Guild Wars 2

Writers focused on important characters. This is opportunity to bring life to those “less” important ones.

Well, titles would go to those people that wrote a lot and most of their stories became part of game.

Also, changed topic name, since people told me it sounded to them like a was talking about reviving NPC’s. o.O

I’ll try to make this short.

GW2 was sold in more than 3 500 000 copies. I’ll just guess there are 100-500 players among those who love GW world, are talented for writing, drawing or modeling, have deep knowledge in lore and would like to contribute to it for mere enjoyment. Let’s focus on writers for now.

Social networks contest:

Players are presented with characters. For start let those be less important ones. They are introduced with their background, known facts, basic personality traits and time interval where story should take place. One of them could be that Charr cub we saved so many times in LA event known as “Save Da Children”.

Players then have chance to write about those characters or simply about one of them and post their work on GW2 social network pages such as Facebook and Twitter. Maybe even create events in which those characters participate.

Players are allowed to change elements of story any time during this content until final election.

Selection

First, stories are chosen by players.

Then, those most liked are reviewed by ArenaNet team. If needed, tips for corrections are given (to go better with their vision of global story).

After, big election is made, where winning story is rewarded by becoming part of the game.

More rewards

Players that contributed a lot are given exclusive titles such as: Storyteller, Preacher, Keeper of Legends, Oracle…

Why this?

I think that would give some depth to characters we meet in game. As they come from different authors, diversity among them shall become greater. Players would love them more as they chose them to be like that. Players would feel they matter and have impact on GW2 world. Even unsuccessful stories might give some great ideas. And maybe, if things go great, from those people that are really talented and good at it, in cooperation with Arena Net writers, we would get new amazing content.

Question for ArenaNet:

Is this possible in stated or a little bit <hanged version?

Question for players:

Do you like this idea? Do you think we need something like this? How do you think it would contribute the game?

Sullesa.3052:

There is a group of 5 menders that patrol close to the blue knights spawn. Intercepting and killing them is a top priority. This is not a bug, it is a L2P issue.

Problem is, with all this bugs, we can not know what is bug and what is as intended.

As I’m speaking for two persons, it is We.

Both ingame pictures

Same here. No loot at all.

Would like it more if it was 5 man dungeon reather than this cinematic which i can’t skip.

^agree

I would be happy even with minimal branching and even with same result but done in possible different way. Something like this:

Marjory is unconscious. Braham is hurt. Kasmeer is trying to kill Scarlet while Rox won’t leave Braham. You get to choose.

Option A: Choose to kill scarlet and end it just like in the game. Tiami doesn’t like you so much any more.

Option B: Choose to imprison Scarlet rather then kill her. Rox is ok with that but Kasmeer wants to kill her, and you can choose to let her or confront her. One of the following events takes place.
Option B1: Let her kill Scarlet. Kasmeer and you are ok, but Tiami is sad. And doesn’t like you any more.
Option B2: Confront Kasmeer. You fight her, but let her live. Kasmeer and Marjory are angry at you and don’t like you so much any more. Scarlet is later found dead in her cell due to unexplained events. But you know who to blame.

Option C: Let Scarlet escape so you can find out what is she up to. Rox doesn’t like this and puts an arrow trough her head. None from team B likes you no more, but Tiami is happy. You don’t need those lamers to like you anyways.

I agree to some point. We have mass events with 200 people participating. It should be “You, the heroes” , not “You, the hero”.

Chadster and Dark,

Can we please stay on topic. Strong the censorship in this one is. Hope you understand me, just trying not to get topic locked or deleted before any answer is presented.

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I don’t like them. Any of them. I used to like Marjory but then Kasmeer came along. Now i hate her too.

I really would like that there are more characters involved and we could choose with whom we go. (And for those new characters to be written by someone else from the team, this style really doesn’t suit me at all)

No, they are not my friends. I don’t like them. In fact i hoped Marjory would die. And rest of them would blow up with ship!

