Guild Wars 2

Missions being replayable
Hardmode story missions/explorable mode with lvl80 rewards
Ability to invite a bunch of players

I just added a bunch of content to GW2

Good idea, add titles for all those kill achievements and such. I am still waiting for the game that lets you create your own titles that get taken once they are made and cost a hefty price. Then you could have stuff like “The Mad King” and I just think that’s cool.

Even if it made a difference, it’s too much of a performance drop to use a set. I would not want to run with anyone using a set of MF gear. Honestly the way MF was implemented is largely silly… in Diablo 2 you could run a full set of MF gear and still pve like a boss.

Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

Guild Wars 1 didn’t have gear progression past max level…

I wish people stopped comparing GW2 with games like SWTOR, Rift and Aion… Compare it to GW1.

Why would anyone in their right mind compare GW2 to GW1? They are NOTHING alike.

inb4 lore

Yes, they do feel extremely weaker. And I run out of initiative five times faster as well, seeing as how I run a stealth build to make matters 10 times worse, I need to be able to control the fight fully to manage my resources but underwater it’s simply impossible unless I rolled a build specifically for maximum resource management to survive underwater (perma dodge 5 skill hurrdurr) I really don’t get why I have no stealth underwater except for my heal..

Than getting 2 shot by a NORMAL MOB underwater in Orr. I am a thief in full toughness/healing/precision gear, maybe I could use a little more vitality but I highly doubt even 10k more HP would help much, the spin attack those mobs do is pretty much instant, I never die to anything else but these mobs. I never enter water, as if WoW wasn’t any indication, underwater combat should never be done in an MMO. I actually hate underwater more in GW2. It’s just atrocious. Mobs fill every millimeter (in AND out of water)

This brings me to my next rant, GW1 had its fair share of frustration mechanics but nothing tops GW2. I have LOATHED 90% of my story because the AI is so terrible it’s a total joke and they die way too fast. I’m just one thief and basically I’m expected to do all the heavy lifting while dying in a few hits if I don’t play like some MLG pro. I just want to enjoy the game, let me play without testing my mental state 24/7. I just get way too frustrated all the time, if I wanted to play a diffcult game I’d go load up battletoads on my sega genesis. Condition stacking mobs are ridiculous, sometimes I get stun/confusion locked and I don’t have a trillion condition removals.

I understand difficulty is a large part of MMO’s, I was a semi-hardcore raider in WoW for 5+ years. Heroics are my bread and butter, but what I’m talking about is normal gameplay. Boss fights, dungeon mobs, those are what should be difficult. Not some rando commando.

Just let me enjoy something while I relax, kay ANet? Kay. Pretty sure I’ll never enter Orr again, it’s so annoying.

I’m sure this will fall on nothing but deaf ears and trolls, but meh, rant over anyway.
inb4 game is ez, dodge, etc.

Btw, loved the mad king fight.

You mean to tell me… you don’t enjoy paying 3 silver per waypoint then getting rewarded a whopping 1 silver xx copper for a large scale event in orr? BLASPHEMY.

Draco.2806:

Rukia.4802:

What about Battletoads? I cleared that game multiple times, I’m a pro gamer

And a bad liar, apparently. Nice try.

What, is it that hard to believe? Did it on my sega genesis. (I was a kid, much better gamer than I am no lol)

And yea I remember that game coglin lol

Gieb name change pl0x.

Well… I guess you’re right… the game doesn’t talk to people or make friends for you… what a bummer.

Why are you playing an MMORPG if you are too closed in to talk to people? Who cares about the idiots, and btw I don’t have any chat like that on my server.

Make more friends? I meet new awesome people every day. Spent hours in a party with some random in straits of devastation today, needless to say.. another friend on the list. Try being social, idk.

StormageddonBK.9842:

AW Lore.5682:

now why would you play at permadeath self rule beats me, but if thats your wish to play, go ahead and keep playing like that, but personally i have to say, you will not find it enjoyable here.

LOL, I’ve asked myself this during the past couple of heartbreaking deaths and the answer is always ‘this toon is tarnished by death’ and I just can’t continue playing with it. Perhaps the problem is my expectations etc but you know what, Diablo 2 hardcore play was extremely fun for me.

I know where you’re coming from because I played on whcl for years but there is no way in hell you can play “hardcore” in GW2. There are so many instagibs :/ I have been 1 shot before into downed and I run a mix of toughness and vit, fully geared lvl 80

Just think of bugged FELE lister if you remember that in the old days of HC baal runs haha.

What about Battletoads? I cleared that game multiple times, I’m a pro gamer

ANet even specifically stated that they aren’t against farming, they are all for farming. Someone else can find the quote because I am going to bed.. it was a response to one of the QQ threads concerning diminishing returns.

