Guild Wars 2

munki.6402:

Aphex.9782:

I’ve played almost every mmo out there. My favourite was Anarchy Online because of the depth and dependance on other professions.

So go and play that again. Problem solved.

Up until gw2 it was my fav too, but they are totally different games in design and philosophy. Everytime i start a new mmo, it unconsciously benchmarks against gw2 and usually always fails that test for me.

Also, the lvlling in Anarchy is painfully slow. Certainly the slowest ive ever experienced

Also, the charr gave us Logan.

They invaded Ascalon, who captured Gwen. If that hadnt have happened she wouldnt have met Keiran thackeracy, married him and her lineage wouldnt have gone on to spawn Logan.

Just another wall between our two races!!!

I also read somewhere there is no plans to develop the lore more, since somethings are better left to speculation and imagination – ie it would lose its air of mystery if anything was revealed about it.

Makes you wonder though..

I’m impressed to see so many on the TP. I have never seen one drop ever. At this point, I’m fairly certain I’ll see a precursor drop before a giants eye lol

Excellent article!

Will other bosses from the core content be eventually redesigned to to take the new effect into account? I saw the bit about it being added to the old bosses, but it could be a good chance to redesign ones like Shatterer who need work anyway (see other threads on him)

I like the idea, i really do. and it also demonstrates how versatile and yet underused the fractals are as a concept.

It could work like the GW dungeons were you unlocked pages in a book and handed that in for rewards. Or maybe something like the pvp reward track as a structure.

However, the issue comes down to resources. With an expansion due, the devs are clearly flat out getting everything ready and after that no doubt it will be S3. The time and resources don’t really exist for cool ideas like this

Travis the Terrible.4739:

Harper.4173:

Dasenthal.6520:

Harper.4173:

zaced.7948:

Harper.4173:

We’ll get back at the Charr for what they did.

taking back what was rightfully theirs? all your puny race could do they have already done. if a massive suicide attack is your best than the feline magnificence has nothing to fear.

If you knew your Guild Wars history you’d know that the land was never theirs. The Charr came from the Northern areas and spread south taking over the land that belonged to the Grawl which were the original race that inhabited that region. They enslaved the Grawl and took the land for themselves.

They weren’t there originally.

Later the humans came and took the land from the Charr pushing them back north.

So if the Charr can push, conquer and call it "Charr land " then by the same rules the humans pushing back the Charr and conquering the area makes it “Human land”.

Also you owe a lot to humans. Don’t forget it was humans who were crucial to your race being set free from their “false gods” and the leadership of the Flame Legion shamans.

No, it means by the same logic if the grawl had risen up and attacked the charr with armies (and tactics I.e. searing) we would be defending their right to do so… Just like we defend the charr.

Charr being set free is almost as beneficial to the Humans as it was to the charr. If the charr still accepted false gods it would likely mean zhaitan would still be alive.

Trying to spin this around – but we hardly knew of the elder dragons when the movement started by Pyre Fierceshot took place.

Then explain the great destroyer?

At the time we didnt know the great destroyer was a dragon champion or even elder dragons existed. That knowledge came later. Im sure the lore experts can detail that more

wefal.8426:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Well, of course a lot has changed in 2 years. There’s no way to list it all. The trait system has drastically changed and not for the better. Dyes are account-bound is one change. There’s a wardrobe where you can see all the skins now. Living Story Seasons 1 & 2 have come and gone.

Just a few changes.

Well obsiously I’m not expecting anyone to list all the changes ^^.
Do you consider the game more polished now?

The game was very well polished at launch, but as said many additions have been added in response to feedback which have enhanced the game even more.

Charrs and humans will never be friends. Never! Never forget Ascalon!!

I used to think the same, then i started doing them and realised i actually just enjoyed doing them over time whilst doing other things. I find them rather good fun as an activity in themselves

Bit of advice, if you feel this strongly about something – change the title to something more related and more constructive. Avoid the use of hyperbole in your posts as well. Saying they WILL DRIVE YOUR CUSTOMERS AWAY, when they have the pure metrics and facts at their ready disposal to make that judgement themselves is not going to help any cause.

