Guild Wars 2

I think a memorial decoration / option is a neat idea, but as we don’t have a memorial for people yet, perhaps it should be generic, or at least have a people version first.

I don’t understand how you say “Make them the same, and then do something to separate them.” Unless you have a particularly good replacement idea for keeping them distinct, I feel like it’s overlooking possible reasons for the distinctions you want to erase in the first place.

I main an Ele, and I’ve used the Elementals a lot since launch. In my opinion, they’re perfectly fine the way they are. They’re useful (especially Rocky,) and they don’t die easily. (ESPECIALLY ROCKY.) No buffs, nerfs, or other changes needed that I can see.

We haven’t had much in the way of new PvE or story-based releases since Heart of Thorns, other than Raids, so Raids naturally get a lot of the hype. That can be really frustrating for people who don’t raid, when it looks like that’s all the development team is doing.

There have been some small additions recently (see Current Events achievements for Leyline events and Bandit events,) but the rest of use are hanging out a bit until Living Story Season 3 kicks off, probably sometime late summer or early fall, at a guess. They did revamp a lot of HoT maps to make them less of a grind back in April, so that’s helping to reinvigorate people’s interest in HoT maps.

While no one knows for sure, and this might just be my gut feeling, the odds seem very good. The old school Halloween weapons were a pretty unusual case, so I wouldn’t use them as a relevant predecessor.

At the same time, I wouldn’t necessarily start stockpiling materials, because things like Wintersday drinks are going to be rather expensive right now, anyway.

Focusing on the OP’s suggestions, Anet made a conscious decision to keep player characters heroic, without any real “dark side” paths to take. If you join the Flame Legion, or whatever, that’s going to turn your relationship with most of the other characters in the game sideways in very severe ways. For example, if you’re a member of the Nightmare Court, you wouldn’t be allowed in the Grove anymore, which would be inconvenient, and you couldn’t sensibly do LS2, since the summit is held in the Grove.

Working around that would require either a ton of work, or a lot of “SSHH, you’re really a bad guy, but everyone treats you like a good guy because they don’t know, wink wink.” That kind of free path-choosing works in some games, but it’s just not part of GW2’s design.

I think World Bosses are generally in a good place right now. You can complain about lazy leachers who make the fight take longer, but it’s not like Shadow Behemoth or Mega Destroyer take ages and ages because the zerg doesn’t collectively do everything they can.

Some people do world bosses because it’s relaxing. If you can’t play with those people without fretting about how they’re slowing you down, do a more challenging boss fight, do Silverwastes, HoT, Triple Trouble, or even the new Shatterer. I wouldn’t mind the occasional touch-up, but let’s not act like any of the current world bosses are as lame and tedious as old Shatterer was.

This is not a scenario where we have to worry about “equal pay for equal work.” Relax and enjoy it, or go do the content you do enjoy. These are fine the way they are, even if it means I have to spend a longer time behind Shadow Behemoth because I don’t have everyone running through. It’s not a big deal to me, personally.

Why is Eternity mentioned as “currently the only one of its kind?” It’s the third (or second-and-a-half) legendary greatsword.

People would certainly like more legendary weapons, which is why H.O.P.E., Nevermore, Astralaria, and the new shortbow were meant to be part of a new set of legendaries to get rolled out as part of Heart of Thorns. Regardless, the project was eventually deemed a poor use of development resources, so the other legendaries are indefinitely suspended.

As for armor, I think people would just like more armor skins, regardless of whether it’s ascended. Take Leystone armor—If it had been ascended, it would have to be substantially more difficult to acquire, and I’d have maybe one set instead of a full collection.

It might be helpful to list exactly which event / precursor step is causing the trouble, so it could be more easily looked at.

I must admit, I’m confused by the /cower. I thought it was funny at first, like your character was making a half-effort to trick the Skritt into doing their work, but the fearful sound effects…It’s a little odd. I just don’t understand what’s happening.

I might be more concerned about alternative ways to obtain legendary armor once the first way is finished.

I hope legendary armor isn’t always locked behind raids, but I’m not going to worry about it in advance. I’m okay if it’s exclusive to raids for a while, potentially a lengthy while at that.

There’s really no situation where failing an event should be preferable to succeeding it, short of a general “I want to see what happens” curiosity. Otherwise, you get players fighting each other.

Unfortunately, event chains do occasionally lead to situations like that, whether it’s by giving out better loot in an event further down the chain or by requiring a particular event for a precursor scavenger hunt. The former is just a balancing oversight, and the latter is something Anet has tried to improve since they initially did precursor collections. I don’t know how many “required to fail” cases are still out there, but I think everyone can agree that those situations are trouble.