I would fix the still horrible optimization. I should not be getting 10FPS in wvw with a 650 ti

inb4 game is optimized…

3 or 4. I only recently started pveing, taking a massive break from pvp to finally ding 80 and finish my personal story then farm dungeons. I will be rich in no time.

Hey, at least we got human female T3

I keg brawl in real life, and yes it’s awesome.

Owl for life, yo.

Joshmans.8937:

Science is a myth, only god is real, and the spaghetti monster. And Zeus, Odin, Thor, Hades, Hermes, Ra, Osiris, Isis, Heliopolis, Baal, Ba Xian, Dagon, Eos, Maia, etc.

Truth. Lmao

Edit: did your survey, but I think the first question I chose myself as female, thought that was referring to my character but got asked my characters gender later down the survey so meh.. I am male.

Greencactaur.4396:

if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

Lmao I hope you’re trolling

Well, I think age has nothing to do with it. For me I don’t like GW2 for it not really being GW, but it’s either this or getting globalled by warriors/mages/hunters (can’t say GW2 is any better in the pvp department atm) in WoW or playing a dead game (GW1) so I’ll take the lesser of the 3 evils…

Meaning I am playing GW2 but I am not enjoying it half as much as I did GW1, and there are no better games so /sigh

23 here.

Seriously guys don’t get trolled by bubbles… @op, don’t feel bad, I bought every single thing in the GW1 store and that included bonus missions that no one else had access to unless they bought it. I didn’t feel bad for supporting ANet, who at the time was a very respectable company that loved its fans. Anyone else could fork out that cash.

I had 3 accounts in GW1 too.

Still not optimized, still 10 FPS in WvW / large events.

Worth 60 ? Lolno. I got more enjoyment out of modern trollfare 3, at least I could play to the end of the game for 60 bucks then experience online gameplay with perfect FPS.

Never bought such a useless game for 60 dollars, I mean it’s nigh unplayable in some area’s unless I’m willing to spend 3k dollars on a PC. I run an intel 4core with a 650 TI btw.

Disappointment is an understatement, I am raged at ANet. The amount of love I had in GW1 and the amount of hate I have now is just…. sad.

Natas.1306:

Everyone know that you need a 3000$ PC to run gw2 with 30fps o.O

This. And apparently people (ANet included, since nothing has been done) seem to think GW2 is fine and no optimization is needed or will happen in the future which basically means don’t even try playing the game in WvW or large events. Oh, unless you have a thousand dollar video card and same price processor, etc. since this game is unrealistically demanding for the average PC.

I too, can literally run any other game on the market right now in max, in any area, with 45+ FPS I think I’ve only seen a drop to 40 once. In GW2, I get 10 or less in heavy area’s.

What do I gotta do to run this game at a decent FPS, buy a 690 for a thousand dollars? Jesus ANet, you’ve really out done yourselves.

Guess my 650 TI is too low end. Telling me there is nothing to optimize is like slapping me in the face and then spitting in my mouth, then beating me on the head with a baseball bat all while laughing and screaming HOHO,HAHA!

In my opinion, this should be #1 priority, far above balance, content, bugs, etc. because not even being able to do large events or WvW is pretty major…… 10 FPS is unacceptable.

I figure I won’t even log in for the halloween event, I’ll just go to GW1 for that assuming it is still going there. I haven’t really played GW2 in weeks now because the performance is just a joke, can I get a reply on how serious you’re taking this?

I’d like to play some GW2 this year.

It’s not just AMD, optimization is literally non existent for nvidia cards too. I get the same 10-12 FPS in large events, it’s a joke.

Home Style.9640:

This game is broke. It has no linear fps curve. It doesn’t matter how much you try to make the game look as kitteny as possible, your fps will remain constant or change very little. It’s the games fault.

SO much this. Game is nigh unplayable on an nvidia card, doesn’t even matter if it’s high or low end. I get under 10 FPS in large events and WvW, it’s quite sad really. I expected this crap to be fixed after at least a month, what have we gotten? Absolutely ZERO improvements in performance. Just HORRIBLE.

I haven’t even played for more than an hour in over 2 weeks now because not being able to play every aspect of the game sucks because of ANets incompetence with their own engine. I mean really, from GW1 which could play on ultra with zero issues on a computer that could hardly handle D2 to this… woah.

Just another reason why WoW, or any other MMO is better than GW2 right now. Unfortunately I probably won’t even log in for the halloween event.

@sainguine

By the nine, that’s nothing! I have clocked over 900 hours into the game I play 20 hours a day.

Water 1 skill is your (short) ranged for D/D Ele but it does horrible damage and vulnerability sucks, probably the worst skill I’ve ever seen in a game. It could at least add a short chill each hit so you can kite with it or hit multiple mobs.

