Guild Wars 2

This is supposed to be an AAA mmorpg right? …whell there’s my answer. Let’s hope they stay true to their product’s ranking

Wintel.4873:

Remember what happened in WoW with Shattrath and Dalaran? It caused all racial cities to become ghost towns.

I’m surprised GW2 didn’t learn from that mistake…a single quick-access neutral hub is never a good idea from a loading screen and lag standpoint. Nobody really enjoys it, they are mainly just there because it’s so convenient (Heart Of The Mists teleport) and central.

There are only 3 main reasons why LA was popular:
1. It was central in the map..so the teleporting fees were evening out regardless of the area u were in.
2. Mystic forge
3. Personal story quests

Rest are details that never mattered including wvw portals/mists portal because they are accessible via menus.

If u eliminate major fees to all capitals and introduce mystic forges in every capital.. i bet u anything they will get populated very fast. A good example was what they tried to do with the human capital when they put in all the crafting/forges and whatever in it. Problem is it costs u real money to use it or get to it. So yea..u won’t see that any time soon or even if u see it it will cost u months of money considering u are gambling BL chests for that ticket or whatever u need to get access to that zone.

Well done. Yup in the field also, that’s why i was curious

Is that made by anet or by you? Where did u find it if it was made by anet?

It will rain greens and blues

They will get heavily involved in keeping the door shut.

They definitely learned their lesson from the karka event and it was clear they didn’t have the TECH behind what they were planning. Things changed a lot since then. Have a bit of faith.

I am 100% sure it will be 10x better then what karka was. There might be other problems that appear but there will definitely NOT be the same frustrating problems as karka.

Yes they didn’t run in to help..they just sat on that hill protecting their stuff (like they always do). They didn’t give a rats kitten about what was happening around them..they just cared about their fixed posts. Even so they didn’t do a great job defending their own stuff lol.

I honestly don’t see why ppl are so hyped about this chicken race. They have literally nothing or done nothing to ever want to “be” like them. If anything i would want to have a race that is the opposite of what they do and have opposite values.

They were just defending their territory the moderators spawned them in. They have been at that post since the start. It’s not like they appeared specially to defend them.

Might as well be forgotten there…and their AI doing what any guard-AI does…shoots and stuff with red names.

Not consistent enough to even make me think about it. It could have very well been lemings instead of tengu. Same stuff.

Where were they when we fought Zhaitan..when all the scarlet attacks happened…when LA itself was attacked by karka which is on their doorstep through LA….when players were facing the poison from the toxic alliance which was happening even on the map next to theirs… They never contributed with literally anything else then defending a caravan.

Sry but they did literally nothing in this game but fly away from their problems or ignoring them. They are kind of a pathetic race really worth petty. We did more to help them indirectly by taking care of the problems they ran away from then they ever did in this game.

Tengu are just a bunch of flying chicken. They run from everything ..they never help out consistently and they just close the doors shut from the problems of the world around them.

I don’t expect them to appear any time soon. It wouldn’t surprise me if they chicken out again to another area of the map and pretend they did it because they are peaceful.

They hands down took the right decision choosing LA (IF and only IF it’s permanent)
1. LA has stood in this game as long or longer then abaddon..orr…or any other content this game has ever seen….i mean COME THE KITTEN ON!
2. Because of (1) it has a huge sentimental value to both oldschool and new players…so anything that happens to LA good or bad also has an impact on the players themselves.
3. Destroying LA would mean several things for the game:
- It’s not permanently tied to the past
- It can actually support PERMANENT changes
- Means a new start (good or bad) for all races of Tyria considering LA was like their local bar
- The game moves forward in it’s history.

Nothing lasts forever as they said….LA has withstood longer then “forver” i feel. It’s time to let go and look for a new future. Just imagine if they actually make an event in which we start creating a NEW city for all races (not called LA and not in LA zone)…where we contribute for 2-3 months by doing quests collecting stuff and so on. That would be amazing because at the end of the day u will think “hey i was part of this and i built this”. It would be the perfect opportunity to get players involved into content that effects Tyria forever (bad AND good).

Similar was the karka launch event where we built the settlements and bridges and so on. That day even tho it sucked because of the technical issues was honstly the one i am most found off because i helped do something there that i can come back and see years after and feel proud even tho it was pre-scripted lol.

But again…if this is another temporary thing….like “we have to take back LA in 1month” i am sorry but this event that “changes the face of Tyria forever” equals to an almost flawless 0 never before seen.

I would personally be impressed if this is a permanent change. No more coming back to LA (except some kind of instance to get the main story). If it’s temporary…it will be indeed massive…but nothing to care for….knowing in my mind that “doesn’t matter…give it a few weeks and it will be the same stuff all over again”.

