Guild Wars 2

Out of all my experiences in this game, I have met nothing but friendly awesome players who were willing to be helpful and understanding until just now where I had the sudden realization where all the jerks have been hiding.

All the (Kitten)s are at CoF P1 Speed.

I have a lvl 80 zerk mesmer that I believe I’m fairly competent with and I also believe that I have a fair amount of experience doing the runs. I use the curtains properly, I use the feedback, I do the time warps, so what’s the deal?

Before I did CoF p1 runs, I made sure to ask guild members for instruction and I even watched a lot of YT videos on Mesmer play in CoF P1 speed running to learn absolutely everything I needed to know so I didn’t inconvenience anyone when I started.

I’ve accumulated a fair amount of experience since I first started these runs, but I’m realizing that more than anything, these runs while they do make money, they usually host the most hostile players in this game.

A summary of today’s experience, you ask? After multiple runs today, we tried to despawn and a warrior dragged an imp to my despawn area, killing us both.

I was going to port when they finished the chest figuring they would be able to handle it, but they were taking too long and kept rallying so I figured I would head back and Greatsword the acolytes from the rock at a distance to finish and help.

What do I get? The second they finish after taking so long leaving me waiting for the port, I get this:

“Why are you running back, you (kitten). (Kitten) Stupid (Kitten), now we have no port.” then proceeded to kick me.

Firstly, they were taking a long time to finish. Secondly, I was initially going to port once they finished if they weren’t failing so hard. The most important detail about this is when they finished, I was already hit by a mob and on my way there. Figured that stuff happens, I would be able to make it back in time before they finished the acolyte seeing as they were dropping off a lot.

Another time I got kicked simply by politely asking an engineer in a party before we started if he was going to switch to a zerk warrior for the speed run.

I am in a very sour mood. I have loved GW2 more than any other MMO simply because the community here has been the least hostile community out of any other MMO I’ve played, but seeing the amount of unnecessary aggression and elitism that keeps going on in these runs makes me wish there was no field diminish so I can stay in a field and acquire mats to sell.

TL;DR version: Most CoF p1 people are incredibly impolite, and I have a secret desire now for ANet to nerf this dungeon just to hear all these ignoramus’ whine and complain. Maybe that’s wrong of me to say right now, but I’m really sour at the moment.;

Provide some more information or at least some evidence with details. There simply isn’t enough provided on your end to warrant an investigation. This could simply be hyperbole. Too vague.

I am under the impression that you’re simply having bad luck at the moment. It doesn’t sound like this has been a long term issue you’ve been encountering repeatedly over a considerable amount of time seeing as you haven’t played a lot recently.

You need to provide evidence. Have a more long-term, consistent set of experiences collected before you cry out for awareness.

There is actually more clarity with it in this form, I don’t understand your nitpicking.

Ghettoblade.7962:

How did it get “BUGGED” in the first place?..makes you wonder.

Don’t even.

Remember that at the end of that day, this video game is still a program run by script and code. Anything implemented can have unintended effects towards other areas of the game and it’s very easy for something like this to happen without it being noticed.
All it takes is for one tiny detail in script to trickle down to other areas, IE; A 0 where a 1 should be for example can cause the script to run in a very peculiar manner. Everything can seem fine and look fine, yet something may be amiss.

This is a simple answer; Most Asurans if you haven’t paid attention to little cues in their storylines, they tend to feel as though they are superior in intellect to other races in relation to their role in the Eternal Alchemy.

The Inquest go a step farther however by considering other races inferior to the point of enslaving them for guinea pig experiments.

As far as Asurans are concerned, they’d probably simply alienate an applicant of another race on the premise that said applicant would have inferior intellect.

On a more important note, there is the Political standpoint of the Arcane Council who would probably be vehemently opposed to letting what they would consider a “potential spy” into one of their colleges where they can extract valuable information/technology to use against Asurans in any future conflict.

Tl;dr version: While most Asurans are not racist (Exception being the inquest), they do display Xenophobia and tend to be a little Elitist.

I think it’s a little early in their life cycle for them to make expansions at this point in time.

This is the type of thing I would rather ArenaNet not rush so that it comes out right.

cesmode.4257:

I got 99 problems but a karka ain’t one

If you’re having Southsun problems, I feel bad for you, son.

nowitsawn.1276:

You got some eggs down up ya waist but please don’t shoot up the place

Azure Prower.8701:

Doggie.3184:

I don’t think Karkas understand English. All they know is ball, and good.. and r***.

And

There needs to be a “SOON” rendition of this immediately.

ColinJohanson.2394:

To all the Karka in the place with style and grace.

You sir, your arrival has made my night. Lol.

What’s even better is that I often go about shouting these things on my Asura Mesmer. Her name? Mini Smalls.

Zacchary.6183:

Sabelle.2159:

Throw your claws in the aiyah, if you’s a true playah.

I herd u liek karkips?

Hmm.

Throw your claws in the aiyah, if you’s a true playah.

1. If you can’t see them, I don’t know what you’re looking at. I clearly see healing skills being activated on Asuras. Also, it really isn’t that hard to see their animations, you just need to pay attention.

