Guild Wars 2

I personally enjoy the 10 fps I get in WvW / meta events. Not.

You can post GW2 videos to youtube, you just can’t make money off of them. I highly doubt youtube is going to force you to accept money from them lol. It sucks, but you are safe to post vids on youtube so don’t worry.

Reminds me of the dreadful Realm Down system Blizz put into D2.

Bots ruining fun, as always.

Balance. and Umadlol.

Reihert.1509:

Because game is out for one month and you should have everything ASAP….

WoW ruinned people. I blame WotlK for that.

Wotlk was awesome though, Cata is a better example imo. People weren’t facerolling the main boss of the expansion and getting raid geared in a couple days during Wotlk, that I remember anyway. You can literally afk in raid finder and watch a movie lol.

I think the stat’s need to be removed on cultural armor. They make people think that it’s supposed to be end game gear to actually wear when it’s not. They are purely for transmuting, unless you can actually afford them at the appropriate levels and even then they will get replaced quite fast.

Remove 1hit mechanics and I’ll consider this game a gem.

I’m talking both pve and pvp. I’m looking at you, backstab thieves critting for near 20k (me included) and stupid bosses that are all like loludeadbromeleesuckswhynoinfinitedodge???

Agree’d. I actually have to build towards my 3 or 5 on daggers to even make use of them. I would very much like to change those out for skills I’d actually use, for example I don’t use death blossom on a backstab build with no +condition damage and I don’t use 5 on a condition build because I don’t have crit or use stealth. I want to use ALL of my skills, and not waste initiative in the process for some mediocre damage.

I’ve built a hybrid condition/crit thief because I like using all of my skills, but it would be nice to change them out so I could use different builds and still use those 3 and 5. It’s pretty boring as-is.

GW2 hasn’t been worked on for millions of years, more like 5.

Rpgtabbycat.5869:

People complain about lack of endgame and then people complain you have to grind too much to get endgame rewards. That seems rather contradictory to me.

I’ve come to the conclusion that some people just like to complain. Instead of listening to them, just continue to play the game and have fun like you are now.

Welcome to any MMO forum that has or will ever exist. People will cry about anything, and grind has turned into “lol everything is just a grind including logging in..”

Thanks to the ingenious idea that ANet had making all names global I resorted to using “hot human pixels” because idgaf what my name is if I can’t have the ones I want. It’s nothing special.

My next character will probably be something along the lines of Arthasdkqt Deathface

Leveling a melee wasn’t a waste of time, but fighting a boss in melee range is. People will just tell you to go range and no class has a specific melee or range roll, but the truth is melee is horribly bad for any type of pve content except for normal enemies and some faceroll elites. Enjoy getting one shot, or go range. Or be a thief where you can dodge constantly and get an entire 7 seconds of melee time in on the boss (then back to range)

Jestunhi.7429:

What useful and detailed feedback.

“class balance is so bad i can’t even descripe it”? With feedback of that quality how can they fail to improve things?!

:)

“I can’t even descripe it” = my new saying.

lilz shorty.1879:

Rukia.4802:

lilz shorty.1879:

One of the happiest days and announcements of my life. Not only has GW2 finally come out, but now I can use it on my 5800$ mac without booting into bootcamp. You guys really have thought of everything. Using a

Specs:
17inch early 2011 macbook pro
2.3 GHZ intel core i7
8 GB of Memory 1333 MHZ DDR3
(Solid State Drive aka flash memory)
AMD radeon 6750

Thanks Anet.

I hope that price is a joke….

no joke lol all my 17inch macs have cost that much. My mom just hits the highest spec for each part at the time. Whichever is the higher number she clicks lol.

That is insane man. The PC I could build with that money… lmao, /drool

1. Balanced pvp with no gear (stat) treadmill
2. Good looking characters & gear (art)
3. Good community (not WoW tradechat)

lilz shorty.1879:

One of the happiest days and announcements of my life. Not only has GW2 finally come out, but now I can use it on my 5800$ mac without booting into bootcamp. You guys really have thought of everything. Using a

Specs:
17inch early 2011 macbook pro
2.3 GHZ intel core i7
8 GB of Memory 1333 MHZ DDR3
(Solid State Drive aka flash memory)
AMD radeon 6750

Thanks Anet.

I hope that price is a joke….