The forum has yes, the thread has not and its the main one read by devs since they don’t have time to read through all the smaller ones that post every day
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestions-Gemstore-Items/page/34#post4638901

Ignoring the bizarre conspiracy part of the post, what do you mean by the number requesting it is “huge”? That would suggest thousands of people and I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen that many requests.

I think the more sensible to thing to do is either post in the main black wings thread or request the white wings in the BL “what we want” thread

None whatsoever in Chrome

- Mid 30’s, altho Im fairly certain my back and knees are closer to retirement age
- Used to run a very large bookstore and have a collection of approx 3000 (mostly) sci fi and fantasy books. Now I go where I am needed
- first MMO was Anarchy Online which I still love playing
- enjoy RP, board games and wrestling (watching only)
- I do not like football or Stargate
- I like eating shredded wheat straight from the box

Leviathans already exist – some of which were corrupted by ZHaitan, although the known was only in the book Sea of Sorrows.

Such beasts corrupted by Stevie-Cthulhu would be pretty cool. If we ever encounter it, I expect anyone with a tentacle phobia will be in for a bad time..

the chinese festival gem store items have 7 days left on them so Im guessing the festival stuff is staying for another 7 days too

ChyldeMyst.5098:

And here I thought the sea dragon was actually Dagon, the Deep One, and his corrupted minions were the Innsmouth horrors….

The window! The window!

It’s being fixed with next build

I am unaware of any patch today or any indication of one coming.

Wolfe.9850:

TheGrimm.5624:

Aw man, looks like I am switching to the other side. If he’s on the other side they must be doing something right.

Great we can start the “Cult of Bubbles” together.

From his house in R’lyeh, dead Steve waits dreaming

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Randulf.7614:

There is no GW lore. Its just a fun nod to Journey to the West, a very old Chinese fairy tale, popularised by the TV show Monkey

There is actually a Jackie Chan movie featuring the monkey king, played by Jet Li.
The Forbidden Kingdom. You should check it out OP.

Ah yes, id forgotten about that.

There is no GW lore. Its just a fun nod to Journey to the West, a very old Chinese fairy tale, popularised by the TV show Monkey

MOOOOONKEEEEEY!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LAbE36IBTZY

…has visions of Gaile turning up to Anet 14 years ago to do an article and refusing to leave ever since, eating all their waffles

I understand what you mean and yes it can be (ok..it is) irritating having so many passwords but believe me….the potential alternative (ie being hacked) creates considerable more difficulties.

If your password is being blocked, there is in all probability a very good reason for it. It’s not always about being as complex as possible though (there are some very good articles about debunking myths behind behind password creations out there)

You contact support who can fully verify all purchases

Ardenwolfe.8590:

I love underwater combat too, but I think we’re in the minority.

Let them hear our voice brother/sister!!

Any additional underwater content is just fine by me, I absolutely love it!

Astral Projections.7320:

If you want Guild Wars 1 redux you are going to be dissatisfied. Your best bet is to ignore the name and pretend you’re playing a game by another company. If you don’t like it on its own terms and what it has to offer, then maybe another game would suit you better.

This is the best advice anyone is going to give you. I can pick apart some of your comments in your OP, but i wont since that wont solve anything. If you have to force yourself to like a game, then it is just not for you (as I found out with games like Rift).

I hope you do like GW2 – the more the merrier, but based on what you are looking for, I suspect you wont.

Booey Bubblehead.4890:

Was told that it was mentioned by Collin that it would be a good idea to have a Sylvari for when the expansion comes out.

Is there any truth in this?

Yes he did say this, but that comment suggests some ambient content or some minor/fun/cool (tick as applicable) changes to the race themselves. It wont be something that will lock you out of parts of the expansion. The comment they made about Revenants in another thread shows they do not want to gate players in such ways.

Beyond that, you are free to speculate

Yep, they are permanent content. It’ll become harder as time goes on or when the expansion hits and getting the group stuff going will take longer, however you will never be blocked from getting it.

