So… let me get this straight… they are trying to get the millions of PvP’ers that left to come back, the players that didn’t have much gold because PvP never gave gold… they are trying to appease those guys by cutting out the vast majority of specs they can play in a game largely won or lost by playing the right top tier specs…
Holy kitten.
Who said they are trying to get old pvpers back. Pve players make up the bulk of this game
Not sure why everyone is surprised with the way they implemented the healing skills. I’ll be the first to let you know it only gets worse from here
You only had to spend SPs for this, not gold. Also, it unlocked that skill on both PvE and PvP, this has no relation to 10g for amulets.
People who made a lot of alts didn’t easily have access to this. You might not think sp aren’t the same as gold but they can be used to craft items that you can sell for gold
I posted about the downed/ress issue in beta. I had a smaller sized team that would pick away at the bigger zerg but it was meaningless because they get ressed within a few seconds
It’s good to know people with similar amount of games played but with an emphasis on hotjoin are a much higher rank. I can’t wait for the qq fest that will occur about dragon animation being horrible
To be clear: before tomorrow’s patch you should open all of your tournament chests, spend all of your glory, and use all of your PvP crafting materials.
Think X armor doesn’t fit your character’s appearance? Craft it anyways and put it in your locker.
:)
Except there is no way you can use all the PvP materials. Whether you open chests or craft gear, you will have to salvage, thus you will get materials.
Please create a npc to trade them.
That has been asked for since the announcement of glory removal. If there wasn’t an NPC added by now, there won’t be one by tomorrow.
One area that I do have a question about is this: What about former players who are coming back to the game post April 15th. What are you going to do to their items? How would they know they needed to get rid of the game?
I asked this before. What if I played pvp a lot and had 2k chests and a tonne of mats saved up. Then decided to take a long break from gw2 uninstalling and playing another game. I finally decide to come back and open my bank to my surprise all of my pvp chests and mats are gone. Was I hacked or screwed over by the Devs? They treat this game like p2p and expect players to login every week. There were times in gw1 I took a couple months break and didn’t have to worry about missing out on content or losing my loot
1. This is not guild wars 1.
2. If you choose to quit the game, then you made the conscious decision to Quit. That is your problem.
3. Every MMO company wants you to login to their game every day. A lot of the changes recently have been done in that spirit.
Just like the LS if you don’t participate you miss out. Every change in a MMORPG is going to negatively impact someone, the fact is they have a 4 month warning and if you not do something about it in four months you probably wont do it EVER.
The whole point of my argument was the game is b2p which was the same model they used for gw1 and because of this people leave and come back all the time. I know a lot of people personally that login every month or so because they are busy or things come up etc and check the changes which is much easier to do compared to a p2p game
To be clear: before tomorrow’s patch you should open all of your tournament chests, spend all of your glory, and use all of your PvP crafting materials.
Think X armor doesn’t fit your character’s appearance? Craft it anyways and put it in your locker.
:)
Except there is no way you can use all the PvP materials. Whether you open chests or craft gear, you will have to salvage, thus you will get materials.
Please create a npc to trade them.
That has been asked for since the announcement of glory removal. If there wasn’t an NPC added by now, there won’t be one by tomorrow.
One area that I do have a question about is this: What about former players who are coming back to the game post April 15th. What are you going to do to their items? How would they know they needed to get rid of the game?
I asked this before. What if I played pvp a lot and had 2k chests and a tonne of mats saved up. Then decided to take a long break from gw2 uninstalling and playing another game. I finally decide to come back and open my bank to my surprise all of my pvp chests and mats are gone. Was I hacked or screwed over by the Devs? They treat this game like p2p and expect players to login every week. There were times in gw1 I took a couple months break and didn’t have to worry about missing out on content or losing my loot
I miss old Orr. It was brutal and you had to pay attention to your surroundings.
The Orr we have right now is a watered down version already, if it get’s any easier it will feel like a starter zone all over again.
The megaserver thingy will fix the zone for you. All those people on one map will make it doable even if there is no skill involved.
Why does everything that is not doable with just clicking 1, 1 and 1 again gotta be nerfed. When did this mindset, that everything has to be super easy to be enjoyable became the norm in MMOs.
Modern MMO players are spoiled. Look at all these threads over the last year that complain about this game being hard to level in… (lol)
They have no idea how games were in the past, or how they should be.
Your average MMO player knows if they whine enough the content will get nerf. Instead of looking for solutions they rush to the forums to cry nerf
RoRo, talk to the Kodan (the humanoid bear) vendor in the HoTM. He sells salvage kits for 96 copper. They actually removed it later than what they had planned but w/e really.
