Ain’t gonna be another GW. The dinosaurs won. Evolution is just a gimmick.
This Seriously just made my night
Hey, I was being serious.
For example GW attribute system was steps ahead of GW2 stat system. It’s like Anet woke someone from crygenic sleep who only thought of stats as something you see in rpgs, like tabletop D&D, and had no idea what something like MtG even was.
Exceptionally bad slideshow for me. I had to quit earlier as it was too much. And I don’t even remember the last time something like that happened! It’s so weird.
Don’t know if it helps, but when I quit teh game looks like my fans were running at half speed and my pc was running hot. It’s fine now, so I will do wvw again later and see if the slideshow effect is gone.
I heard that they were just going to add another three layers above each of the HoT maps accessible only by an infernally difficult jumping puzzle and gated by a new adventure where you have to shoot invisible sparks with a bent rifle whilst standing on a greased branch in a negative gravity sandstorm.
I might be wrong though.
This is GOLD!! GOLD I tell you!!
Make it insanely hard, make sure there’s a booby trap right next to the end chest that forces us to restart from the very beginning!!
A very tiny hole right in front of the chest that you can’t see unless you position the camera just right. And the hole disables your glider and causes you to fall all the way to the ground level again. Where every WP for a hundred miles is contested.
I think the Black desert dev’s have made a grave error with the forced open world pvp. I very much doubt they will ever enjoy the numbers that they could have had if not for that one boo-boo.
A thing that is cool with Blade and Soul is how your uniform can be used to flag your character for open world pvp if the uniform is faction based. Actually I like how they handle uniforms as a whole. With stats being linked to soul shields not uniforms. http://bladeandsoul.gamepedia.com/Outfit http://bladeandsoul.gamepedia.com/Soul_Shield
Population fluctuates wildly. It’s easier to keep it consistently higher when new content adds something to player characters that can carry over and interact with pre-existing content. Gives character a longer lifespan as they can go back and enjoy things they missed or experience them again in new ways. Xpacs can accomplish that, but so can clever mechanics updates/additions.
Problem with many mmorpgs is that they don’t build a framework for such ‘re-invigoration’ from the start, and the content they do start with isn’t expansive nor deep enough to keep the game afloat long enough to revamp it’s design.
I harp on GW2 often, but it is doing things right. Adding gliding to core game and creating the base for elite specs are things that will work to efficiently use content both old and new to re-invigorate players.
I’m not sure what you mean by hard, but out of my 3 mains, ele/engi/thief the engi has the most brutal finger play and quick decision making. My poor fingers.
Quit putting your interpretation of my post into my post. I never mentioned any of that stuff. The things I did mention did not have to be abandoned in favour of copying how other mmorpgs do things. I can only guess why people rebrand old things in favour of coming up with, or carrying over, new things.
I think they are fine as they are. If you want to place a trap, you can. If you want an enemy to trigger a trap asap you just activate the trap and immediately use steal to shadowstep while prepping it, then it’ll lay it right on top of them.
Only thing I still don’t like is the shape of thief traps. Even guardians seem better at laying traps over thieves. wtf is that about. XD
I played several mmorpgs for years before GW and what I loved about GW is did things in a clever way that actually really worked well. That’s really what disappointed me the most about GW2. GW2 opted to copy not only the framework of every other mmorpg, but abandon so many mechanics in the original game that were never broken. Felt like it was merely using the GW brand to create the “same old mmo” experience.
Attribute system – Wasn’t broken, so why change it for something that’s been done to death. The system most mmorpgs use is mind mindbogglingly convoluted and short-sighted and GW2 copied them? Doesn’t make sense.
Equipment system – Wasn’t broken either, and once again it just made no sense to copy how other mmorpgs do it. Other mmorpgs are either just copying what’s already been done or failing miserably at trying to come up with something else that works. And GW found a system that actually worked and was refreshing! Why change it?!
Morale system – Why not use that in the sequel? What was wrong with it?
Secondary Profession – So it was supposedly abandoned because it was hard to balance, yet GW2 is even more imbalanced. That doesn’t add up!
Capping skills – Nobody complained about it, and it was so unique. I just don’t understand.
etc, etc, etc
Whyyyyyyyy?!
There’s a reason why. Because Guild Wars 1 was NOT an MMO. Even Anet said it wasn’t an MMO. And when Guild Wars 2 was conceived, it was conceived as an MMO.
Things that work in a lobby game don’t necessarily work in an MMO.
Comparing a non-MMO to an MMO is doable. I just don’t see the point of doing it.
GW2 uses the technology different than GW, but that doesn’t impact a single example in my post.
I played several mmorpgs for years before GW and what I loved about GW is did things in a clever way that actually really worked well. That’s really what disappointed me the most about GW2. GW2 opted to copy not only the framework of every other mmorpg, but abandon so many mechanics in the original game that were never broken. Felt like it was merely using the GW brand to create the “same old mmo” experience.
Attribute system – Wasn’t broken, so why change it for something that’s been done to death. The system most mmorpgs use is mind mindbogglingly convoluted and short-sighted and GW2 copied them? Doesn’t make sense.
Equipment system – Wasn’t broken either, and once again it just made no sense to copy how other mmorpgs do it. Other mmorpgs are either just copying what’s already been done or failing miserably at trying to come up with something else that works. And GW found a system that actually worked and was refreshing! Why change it?!
Morale system – Why not use that in the sequel? What was wrong with it?