Nury.3062:

Do you expect everything to go well the first day,the previous had some patches too…be patient.

Yes. Yes, we do.

This is not Beta.

I don’t care if it is legal way or bannable, I just can’t play like this. As if particle effects aren’t bad enough, now I can’t even see if knight jumped or not. All i see is his hp bar, icon, buffs and condi’s. Such frustration!

And off course we can’t zoom out… Why should they give us that option! -.-

If you are not in a hurry and don’t mind leveling from 400 to 500 for some time, you can actually earn money in progress. Tho it is small amount. Even if buying everything from TP.

And this also happened…

Getting a lot of those today. Helps if i spam refresh, or reenter site name.

Caedmon.6798:

There are mmo’s already available that do have naval “warfare”.I dont really think it has a place in gw though,if i want to play a warfare game ill throw on shogun.

There are a lot of MMO’s out there also, yet we chose to play GW2. When we want to play other games, we do. But, there is a strong lore behind our wish. Ship fights are something well known to the universe of GW. We just want to see it ingame also.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sea_of_Sorrows_

It IS that simple. Maybe not in a way i described, but still simple.

There is a game. MMO game. That has been released in 2009. It has sea ships that float in space (astral) instead in water. And everything on ships is working nicely. PVE on ships is working fine. PVP with ships and on ships if working fine. As it has been done five years ago, it surely can be done today.

Also, modifying ships look offers great opportunities for gem store.

How about we take one part of WvW fortress wall. Reshape it into lower half of a hull. Then add 6 more of those as upper part segments. One more for sails. Now, lower part of the hull can not be repaired, but doesn’t take damage unless two of upper hull segments are destroyed. If lover part is destroyed, ship is destroyed and players are left into water to swim. Upper hull segments take damage from cannons or whatever but are repairable and don’t require supply. But it takes time to fix it and presence of player (working with hammer on it). Now, add wvw wall cannons onto deck. Three on each side. Then add a helm with similar mechanics as siege weapon, go force left on button 1, mild left on 2, straighten on 3, mild right on 4, force right on 5. Try to break on 6 and exit on 0. Controls the lover part of the hull, everything else is attached to it and moves accordingly. Speed of ship is determined with sails. Approach to sail. Press F, then 1 to lover the sail, and 2 to fold. Three sails down, more speed. If no wind, add paddles that require 4 members to move ship. If sail is destroyed it can be fixed but requires wood and linen (evil grin). Cant sail if sails are destroyed, ofc. Paddle to the shores.

And there you go, made in a minute gw2 ship! Well, now. If i can think of this, surely they can think of something even better and easier to implement.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/lore/Sea-fights/first#post3499256

:)

There are over 30 places for Rubble Pile all over Lions Arch where you can dig them up.

Khisanth.2948:

Rod.6581:

Maybe it is just mine opinion, but I would like gear from one dungeon to give mixed stats. So, in stead of having full set of soldier’s gear from AC vendor, you get to buy soldier’s chest piece, berserker’s leggings, shaman’s helm, carrion boots, magi pauldrons and rabid gloves for example, but at a much higher cost than now, so you won’t be able to gear up in a day. So, this way, you are encouraged to do more dungeons, not to farm one over and over again. Also, skins to be available to buy separately from gear and double click to apply.

As for the ascended, ability to replace X of tokens from 5 dungeons + Y of fractal relics for 1 ascended token of specific type.

That sounds more like a scheme to sell more Transmutation Crystals.

Also, skins to be available to buy separately from gear and double click to apply.

Maybe it is just mine opinion, but I would like gear from one dungeon to give mixed stats. So, in stead of having full set of soldier’s gear from AC vendor, you get to buy soldier’s chest piece, berserker’s leggings, shaman’s helm, carrion boots, magi pauldrons and rabid gloves for example, but at a much higher cost than now, so you won’t be able to gear up in a day. So, this way, you are encouraged to do more dungeons, not to farm one over and over again. Also, skins to be available to buy separately from gear and double click to apply.