Yep they told us spend all your glory then they went ahead and removed glory earlier than expected leaving me with 1k tourney chests that are now useless because I can’t buy salvage kits
I believe the biggest issue with GW2 PvP not being eSports material is the lack of replay and observation options.
Take SC2 for instance. When it came out, I immediately bought it and laddered like crazy. It was so much fun, even when I was on the loosing and. And I was often on the loosing end
But I enjoyed the game, because of the numbers of casts in the internet, where I could follow the action with passionate commentators. In GW2 you must be life there to observe the game. There is no option to just load a playback and rewind it as much as you want.
If you want to showcase some tactics, strategies and special situations, you can not simply play back to this point in time. I mean you can, but it takes a considerable amount of editing instead of just going to the point in time in a replay while you are watching the match (like you can in SC2). And this makes it not worth it. Also, I would want a “zoom far away out”-option, so I can check what’s going on from further away. If you’d have a freely movable camera and free playback file, where you can relive the action, then there would be way more option to offer this game to an audience. If you have an audience, you have potential to make it into the eSports scene.
Mounts make zero sense for the gw2 world. We have way points making getting around easy enough. How many times have you seen NPCs riding around on mounts that’s right 0. Mounts don’t fit in the guild wars lore. The amount of development time to add mounts would be huge there is a reason we don’t have capes.
funny how some rank 70+ players conflict each other what they want. those 2 to 4 rank 70+ players screaming that only them should reach rank 80 will get no support besides from them. and those who are thinking of other way they can be compensated have my support instead of this same people who are arguing and conflicting each other. i agree to what marvin, jose, and ostrich have said they need to be compesated more like extra chest and maybe unique titles or finisher. (seriously not all players cares bout how few other have extra cosmetic) but those who says rank 70+ players only one who will reach rank 80 should realize its for the good of many not just few. stop being selfish and greedy
I’m r52 and I agree with the r70+ players. Because you know what? I care about things like “fairness” and “justice”. That could have been me facing the prospect of wasted thousands of hours.
Fairness might be an alien concept to you, but it’s not to most of us.
You’re talking about fairness and justice? Hotjoin heroes like yourself have gained much more rank points than players that solely play tournaments so please spare me with your fairness and justice crap
That´s untrue. We´ve been receiving chests with 1.000 rank points / win every tournament won for more than 6 months. We´ve been getting in solo/team Q much more rank than hot join players.
Yes because pvp didn’t exist before that let’s forget all about that
funny how some rank 70+ players conflict each other what they want. those 2 to 4 rank 70+ players screaming that only them should reach rank 80 will get no support besides from them. and those who are thinking of other way they can be compensated have my support instead of this same people who are arguing and conflicting each other. i agree to what marvin, jose, and ostrich have said they need to be compesated more like extra chest and maybe unique titles or finisher. (seriously not all players cares bout how few other have extra cosmetic) but those who says rank 70+ players only one who will reach rank 80 should realize its for the good of many not just few. stop being selfish and greedy
I’m r52 and I agree with the r70+ players. Because you know what? I care about things like “fairness” and “justice”. That could have been me facing the prospect of wasted thousands of hours.
Fairness might be an alien concept to you, but it’s not to most of us.
You’re talking about fairness and justice? Hotjoin heroes like yourself have gained much more rank points than players that solely play tournaments so please spare me with your fairness and justice crap
_"…for a very small percentage of players, we’d like to congratulate you on becoming Tyria’s first group of dragons"
Hory shet, luckily I am one of the very small percentile who’s gotten Bear! I will accept this great prestige of Dragon rank, lol.
Who had any idea that a small percentage of players equated to 80% of the active pvp population?!?!
I’d love to see the exact number of these -special few-
Where exactly are you getting your numbers just because the pvp population is small and you face the same 15 people it doesn’t mean that the pvp population has that many people above rank 50. You must be off your meds if you think there are more players over rank 50 than under. This rank crap is hilarious if a player is good people in that population will know he’s good(I use that word sparingly because this game has a low skill ceiling) based on his name not some finisher
If you read my posts I change the numbers and % every time because we DON’T know the real data. It was hilarious and sad when we kept hearing grouch day there would be TONS of dragons during the RU and the other devs trying to reel him back in.
I said ACTIVE PvP population. If you’re active in PvP and haven’t hi r50 then that’s pretty pathetic.
