Guild Wars 2

Still surprised there’s no content at this point for people waiting for HoT.
Either it’s due in a few months time, or they really don’t have time to mess with re-adding old content.

I just miss them kitten Green SAB skins and the boom boxes. >.<

It does take you further, yes.
Personally I just use it with my jedi and hero RP characters to look cool

Alternative (shouts):
To Glory!
Fight or Die!
Onward!
For Valor!
For the 6!
To battle!
Challenge me!
Push for victory!
Rise up!
Energy rising!
Run them down!

Sure as hell hope that once HoT is released, they’ll work on SAB, before S3 living world. :/

I’ve tried a few MMO’s. Came here from Shaiya over 2 years back, and never got into WOW. Played the “Secret World” (loved it) but I couldn’t dedicate myself to it.
Played FF14 (Very nice game, but not close to GW2).
And on and off I play GW1.
Just lately though, I’ve been bored to hell with GW2, done enough pvp and wvw for a long while to entertain myself. PvE is fun to an extent, and I just keep making tons and tons of characters and lvling them, until I get bored of roleplaying them.

After no news of SAB and knowing HoT is gonna be a while, I found fun by returning back to SWTOR, and gave that another try. Pretty much finding my nights spent on TOR now, and logging on GW2 for maybe an hour or so.
GW2 is unique, but when the time is threw, and you’re having trouble keeping yourself entertained, other games do start to make some sort of appeal, one that you might not have bothered with when your heart was deeply embedded in GW2.

Batelle.1680:

Plus it takes a slot away from another non-fractal daily task for players who don’t do fractals, PvP or WvW. Unless I decide to jump into fractals today (unlikely), I won’t be completing my dailies.

+1
For this reason mostly.

There are quite a few dungeon cut scenes I haven’t seen (except threw going back and watching on Youtube), despite playing for 2 years. Some people who do dungeon story, might be doing it to aid a friend, or may not care for the cutscenes, but just want to finish the story to get a quick result towards their achievement points (Dungeon master title rank) etc.

I do want to see more variations, but not sure what ones tbh.
Something random would be cool. They have a “possessed” emote in SWTOR.

Red or Purple weapon skins would work well for dark jedi characters. >:)

Etybagig.6012:

I would LOVE for this to come back but I’m also worried it might be the only thing I do for several months. And by only thing I mean I would probably have to be forced to stop and eat.

Same lol. 5 weeks of work holidays would probably be used up by the time SAB leaves again.

I really just wish we’d get pole arms and pikes, spears/lances etc.

Only time I’m seeing a massive zerge group in PvE (EU), is either in SW, Tequatl, or during daily map events.
“Several hundred” though? Not very often do I see a hundred in Desolation in one little area. Other than people afking, or in WvW. The last time I saw a mass of players was for SW and for the Escape from LA battle.

I read all of that, and agree partially.
Personally, I wouldn’t care if they removed downed state, as long as they gave us some way to use our finishers on a dead opponent or (dying) boss/toxic warrior, and renamed it to “Boast” instead of “Finisher”.

I need a weeks notice, so I can book that month off for SAB time. xD
And

1. This thread shall not be on the second page

Which is why we need more to talk about. Devs probably avoid this page because there’s hardly anything but us complaining, but very little of constructive info towards the future of SAB and what we want to see.
I saw the centipede creature in the data mining picture, and with my earlier post/picture, it’d be good to discuss world 3.

In fact, I only saw 4 new levels in the picture, meaning, that either the world 3 is the last one before the last boss fight , or that they haven’t a full idea of what to add to world 4 in the future.

As much as we weren’t there to view the situation, and only have your words to go on, the simple fact for anyone in this situation, is this:
- Anyone who wants to kick or lead someone elses group, clearly wants to be the dominant one in the party. But that means you also need to be responsible with your decisions. Use a bit of initiative:
If they say “he’s offline” or just “DC’d”, just say “Okay, lets give him a few mins to see if he comes back”.
If nothing happens, ask them if you can “find another party member?”.
Lastly, if you didn’t create that party, then you definitely have to consider what the group wants, as you are just the guy who joined, and unless party leader tells you that he wants you to be in charge, there is no point taking over. Newer players or average PvE players, more often than not, prefer to play it cool and relax, than to be made to rush events and play the way a person tells them to.

Your best bet is to make your own partys or join the Zerk party when available.

I normally stack if it’s a Melee party, and everyone is used to stacking, but if it’s newer people, or a mixture, I rather enjoy the fact that for once we can use our survival and battle skill to attack from afar, and it does feel more fun that way.

Stacking obviously has benefits for team buffs and damage, but unless it’s a full zerge group, you’re gonna be there a while attacking it anyway.
Might as well have fun while playing with casual players, and pull out your bow and chill out. I think they were in the right, as you didn’t proceed correctly, or act patiently with the situation.

Hmm. Maybe some positive posts for a change.
Lets talk about World 3.

