1 in 15 minutes, but nope!

Sadly it’s the one gem purchase I regretted. 500 gems gets you a 5 pack of dye, which doesn’t always give you a new dye. Out of 10 possible dyes, I got 1 new dye. I don’t mind RNG, but I’d rather all were new and it was RNG what you got from that pool.

Oh well, live and learn – far too expensive to waste money on imo

Hello. Has anyone else had the issue of completing a bounty and it not updating?
We killed both T1 targets, got the rewards and it even popped up on screen succussful, but eventually the history said it failed and we received no merits.

It’s a bit of a killer considering there was only 5 of us and that we got lucky enough to find the 2 targets. We’ll put in a support ticket, but im curious to know if this is a one off or a regular issue

The functionality is secondary for me. The animation + skin is the selling point for me

As an extra..I finally loaded into WVW eventually..to the wrong side… on a cliff above the enemy camp, unable to move…

Eventually it disconnected

Finding an increasing number of time when I zone (almost always to WVW) that the loading screen just doesn’t go away. Sometimes I can tell I’ve def zoned by the background noise, but otherwise the screen just stays on the loading picture. It’s happened frequently in the last week and I have a suspicion the zones I went to were high population at that time.

I had issues loading to Gunnars Hold BL. First I couldn’t from load frostgorge sound zone, but could get to hoelbrak. Then could zone to Dzagnour BL, but would crash going from Dzagnour to Gunnars.

I’m having issues zoning. The loading screens sits there and then disconnects. Something is up with the servers tonight I’d guess. Others are reporting in game long loads in

I can’t give any indication on pvp, simply because I can’t stand pvp for the most part. MMO’s I’ve played don’t seem to be well set up for pvp if they use a pve skill set – the way damage/armor etc works is always diff Vs a player than an enemy. But, that’s just a personal thing – others will answer your question there better than I.

Pve? Well I think most ppl have covered this already in the thread – the whole game is designed to be an endgame, where no zone is meant to be redundant and gear rarity is irrelevant. It does that pretty well so far, but it’s still building on the launch foundations. Plenty of growing potential in the years to come with the Living World quests building on that idea nicely.

Fractals is the closest to traditional endgame and I really enjoy it. The concept being a random series of mini dungeons + boss that you progress up the difficulty levels in and work to obtain improved gear which helps you get through higher difficulties. It fractured the community somewhat due to the gear progression existing at all, but the gear itself is such a tiny upgrade on exotics it really doesn’t matter for those players who choose to ignore it. ANd the scope for adding more short fractals + bosses is there to build on. This I look forward to immensely.

The introduction of Guild Missions was a cool idea to keep people occupied, but I find it highly flawed in implementation (see threads in General Discussion if you are interested in that)

The game hasn’t released an endgame in the classic sense because that isn’t the direction it was meant to go in. That isn’t to say classic endgame is outdated or rubbish or essential to every MMO. It just doesn’t exist here because this is an MMO trying to do without it. It will be interesting to see how other MMO companies recgnise this and adapt their strategies to match – ie copy everything Anet did well like many did with GW1

I believe new structures have appeared as part of the F&F storyline as well – eg in NE wayfarer

Also, on a side note. Tequatl destroys a small stone tower when he appears. What we don’t see is it that it gets rebuilt only for that poor NPC’s handiwork to be destroyed a couple of hrs later. Still, the builder never seems to lose morale..A lesson for us all.

ColinJohanson.2394:

It would be pretty epic if a A.R.E.N.A. commando jumped out of a chopper and threw you a thumbs up at level 80 though, just sayin.

OK, I’m totally getting a toon to lvl 80 next April Fools..

The Moot is easily my fav, followed closely by Flameseeker Prophecies.

I also like the Shark spear thingy, but I can’t remember its name

ColinJohanson.2394:

Mishandia.2087:

Hi, only a simple question : has the server capacity been increased again today?
I see many medium servers today.

Many THX =)

Due to a number of servers approaching full with a recent influx of new players from the sale on Gw2 that just ended, the server capacity was recently increased for a number of servers yes.

That is an encouraging thing to hear