Making something better isn’t the same as fixing it. You can almost always make something better, if you have the time and resources to spend on it.

Your suggestion might be more helpful if you say some of the specific improvements you’d like to see. They can be fairly broad or very detailed, but “character customization” is a huge area. It can range from customizing your character’s body, to your skill/trait selection, to things like dye and armor skins.

There’s no reason to anticipate anything in particular for tomorrow’s update, as far as I’m aware.

Just have to wait and see.

I’m totally okay with combat slowdown. If you want to dash through a group of enemies, use a shield, use stealth, use a teleport, use your head to avoid the fight in the first place.

CrusaderMichael.9245:

If you want me to take extra damage because I hit a key to exit slow combat movement when it occurs, sounds good to me.

This wouldn’t fix anything. If I switch to non-combat speed, I can outrun a centaur, so I’m not going to be taking enough damage to make it a deterrent.

What are some specific examples of rewards that you have in mind?

I keep thinking about The Ascension and Legendaries, and I can’t seriously believe their mode requirements are a major factor in whether someone starts playing GW2, or converts from a free account to a paid account. That would be a surprising market niche, of people who will quit early on (or refuse to start) if they can’t get some specific, high-grade items, but also aren’t willing to play anything other than PvE.

You’re framing it as a growth/expansion target (recruit more retirement-age people,) but it seems to me the only rewards that require PvP and WvW are generally high-end rewards that are mostly of interest to people who are already in the game. If I’m looking for a game to get into, regardless of my age, I’m not going to hear that The Ascension requires me to PvP and get turned off of GW2 because of it. I’m not going to be aware of The Ascension, period, and I’ll make my decision based on art style, gameplay, and whether I hear the game is enjoyable.

If I don’t like PvP, I’m not going to get into an exclusively PvP game like Overwatch or League of Legends, but unless the mere existence of a PvP / esports scene is a turn off for me, I don’t see why I’m going to be worrying about high end rewards needing PvP/WvW, when I don’t even play the game yet. If Anet really wanted to go out of their way to court that market segment, targeted advertising would accomplish more than worrying about which game modes get which rewards.

Just my two cents.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Making-legendarys-great-again-TBC

Less than a month ago, with the same slogan. I’ll be looking for a third thread in the future to see if this becomes a pattern.

There are people who collect legendaries, and I’ve never felt like they’re “more successful” at GW2 than I am, because I don’t measure how successful my time in game is by how many legendaries I (don’t) have. Those people play differently than I do, and I probably wouldn’t enjoy playing their way.

I’m just here to have a good time. I’m not competing with anyone, unless I’m competing with myself. When/if I get around to building a legendary, it will feel like an accomplishment because of what I had to do for it, and how it represents a capstone over my previous weapons, not because other people don’t have one.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Technically speaking every armor set is 15 different sets, because each race gets a different alterations anyways. It’s less forceful on the creativity department, but they still can’t just use the human armor on charr, asura, or norn.

Technically, but I’m not sure the level of work involved in refitting armor for a race even approaches the level of work in making new design for another race. I’m rounding down, but it would be preposterous to round up on that score.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

They’re also more highly desired, making it more worth making because higher demand for it.

Players really want more armor sets in general. With race-neutral sets, they can use them as a the carrot for multiple situations (Bladed for Verdant Brink, Leystone for Dragon’s Stand, etc.) rather than just one situation that pays out differently based on your race. Armor skins are both one of the most expensive prizes to create and the most desired by players, so it makes sense to get as much mileage out of each set as possible.

Again, I like racial armor, and I’m glad we have the sets we do, but if they introduce “another Sylvari-themed set,” for example, I expect it to be wearable by all races.

Much as I like cultural armor, I don’t want additional sets of it. They’re a huge undertaking (3 tiers * 5 races = 15 armor sets ) for relatively little payoff. That’s 15 new armor sets, but any given character only gets one new option, as opposed to getting 5 new options for a character.

The math just doesn’t make sense. I’m glad they’re in the game, but they’re not an efficient use of resources.

Look up “Envoy” armor to see it.

There’s a lot of speculation to the Deep Sea Dragon, or “Bubbles,” as some people call him. The Quaggans, Krait, and Largos have all had problems with it, although very little is known about it beyond that. You can find hits about the existence of a sixth dragon in various places.

There’s a piece of art floating around that seems to show a monster on a tidal wave attacking Lion’s Arch, but I don’t think we have any solid evidence that DSD will be next, rather than Kralkatorrik, Primordus, or Jormag.

I’m with Just a Flesh Wound on this. While the Kiel/Gnashblade election was a neat idea, of all the things we’ve done that could get a revisit, it’s very near the bottom of my list.

Are you asking for greataxe as a hammer skin, for use with hammer skills, or as its own weapon type? It might work really well as a hammer skin.

