Guild Wars 2

Believe it or not, actually yes. When they released the SW i thought this would get better. But no, once again they have shown us that underpaid and overworked devs cant do anything right.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Guess people were getting the achievements from last patch too fast. Anything to keep us in the new zone longer . . . I guess.

Yep, their way to artificicaly encance the playtime. Dont add new content, add RNG based drop for achievments. Great idea…..
People like me who are cursed by the RNG god wont see any of these items in years.
Me for example had over 300 Tequatl runs and only got 1 skin recently. With this luck I have to kill those ugly kittens several thousand times until I get the items.
Is this what you highly praised???? More RNG instead of some really good content?

I thought that you were recovering from your failing spree, but I was wrong. The last episode of the LS with the new zone was obviously a pleasant surprise, nothing more. From now on its probably going down really fast again.

She either got corrupted by Modremorth or by the Nightmare Court. And yes we should given more options how to move forward instead of just clicking away the text.
I didnt wanted her on the mission from begin because she clearly acted suspicious. She didnt really help in combat, was sneaking around and at the boss fight she just stood there doing nothing.
Hell, why didnt they gave us an option to put a bullet or a load of pellets into her head before she could escape?

If you dont like stacking then open a LFG for a “normal” run without it. But if they really make the bosses harder so they have to be played like “intended” you are basically crippling the game more than it already is. You are forcing people to kill the boss in 1 particular way instead of several different ones.
Currently stacking is the fastest way to kill something. Lets be honest, imagine you dont have much time but there is giant pile of wood which needs to be turned into firewood. You have the choice between an ordinary axe and a electric cutter. You would probably pick the electric cutter because its effective and less exhausting.

Tachenon.5270:

Well, shucks, you guys, why didn’t we just waypoint out of there? We got these wonderful waypoint things that are so great we don’t mounts — so why would we need choppers? Or ships at sea. Or anything else! It’s silly.

Also: we’ve got super laser beam thingees that can slice chunks off elder dragons — and choppers and submarines. How do they communicate in the field (or at sea)?

How come nobody has invented a radio?

Because its too simply, in their eyes real heros dont need radios in their vehicles. They will organize with colored flags, just like the first french tanks.

Rather food scandal incoming. I already see the unlucky people, who ate of his food lying ,in the streets of LA and vomiting their own internal organs. And then its our task to stop this manic before he contaminates the whole water supply system of Tyria.

Design flaws and budget cuts are a bad mix. Portable communication devices are obviously extremly expensive in the world of Tyria (until now, just waiting for Nornkia to kick in with their new mobile devices) and Im pretty sure the pact choppers dont have radio systems on board too. And transporting large amount of cargo is expensive and needs a lot of energy so mostly its cheaper to send a caravan. Also waypointing is not healthy for you since you are exposed to radiation everytime you port.
Also think about this: If you use a waypoint in a enemy territory you are making yourself an easy target, the enemy just needs to aim for the WP to get some kills.

Shadow of Azrael.1205:

Geralt of Rivia

Awesome, nice cosplay there

Here are my human warrior, ranger and my Norn warrior on my 2. account

Maybe a attempt to make things more realistic? I mean if you are lying on the ground bleeding from large cut in your throat the least thing you worry about is not hearing what people around you are saying.

Positive ones: GW2 after release and the first months. Wow, such a beautiful world and made with so much love and creativity. The devs really planned the whole thing trough.
The first Halloween, Christmas Event, SAB and the start of the LS. It was just so amazing how much and how good they made them of the things they had.
And the Karka Event was one of the few which made the time you invested into the LS worth by giving you a high chance for a precursor.

Negative ones: After Scarlet popped up things went downhill. LS Season 1, large parts of Season 2, Megaservers in Citys, NPE, Gemgate. These were just a few things which made me say: Wow, what the hell guys. You just managed to rewrite the definition of abysmal.

In your dreams maybe OP. Realistic seen the only people that are still there are the ones who tries to kill the legendaries and even that are only few people.

NPE was completely unnecessary in the first place and a waste of precious ressources. Instead they could have fixed some of the countless bugs which are still haunting this game, but noooo. They had to screw something up which worked perfectly fine.

dace.8019:

Freddie knows how.

Also many gases are harmful on contact.

Either that or they simply penetrate the maskfilters.

Afya.5842:

Kiel has to resign. This is now corruption. She probably packed all the donation onto her airship and gone. The LA workers are just acting. Meanwhile Evon improved the trading post, although that is to attract more trading, thus bigger profit from trading fee, it is still beneficial to all Tyria citizen.

You mean like the gold to gem conversion? Yeah real improvement…

Hm good year? Maybe for this company, most certainly not for many players.