Why does it matter if a lot of people have the same pixel? You make it sound like these pixels will make the players better. Like I said if you’re a good player you would make a name for yourself instead if relying on oh I grinded x amount of hours which is silly. Guess that means I’m pathetic with 2k tourney games at rank 47.
_"…for a very small percentage of players, we’d like to congratulate you on becoming Tyria’s first group of dragons"
Hory shet, luckily I am one of the very small percentile who’s gotten Bear! I will accept this great prestige of Dragon rank, lol.
Who had any idea that a small percentage of players equated to 80% of the active pvp population?!?!
I’d love to see the exact number of these -special few-
Where exactly are you getting your numbers just because the pvp population is small and you face the same 15 people it doesn’t mean that the pvp population has that many people above rank 50. You must be off your meds if you think there are more players over rank 50 than under. This rank crap is hilarious if a player is good people in that population will know he’s good(I use that word sparingly because this game has a low skill ceiling) based on his name not some finisher
This is a bad change overall. So what will High Rankers aim for now that they will hit level cap? Even me, I’m just a Tiger ranked nobody but I’ll be boosted to Bear/Shark level after this patch. It feels like cheating.
Whatever happened to playing a game because you enjoy it? Oh I forgot you need your shiny pixels and bragging rights to make you feel special and the endless carrot on a stick or you will get paralyzed from the neck down.
You are putting way too much thought in this. You really think anet will remove pve underwater? That would mean reworking all pve quests that have any underwater involvement. The reason they removed the 1 map with underwater content was classes were very unbalanced. This doesn’t matter in pve because you don’t fight each other but the same scripted mobs
For those of you who have played Wildstar, could you please answer the following questions:
1. What is the PvP like, compared to GWII? Is everyone on the same level with the same gear and skills, and can I level up in it?
2. How does the combat feel, compared to GWII? Is it dynamic, fast-phased and varied?
3. What is the transmutation and dye system like, compared to GWII?
4. What are the quests and dynamic events like, compared to GWII?
5. Can you play any way you want while being properly rewarded, like in GWII?
By that I mean quests, events, PvP, exploration etc.
6. Is there a holy trinity, or is it free of roles like in GWII?
I am very interested in Wildstar but I haven’t been able to dig up much information about it. Guess I haven’t looked in the right places.
1. I’ve only played battlegrounds. pvp was pretty horrible it’s just a huge light show of telegraphs and it doesn’t feel fluid. You have to grind for gear you gain something called prestige for killing opponents and winning matches I think which you use to buy better upgrade. You will have to play pve as a pvper because there are extra ability points/amp points that are unlocked only through elder gems(Elder gems are time gated you can only gain a certain amount per week) atm. You do get xp for killing players in pvp but it doesn’t add up as quickly as pve.
2. Combat for leveling consists mostly of dodging telegraphs then in later levels mobs have a stun then telegraph.
3. They have a costume system where you can imprint the aesthetics of one piece of gear onto your currently equipped.
4. Quests are one of the worst i’ve seen there are barely any memorable characters no depth to the storyline. Quests consist of mainly kill “x” of mobs and loot “x” of objects. At the start the game is makes it out that the exiles and dominion are at odds but you never really see this it’s like they live happily beside each other. A lot of quests are copied and pasted between the factions an entire zone is a mirror image of quests/structures copied and pasted exiles on the western area and eastern dominion
5. You can do pvp to gain xp. Pve has this thing called challenges they are basically kill “x” of quests within a certain timeframe and based on the reward level you achieve it will increase your chance for rolls on the slot machine
6. There are defined roles every class has 2 roles either a combination of tank/dps or healer/dps
Hate to say this but this game will most likely end up going f2p after a few months.
Well i’ve dropped 1500+ hours into this game and im already bored. nothing to do. these living story patches are disappointing and give no motivation to continue playing this game. Where in gw1 i sunk in endless hours. WvW seasons another sorry excuse for actual content to play. Patches they said to release that never did, hence the 2hd double sigil fix, or class fixes that really need it. Whats wrong with this picture?
Guild Wars 2 has devolved into a dress up game. All gear comes from the gem shop which is easily obtainable there is 0 prestige. 80% of the patches are living world zerg train crap, once a year they touch on wvw and pvp/pve dungeons.
Reporting people for afking in open world events seriously? If anet didn’t want people to Afk they would have made this instanced content. Anything goes in these open world events. What’s next reporting low levels or people auto attacking? You guys clearly can’t see this is an issue with open world events