Mac is horrible for gaming, imo this is a step backwards. To each his own, though.

I would like if people just built their own PC for 700 bucks that will last them years of great gaming instead of paying for an overpriced Mac with mediocre performance.

And hell, if you forked out the 1-2 grand that those macbook pro’s cost you could get an uber PC that runs anything in ultra with sli and everything but people just love throwing money at Apple.. what a waste. :/

Premixed.4567:

Most “open-world” PvP has always been about people with power issues. The ones who actively seek out lower leveled players, or other situations where the other player has no chance, or you’re just pushing people off of things are there to get their kicks and feel better about themselves. They dont value honor or things like overall wins. they want that personal moment where they feel powerful for being able to affect other people.

That said, having a jumping puzzle in a designated pvp zone is a very silly idea unless it gives pvp rewards.

Pretty much this, think of a WoW pvp server. That’s what WvW is. Horrible, imo. I don’t think there should be any pve in pvp zones like puzzles or mobs except for NPCs in your base. Just virgins on a power trip, don’t bother trying to do the puzzle, or get a bunch of people together and try and do it.

muthax.4720:

Rukia.4802:

muthax.4720:

Rukia.4802:

muthax.4720:

Rukia.4802:

Clearly the fact that I’ve been able to survive at least 2, maybe 3 hits before dying in other games has made me incredibly bias in Guild Wars 2. Yes.

I like your signature. Have you actually tried moving, evading, switching weapons, porting in and out? You know, playing your class properly. As I thief, if I don’t do those things, I get 2 shotted. That’s why when I am tired I play a guardian…..

Because clearly I’m referring to regular mobs.

I am talking about champions and WvWvW
Your point again? If you don’t move and you stay toe to toe with a Champ, you gonna get obliterated. What’s wrong with that?

And I’m talking 1 shot mechanics, for example dungeon mobs/bosses. And some champions have the same. 1 shot kills shouldn’t exist, it’s poor design. 2 shots sure, because you have a chance of surviving and can heal up, giving you that chance to dodge the next hit etc. 1 shot is just hilariously lazy design.

All the mobs that I saw one-shotting sort of gave enough warning to try to evade (and all the times I got smashed I wasn’t paying enough attention). People really have to learn how to play this game (including me of course)

I don’t disagree with you, I can obviously run a boss multiple times and learn his skill queue’s but are you saying 1 shot mechanics are ok? Because I disagree, and think they are lazy horrible design. I simply don’t find it fun when I go down in 1 hit.

Your post isn’t very relevant when you assume I’m not moving and using my skills… just silly. I faceroll most content, fact is a lot of bosses and mobs are incredibly overtuned and kill me in 1 hit. I’ve done pure vit and toughness builds on thief, they don’t scale well with medium armor clearly.. because I still get 1 shot.

A thief has to depend on evades, and they aren’t unlimited. That 1 second where I’m not evading is literally the 1 second where I die instantly, vs almost any boss. It’s silly.

muthax.4720:

Rukia.4802:

muthax.4720:

Rukia.4802:

Clearly the fact that I’ve been able to survive at least 2, maybe 3 hits before dying in other games has made me incredibly bias in Guild Wars 2. Yes.

I like your signature. Have you actually tried moving, evading, switching weapons, porting in and out? You know, playing your class properly. As I thief, if I don’t do those things, I get 2 shotted. That’s why when I am tired I play a guardian…..

Because clearly I’m referring to regular mobs.

I am talking about champions and WvWvW
Your point again? If you don’t move and you stay toe to toe with a Champ, you gonna get obliterated. What’s wrong with that?

And I’m talking 1 shot mechanics, for example dungeon mobs/bosses. And some champions have the same. 1 shot kills shouldn’t exist, it’s poor design. 2 shots sure, because you have a chance of surviving and can heal up, giving you that chance to dodge the next hit etc. 1 shot is just hilariously lazy design.

Red Falcon.8257:

I’ve been an Anet customer and player for 7 years, and loving GW2 so this doesn’t come from you average QQ nublet who died in DoA, I facerolled DoA with all kinds of setups.

Colin is missing a point here.

In DoA there was no mob that could one shot you, not even Aatxes in UW for that matter.
In GW2, some mobs and bosses are one-shotting a full defense Guardian with Protection up.

