Guild Wars 2

dasaybz.9524:

GW2 has to have the biggest community of whiners I’ve ever seen. No matter what forum I go to there are always babies crying about how awful this game is. For $60 there cannot possibly be a game out there with close to the content of this game.

I have to agree, the forums can be pretty frustrating.
I really don’t see this content sticking around though, at least not being made permanent for a while. ANet put a lot into the Living Story being a central part of this game, and believe it or not there are a ton of people that actually love it. It’s not meant to be something that sticks around, that’s the whole point. They may deviate from it later on, but if they changed the whole concept now they would not only look inconsistent, but the decision would upset as many, if not more people than are upset now.

I like what I’ve seen of Evon so far, and Kiel has been a little meh to me. I’d probably go with Evon if I got the chance. xD Throw some chaos Lion’s Arch’s way if he’s a baddie, I’m sure they can handle it!

That happened to me when I was able to log in earlier. The first time I read and clicked through all of his dialogue and then told him I was ready, and I got sent into an sPVP match.

Second time I just went up to him and told him I was ready and he sent me into the mini-game. Not sure if going through the dialogue triggers the PVP bug or what, but it’s worth a shot to try without clicking through it if you haven’t yet.

I haven’t gotten to hop on long enough to check these out, do you open the Fortunes? Where do you get them? And what are the scraps for?

Devildoc.6721:

Uther Deathhand.1570:

Is gold really that big of an issue and people falling that much (have not played yet).

If you’re saving for a legendary, yeah.

650g for the precursor, and I despise having to pay someone just because they got blind luck.

I don’t understand, who would you be paying?

I was on when the patch first hit, but I’ve been at work ever since. When I tried it then it was fine, I’ll try it out again when I get home and see how it is.

So you’re saying… asura ears do show through the helm?
That’s a plus for me, I feel bad for mine. His ears are friggin’ huge, trapping them in a helm is probably a form of torture xD

I’m… still slightly confused at what you’re upset about. o___o;
But anywho, I think people would be more ticked off if the failed achievements weren’t locked away not to look at. If they were out in the open I think it’d be rubbing it in more.

It’s gonna take almost two weeks for me to catch up ; ^ ;

Really excited about these skins though. And hey, the gold aint bad!

Seemed like a blast to me.
I didn’t get a chance to check out the rest of the cheevs because of work, but I know the JP is not everything in this patch. Not even close.

Jinks.2057:

Shiro Ryuujin.6412:

WitM.2308:

Shiro Ryuujin.6412:

It’s only 2 days into the match up and already learned that ebay are some pretty sore losers….already have like 5 people guesting to talk kitten in our lions arch, classy work fellas.

Would you do us the courtesy of assuming they do not speak on behalf of the server as a whole. I suspect I know the names several of the people who do this, most of which are professional trolls. AR would do this to us for weeks, it gets the non WvW population and PvC people all riled up, which is actually kind of amusing for the hardcore WvW people and trolls.

I’m not saying it as a whole server, but in the 10 months playing I’ve not seen any other server do this to that extent, and the ones that did, it was usually only 1 person, not an entire group of people.

When you fight Ebay you fight on all fronts.

Not our fault you aren’t mentally prepared to fight on all fronts

Lol, fighting doesn’t equal whining. Not our fault you weren’t prepared to lose?

Eh. I really didn’t like that it was in a PVP area simply because it’s begging for griefing, but hey. WvW people don’t get that much in the way of achievements compared to us PVE’ers, so I’m okay with it. Was getting griefed like mad, finally ended up rallying a group of people on my server to storm through and get it done.

My big issue was the giant darkroom. I think it would have been better if it was more like the dark room in the pirate JP in Lion’s Arch… that one is dark enough to be challenging while still being, imo, fairly doable. The darkness there isn’t /opaque/. It took us a zerg of torch users to simply find our way through, it’s a nightmare in there.

Just my two cents.

I’ll be honest, I went in the first time, no wipes, got it done. Then again, I was on my Guardian and I was spamming SYG like there was no tomorrow, so I’m sure that didn’t hurt.

I didn’t think the dungeon was terribly difficult, but I run the dungeons in this game all the time. I’m very used to the mechanics, and to be fair yes, I was on a Guardian but the rest of the party wasn’t composed of super-1337 professions or anything. It’s definitely doable, but we’re probably on the more hardcore scale than some. Up until this point I had kind of a “mehL2P” attitude, but with all of the people I’ve talked to that haven’t been able to complete it, my opinion is shifting a bit. They did have the Infantile Mode for SAB, maybe something like that should be kept around. I really don’t know where to stand on this because, like I said I didn’t really think it was that bad, but it makes me sad that this many people have so much difficulty with it. I don’t want the content to be easier, but maybe different modes really is the way to go.

playandchill.3908:

If you want fun, try real life

IRL is terrible, why do you think we’re all here? Lol.