2. I’ll concede that Asuras may have a little easier of a time hiding, but it’s extremely negligible considering the fact that everyone can utilize an environment to their advantage. I repeat; Anyone can do this, not just Asuras. And before you come out with “It’s easier for Asuras because they’re small”, anyone with moderate PvP experience knows that environmental awareness is a key to being successful. Whether it’s a Norn or an Asura hiding somewhere, learning that X opponent could be there can save your life from ANY opponent; Not just an Asura. This example is absolutely absurd. You have to be aware of everyone regardless. Instead of blaming the ability to conceal, blame your environmental unawareness and actually learn what to look out for. Don’t you think that knowing that Opponent ABC hides at XYZ locations gives you the upper hand to confront them? Exactly. Debunked. Experience > Nitpicking.

3. This is really bollocks. I don’t think that a lot of people look at the small stature and consider Asuras to be underdogs. The worst part about your example is that this argument can be reverse-engineered to work against you. Norns have a considerably larger stature than many other character models. Charr have more vicious, animalistic features. By your logic, wouldn’t that also give a psychological advantage as more intimidating? Does that give them a psychological advantage over Humans and Asuras? Are these really huge advantages anyways? Do you see how disingenuous this is starting to sound?

4. This is simply a matter of learning your opponents by continuous exposure. Once you get enough experience, learning the range to connect simply becomes intuition.

This thread is absurd. Most of these so called “important advantages of an Asura” are simply negligible and can easily be outdone by acquiring the most basic experiences of PvP.

Any strategy you learn from PvP situations in general; Environmental Awareness, Range, Knowledge of Skills and Weapons, they’re all applicable to Asuras as well as everyone else. I’ll say that their small stature does lend them some miniscule tricks here and there, but it’s so unimportant in the grand scheme that you might as well just not even consider it as a serious advantage.

They’re fine the way they are; they don’t need “fixes”. This is simply nitpicking instead of actual things worth concern.

Free Bump.

This issue has been happening to me far too often. It’s way too inconvenient for me at the moment, and it makes this game much harder for me to play than normal. This seriously needs a fix right away.

Krizzirk is a cool name! 9/10. It makes me think of him coming from a different mirror dimension of sorts where he can shatter himself in and out of existence.

My Asura Thief’s name is Mini Little.

Tybalt by far was the most enjoyable NPC interaction I’ve had in this game, or any MMO game for that matter. He kept me laughing with a winning personality, and for the first time in my long journey through MMOs, I was eager to see my adventure with this character straight to the end, but…

phlemhacker.1372:

To me the personality system seems like it is a bit underutilized. At the moment for example, from what I can tell, (and barely tell I can) the personality system only seems to affect the odd NPC dialogue selection when chatting someone up. What I would really love to see is the personality system affect the dialogue in the cut scenes, or even the missions themselves in the personal story. As it stands your character has the same personality in the personal story regardless of whether or not you are Barbaric or Captivating when interacting with NPCs, and that leaves it feeling a bit…disjointed I guess might be the term.

TL;DR: Have the personality system affect the personal story!

Phoenix.7845:

phlemhacker.1372:

To me the personality system seems like it is a bit underutilized.

That is a serious understatement. Personality system has no meaning at all. You can be 100% charismatic and when you use a barbaric otion it will auto succeed. Also you can talk to an npc and select the same option over and over and shape your personality to any one you like. I have a feeling that this system was supposed to look different but release was rushed and there wasn’t enough time to finish it.

Both of these posts are really on point.

I think updates can and should be looked into as far as personality is concerned. I would love to see more variety. Evolving dialogue sounds amazing.

Here’s a picture of my knee-high knee stabber.

I wanted her to look as menacing as possible; Like a little dark imp who sneaks about the night poking the ankles of her foes until they submit all their top secret information.

The thing that kills me about Trahearne is that he overshadows/takes credit for nearly everything I’ve done in the game.

My first playthrough with him on my Thief annoyed me to no end.

Instead of feeling like a Marshall with command and power over my story, I happened to be a lackey advisory to Trahearne.

This wouldn’t have even bothered me if he had brought some compelling awesome moments to the story, but no. He doesn’t do that. He’s about as bland as celery (Insert Sylvari/Celery Comparison joke here). He doesn’t nothing exceptional; As a matter of fact, he does quite the opposite.

He literally fumbles throughout the storyline looking to you for guidance at every single turn, and what does he do? Gets all the credit as the main hero simply because he just so happened to have been given a Leek of Risen Repelling from some Ancient Radish in the grove. It’s bull crap.

And where does that leave me in the Glory? I feel more or less as a second command look-over. Sure, I have my moments where, “Oh, they acknowledge me. Nice” but it’s literally nothing compared to the ego sucking that Trahearne gets on the regular.

I’m not narcissistic saying that it ALL has to be about me, but for fudge’s sake, at least make the protagonist I’m following not a fumbling clueless who just so happens to snatch the headline while I probably get a slight honorable mention in the history book for doing practically everything.

He’s literally a vegetable the entire storyline. (Pun City in this post.)