Just take a look at the forums, people are protesting against the changes (many completeley unnecessary and destroying important parts of the game). You just missed the recent attempt of this company to force us to invest RL money for shop items. They took it back but they are certainly planning something new (they initially removed custum amounts of gem conversion and tried to force you to convert in 400er steps, at the same time they sold items for 300,500, 700 gems). Exept from that we have 1 new area….. after several months. Players mostly still gets ignored. Starter areas got dumbed down, and alot of stuff we loved there got removed. Running animations got removed (unfortunaly the good ones), the game still hates everything exept zerk warriors and alot more. If I would list up everything they messed up this year you would still read this when the next patch comes out.
With other words you missed (almost) nothing positive. GW2 is still the game which removed more things than adding after 2 years.

Korossive.7085:

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

Lets go:

• # of new weapon types: 0
• # of new weapon combinations: 0
• # of new weapon skills: 0
• # of new races: 0
• # of new professions: 0
• # of new dungeons: 0
• # of new Guild Missions: 0
• # of new reachable dragons: 0
• # of dyeable weapons: 0
• # of new legendaries: 0
• # of lore to legendaries: 0
• # of craftable precursors: 0
• # of guild housings: 0
• # of players in Cantha/Elona: 0
• # of cape skins: 0
• # of new usages for dungeon or fractals tokens: 0
• # of characters who changed race: 0
• # of ascended rings salvaged: 0
• # of fixes for merge-kicking: 0
• # of fixes to 25-conditions in PvE: 0
• # of attainable Tribal armor pieces: 0
• # of attainable Halloween backpiece/Witch Hats: 0
• # of Halloween 2014 weapon skins: 0
• # of outfits converted to armor: 0
• # of developments to Orr story: 0
• # of developments to personal story: 0
• # of new minis instead of any of this: 49
• # of Human Female animations removed: 4
• # of players requesting SAB: 6,945
• # of times Jory called me “doll”: 1,988
• # of paths sold for gold: 254,269
• # of Fractal levels we took from players on reset: 8,984,441,658

Such wow.

So there you have your Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

EDIT: Updated for comments. PvP/WvW not even mentioned, not enough space.

You forgot to mention the stuff they cut out of the starter zones, the useless gem items, their attempts to sell more gems and the number of new bugs that came into the game and many more things. Hell if we would list everything up they messed up this year we would need at least 100 fully filled posts.

Palador.2170:

Zaklex.6308:

However, since 35k of the 45k population was killed during the attack, all workers will have to be brought in from outside sources(and we know how easy that is).

How about a story line where Kiel’s agents quietly slip over to Southsun and convince the poor settlers there to jump to LA? Then she swoops in with her airship and gives them all a lift, leaving the Consortium hosed and getting LA more of the help it needs.

I dont think that this will happen since LA is way more dangerous than Southsun Cove. At least you know what will kill you in Southsun Cove.

We are asking for this for a long time. Pls make it happen, until now we have very few armor styles that look somehow very similar. I know that there are a llot of talented and creative people on this forum who are just waiting to design armors/weapons for this game.

Gnashblade wouldnt have made it better, he is the main supplier for the building materials and would have simply sold way overpriced stuff. And about the money of the bank: Either the Skritt stole it already or the Bank Of Lionsarch (BAL) simply reclaimed whats rightfully theirs.
I would think that people simply dont want to live in LA anymore and thats why rebuilding is going so slow. After all you dont want to live in a place where some maniac vegetable has fired up some WMDs right?

Mistress Elemental.3750:

I hope my over 4000k entries gets me the Greatsaw skins. It has been the only skins since the first year that I never got. I was lucky enough to get the shield skin. I am sad though that I did not realize they would patch so early. I still have 400 wrappers I did not get to enter. Guess ill save them for next year and hope you bring it back.

Hm 4000k would be 4000000^^
Also I think that some people have put in over 20k scraps and some of them probably wont win anything. So dont keep your hopes too high, your fate is now in the hands of the cruel and sadictic RNG god.

Dont think this is going to happen, probably we get a Tengu NPC who gives you 1 or 2 missions.

Invictus.1503:

Annoying, yes. It does make dying mean something though.

Or they will bring in custom temp. waypoints into the gemshop.

Now they gotta keep the form and dont disappoint us with the next update.

Its probably supposed to make things harder.
kitten budget cuts at the pact…..

1 new world event, 1 new armor set for each armor class, 1 new area, access to the secret library of the priory, some lore, not really good written dialogue, more enemies with more hp and at least 2h new gameplay.

Haishao.6851:

No idea what’s an N Bomb but there’s a filter in game if you don’t like seeing certain words.

http://youtu.be/diVfMNnXc5A?t=24s
Its the one you cant say on TV as long you arent black.

Ayakaru.6583:

A big board

7 wide, 20 long
Both sides get 2 rows of 3 golems placed zigzag

Objectives:

Destroy all enemy golems
[OR]
Get 2 golems to the enemy’s edge

Any golem can take 3 steps or 1 step + attack

You cannot use the same golem two turns in a row

In their eyes it will confuse new players. Rather they will implement it like: The one who can hit “1” button more often than his enemy in 30 seconds wins the match.