Better start making permanent changes if u want to your LS to have a permanent impact on the world and the player himself. Till u do this.. nothing really matters.

I still hope they somehow learned what permanent changes mean in an MMO.

I honestly think u guys dunno how MF works……at all….

Magic Find just increases your chance of getting better items then “white items”…if u increase it even more…… u will have better chance of getting items better then “blue items”…. even more… better items then “green items”. U get what i mean?

The table starts from WHITE items. If u have 50..100 mf let’s say that means u will 90% of the time get blues and up.

If u have around 200mf… 90% u will get green items

If u have 300mf (max) 90% u will get yellows..

These are just examples…but this is how MF works in any game. It doesn’t increase your chance of getting a precursor..it increases your chance of not getting crap items..like whites for starters.

Having 100% mf is almost nothing really if you are looking for rare/exo. Before the global MF patch u needed around 300% MF to actually start getting yellows pretty fast and about 1-2 exotics/major event (aka pre-karka queen event). Why do u think the MF cap is 300? Or did u think at “300 mf” u would get constant yellows/exotics.

Me at 120%MF i almost literally never see white items. So every item i get, i can salvage and get even more MF in time.

U know….if u turn your monitor upsidedown u not only get the feeling of a new map…but also a completely new game with new characters/classes and even mechanics.

Try it. I guarantee it will be different and as permanent as u want it to be.

1. It doesn’t pull them. Instead of sitting afk in a queue, u actually do something while u wait to go to the main wvw. That happened even before for all players including experienced wvw players. So it’s “sitting around” vs “doing something”. Nothing else changed.

2. And that’s a bad thing? i don’t get it. People/Guilds who want to move will only move because they are bored of having the same matchup over and over again. No other rule applies. They will continue moving even after this.

3. Again this is just a replacement for the “queue time” u spent in LA afk. U are not permanently in EoTM…the queue continues and u will be able to enter the main maps. U even get a queue number now as they’ve shown in screenshots of the new system so u will know in how much time u will get in. If it ever fluctuaates it will be in your own interest. Why? Casual players will want to sit in EoTM and not in main wvw because they don’t have to follow strict orders and still can enjoy the wvw part of the game…while the more HC players will queue for the main maps and try to get out of EoTM easier. U actually win.

4. U talk like the same thing wouldn’t happen to the other servers but yours. All things bad/good apply to all servers. It evens out

5. Oh god actually work and not run like a mindless hoard of sheep in a circle around the map? HC WvW palyers/guilds will always discourage karma trains. They want to win fights not races to the next tower. They want to prove their tactics/leadership is better then the other servers. The only time when they decide to do karma trains is when they need to gather the casual players so that they listen to orders or stay with the group. Eliminating karma trains would be a gift to the true wvw HC players (and by this i mean just T1 max T2 servers..honestly the rest of the server are so casual ..they won’t feel any difference between EoTM and WvW)

How could u even come close to suggesting this almost pristine failure of a story-arc, Scarlet, to be permanent content? Even if she has a glorious death that marks us who lived this tragic time in GW2 history (quite literally..the story was butchered from the start)….that will not even compensate 1% of the “whole thing”. A good ending doesn’t make a good book.

EoTM is a replica of the WvW content. The only difference is your battles do NOT count towards the overall score of your server. So there’s no PPT in EoTM. Call it “Casual WvW”

It’s was clearly planned as a link between wvw and pve. Remember 3 things
1. The finale is supposed to change tyria forever bla bla bla (that also includes wvw….wvw is part of tyria not some separate universe)
2. PvE content has been bugging WvW players since the toxic alliance thing went up. Remember the spores everywere in wvw that every living person that plays that mode cursed?
3. In december they also introduced those “do not touch” things in WvW. They can be found on all maps.

So yes….the “big change” for the finale is this new map they added that influences not only PvE content but also WvW content. It’s ment to to show there’s a bridge between PvE and WvW and everything is interconnected. They are trying to remove the mentality that WvW is just a mod….altho it is.

It’s up to you if u are dissapointed or not..but this was the big surpise. Rest will be temporary content + scarlet dead at the end most likely.

I honestly hope it isn’t…but hey it’s ANet…… I don’t really trust their writers after having experienced this scarlet story arc which achieved tragic proportions when it comes to quality and overall impact on the player.

Are u 100% sure it’s not 71% or 69%? Also this post contains 75% statistics made out of 100% fiction percentages….because numbers never lie and are always 100% accurate in almost all statements made by more then 80% of the community posters.

U no like? U NO BUY!