As for the ascended, ability to replace X of tokens from 5 dungeons + Y of fractal relics for 1 ascended token of specific type.

So, lately, arena net is putting more cartoonish style cinematics and characters in game. There is, of course, Scarlet, we all love and admire, and those two molten bosses with kungfu moves.

How do you feel about this? Do you think this change is great and what we needed, or do you think it would be better game saves more traditional GW(1) style?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AYinw0oAMjo#t=158

@Azarhiel

I agree. This bonus is not a big deal. But the idea of putting something like that is. If this goes without fuss they might add more things to gem shop. And those thing could actually be big deal.

Megamind (instead of Scarlet) leading and invasion to LA, dancing to disco inferno (burn baby, burn).

This NPC is still bugged.

Probably not the best but it looks pretty tough to me

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQNBJhFakzJGu2RACHOggeohgxWYK8DpHhBbsGA-jECBIjERj03g0HAUIQJoFRjtMqIasKbYqXER1SBwmyI-w

And if rewards is only a title? Let it be “Elitist”.

Would that be compelling reward for hc players? And “Nah, I can live with out that” for casual ones?

Wow, 39 :O I stand corrected then.

Hmm, interesting. Must of had some bonuses then…

Ohh. Tnx for answer Flissy.

And to you also Laokoko.

I’m sorry Laokoko, I’ve lost you. What Human healing skill and Norn running are you mentioning?

I would go for Human. Guardian isn’t known for being fast runner. Even tho the speed of all races is same, while rolling Norn, I get visual effect i run slowly then I would with Human.

On the other hand, rolling a Warrior Norn with Warrior’s Sprint seems fairly OK.

Just some interesting facts:
I far as I know, there is a limit of 36 character slot.
And at level 20, you get 1 exp bar per champ. It reduces to 0.7 bar at level 30, i think.

http://gw2.guildex.org/

Rhyse.8179:

10 month old thread?

Ye, 10 months and still no fix…

GW2’s trinity is bugged.

Since I got bored of rolling damage dealing some time today, I’ve decided to go full support on guild missions. It was Southsun Crab Toss guild challenge. (Fend off attacking karka and keep Fraloo’s crab alive inside the circle)

So, I was running along crab carrier providing him with swiftness, protection, aegis, virtue of resolve passive effect, stability, regeneration, healing, shield, while also helping others with might, virtue of justice active effect, line of warding, light combo field and healing. But i wasn’t attacking anything.

So, after successfully completed mission, i got … nothing. I haven’t completed it. Support isn’t rewarded.

I also like to roll hammer warrior and do crowd control. But since most of bosses have very high number of can’t touch me boons on them, CC is useless in boss fights. It’s not like it’s effect is decreased, or there is a chance you might miss that. No. You can’t touch them while they have at least 1 stack.

It makes me sad.

You can not please the world

One man, on his way from town to home, rode a donkey, while his son, boy about ten years old, walked along on foot. A woman met them on the road and said:

- It is not right, brother, for you to ride on a donkey and your child to walk on foot. Your legs are stronger then his.

Then the old man dismounted from the donkey, put his child in the saddle and continued. A bit further, other woman met them and said:

- It is not nice of you, lad, to ride on a donkey while your father walks on foot. Your legs are much younger than his.

After hearing that, both father and son mounted donkey and continued. Third woman met them and said:

- What kind of silliness is this, two old monkey riding a poor, weak animal. Someone should get a stick and beat you both properly.

Then both father and son dismounted donkey and continued on foot. Each from one side of a donkey. Fourth woman met them and said:

- How strange, the three of you, are. Isn’t it enough for two to walk on foot? Would it not be easier for one of you to ride?

Then father said to son:

- Well, both of us rode the donkey. Now is his turn to ride us.

Father and son put donkey on the ground, tied his legs to a pole and started carrying donkey. As women they came across laughed at them and stared, father droped donkey on the ground, untied his legs and yelled:

- I am even more crazy than this donkey, for i am trying to please the whole world! From now on i will do with my monkey as i please. And people can say whatever they want.