If the latter, would it be better to add greataxes, or to keep opening up existing weapon types to new classes? Greataxes are cool, but all of their skins would have to be created from scratch, while any existing weapon benefits from a large back-catalog of skins.

Those skins are from weapon sets intended to match weapons created by class skills.

Purple ones are Phantasm skills, so they only include Mesmer weapons that match skills like Phantasmal Duelist

Blue ones are Spirit Weapons, matching those created by skills like Bow of Truth.

Similar to these are Conjured weapons, which match Elementalist skills like Conjure Fiery Greatsword.

All those weapons were created for skills, rather than just as weapon skins, although you can get them as weapon skins using Mystic Coin recipes.

That’s the only one.

That would be great. I have a level 80 of each class now, thanks in part to the birthday scrolls, but I have leftover scrolls, which will be even more leftover scrolls as those characters age. Unless I buy a character slot for key farming, they’re just going to waste.

Let people know what you’re doing and it’ll probably be okay. I think we had, like, six stacked up there at once.

Just be sure to keep an eye on it. The energy despawns over time, and you want to keep them focused on the tree at all times.

The map I was on managed to get it by cheesing the AI. If the event happens up north (near the ruined wall) there’s a tree in roughly the middle of the event. If you place ley energy in the tree by jumping up on it, you can get a substantial portion of the Inquest to get stuck there. They’ll go after it, because it’s nearby, but they can’t jump up to it, so they just group up at the base of the tree.

It’s a goofy solution, to be sure, but it worked. I’d be more displeased about it, but I do like the events better now that players aren’t competing with each other.

JavaChips.5629:

All I’m saying is the solution to make people pay constantly to stay with their friends is BS nothing more and nothing less.

I think your solution is more of a work-around than a real solution. It works, but I’m pretty sure turning linked servers into temporary overflows for full servers isn’t the goal of server-linking.

It’s like me complaining that my bookshelf is an unsafe step ladder. It is, but that’s not what it was designed for.

I’m surprised Anet is at E3, since it seems most of their convention appearances are more player-oriented than industry-oriented. Still, it’s a big event, so I’m not that that surprised.

Anyway, I wouldn’t expect them to show anything new there. Even if they previewed the next expansion or LW3, it would just get lost in the noise of E3.

While it’s sorta convenient as a player, I’m not sure “Have support move people around upon request” is a very practical solution.They have to tell people “no” sometimes, or they might as well do away with population caps and let people fight it out themselves.

I don’t know if support’s policy about manual moves changed at any point, but it would seem a little strange to me if it was very lenient before. Either way, server linking isn’t intended as some way to nickel-and-dime players who want to be on “Temporary Blackgate 2,” whatever server that happens to be at the moment, so I think it’s a little unfair to cast your unsatisfactory workaround to your problem as them charging you a subscription. It’s not the same. It’s a problematic situation, but it’s not the same.

SarahWitter.2317:

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That sounds sensible to me, and I see the appeal in having a Black Lion ticket-exclusive set. I think it would have been more easily understood if the weapons were called “Black Lion” weapons or “Evon Gnashblade Weapons,” to indicate that they’re meant to be exclusive to the ticket system—Otherwise, they just look like a disconcerting change in practice.

Thank you for the clarification!

I think a lot of people are misunderstanding the scenario. I was halfway through the thread before I figured it out. The OP’s guild is on a full server, so (s)he can’t join them there, but (s)he can join a low-population server that’s linked with them. Since links are only temporary, if the OP wants to play after the next link, that means transferring to another low-population server.

OP, do you have any ideas for a solution to your situation? I’m sure removing population caps is off the table, but would you be satisfied if transfers to low-population servers were free? That might fix your problem, although I wonder if that might cause some other problems of its own, like masses of people doing what you’re doing, causing massive population fluctuations as people keep changing servers to preserve previous links.

Well, what? The patch dropped, what, 20 minutes ago?

I don’t know what progress the release of the final raid wing makes towards legendary armor, but we’re unlikely to know anything more than you do right now.

Why do you think it’s okay?

No, seriously, I’m asking you to think it out. Do you think Anet is intentionally favoring certain classes over others? Do you think it might just be a temporary ebb and flow of power from one balance patch to the next, because perfect balance is hard? Do you think it might be an issue with what’s popular right now getting the most refinement by player-strategists, or some classes having a higher skill requirement without a corresponding higher power ceiling? Could it be a matter of perspective, and that playing one of these “overpowered” classes might not be so easy as it seems?

Some or none of those might be the answer you’re looking for, but I wonder what answer you’re expecting, besides simple agreement/disagreement.