Considering how much you have done already, I don; think you have anything to worry about

It’s virtual money….so yes

There’s a pool of water you can jump into under the ship. That is safe enough to jump into, live and then follow the path up into the cavern

It’s always good courtesy to write directly to the company. My friend did this with a tabletop wargame game based on an mmo and they allowed him certain use of the brand and also the provision of artwork iirc.

Everyone knows that bacon is basically insta win thus making it too op for the game

Redenaz.8631:

I’m not sure if Mike O’Brien said “never,” but we won’t be getting a raised level cap or another gear tier of Heart of Thorns, at any rate.

I don’t think they’ve announced anything one way or the other about crafting in HoT, but I’d be very, very surprised if they raised the crafting cap. 500/Ascended crafting is still extremely expensive, and if they’re not introducing a new gear tier, it’s hard to see what the point of 600 crafting would be.

I would be less surprised if they raised jewelery to 500, but it’s unclear what that would even be useful for.

It was announced no increased level cap ever at an interview with Eurogamer. I think ppl are right in saying no more crafting tiers though. That would mean new tiers of mats and I think we have the right number atm.

I’m reserving all judgement until after I play it. Going in with pre-conceived ideas is bound to end in disappointment – things never live up to how you want them to be.

Even as a GW1 fan, I pretty much avoided all the hype on GW2 and got to approach it completely fresh. No promises were broken, no manifestos to obsess over and thus no disappointment felt since day 1.

To scale it down to be soloable isn’t viable or easy to do . Time and resources are needed committing to make it fit properly – this would be a siginficant time investment, one that needs undertaking for new players, but also one unlikely to happen with an expansion round the corner.

They may yet surprise us with it prior to HoT, but my expectation is that it will never happen

Lord Kuru.3685:

Riku.4821:

Simply stating they need one wont do much. Giving feedback would help more than stating it.

He’s letting Anet know that he doesn’t feel there is enough content to hold the game over until the expansion.

How is that not feedback?

What Riku prob meant to say is that more detail than “feature pack please” is more helpful. ie what would the OP like to see in a feature pack between now and then. Or what would they class as a feature pack.

I rarely see unpopulated maps these days. In fact it always suprises me how many ppl are in some of the traditionally quieter areas sometimes

Astral Projections.7320:

No one knows. They didn’t announce it before they put it in. They didn’t say how long it’s going to be around in the patch notes.

(And then they wonder why we say they don’t communicate).

Something for our new Forum Specialist to feedback. We have been asking for patch end dates since season 1 on content which doesn’t fall under the “every 2 weeks” category. There is no reason not to disclose this info in the patch notes.

Sounds like a heavily modified and slowed down version of the GW2 character select screen.

I have the focus since it is a nice skin, but I barely use focus on my ele these days.

I would support it’s use in other weapons though. I could see some nice skins evolve from it.

I think it was level 30 before I realised I could equip a second weapon set

Actually Grove is prob the most populated capital city. Partly due to the emphasis on sylvari, partly due to the number of story steps there

Divinitys Reach due to the festival, otherwise megaservers tends to keep people playing in the main world rather than congregating as much as prior

edgarallanpwn.8739:

Randulf.7614:

Warrior/Guardian

LOL no offense but that first dude has so much armor it feels like he is saying “nothing will take away my virginity”

Your shaman like guy in the last pic is cool though

His theme was sort of along the lines of Dragon Warrior, coloured to match the Maguuma jungle, back last year when I thought that was our next stop. Hence the spikiness.

I don’t RP him, so I couldn’t comment on his virginity

Warrior/Guardian. Shame The Moot was ruined in a recent patch, but that’s just the way it goes sadly.

I’d prefer it if they ticked off as you found them and were invisible until that point. Should satisfy both camps since those who have have done them could cross ref against Dulfy for the missing one(s) and those of us who like exploring wont get spoilers.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Best-of-luck-at-Bungie-John-Ryan/first#post4791449

It was added somewhere round one of the Dry Top map updates mid last year. And yes it was based on the original Chinese legend/folkstory as written in Journey to the West. I don’t think there’s anything else to read into it apart from someone at ANet being a fan of…

MOOOONKEEEEY!!!!!