Gabby.3205:

Sieg.8439:

Yay, Kiel is going to stick around even longer… >>;
I don’t hate her and she works well for this, she’s just… not that interesting to me. Ah well.

Hey, let’s be optimistic here. She will be elected for the council and we will never heard of her again because she will be too busy with politics.

Haha, very true!
Knowing her though, she’ll probably keep us as her “personal contact” for special case missions… We shall see!

Fox Mulder.6907:

I am forced to do this dungeon or jumping puzzles.

Nope. You’re not.

Fox Mulder.6907:

Many love running these things over & over. Run them until you collapse for all I care.

Okay.

Fox Mulder.6907:

11 out of 12 in sky pirates.

Then you’re fine.

Fox Mulder.6907:

Can I get a refund A-net?

No.

Yay, Kiel is going to stick around even longer… >>;
I don’t hate her and she works well for this, she’s just… not that interesting to me. Ah well.

Isende.2607:

while you guys are playing around with all the “trendy” things, like steampunk, and booty (cargo) shorts, and stupid hoodies

Someone’s too cool for school. xP

Donari.5237:

Pshaw, some people need a little help and this game is about helping others.

Shapeshifter, if Mai Trin doesn’t count for your 12/12, and if you are NA, I can try helping you to Mad Cache tonight (maybe around 7 pm Eastern but ping me if you see me in game sooner). I’m not a great jumper myself but I’ve learned a few tricks and come to understand game jump physics so I can coach you, and I know Goemm’s pretty well. Also I have a Mesmer to get you past the rough spots.

I’d be up for helping out as well, I’ll grab the waifu and we can kick some butt! xP
I’ve only run it once, but we didn’t wipe through the whole run, so we should be okay… Hopefully I can remember the tricks well enough to help us get through! If nothing else, it sounds like Donari knows the ins and outs of this thing, hehe.

I honestly still don’t really see what the big deal is. I do think that there could probably be a bigger difference in the value of dailies v. the super hard / time consuming achievements, but is it really that big of a deal? Dailies take fifteen minutes tops, just do them and you’ll keep up. PVP dailies take a bit longer since you have to play three matches, but that’s not so bad.

Yeah, they’d probably go for more of a blackmarket/fence thing than the bazaar. Then again, the typical bandits in this game aren’t terribly bright, so who knows? Lol.

Chicho Gosho.6507:

But, but you don’t do a JP for an item reward. There’s something wrong with you. Also tell me how many JP in the game have 3 chests and an exotic at the end?

I missed the part where I was raging. At any point in this thread. Somethingwrongwithyouformakingsillyassumptions? Like I said, the JP itself was great fun.

It just threw me that they had their own unique name, same drop from every chest without it being a new skin. “Aetherized Pauldrons” made (I’m honestly willing to bet) the majority of people think that they would be an event skin, or something. Since they aren’t salvageable or TP-able, it seems like that would be the purpose. But in this case, it just feels a little… random. Not bad. Not terrible design, not rage-worthy, just weird. I think we’re just confused as to what the logic was behind the decision to make these a guaranteed loot when there’s not… really anything super unique about them.

Also, the Mad King items were different. They’re able to be put on the TP, and I’m pretty sure you can salvage them as well.

I think it would be cool to see Dragon Ball stick around, I really enjoyed it!
Like some are saying, I probably did like the Snowball Arena a bit more, but eh. They’re both purdy jazzy : P

Still trying to decide what weapon to get with my ticket, lol. I’m so indecisive!

I think I’ve narrowed it down to being a two handed weapon, just because when my toons dual wield I like the weapons to match and I only have one ticket. I may get the greatsword, but it seems like that’s the one that everyone uses, sooo… I dunno. xD;

deSade.9437:

Meh. I was going to post a loooong, bitter comment on how irritated I am by all these, eh… creatures… that suddenly realized, in a day, the achievement system is incredibly flawed and all achievement points related to dailies should be removed to help casual players catch up (???), else the game will be doomed.
I mean, we all know removing rewards from a gamer is the best way to encourage further playing in an MMO.
I’ll just tell you that against this…. this written externalisation I typed above (can’t really call that a thought) no amount of logic will save you from the kittystorm that’s going to rise. I sincerely hope you have an umbrella in your superhero gadgets.
And, uh… no, I doubt this is going to help. One could argue that your opinion isn’t worth more than theirs, since logic doesn’t exist on the webz. I read it on the wiki.

I suppose we should thank the Six that our prophet savior is here to save us.

…Lol.