You may want to think twice before using special characters, however, because they can be difficult for other players (especially English-language players) to type, for the same reason you weren’t sure how to get a name like that.

You don’t have to type another player’s name often, but it can occasionally make /join and the like awkward if you’re not careful. Don’t rule it out, but it’s worth considering if you’re just adding accents for kicks.

penelopehannibal.8947:

In Character

For Roleplay.

In perfect seriousness, a “Roleplayer” or “In-Character” title is a really great idea.

I don’t think it’s realistic to hope that flails will be their own weapon type, but however odd flails might look on certain mace skills, they can’t look any stranger than Scythe-staves or daggers that come in regular- or reverse-grip while using the same base animations. There’s some wiggle room for sure.

I’m not expecting anything, but I would love a return for Dragon Bash.

I mean, we did bash a dragon this year. :<

If you can’t decide based on aesthetics or Legendary functionality, consider what you’ll do with the gold you’ll save by making Forefire’s Essence. If you think, “Sweet, I can make this other expensive skin as well!” or “Great, I can make ascended armor for an alt!” do that. If you find yourself thinking, “I already have most of the expensive stuff I want,” then go with the Legendary.

Don’t put too much stock into what you commonly see other players with. Foefire’s Essence might be more appealing if you’re trying to show off for the non-conformist crowd, but you’re going to be looking at it more than anyone else, and many other people won’t notice what weapon you’re using either way.

Obviously, the SAB skin isn’t a normal flail. Stitch was pointing it out because you asked if there’s an animation-based reason for not making flails. If the SAB skin works, a normal one could probably work just as well.

I feel like the OP’s suggestions don’t really improve the endgame, just delay it.

Agemnon.4608:

For $60 what can a customer have-

GW2 is $50 via the official website, or (a fairly reasonable) $35 on Amazon. I’m not a PvP player, and I don’t have any opinions about Overwatch, but I don’t know where you’re getting $60 from.

Even with the TP operating alongside direct trading, there’s an issue with taxes / gold sink. If I’m directly trading my Dawn for your Dusk, for instance, there’s not an obvious way to tax that. I suppose the system could look up the “sell” orders for one and charge one person 10% and the other 5%,, then do the reverse for the other, but that could become increasingly confusing with multiple items on each side. Still doable, but ugly. Death and taxes, you know.

At the least, I’m opposed to the idea because of all the spam I think it would create. No, thank you.

Nope.

Sorry to be so glib, but they haven’t said much about when it will be or what it will contain. I think the general expectation is that LS3 will likely start in earnest around the same time, but I can’t think of any official announcement to that effect, and it could be totally wrong.

Jhoul.6923:

I wish all gliders where dyeable… but then again that would ruin the wing sales for anet.

It may be interesting to note that while gliders are dyable, backpacks aren’t. If they made, say, White Wings dyeable, you’d have a situation where people would have dyed wings while gliding, which would suddenly turn white upon landing.

They could add dyes to back pieces to handle that situation, but I expect that’s a larger task than it sounds, between adding dye channels to skins and updating the UI. Whether you think that’s a good reason for not making wings dyeable or not, there is, at least, another explanation besides “Anet wants to charge for each option.”

Unless this is actually confusing people, which seems unlikely, I think it’s harmless to have two separate things labeled “Daily.” You have your daily achievements and your daily fractals, and I think people understand that.

If you trust someone and want to trade with them specifically (like a friend or guildmate,) you can just do that via mail. If you just want to sell an item, you can do that over the Trading Post, so the rest of us don’t have to put up with constant /map advertisements. They were an irritating, but necessary thing in GW1, and at the very beginning of GW2, I remember people still doing that. I’m glad they don’t anymore.

Also, it does help cut down on scams. That might sound silly, and it is, but that doesn’t make it less true.

Why not just send them your Sunrise, instead of having them send you Twilight? They can do the combining, and then there’s no issue of trust. { Edit: On second thought, this wouldn’t work if the OP has already account bound his/her Sunrise.}

I know you want to be the one to “make it,” but if you’re outsourcing half the work already, it’s not like that final step is a substantial amount of prestige. Even if we accept that as valid reasoning, it’s much too risky to mail Twilight out to some stranger under any circumstances, if you want to get it (or Eternity) back.

You can repeat, “Guys, I’m serious, this isn’t a scam” as much as you want, but there’s no way to prove that. It’s just too risky.

Setting aside the (numerous) reasons why this idea might not pan out like you want it to, it’s also fundamentally opposed to what they’re trying to do right now.

A while ago, Mike O’Brien declared that they want to delight us with what they ship, not just with promises. A crowdfunding campaign is literally selling people on promises. That can be good or bad, but it’s definitely not what they’re trying to do right now, especially after certain missteps in the not-so-distant past.