Guild Wars 2

Why not revamp all gear, exotic and above, to have a drop down list for each of the 3 stats?

It could be done in such a way that selecting, for example, precision, in one list would disable this stat from selection in the other 2 lists, so you must always have 3 different stats selected but you decide what stats they are.

This could be a one off option to select your stats when you first obtain the item that locks the stats in via a confirmation dialog. ANet could then sell keys via the gem store to unlock the stat selection to allow you to change your gear stats should you want to do so.

Patu.9827:

Really please fix this.

An option to disable right click targeting.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/An-option-to-disable-right-click-targeting/first

+100

This needed fixing 5 months ago…

150+ replies on this thread only. There are many more threads that are highlighting this same issue and many more threads than those highlighting the symptoms of the problem where the poster does not realise that the right mouse button functionality is the actual cause of the problem.

I can’t understand why this issue is not being addressed. If ANet are happy with the situation and don’t believe this is an issue then please let us know so we can stop wasting our time with these posts and go and play a game that lets you control your character properly.

It appears the big issue with right click (or mouse down) target select/activate/auto-attack has been swept under the rug and ignored in this latest update. Again.

As most of you who’ve posted in this thread will know, this issue is a fundamental character control issue and has been reported in various threads pretty much since the game launched. To say I’m disappointed that it has still not been addressed is an understatement of massive proportions…

I’m gutted!

When you see some of the highly situational and trivial things that have been addressed in this patch you have to wonder what is wrong with the people in charge of this game that something that is so fundamentally flawed in the game’s core control mechanism is ignored.

Does anyone know what time the update will be delivered today and/or when the patch notes will be available?

If this ‘on right mouse down’ feature has been ignored yet again in this latest update I know that I and very many other players are going to be extremely disappointed and also bemused by ArenaNet’s seeming inability to identify, prioritise and fix real problems.

See this thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/An-option-to-disable-right-click-targeting/first

You are not suffering alone!

My PvP build offers high mobility, survivability & enemy kiting (annoyance!) due to lot’s of dodging and crippling as well as pretty decent damage.

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mckMzMMzMmblvMmbTvm0x0GGVkqckcV8khT70V7kGL70V7owY70m

p/d & p/p

A typical encounter might go like…

Dancing Dagger (4) (use 4 ini and cripple. Want to use ini as steal gets it back!)
Steal (F1) (shadowstep to your foe)
Cloak & Dagger (5) (stealth)
Sneak Attack (1 from stealth)
Use whatever you stole (F1)
Shadow Strike (3) (to get distance)
Swap to p/p and then Unload & kite until dead (either them or you)

Dodging (Caltrops and condition removal) and liberal use of the utility skill Withdraw (restores endurance due to traits allowing more dodging) plus Roll for Initiative and Shadowstep all help with the kiting and there’s always ‘Black Powder’ to get you some respite if needed.

Personally, I’d like to see a pistol skill that applies the Weakness condition for a bit of synergy with Unload and prevent the pistol thief’s biggest damage dealer from being dodged so easily.

Changing Body Shot to apply Weakness rather than Vulnerability would be a good move as it’s definitely better to inflict slightly less damage than to have your target dodge everything and take none at all.

I’m dyslexic and thought this topic was about willies

New ‘heavy’ class: The ‘Lard @55’!

Protected by a near impenetrable layer of fat, the Lard @55 uses a leg of mutton as a club and a pie as a shield.

Also has a ‘belch’ knock-back and the ability to roll over multiple enemies in a crushing AoE attack.

Mine would be called Hawk

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080846/

So bad it’s good!

KratosAngel.7289:

They promised many improvements to UI. Maybe it’s part of it.

I’ll keep everything I’ve got that’s ‘crossable’ fully crossed in hope!

Dear ArenaNet,

Any chance of a hint as to whether or not this issue will be fixed in the update scheduled for the 28th?

Yours in hope and anticipation,

RoShamBo.2618 a.k.a. Dave

Plok.5873:

I second the OP’s point. But we’ve got different related problems here, playing together:

• Right-click targeting
• Targeting on mouse down / up (both already discussed)
• Non-sticky targeting: target drops on clicks onto non-targetable stuff

Afaik sticky/nonsticky targeting is the established term for this.
Sticky targeting contrariwise means clicking somewhere into the botany does not drop your target. I feel this option would solve the better part of the issue.

No, it wouldn’t.

The better part of this issue is getting into a battle, moving and picking up a neutral target or three, so you are now battling against several targets instead of the original one. Moving again and you find that now you’re harvesting a node whilst being battered by a horde of hostile targets. You then decide that discretion is the better part of valour and run for it and find that you have now pot-shotted a couple more targets you didn’t want to while running away just to add to your pain……

I don’t often find that I don’t have any target at all but I often find that I’m targetting/activating something I didn’t want to.