Zeivu.3615:

It’s true that they misogynists, but IMO, I don’t think it’s reason enough to cut them entirely. There could be off-shoot, secretive cliques that include women or see them as equal. After all, Pyre Fierceshot’s granddaughter trained female charr in the arts of war in secret. And historically speaking, men have shared once forbidden knowledge with daughters and wives, leading to real events in our everyday lives.

True, but we’re talking about corrupted followers of Jormag, not just people who are being jerk misogynists. There are no “secretly okay” sects of the Sons of Svanir.

Even so, it’s not reason why we can’t kill some Sons of Svanir and jack their armor. I think icy armor would be pretty awesome : P I mean, we have destroyer weapons and corrupted-looking Orrian armor… Makes about as much sense as that.

Chimerael.2361:

Being in the top 500 achievers, I dislike grinding all achievements in the daily to stay competitive with the top people in the achievement leader-boards.

So you’re saying you shouldn’t have to work to be on a leaderboard? o__O;
I get that it feels grindy, it does, but it’s not exactly a terribly action packed leaderboard to be on…

kny.3789:

one of the main things i think was missing from the achi system since launch is the inability to link achi’s in game or view the achievements of friends. im very excited about the new UI though i dont remember them mentioning these features in the post. it would be great if we could show off the actual achievements them selves.

change how points are awarded, dont change how points are awarded, just make achievements more fun and shiny! thats all i want.

Well, they do show the points in the friend panel. You’re probably talking about individual achievements though, so that would definitely be cool.
I’ll have to finish getting Dungeon Master, I realized I didn’t have that the other day. Embarrassing! ; A ;

These are interesting ideas, but I don’t really see what’s ‘mythbusting’ about them. You’re just giving your personal and mostly unevidenced ideas.

I do agree though that the achievement point thresholds will likely be quite high, the idea being that it will give players something to “work toward” rather than just giving people stuff for points they’ve had for a while. Just seems like the Anet style, though perhaps they’ll start low and add things with the future Living Story // two-week updates.

Pavees.7281:

I still find it insulting the tengu use a reskinned charr model when their gw1 model(the white mountain model) to be perfect and beautiful by comparison. I also find it insulting that instead of a honor bound race of warriors thrown from their home not being playable we get a bunch of worthless cats(which sadly i love cats but i don’t like orcs in cat skins which was the original purpose of the gw1 charr in proph) who only goal in life is to kill and make more cubs. I still hate that massive shift in focus with the charr. I get that some charr are honorable(i liked pyre but he was an anomaly amongst his peers).

Originally being monsters but now they are forced to be perceived in a semi-honor semi-military state(their old system was alot more tribal why i found their sudden shift to technology to come out of nowhere and i know they did use siege devourers and forts but eh) horribly off topic to some degree but i miss me some tengu and hate charr models jacked them guild caps in favor of backpacks(shudder).

The GW1 Charr were mostly shamanistic because they were being led by the Flame Legion, which was ruled by the shaman caste. With what we saw of the siege devourers, I really don’t at all see why it’s any kind of leap for Charr to latch onto big, explosion’y technology the second the world starts to develop it. And once the charr as a race were able to break away from the Flame Legion, forming themselves into a strong, structured militaristic culture seems to me like a very believable course of action.

skullmount.1758:

Only thing I really hate about the dungeon is there are no ‘respawn’ points, like we had in Goemms, and Spekks (? the one with the timed platforms over lava, in Caledon I think). I finally got up to the goggles, only to die by hitting one of the platforms close to it (I tried looking at dulfy video, but I couldn’t remember where to jump). When I was at goggles, I didn’t want to jump either, since I knew if I miss it would have to do all of it again, which isn’t fun.

Yeah, they really could have stuck a WP inside there, it’s one of my only complaints.
That, and I don’t see the exotic shoulders having much point in the chest, being unsalvageable, un-TP-able, and vending at a whopping 3s… Lol.
But they’re free and you get other stuff in the chest, so hey.

Grimstar.6931:

Celestina.2894:

I’m thinking they might be achievement rewards

Oh I highly doubt that. I’m sure Anet recognizes the high demand for these weapon skins and won’t dare miss an opportunity to milk them for all they are worth, money wise.

While I agree that the interest in these skins is pretty intense, I wouldn’t discount the idea straight off. Dragon Bash and Sky Pirates ends in a few days, there isn’t much time to introduce new content. We know they have the coding done for the skins since they got datamined, so I’d think it would be coming soon. The bazaar isn’t a bad idea. It’s been confirmed that rapiers are a new weapon altogether to Tyria, so something exotic like that seems to me like it would fit perfectly into some magical traveling bazaar.