Such hard…much decision..wow

I would love to live the day when the only first world major issue with this game would be the names…..OF THE FREEKIN VISTAS!

………….SERIOUSLY!

What it would be like? Seems like u didn’t play trinity mmos.

It’s all down to: “Noob healer gtfo” and “we can’t go outside of the town because we have no healer…..what if a spider bites us O.o” …. or “Hey look there’s a butterfly! WE NEED A TANK!!!!!$!@#!$! F.NOOBS Y U NO LOGIN WHEN WE NEED TANKS AND HEALZ!”

Should cover it.

She’s definitely from GW3. I mean come on..it’s the ONLY character that has…well….character.

It has no place in the GW2 characterless universe.

People have to learn that things ingame are exactly the same as in IRL when it comes down to mentality: “It’s always someone else’s fault and not mine”. U will never remove that mentality as it’s in our DNA to not accept personal failure easy.

Deal with it by ignoring those ppl. ANet gave u that option ingame. Use it.

Cassocaster.4576:

I have to ask one question to all the folks that bashed the ranger as a class (whether the class mechanics, pet issues, spamming #4 with LB or any other weakness “you perceive” to be in place), how many have actually leveled a ranger? I see a couple people state that they leveled them and those people tend to be a little less harsh. The others seem to have a mob mentality because a failing ranger robbed you of your cookie at recess.

I see a LOT of rangers in PvE and WvW (don’t play PvP just yet as arena is not my cup of tea, not on that scale so I cannot speak to that) and obviously my main is a ranger so I admit to my bias. All of those people have to be continuing on the course of ranger for a reason and if you proclaim it’s because it’s an easy class you are way out of touch with the reality. Just the opposite, it’s very hard. So when you say it is easy, you are proclaiming yourself as ignorant and blatantly not in the camp of people who have leveled and fought with the class.

In the start of this game, most classes are easy except Engineer. Move my mouse and use cursor buttons to move around the map, mash 1 to kill something and 6 to heal myself. I pick things up with the f key. There may be something truth to the appeal of a ranger as a class due to the lore but beyond that, only one class is tougher to learn and I already mentioned it.

It’s really sad indeed that all this vitriol was and is spawned from talking out of one’s kitten.

Besides loving the idea behind the ranger as a concept, i played it because i first thought i had a 2 in 1 character…as in a pet who tanks and me who just sits behind pressing 1. I bet most think the same way when choosing any kind of PET class. “Why party with a guardian when i have a pet to do it for me”. Others think of themselves as nerd legolas. It’s mostly down to convenience combined with misjudgement mentality. Why? because some actually think it might be easier because of that 2 in 1 “feeling” when in reality it isn’t. It’s as hard as others when it comes down to open world.

Ranger was fine till they nerfed skill.1 shortbow fiering speed + took out bleed from any direction + made condition damage redundant on shortbow. These things literally destroyed that weapon. Longbow is good for beginners. Great Sword is ok for advanced players but even then players learned to counter that easy.

If they would bring back the ranger as it was on beta/release day……i think a lot of the QQ would go away but the sad thing is they changed the game so much..it’s almost impossible to implement the old ranger without breaking other parts of the game severely.

That i can agree with. Well..it’s a game and an mmo…u have to expect child-mentality players. Just ignore/report them Anet gave u both options :P That’s what i do to players who annoy me. U will never change that mentality regardless of the mmo u play. We live in a world where ppl think it;s “cool” and “hip” to curse and bash everything….in a major attempt to cover their own stupidity.

It’s everyone else’s fault but theirs. Just ignore.

Well if it goes down to “personal preference” like looks, class etc. then rangers shouldn’t QQ about what other players think about the class. In a way they accepted the fact they might have a sub-standard class but love the fact it looks cool or whatever.

I am saying if u take a player that completely understands the ranger and any other class….that “any other class” will prove to be as useful and in most cases more useful/versatile then the ranger. That’s why ppl prefer “any other class” over ranger in general….because “any other class” is as good or better then ranger as a class and in no way worst then ranger which means they will either perform at the same level or better, overall. My whole point starts from the ideea that the player himself has equal and very good experience with all classes so that i can compare only the classes themselves and not the player factor.

Also that’s why i put commas for “u”…because i understood u didn’t refer to your particular skill level.

Never said “u” play like crap in any of my comments. All i said is all other classes are more efficient then ranger. Dunno how u understood i was referring to player skill.

Will check it out again thx

As i said..there is nothing the ranger can do that others can’t do at the same level or even better. You base your whole comment on the “theory” that most ppl are dumb and go only for full dps gear.

No.i am sorry (ignoring your zerker comment), rangers are NOT as efficient as other classes. That’s just sad fact.