First zone kinda reminds me of the Lost Level in sonic 2 “Hidden Palace”, or Labyrinth zone in Sonic1, from the map picture.

Is it possible that they took down the lv10 personal story temporarily, because of it?
Check my thread, and you’ll get what i mean.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Personal-story-is-account-bound/first#post4946568

Accidentally posted on the wrong forum the first time, but here’s the original post:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Account-bound-Personal-Story/first#post4946563

In short, I leveled, got the mail, went to the instance spot, but nothing. Storyline skipped, nothing on new alts, either. Or….just click the link.

I just used a Tome of Knowledge on my Ranger to start my PS real quick before bed, but after receiving the mail, and heading to DR, I find that the story not only doesn’t come up at the instance, but that my journal skipped it entirely.
My other recently created level 14 character had no story available, either.

If it was less hunched, the idea of bringing back capes would be possible, with less of a clipping issue.
I’d also bother to play Charr, and probably make my Kimari Ronso RP character

Any reasonable person agrees that once a year is enough, even if it’s repeated content. Skipping SAB last year was like skipping christmas, to me lol.

ivorycruncher.3192:

Did you get so much negative feedback on airplane mode that you didn’t let it run for the entirety of April 1st in all time zones?

It had been active for more than a day over in the UK.
Not sure what Time zone you are in, or country.

ANet claims SAB is not part of their schedule for upcoming content.
Adds “0” content (new or old) for weeks to come in the mean time.

ANet

Panites.6798:

They were both full of bugs, you either didn’t play them of you are overwhelmed by nostalgia.

A good amount were addressed not long after the player outcry about the bugs and the difficulty on world 2. I played it for most of the month doing the tribulation in September.
Even if SAB doesn’t return, they’d be idiots to not add back the items (Mini’s, Skins, Boom Box etc..) on the gem store.

There’s me just enjoying the sound of Super minis making retro beeps everywhere. :P
But, yeah, a sound bar for all minis would e useful, as that Ho-ho-Tron robot is annoying.

Probably when hardly anyone is playing anymore and they need a way to draw in old players again.

Even now SAB isn’t back, what about other content from previous events? It’s just a way to leave us in the dark, expecting people to still be around 4 months later with no content.

Arikyali.5804:

No it’s not. April Fools.

:D

Already guessed it was fake.
If it was back, the forum would be littered with happy threads. . :P

lordkrall.7241:

And yes, it is a small thing overall. And I think you overestimate the amount of people that feel the need to have SAB right now.

That’s hardly accurate.
Everyone I speak to complains that SAB has been gone this long, I only have a handful of friends out of my gaming groups that don’t really care, and mainly they just PVP and WVW whenever they log. Just post in map chat about SAB and you’ll start people off.

Not everyone who wants it back, are as “obsessed” as the gamers that keep tab on this forum thread, sure, but there are a lot of people that would play it every kitten day until HoT arrives, some people would re-install the second you announce it. Some people came back to game expecting it to give them some glimpse of hope in ANet.

As much as I agree about the rules, and although petitions don’t always get anywhere, sometimes they do, and it’s for those glimpses of hope, that are worth fighting for. SAB for some is the difference between bothering to wait it out for HoT, or to just give up, while waiting for content. I’m getting to the point where if HoT is due out this Summer, I won’t pay for it until SAB arrives.

Sure SAB isn’t meant to be something that over powers the entire game, neither is WvW or PvP, but some people obsess over those, and it keeps them playing.

I’d pay more money for SAB than for HoT… D@mn it ANet….

thefinnster.7105:

the old ls stuff with scarlet in it was pretty lame tho and i can understand a lot of that being seen as bad content but season 2 has been pretty well put together and a lot better quality than it was before when it was bi weekly i think i would have been happy to see them continue like that personaly

Scarlets content wasn’t that bad towards the end.

Season 2 had its ups and downs, but sometimes it just felt like a drag, and I think it would have been better to unlock it and just play it all at once. Playing it every month just seemed as if I was reading one chapter of a book each month. Doesn’t really do it for me. But I find the battles in Season 2, far more challenging and fun. Only Season 1 battles that gripped me was the battle for LA.

You devs can be a real piece of work. We’re here waiting for HoT, and given the amount of time it’ll take, you give us no content while we wait, besides a few skins and a kitten golden pig, yet your fans want SAB back because it’s the one thing that truly grabs so many players attention.
SAB could distract people while you are busy on HoT. Instead you just tease and leave your players annoyed. What a cr@p way to leave your players in the dark, driving them to play other games.

Whatever White Knight wants to quote and argue, save your typing, because I’m not planning to read your BS.

Should have just given us SAB :/
Waiting for HoT with no content for a while now.
It just stops some long term players logging in, because were bored as h3ll.

Never had issues with Auto Target, apart from the awkward moment when you are attacked, so you dodge and start shooting, and the first thing auto target aims for is an NPC on your left. -,-
…seriously?