Secondary Profession – So it was supposedly abandoned because it was hard to balance, yet GW2 is even more imbalanced. That doesn’t add up!
Capping skills – Nobody complained about it, and it was so unique. I just don’t understand.
etc, etc, etc
Whyyyyyyyy?!
Because the Tengu are literally just standing there in the game world and haven’t done anything since release. If they won’t do anything, let me control one! I’ll do all kinds of stuff with them.
I miss how easy it was to make builds, and that the content challenged me to make new builds to tackle different areas. The attribute/equipment system was so streamlined it made build making super accessible.
Really, I have no idea why the attribute/equipment system was so radically changed between the first game and the second. Only thing I can think of was because other mmorpg put stats on armor, and use tons of stats to influence skills.
Structures could have some kind of sharpshooter device/or NPC that shoot you out of the air if you are gliding. You’d see the crosshair similar to that which appears in HoT maps.
It couldn’t hurt to have wXP gain supplement the tick progress.
The tick progress gets people into the game, and encourages them to help out with that which doesn’t rake in the wXP.
I’ll likely give a Staff Thief a go … I’ve thought about it for awhile but haven’t taken the plunge on it yet.
It’s very fun. And grab a dominator staff while you are at it. Pretend you are a klingon warrior or something.
Below pic is not my character, but shows what you’ll look like holding a dominator staff. http://i.imgur.com/QpDAXFi.jpg
Wasn’t Ascalon originally Charr lands.. invaded by the smelly humans.. o____O
Yeah. I honestly don’t like the humans in this game. They are a disease! They even humanized the gods. Such blasphemy!
Out of my 6 characters, only the last one is human… merely because I didn’t have a human character.
Use your boost to see what other class you like. Once you sure of that class use the boost to make it permanent and then do the very beginning of HoT to unlock the gliding!
Then go back and play your lvl30 elementalist, but now with gliding!
He gets his breakbar after he flies up, then you have to pick up a wyvern egg from somewhere under the platform and throw it on him to break the bar, then you can fight him again.
Ah, I thought you can stop him from flying off to begin with. Though then why were people shouting to use CC on him?
Maybe it’s been changed! I haven’t done wyvern in a while and last i remembered you could stop it from flying by whacking it with CC at the right time. It was tricky because the window of opportunity was small. Perhaps it was changed because if the group failed it was just death from above for the next 20 seconds.
Could make Body Shot and Head Shot apply an effect called “Assassin’s Mark” and then Unload gets a bonus effect against a marked target. Then throw the old ricochet trait unto Unload against marked targets.
Or…
Body shot applies a mark that causes successive projectile attacks to apply vulnerability.
Head shot applies a mark that causes successive projectile attacks to apply confusion.
I don’t know. Just thinking of stuff that would benefit p/p without messing with d/p and p/d.
I recently decided on a pure whim to craft a portal scroll. Seeing as how Essence of Black Citadel was pretty much the cheapest, I ended up using that.
Now I’m using Black Citadel as my trading/banking nexus… and it’s sinking in that it’s probably the most interesting city out of all of them. So much going on and it’s huge!
I would like to know if Izzy is still in balance or moved to a different position. And I’d like to wager he played a guardian, but has moved on to something else.
I remember the release well. I had lost my job of nearly ten years, and was very depressed, but I had pre-purchased the game early that year… and so the beta weekends and release were something that kept me happy during a very sad part of my life.
Support link located at the top of the page. Then on the far right of that page is a “submit a request link”. You are only required to fill out the information marked with an asterisk.
Thanks for the response. I tried it again just a minute ago and realized that not all the fields needed to be filled out. Hopefully a person at support can help me. I have not used the scarf skin, and placed it in my accounts bank.
I looked it up and followed the links, but it gets confusing.
The support ticket was asking for things like SMS authentication code and all kinds of stuff. So I came here to see if I was going the wrong route.
I recently purchased the Shoulder Scarf in the gem store.
The preview panel only shows the naked character wearing the scarf.
Once I tried on the scarf, and saw what it looks like on my armoured character and what colour it appears with my dyes it just isn’t something I want to use at all.
I’ve only done the wyvern matriarch twice and both times people were constantly reminding other players to use CC on the wyvern’s breakbar. I just don’t know if players are aware or if they are and it’s too hard to achieve.
If you can live with less diversity than ele and engi, I suggest Daredevil. I quit GW2 couple of years ago, but what brings me back is Daredevil. The most fun class I’ve ever played.
If in the future GW2 creates an elite specialization that plays like the daredevil, but has the flavour of GW1 mesmer, then I will become addict. I’m worried about that. XD
It’s too bad, as there is an opportunity to add something just with one trait. Like ‘after a successful evade for 2s you cannot be interrupted’. Both the player and the opponent can at least play with that created situation.
I think it made a lot players very excited. I’ve found that many people even like exploring old areas, when it is done in new ways. I usually call it the metroidvania effect, but that is my own way of looking at things.
Costumes at higher levels offer faction allegiances. Makes NPCs either friendly or hostile to you and allows you to fight player characters wearing an opposing faction costume. There are many factions, so many costumes.
Weapons evolve by feeding them other weapons. Once you max a weapon, it requires being fed a specific leveled weapon in order to evolve. Upgrading it’s appearance.
These things are pretty time consuming depending on how much you want to explore them, and there’s always that excitement of what will come next.