The best way I found to farm Aetherblades was to sit around the JP and kill them as they spawn. A ton spawn on the ship and on that deck where Mesmers are always porting from, and with all of the people in Gendarran there was always someone to talk to and make the time pass faster

This sounds amazingly fun, especially for an RP event with the guildies!
NEEERRRRDDDDGASMMMMMMM

Just tossing in my two cents, I honestly would only see this being part of the mini game. It just seems like there would be so much in the way of balance issues if they dramatically change the way movement works.

SuperSpicyCurry.2415:

I just think fire+black stuff = a 12 year old’s idea of cool.

Very much agreed, lol… I like that it’s in there for people who like it, but dear god, there is so much of it.
The armor the sylvari is wearing looks like mostly existing pieces, it’s difficult to see much. The medium armor in the other pic looks alright, but it’s… a little on the plain side, imo… We’ll see.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

There isn’t a single frost/ice armorset in the game. Or nature.

Err… All sylvari cultural armor, Twilight Arbor sets?
Something with chunks of ice or crystal really would be seriously awesome though.

Doggie.3184:

Let us reskin the fire to blue at least.

SWEET GHERKIN, THIS.
I’ve been wanting dye-able fire on the fiery sets forever. I know it doesn’t make much sense, but come on… Just slap the “magiclol” excuse on it and make it so!

Brutal Arts.6307:

I’m excited that the two new armor skins for medium MIGHT not be trenchcoats.

They probably will be though.

Haha, we can only hope! Hopefully nothing like the GW1 Assassin armor (dear god, no hugs ever), but with 95% of medium chest pieces being trenchcoats I may actually welcome it. xD

I really don’t understand what the problem is. Dailies take what, ten minutes? Just do your dailies, it’s not difficult.

All I know is that I don’t plan to link my GW2 account with my Facebook account.
Personal life and gaming life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL3bFupUma8

Super excited! I like the look of the zone quite a lot.
I’m not too into the backslot items, but only because they don’t really fit my characters much. I’m interested to see more about the new armor skins and weapons skins.

I’m just under 6k, will be interesting to see what all I have unlocked. I’m excited!
I wonder if it will be something ridiculously high like 20k for half the stuff, so players have something to “work toward.”

Pennry.9215:

“From now on, you’ll be able to unlock rewards like exclusive new armor skins, weapon skins, and permanent account bonuses as you earn achievement points on your account. You’ll also earn laurels, gems, gold, powerful items, and PvP and WvW rewards as your achievement score grows.”

That reads “unlock system” to me.

Aye.
Really hoping this is the case, I’m indecisive enough trying to figure out which toons to give my one-time use skins to! xD; Thought I wanted a Jade Ticket, but that thing still keeps me up at night out of indecisiveness! Lol

Ronin.5038:

They could’ve just used the Tribal and Stalwart skins instead.
For those that don’t know, these skins are available in pvp but not pve for some unknown reason.

Yeah, I’d kill for the tribal ones.

Katreyn.4218:

Really strange they changed the price on these. Actually not really, cause people would just farm the jp and vendor it. :/ Can’t have nice things these days I swear.

It wouldn’t have been that bad if it was a one loot per toon thing… Or account daily.
Ah well. The puzzle itself was really fun.

That is… ridiculous. What is the point of that unless you’re a shoulderpadless Guardian that uses that set?

Patchhhh
We shall see if it’s in this one. If it’s going to happen at all xD;
EDIT: Nope. Ah well, like I said, it’s decent gold to vend them.

Soulstar.7812:

He didn’t say that, that image is “Overhype Mike” that says everything GW2 fans want to hear, but never does it.

They are not switching the shoulder skins… it took these guys 7 months to give us new armor.

True, but they’ve had individual armor pieces that were new scattered throughout. Southsun shoulders, all the shoulders from Halloween, the back pieces from a ton of stuff… I wouldn’t be surprised.

BaronSolace.6831:

i will laugh if they change the skin for them and you all threw them away. obviously this might be corrected later on since he’s been quoted saying one thing and then giving us something already in game.

tldr bait n switch is against the law.

Yeah, that’s why I’m holding onto them for now. Once it’s been confirmed that they aren’t supposed to be unique skins I’ll vend them. So it’s new skins, or 3.6g across my six toons. I guess I’m okay either way xD

I would have been interesting if they had used them to introduce a new stat spread or something… That was my second thought, but it’s a Cleric spread

Soulstar.7812:

I love how the shoulder pads couldn’t be salvaged, or sold in the Tradepost…

I resorted to selling to a merchant, and I was grateful to do just that and at least get something out of it.

It’s not a huge bummer I guess, but if that’s a direct quote, these aren’t really unique at all when they’re an existing skin. xD;;
I’d be all for it if they were soulbound on acquire and unique. Maybe it’s a bug and they’ll fix it with a patch.

Are the Aetherized Pauldrons supposed to be new skins?
The ones I got from the chest weren’t