If that is intended fine, we’ll use some gimmick to overcome a cheap, poorly designed difficulty, but it’s clear that instagib is not good design.

Hit the nail on the head here. This is what I’m trying to say in every one of my posts. 1 shots are not fun, they are lazy, horrible design.

muthax.4720:

Rukia.4802:

Clearly the fact that I’ve been able to survive at least 2, maybe 3 hits before dying in other games has made me incredibly bias in Guild Wars 2. Yes.

I like your signature. Have you actually tried moving, evading, switching weapons, porting in and out? You know, playing your class properly. As I thief, if I don’t do those things, I get 2 shotted. That’s why when I am tired I play a guardian…..

Because clearly I’m referring to regular mobs.

Clearly the fact that I’ve been able to survive at least 2, maybe 3 hits before dying in other games has made me incredibly bias in Guild Wars 2. Yes.

^You’re a warrior, nuff said.

All I care about is them doing away with the 1 shots. If the damage is avoidable and noticeable then I don’t mind. There is obviously a bias, every fight favors range, I can prove this by going shortbow and never dying or running out of initiative as opposed to going melee and being completely screwed once I inevitably run out of initiative and cooldowns (in like.. 6 seconds), being FORCED to retreat and go range. This is MY problem. I can play my way, huh ANet?

Suuure, looks to me like every class is forced to go range or die repeatedly. I’m sorry if I roll a thief to play melee, this has nothing to do with trinity or being bad, I simply enjoy playing melee in any game I’ve ever played. If I wanted range, I’d roll a ranger. I like that you have both melee and range there for when you want it, but it shouldn’t be forced like this.

That said, it’s not like I am staying melee obviously or I would be dying 24/7, I have adapted, but it’s a lot less fun. And I seem to remember Colin writing and entire article on “is it fun”…. no, it’s not fun being forced to play a certain way. It’s also not fun dying in 1 hit, get this through your thick skulls ANet please.

Yesterday I was in Diessa Plateau and I had seen the event where some separationist elite NPCs attack a charr base but I finally caught where it began. There are 4 or 5 separationists running to the camp, from a reasonable distance (from one of the separatist camps I think) and the leader tells you they are on their way to make a peace treaty with the charr. When they arrive with a box of goods for the charr as a token of peace the charr destroy the box instead and that’s when the fight begins.

You really need to pay attention to get the full scope on how stuff happens and why. There is story, you just need to look for it. The world is alive, this isn’t WoW. I only found this because I decided I would follow the NPCs to see if they would do anything significant.

In the past year I haven’t played any MMO’s. Mostly just single player RPGs.

But my MMO history is as follows.. GW1 & WoW (started around the same time) from 2006-2012, but I quit warcraft when Cataclysm hit that expansion made me die a little inside. And since I had done everything in GW1 I was just waiting for this game… bored as hell. WiK and WoC content kept me alive though but didn’t last very long at all.

I was smart enough to dismiss all other horrible MMO’s that have come out recently as obvious WoW clones that brought nothing new to the table.

It’s a tactic, I would rather not get cheesed by your “lolinterrupt” and waste 3 more seconds of my time but instead go stealth and kill you. You’re gonna die either way.

Not an exploit.

Only materials. Things like insignia’s and hafts, blades, etc. that are required for discovery will still need to be placed in your bag. Not a big deal, just open your bank and take all your sigs out which can be accessed from any crafting table.

If you put it in the trading post he could buy it there. TP can be accessed from anywhere.

Altair.7560:

Tengu look like formidable guys on a field. They know how to fight, and have some sort of communication and language.

What I definitely do not see as a playable race are the Quaggan. Sorry, I honestly think those fellas are a few apples short of an apple pie. All they do is sit around in their underwater dens and say “oooo”. I don’t think they can run, let alone run fast, out on the field.

I guess you haven’t seen a Quaggan transform yet. They have anger issues.

Personally I’ve wanted Tengu since GW factions and was disappointed they weren’t playable on release…. definitely rolling a Tengu thief as soon as possible.

I guess all these people complaining about gold spam are new to MMO games. They are inevitable, can never be completely defeated, and aren’t going anywhere. Report and move on, or better yet don’t sit in LA and stare at chat I mean really…

Under 9000 I know that for sure.