I just want to see a melee staff that acts like (or instead give us) a pike/spear/lance/Polearm.
I’d buy 5 more character slots if I knew those weapons were coming. I’d be able to make so many more RP characters, plus long weapons are amazing in MMO’s from previous games.

Bayonet.5174:

I suddenly had ‘that new character idea’ that all alt-holics are familiar with. But, lo and behold, I cannot aquire this skin.

I know that feel…
It always sucks so bad when you can’t get that perfect look without something that is unobtainable. >.<

20+ RP alts and increasing, every time I see something that reminds me of another character from a new/old game or show, I get the idea to make an alt and customize it as best as possible. I don’t even care for Legendaries anymore. You have to be patient with the ideas though, as I had a few characters that I made early on in the game, and over time, new skins and hairstyles allowed me to fully finish the detailed appearance.

Making a ton of extra characters by buying more slots was worth it (20+ now). Take a chance, or as suggested above, delete an already existing toon.
You obviously don’t want to lose progress on your current class, and I can understand if you are 80 and wanted to change races, but most of us just do as already mentioned or re-roll.
I normally plan ahead before making my characters now, especially with the wardrobe feature making it easier.
Not that I wouldn’t buy a race change scroll if they existed.

I just wouldn’t expect it to make an appearance. It would involve so many changes to your character and their story lines, Racial armor/skills. They’d probably need you to log off while they alter it themselves threw a ticket service (kinda reminds me of something that Aeria Games used to do).

Therodin.2970:

How much would you guys be willing to pay in gems to “unlock” W1 or W2?

I’d pay 6000 max.. Can’t afford much more with my wages :P

I’ve seen people leave games for much better reasons than this. I guess it depends on how much you enjoy the game to the point that you can tolerate issues.
Compared to Shaiya. GW2 is pretty much in “top shape”. In fact compared to most MMO’s out there now, the Devs keep working on bugs almost daily.

If you knew anything of Aeria Games or Nexon, you’d know the pains of True gaming bugs.
Try playing a game that you love for years, and then out of no-where, the bugs got so bad that you and the pvp raid couldn’t see peoples HP drop. Couldn’t res until the auto respawn timer did it for you, due to bugs. Weekly events that every guild competed in, for a rank and possible “Guild House”, which we would all get kicked from and the server forced to re-roll, week after week, while the Hosts of the game hoped the next patch would stop the issue occurring.

Some other, smaller bugs were left unfixed for years.
Anyone who leaves GW2 now just for a few issues with UI’s display issues or a broken skill point, really need to look at how lucky they are to have our current Devs.
This is coming from me (the guy that moans about almost anything that them Devs do or don’t do – #SAB).

Wonder if the are paying attention to this thread. It did seem silly that costumes started getting released with an option to disable the helmet, but not the shoulders or gloves.

As everyone has mentioned. Also if they are on a brand new account, and low level, their Dailys are restricted to a small number of options.

I wouldn’t mind a short bow getting an optional crossbow skin, but the animations would have to be re-done for certain skins. So that’s never gonna happen, and most people wouldn’t see the point.

Linken.6345:

Cant say i remember many games with them in hunter had spear it in dark ages of camelot, armsman had polearm.
What other game then tera have a lancer class in them?

I know FF14 has them. I played some random MMO once before joining GW2, the game was free to play but didn’t hook me too far (story-wise), other than the amazing detail they put to their weapons and skill animation. Never have I seen the likes of such detail and effects on weapon animations/effects, even in GW2. Wish I could remember the name.

Other than that you’d have to go to old or lesser known MMO’s for Lances and spears. Shaiya, Aion etc.

I just want to see how good they’d be in GW2. It just feels like they really should be in the game.

I’d love a closer skin tone of Humans, for Sylvari.
Doubt it’d happen.

As much as I’d love to see the wings be the main part of gliding, I don’t know if I’d want to see how the animation and posture turns out. It could look so stupid xD

Get in the que! :P
We’ve waited for Pole-arm/Spear/Halbeards etc, for a lot longer. Seen so many games with great spear/Lance animations, and it makes me wonder wtf is keeping Anet from doing that in GW2. :/

Wish we would get some cool raffle contests like those. :/

DeadPresidentsII.1534:

Like what level do missions get chaotic and fun, or when does the story start to pull you in.

The main Personal Story starts at lvl’s 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, etc.
Back in our time, the Personal Story started at lv1 and you didn’t forget half the cr4p by the time you had gained the next 10 levels. Of course, lets not hate the way they changed that. If you do get around to doing the personal story, you’ll start to understand more about your characters destiny, rather than how cool it is to smash 111111 in an event, until you gain enough exp to carry on with the story.

Ghotistyx.6942:

Vash the Stampede, from one of the more quality anime, Trigun.

Pretty cool. What gun are you using there? o.O