Let’s put it another way…tel me in what way are they more efficient/better then OR as good as any of the other classes.

Where do u get all the dialogues with that new NPC? The only 2 encounters i had with it was at the event (1-2 lines about nothing) and in the cutscenes of the living story where all the random NPCs met to talk about random life stuff whatever and we were forced to watch that continue the story. She was hitting on braham there and that’s it.

I am actually interested in her but can’t seem to find more on her then that.

People will always prefer any other class over a ranger in general. This trend has not changed for over 1 year. This is because of the ranger’s design and pet dependency. I am not trying to start a fight considering my first character was a ranger till i was forced to change to a character that was actually useful. There is no thing a ranger can do that all other classes can’t do as good or even better.

Sry but that’s just how things are. Think of it this way….1-2 ppl that rage about rangers can be considered noobs…but when the overall playerbase trend is to rage about them that means there’s really something wrong with that class.

My tip to u is to ADAPT! Try out other classes…see if they suit u the same way the ranger is or better. Maybe till GW3 comes out anet will actually figure out what the community already figured out long ago (that being pets and spirits = useless regardless of how many buffs they give them. They have a terrible AI and they die to fast in almost all situations when it involves more numbers of ppl)

Twice i tried to do the scream achievement. Twice i successfully evaded everything. Twice i didn’t get the achievement.

1. If living story is permanent, it won’t be living story anymore. The idea behind living story is that it’s dynamic. For ex…..if all content were permanent, and we kill Scarlet …how can someone go back and fight her in one of her previous stories? Makes no sense. No…Living story should in my opinion be considered a BUFFER between major expansions.

2. No…that would make legendaries redundant. That’s the whole beauty of legendaries atm. + ascended is not that hard to get…it’s about 1/4 the work of a legendary.

3. Those things actually adress just a small part of the playerbase. Dunno why so many ppl cry about Guild halls…PvP..GvG..and whatever. This is a game where guilds really don’t matter that much apart from “can i get an invite to hop from overflow to main?”.

This is an MMO not a lan game (pvp and gvg). Most ppl are interested in PvE and WvW…where there are lots of numbers. The rest are just a minority overall….or are considered a hobby withing the game.

GW2 is king atm. no doubt about it….but it needs a lot of polishing and some areas need to be rethinked. Sry..no genius idea here. I only see “this is what i want for myself” ideas.

Problem with world bosses is they don’t entice u to do them because of the rewards. Greens/blues nobody wants to sacrifice their time + stress for items that u can get by killing random mobs. Yellows are good just for ectos and they are abundant and easy to get. Exotics are OK but most are junk at this time let’s not kid ourselves. What ppl are after are the “ascended gear”. Problem is the % of failure + the % of NOT getting anything worthy even if winning + the time waiting for the event to start, combined reduce the numbers of players wanting to do this event drastically. People who are still there, do it till they get ascended gear X and chances of him coming back are reduced to an almost 0 in most cases…which results in less and less players for world bosses till nobody gives a f.

World bosses, for their difficulty as detailed above should have a pretty kitten high chance of rewarding players very well. This way players know for a fact if they attend that event they WILL get that item they want. This also keeps the event ALIVE. Let’s not forget 9/10 players have more then 1 character to equip…. SO:

- Each world boss (the revamped ones) have a 50/50 chance to give u a token at the end if u participate from the start to finish and successfully defeat it. (no more no less %. If u make it less people will again not care..if u make it more..ppl will get tokens to easy)

- After u gather X tokens (i recommend 5) u can double click then to create a “Major Token of the Whatever”

- With that major token u go to an NPC and buy an “ascended” item related to that boss.

Bottom line is u need some kind of GUARANTEE u get that item for your hard work and dedication. Right now there is no guarantee or there is no feeling like “ok if i do this i will get that item i really want”. Right now the feeling is “Ok i wonder how many greens/yellows i get this time”. That is not a healthy feeling for an event i bet u want to keep alive and interesting for people at any point in time.

What do u guys think

That’s not a teaser trailer / page for the living story. That’s just 1 feature presented…nothing story wise. It’s as valid as a video about “we added 1 extra BL trading post NPC”

Maybe she did it intentionally so that the leadership of LA changes.

U mean on her computer not in her diary.

Are u refering to this image?
http://i.imgur.com/0uBr8Oc.jpg

Yea that is indeed LA. Here’s 2 photos overlapped. When u compare it to the global map it results in LA (atleast the snow area just above it from Gendarran Fields. That must be from where she’s panning to go inside LA.