Water Ele 12345

DusK.3849:

Cromx.3941:

LOL no one said they lack the reflexes…but I am sure you have been one shotted.

I have been one shotted. And every time I have, I know it was my own fault for not getting out of the way. See, unlike you, I’m not going to complain about the game whenever I screw up.

what if I told you..

Energy in GW1 was amazing, but mana like in WoW is horrible.

Like you said in GW1 you had to manage energy both by choosing what to cast and when to cast it however in WoW I can burn all my mana and just evocate on my mage lolskillbro which basically makes mana a useless mechanic, but I’d love to see energy again.

Apparently ArenaNet just loooooooves instakilling their players. No, I’m serious.

Cromx.3941:

I agree one shotting is a weak weak cop out. It makes toughness and vitality pointless. If you get one shotted regardless why bother? When one shotting is excessive or happens at all imo it shows a real lack of creativity from the Dev team for dungeon content.

No one likes to be one shotted. And a toughness/vitality toon should not get one shotted the same as a glass cannon build.

Can’t stress this enough. I can’t believe people are actually defending these horrible, horrible mechanics lol. All of my wut.

I agree with a lot of what you say, but ANet pretty much abandoned anything that was really Guild Wars with GW2. It’s more like WoW2.0, if you want GW play GW1 because there isn’t any of it here.

That said, I don’t think this is as bad as you make it out to be. Yes, it’s unfortunate and I am bothered by it too. But it’s still got some awesome pvp, at least…. I can’t be bothered to pve much from all the 1 shot deaths to bosses that annoy the crap out of me.

Great graphics, classical ANet style art, and generally a game I can see myself getting used to, I didn’t jump in GW1 at the start either. In fact it felt really really weird at first and took me almost 2 years to get into GW1 seriously. But after I jumped in, I played for 5 years straight.

I understand where you’re coming from, and I feel ya, but this is what we got. A decent, dumbed down MMO.

Seriously lol, the prices are simply a joke at their respectful level requirements. Who the hell has 9k karma at lvl 35 or whatever requirement for the weapon you’re viewing. No matter which, the prices are insane. These should have a huge stat advantage for at the very least, 20 levels to be worth all they cost.

Excellent idea.

This is really unfortunate, it scares me to think ANet is making decisions based on the communities crying, I’d bet that most people here have no idea what they’re talking about in terms of balance. I really hope they know what they’re doing…. but making horrible design decisions because of community outcries isn’t new (see:Blizzard)

Algreg.3629:

funny, we had quite some people claiming that with the new game concept melee was impossible in pvp (which I considered wrong)

I think you’re confused, no one ever said melee was impossible in pvp, that is just silly.

zogrim.6925:

As a GW1 veteran do you remember what GW1 looked like when it first came out?

Yes, amazing. Or are you talking alpha?

They are pretty ridiculous, especially when running into mobs that keep 1 shotting you it actually made me skip a lot of events because I didn’t want to keep wasting money.

Until GW2 gets better footing, I already am playing another MMO. ANet took a step in the right direction but it needs so much polish and balance.

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

Sorry, what does “Zerg” mean?

Could you give some examples of how to make things more challenging?

Running with a big group of players watching mobs hit the ground before you even have a chance to swing at them. It’s not my job to make the game more challenging, but I’d say lower the success rate and scale DE’s better, and I don’t mean more 1 shot mechanics on mobs, I mean more health, smarter AI, more problematic NPCs like the monks that heal in AC.

@OP I couldn’t agree more.

DirtyHoudini.2917:

One shot mechanic is completely ridiculous. It reminds me of D3 where they stated it was a challenging experience, but 1 shot =/= challenging. Challenging is actually taking the time to develop some strategies on the AI’s part and having to figure out the strategies and counter them, or mechanics.

I repeat. 1 shots are completely and utterly ridiculous, can’t believe it’s in the game.

Exactly, a better way would be to reduce you to 70 or 50% health so you think “oh crap maybe I should look out for that animation next time, that hurt!” Instead of “umm… how did I die?.. that was lame.” I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Obvious llort is obvious.

Indeed, I can sit back and spam AoE on shortbow never running out of initiative and staying alive the entire time, melee is a joke in comparison, only reason I didn’t even bother bringing it up in my thread. It’s so obvious that everything favors range.