Well I was thinking of making a return to the game today after a short sabbatical over the festive period and I was really hoping that Santa had delivered my most wanted Xmas present which is a fix to this incredibly fundamental issue.

Seems I’m still out of luck so I don’t think I’ll bother logging in. I’ll check back in a week or 4 for another look. Or maybe I just won’t bother. Who can tell?

I posted my xpadder profile/setup a while ago in this thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Joystick/first#post731338

It works very well for me. The only thing that sucks with the gamepad is targeting AOE spells.

Sounds OK to me, assuming that they can fix targeting first, particularly the game breaking right click targeting issue. That’s the issue that constantly causes you to lose your targets while moving (using mouse to move) and to start harvesting nodes or targeting critters in the middle of a fight…

I’ve had enough of this targeting fiasco for now. I’m going to take a break from GW2 until after Christmas methinks. Hopefully when I do log back in something may have been done to fix this. And maybe Scotland will qualify for the World Cup too….

I suppose it’s a good thing that I know I can take a break without that feeling that I’m paying a sub fee and getting nothing for it, nor am I worried that I might fall behind in the gear grind

It would be nice if certain sigils did change the way the weapon looked after application.

The thing is that there is such a large number of sigils around that coming up with an effect for each one might be a bit too much to ask.

Maybe if sigils could be grouped according to function and an aesthetic weapon effect could then be associated with each grouping?

I’m not sure that this is a ‘bug’ as such, more of an extremely unwelcome ‘feature’. I don’t think I’ve ever played another game where the mouse left click functionality was doubled up onto the right click also. It is counter intuitive based on all my (and apparently pretty much everyone else’s) previous gaming experience.

It’s seriously pissing me off and it is spoiling my overall enjoyment of this game.

Obviously XP after 80 isn’t ‘really’ wasted, you’re earning skill points with it which is a valuable currency for high end crafting/legendaries.

I really don’t think we want ‘hardcore’ in this game as I’d suspect a very large percentage of the player base is under 18

Stockpile your karma jugs until you have kittenload of them then wait until your guild has a 15% karma buff up and then pop a 50% karma booster.

Now glug down the gallons of karma from those jugs!

Of all the things that need fixing in this game, this needs to be one of the first.

One of the major design concepts of GW2 was that tank, dps and healer ‘classes’ would no longer exist. If you don’t like this idea then go back to WoW (or whatever) but stop trying to turn this game into yet another WoW type MMO!

I currently have around 260k karma (mostly from religiously completing the daily achievement, stacking up the karma jugs and then consuming with boosters).

In the last 3 weeks or so since hitting 80 I have not yet been able to purchase a single piece of armor from the Orr temple vendors. It just seems that no one is doing the temple events any more.

I’d like to see this gear made available for purchase somewhere more accessible.

This whole thing, free trial weekend and new event/content, has been a complete disaster. Far from encouraging new players to sign up via the trial you will have scared them off completely.

If the company I work for ever released such a shoddy, untested pile of crap to a customer then heads would roll. There would be serious implications with regards to future business due to the damage to our reputation this debacle would have resulted in.

runeblade.7514:

when I see that they are wearing MF gear

I guess this must be a noobish question but how can you SEE that someone is wearing ‘Magic Find’ gear?

Seems other players have experienced a rollback too. I just got logged back in and I see I’ve gone from 1075 to 915 achievement points! I’ve been over the 1000 mark for the last 3 or 4 days???

Shinky.1492:

wtf just happened?!?!? a patch happened!!!

>.> log out again, the patcher will start

Let me spell it out for you. This happened to me before the patch delivery notification. I tried to travel from Frostgorge to the mists. The game bugged out and lost connection. I got back in to the game and had clearly lost progress then I got kicked out as the patch was incoming.

Rukia.4802:

I highly doubt you experienced a rollback, but when server restarts events do too, so you will have to restart the event even if it was mid-way, that should be common knowledge the game can’t save the progress of every single event during a restart.

I’m not kidding about what happened. My daily was near complete and then all of a sudden it wasn’t. I can’t get back in right now but I hope things have been restored once I do.

Alex Sanchez.6792:

useless thread. There’s dozens of others you should’ve read and commented on instead of starting a new one.

Oh really? Thanks for your useless post. There’s far more constructive things you could have done with your time.

Has anyone else just had the game bug out, find themselves unable to log in for 5 minutes or so, then when you did get back in found that you’d lost the last 2 hours of gameplay? By that I mean events completed gone down from 5 to 1, kill variety from 12 back to 3 etc. etc. Not to mention about 60 silver lost too. And then I get kicked out again because a new build is incoming…

Nurvus.2891:

I respect the concept of multiple guilds for a simple reason.
Say you’re part of a pve guild.
What’s so wrong about also wanting to do guild pvp?
Being in multiple guilds fixes that.

My suggestion makes it so that you must actually contribute to whatever bonuses you want to benefit from, wich means the “guild hopping exploit” actually becomes IMPOSSIBLE with my suggestion.