@Lumines

People play melee classes for a reason, and no, that reason is not to play a ranged character (obviously…..) so I don’t want to be forced to use ranged. I get where OP is coming from, and in other games the reason why people want ranged abilities on their melee is because they’re being kited 24/7 and being a melee sucks 20 times more than being a ranged, just like in GW2. May as well just make everything ranged and get it over with imo.

Legendaries should have had a huge personal quest line and extremely challenging bosses and a story of the legendary weapon kinda like how WoW does it, bar the challenging part of course. RNG is never good, nor is it fun when it is required for something.

ANet didn’t really get this part and just figured legendaries are purely for the grind, when really legendaries are supposed to be… wait for it…. legendary, so is the path to them.

This thread is new and exciting.

Nothing beats T3 female cultural medium armor.

@Lani FF9 reference?

Yes FPS is still absolutely trash on my nvidia card. It’s times like these I wish I just went with AMD zzzzz

If you want to learn about Destiny’s Edge go buy the book either PDF or physical copy it’s cheap as hell and a good read.

Really no one is interested in this? I thought I’d get at least one reply… what a shame here’s to 1 last shot.

Personally, I’d like for ANet to bring back dual professions but with a twist. You take one of two “jobs” I guess you could say. For example, when I role a thief, I could choose to be an Assassin, which uses combo’s like in GW1 with lead off and dual attacks. Or I could choose to train as a Thief which is more stealth and pilfer techniques.

I say this because I hate the playstyle of thief but I loved sins in GW and I’d kill to play one in GW2. I can see it now, leaping mantis sting to cripple then fox fangs and idk, twisting fangs? Ehhh!?!?

You can come up with your own cross profession examples for fun with your favorite class. I really hope something like this could happen in the future, the only downside is having to balance more stuff, which is imo obviously why they didn’t give more customization in the first place.

I will give a little balance for more fun, hell it’s not like the game is anywhere near balanced right now anyways

Thanks for reading.

Eochaidh.4106:

Hunzo.4509:

I feel that every Exotic/rare ect dagger in the game is seriously lacking in size and aesthetic appeal, not being funny but compare the Legendary Dagger to the Legendary Great Sword its just well horrible that so much design has gone into making certain weapons look awesome and worth the effort while others just are not… I mean look at WoW (trust me this is the only time i will ever use WoW as an comparison) There Rogue equivalent of our Theif has endgame or rare daggers now the difference between theirs and ours is this: Theirs are generally substantially large and look awesome or have very nice notable graphical effects, are’s are small have no noticeable effects and often hidden within our armor. Similar to the Armor Issue there is a severe design gap in both terms quality and effort between the weapon sets.

http://pureawesome.net/wow/110916_illidan.jpg

Is this what you’re talking about?

Those aren’t daggers, they’re swords.

I see people with titles all the time in pvp, usually ‘Gladiator’

I never pay attention in pve, but yeah there is no way to target yourself in GW2 yet so you can’t see… annoying

Tengu and Human of course because I played one in GW1 for over 5 years.

I avoid the DR issue by not playing pve

@Cerise, I never even mentioned karma that’s a whole ‘nother matter, and should probably not even be on DR, but I also can’t say I know for sure that there isn’t anything someone could buy with karma that isn’t soulbound which would mean profit for bots.

What I hate is people going afk in a hostile zone and I rez them and they’re naked rofl. Seriously, it takes 1 second to log out. DO IT.

Dhuum was an amazing fight, even if half of the epicness is nostalgia. Pure awesome. The lore was great, he looked cool, fought cool, and if you weren’t prepared or on your A-game he would faceroll the hell out of your entire group without so much as a “LOLUMAD?”

I don’t really consider 1shot mechanics as challenge, I’d like to see a lot less of that and more wear and tear on entire groups. Like, more bosses that spread a ton of conditions or stack retaliation or even more unique mechanics than just boons/cons. That stuff gets boring.. let’s see some uber cool mechanics.

Take WoW raid fights (or even dungeons) as an example, they got some awesome ones. This boring zergfest we have right now isn’t much of a challenge more of an annoyance.

I think it’s good what they’re trying to accomplish, would you rather this be WoW where stacks of elementium ore go from 200g a stack to 16g – 20g a stack due to botters essentially making any farming you do a complete waste? I sure as hell don’t.

DR may be horrible now but in the long run it will be adjusted and you will be thanking ANet for the system later. Jon already stated that they don’t frown on farming, so it will be fixed to where we can farm safely. That’s all I needed to hear.

For too long bots have completely ruined economy, and if I decide to farm something I expect to make a good profit off of it for my time.

It’s great to see someone knows how to play a hammer build, I almost run the same build and weapon setup, the s/shield is an absolute must, running reflect on a burst sb ranger is just hilarious.

Dragonheart music, makes me choke every time hehe.