After, father mounted the donkey and they continued home, with child walking on foot beside them.

I hope my translation isn’t so bad

psst. Lexandro and Sorudo. I think you’re both on the same side.

First, let me tell you, in all MMO games i have played there has always been someone who i really had to ask “Did you buy that account? How did you get to level <insert level cap here>?” And some of those games didn’t have shortcuts like train in Queensdale. So, that player being level 80 and failing terribly in CoF may have nothing to do with this train.

Everyone in forum is yelling Down with the Queensdale champ train or Nerf champs or other destructive ideas. That is not the way to fix this issue.

Train in starting zone is a great thing. Make it more fun. Add chain events to tell bits of story. Make all those champs somehow connected. Make the whole process possible w/o using way points. Make it so players visit every corner of the map, with stories that tell them about specific place they are in.

Use the people farming champions in starting zone and turn it into something new players would enjoy, be happy to do again and make friends along the way. Let farmers have their reward AND new players enjoy at the same time.

But make it all doable on Queensdale only, let’s say, from 8 AM to 10 AM. Then, make the similar thing from 10 AM to 12 AM in Wayfarer Foothils. From 12 AM to 2 PM in Metrica Province etc. Then Queensdale again.

Integrate and improve, don’t destroy.

Let’s say hard cap is 200. With Mark, there is 201. He took Joe’s place. And Joe is our friend and guild mate. Mark is just someone who happens to be on that overflow w/o any connections to other 200 people.

@maddoctor

So, there is exactly 200 of us and we joined some underpopulated server, and everyone of us got in except for Joe. Now, Joe can not join us ‘cos some local player named Mark is doing some gardening on map to level up his cooking. Joe is is sad. And we don’t want to leave our friend Joe alone. So we try talking to Mark and asking him nicely to leave map so Joe can come and play with us. He can do gardening in overflow. But Mark doesn’t give a potato. He tells us that Tyria is a free world and he can do as he please. Sadly, we are forced to try guesting on another server…. Joe did joined us now, but Samuel and Isabella didn’t…. So after 20 guesting servers we finally decide that it is too late to start anything now and we should try it again tomorrow.

AG completed marionette. Several times now. Thing is, most of us from AG end up in some overflow, and we complete marionette there almost every time. So bunch of us stopped even trying to get to main, and are focusing on joining same overflow…

I like Teofa Tsavo’s idea. Same content. Same boss. Same rewards. Same timer. Only you get to make new overflow, with some system that prevents random people to join.

So we have a raid like structure, with chosen people. (people we like to socialize and talk, and have fun together doing stuff) While random antisocial people can do same content at the same time with same rewards in the open world.

Maybe even add scale system to it. So if 50 people joined “raid” overflow, amber wurm needs to swallow only 5 people. But this is maybe too much to ask.

@ Orepheal

Whatever option they choose, opacity option should be a must. They’ve made quite a mess with particle light.

Sorry for off topic talking here.

Why not both? Instanced raids AND large scale world bosses?

aspirine.6852:

That or they are working on wildstar :/

AoE fields of bosses on platforms… Did you notice that…

http://www.mmo-game.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/09/ws_combat_telegraphs.jpg

http://www.pcgames.de/screenshots/667x375/2012/09/Wildstar_TelegraphSystem.jpg

So, after we have finally found our friends and joined same overflow as them, we are to wait those events (Marionette and Wurm) while doing nothing. And if we all leave map to do something interesting until event starts, we are force to play this hide and seek overflow game again.

I don’t like this hide and seek overflow game. It would be fun to have something (new) to do while waiting. Like that drinking game. Maybe Moto can invent some portable box, that lets us play short 2D mini game while waiting. GW version of console fights? Or Brad-like adventure, or mini car race. I am aware there is a sanctum race available in LA, but technical issues make it not so good solution.

Or just make some (new) events across the map, so we have something to do rather than bore ourselves waiting?