Removing the ability to be part of multiple guilds actually doesn’t change anything regarding “guild hopping exploit”, because, well, you can still change guilds…

So I don’t understand what relevance that example has to this suggestion.

Find a guild that does everything you want to do. If you can’t find one then create one. If people are only ever in one guild at a time then life is simpler and it rids us of all the unnecessary ‘complication’ discussed above.

I’m sorry you didn’t understand my reference to guild hopping exploiters. In this game, this type of player doesn’t even have to leave his current guild to join another. He just joins it. He just checks through his current set of guilds to see what bonuses are on offer that benefit what he wants to do on that particular day when everyone understands that he has likely contributed very little to that guild.

I understand that what you are suggesting is intended to offset this, but what I’m saying is I think this whole ‘multi guild’ concept is flawed from the ground up. Anything that adds unneccessary complexity to any system or methodology is flawed. That applies as much to the community in this game as it does to local government or business organisational structure. The fact that ways to offset issues of ‘unfairness’ that are a direct consequence of this concept are being discussed in this thread is proof of that. All in my humble opinion of course

I just think the whole concept of being a member of multiple guilds is flawed.

It almost legitimises the typical guild hopping exploiter type players I saw so many of in another MMO. The type who joins a guild to make some sort of quick gain and then is off to the next guild before you know it.

I haven’t seen a key drop in weeks. I just flogged 34 chests on the TP for the equivalent of a packet of Quavers and a bottle of Irn Bru.

Good stuff guys, I like the sound of these ideas. They are adding something extra and raising the skill cap and resource management a bit too.

The judicious use of a sprint or parry could be the difference between victory or death!

As mentioned earlier, here is my GW2 profile for xpadder.

I’ve had to add a .txt extension to the profile file itself in order to attach it. Obviously you need to remove the .txt before use!

xpadder works well. I have a pretty decent profile I created that works well for me. I’ll attach it to a post in this thread when I get home from work. It basically uses the left and right triggers as ‘Shift’ keys to cater for all the keys you need in combat.

The only thing it can’t really deal with well is targetting AOE skills but I understand that some of those skills can be automatically aimed at your current target (indicated with a crosshair on the skill icon).

You dodge in the direction you are moving with the default being backwards from the way you are facing if you are stationary. IMHO this is perfect and does not need fixing at all.

First in a potentially legendary thread!

ReverantSpark.7309:

~looks at RoShamBo’s post with a blank expression… then shakes my head and goes back to playing halo 4~

I understand your reaction. You were simply in awe of my legendary ‘Flamespike’ dagger!!

:)

I is the best drawer in my class so gimme a job ANet!!

MithranArkanere.8957:

RoShamBo.2618:

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I meant my thread. I believe I was the first one in these forums who made a thread to complain about right click targeting and activation.

I was just trying to emphasise your point about nobody seeming to notice by saying how can anyone (who doesn’t use keyboard turning) NOT notice such a basic flaw in the game design.

It really is the single most infuriating ‘feature’ in the game right now for me at least. I love playing thief with dual pistols and literally running rings round my target with improved run speed (signet) and lots of dodging (enhanced through traits). I know it’s not the most effective style but I just love the play style. Losing my target or picking up a stray moa really, really annoys me.

Jrunyon.3012:

But then you add another set of whatever armor you had back into the economy, causing the prices of that armor to lower. I think the transmutation system acts a gold sink and I dont mind it.

Transmutation of an unbound item binds the item to you I believe.

This thread is like the big brother of the main issue that’s been bugging me since day 1.

That issue is the right mousedown target/attack that sees you shooting at anything you happen to run within range of, has you stopping in mid battle to harvest a node and you get your kitten kicked or has you lose your target completely and waste time and resources shooting at nothing.

This issue is FUNDAMENTAL to being able to play this game properly and needs attention from the devs as a priority. Give us a game where the basics actually work properly before you fine tune it and give it a fancy paint job.

Thumbs up from me although I’m sure someone who’s already obtained their ‘ledge’ weapon the ‘hard way’ will be along soon to rain on your parade.

BrunoBRS.5178:

how would you “progress” towards a legendary with achievement points?

That’s ‘TheUndefined’ component to this puzzle!

MithranArkanere.8957:

But no one noticed it.

I notice it every time I run past some mob and inadvertently shoot it because I just happened to be panning the camera with right mouse button down.

I notice it every time when I stop to gather some herbs or mine some ore when I’m in the middle of a fight and start to get owned because I just happened to be panning the camera with right mouse button down.

I notice it every time when I suddenly find myself shooting at a neutral moa when a millisecond previous I was unloading on a Jotun because I just happened to be panning the camera with right mouse button down.

I notice it every time when I lose my target completely and see myself unloading 5 initiative into the air for giggles because I just happened to be panning the camera with right mouse button down.