Pic overlapped 2 of the screens taken from scarlet pc:
http://i.imgur.com/cg1HwaJ.jpg

Also in her lair are the fallowing:
A drawing of the pale tree with drawn red vines around it. Evil corruption stuff. That’s either another pale tree that became evil and stuff..or she saw something happen to the current pale tree: http://i.imgur.com/5XvQdJX.jpg

A poster with cross-DNA stuff i guess..she was experimenting with what worked and didn’t work to “combine”. For ex sylvari+lizard guys whatever. I highlighted my favorite thing that didn’t make it in the game aparently: http://i.imgur.com/pZKBgLI.jpg

A drawing with an eye, must be the thing in her nightmares (just like Sauron).. Or just her date make-up: http://i.imgur.com/0OIo5jN.jpg

A drawing with just random red lines on it (have a feeling those are actually the lines created by the generators all over the map? And the dark lines are the generators themselves: http://i.imgur.com/qvRVgSd.jpg

Her mentor and maybe the one who she most appreciated and by the look of the scars on it her boyfriend who cheated on her: http://i.imgur.com/7Vk0hcF.jpg

Picture of mouth/teeth (dragon most likely in her dreams): http://i.imgur.com/mtdip72.jpg

Huge dragon painted on the ceiling wall: http://i.imgur.com/zyO60d5.jpg

My 2 cents are the dragon somehow possessed her and is using her and her knowledge to release himself from god knows where.

Oh u wait 2h for someone else to form a party for u instead of taking 10s of your time to make your own full party?

I take back everything i said then..u guys are perfectly right. Yea anet should definitely do something about this.

@CureForLiving Yea..they already have that checkbox in the game. It’s called a guild. Other then that why not start your own party with no fees and let ppl join it? I don’t get it. It’s not like the game asks a fee for advertising to form a group.

I call it laziness expecting ppl to do everything for u really. Is it that hard to create a party called “LF4M arah pX” ? in less then 10 seconds it will be full….but noo instead of that u wait 4h in front of a screen spamming 1 refresh button.

People actually wanting something in return for carrying you in one of the longest and most boring dungeon in the game, because u aren’t part of a guild that actually does stuff together.

Not to mention u risk making a long path 3x longer by not knowing what to do or making huge mistakes?

God kitten that’s harsh….

Don’t worry…we will most likely have conveniently placed asura cannons and if that doesn’t work..u go to the next logical step when fighting giants that can take your life with just a breath.

….u hit their feet. They don’t like that.

Are u trying to tell me that all the snow in LA wasn’t from “beyond the Wall” brought by mery men from the Black Watch and in fact it’s something common for winter events like IRL?

Hodor does not approve of this blasphemy!

http://img.pandawhale.com/63903-Hodor-A-true-poet-Reddit-meme-5rgd.png

She’s a women…and we clearly don’t understand her because of that. That’s the twist anet put in and nobody sees it.

pzyonix.1645:

Well for sure it is not Sylvari blood for those that have that idea… Reading the books, not spoiling the contents, Sylvari blood is not red like human blood.

Didn’t know u need to read books in order to know plants don’t bleed “red” :o

Reward is Scarlet dieing. I don’t care about anything else.

When i think about comparing GW2 to Game of Thrones all that comes to mind is….

…Hodor Hodor

I bet u they get a lot more earnings from the gem shop then if it were 15/month and no ingame shop. That “free game” excuse is old really.

+ what’s wrong with wanting good stuff that makes me play the game and entice me to use the cash shop even more?

Indulging in the idea that it’s free and we should accept anything because of that results into 0 progression in quality. The only time progression is made in any kind of company that offers things like this is when their customers QQ. That’s how the world works. Give a company a chance to win $$ for doing nothing and they will do that.

Read more on the interwebz about how f2p cashshop mmos work and what earnings they have and u will change your perspective on these so called “free” games. GW2 is not a p2w game because there are no items in the gem shop that make u more powerful and so on..but remember this is not a “best item” game…this is a “cosmetic” game. So the true win in this game are not the items itself but how they look like. People buy dyes..buy skins…buy character remakes..buy transmutations galore…buy bl chests and other items that make their life easier like infinite picks and so on.

800 gems = 10E/$… and get u just 1 item for ex a skin/helm/pickaxe/5transmutations…and that is just 1 buy in 1 day of 1 month….and people don’t just buy 1.

Long story short..the only reason u have seen even the smallest amount of progression in this game is purely because of ppl who QQ..not because of ppl that go full flower-power, hold hands and say “but everything is ok like this”. If it were up to ppl like that, the game would be very similar to the way it was on day 1 release.

On the other hand there’s constructive QQ and useless QQ..but that’s a completely different topic so let’s not deviate way to much :P