It got removed along with many other things which seemed to be too “complicated” in their eyes. I doubt we will ever see it again and if its probably a gemshop access for 800 gems.

Vayne.8563:

This might be the most unfair and overstated thread I’ve seen to date.

How is that unfair, they brought it on themselfs. Thats just simply some kind of customer review.

Not profitable enough thats why.

Nope this year is a dumbed down light version of the actual halloween event. And we probably wont see this stuff anymore in the future.

And another Adventurer who leaves the lands of Tyria, probably never be seen again.
Like to all the other ones I wish you the best for your future games, may you find your game which fits to you someday.
And keep your stuff, see it as a grave decoration for your characters.

As long you didnt do anything wrong like flaming, insulting or afking you will be fine.

The chosen one who fell to the corruption of the money. Once the one who should bring salvation to those who desperately searched for a game like GW2 after release. Now the game tortures the veteran players with abysmal updates, stealing the fun of casuals and scaring off beginners. The game in the current state doesnt need rivals, its already killing itself.

Emtiarbi.3281:

I though we will get events like this every now and then. Oh well, we have the Living History that is kind of similar, but not as fun as those events. The BW2 one was so awesome, that i dreamed of similar events but with Zhaitan and other dragons flying in the sky for a couple of days lol.

Compared to this the living story is like a cheap rip off, made by an 6 year old.

Run dungeons, farm the opportunities which are coming with new content updates, play tp and long term investments.

Thank you , finally this company made something right for a long time. Only thing Im still missing is the conversion graph.
But please, think of us players first instead of our money in the future . Happy players will spend far more RL money on this game than now. We dont want to yell our souls out of our bodies everytime you do something not well considered. After all we want to enjoy this game too as you do. But you are making it very hard for us everytime you do something like this.

They are trying to push GW2 into a role where it cant survive. GW2 and E-sport pfff. PVP in GW2 hasnt developed at all in more than 2 years and now they are praising it as a new light at the sky of the E-sport.

Only thing they need to change is to remove the WvW part. Everything else is fine.

Lalocat.6793:

Hair kits! Thanks, will hopefully remember to buy them when I get home.

The sale was planned before the huge negative reaction to the updated gem exchange. Shame that people can’t get what they need right now, but the exchange rate is so terrible you have to ask how much you’d really be saving by converting for this sale anyway.

Long planned? Maybe. But they already know that there will be a huge negative reaction and instead of delaying the sale until the gem conversion update is outside they still decided to go on and thats whats really kittenes me off. It just show again that “You know what company I mean” only cares about the money in our wallet. They simply want us the be mere numbers who consumes and spend large amounts of real money on the game.

Gaile Gray.6029:

At my last counting, there are 4,194 actionable activities self-reported in this thread.

BUT… in the spirit of Halloween, we’re going to look the other way.

:D

I have the bad feeling you are just waiting to punish us by throwing maizebalm, rotten eggs and toiletpaper at us next time we enter LA….
But ok here are mine:
80% of my playtime I spend running in a circle and pressing 1 button.
My characters are mostly starving, grumble cake and omnom bars are their only food.
Im playing since release and havent done Arah P4 yet.
I love to take the candy away from little Quaggans and then watch them cry.
I love to kick Quaggans in the rips and guts.
I love to eat Quaggans.
A Skritt stole my bike.
I loved it to whip the crap out of the Charr prisoners, everytime I heard the crack sound the Ascalonian in me laughed.
I actually wanted LA to be wiped out completely from the map of Tyria.
Im secretly supporting the Seperatists of Ebonhawk.
Im a dude and 11 of my 15 characters are female.
I got 3 precursors until yet and Im still far from satisfied.

Sell the other 11 kids to some asuran scientist so they can compete against 11 Skritts.

Zoso.8279:

Been playing since GW1 I think id consider myself a “Vet” casual but still a vet and Ive enjoyed and am still enjoying this game. Its true critique is needed but it is also true every now and then its nice to have a post showing appreciation for the hard work dev’s have put in the game. Ever since GW1 this has been my MMORPG home game lol so hope for many more years and to one day be able t explore ALL of Tyria.

If new areas are getting added in the speed they currently are then even your grandchildren wont be able to explore all Tyria.

ArchonWing.9480:

Because people thought that Anet was holding a gun to their head and forcing them to do all the dailies or they would fall behind in some non-existent competition.

For a more practical reason, due to the poor weighting of various achievements such as capturing hundreds of camps for a piddling couple of AP, dailies and monthlies would greatly overshadow AP from other sources.

They are still holding another gun to our head: You have to farm gold or either you will fall back regarding to weapons/ armor skins and shopitems which you only can compensate if you put a large sum of real life money in it.

Chameleon Dude.1564:

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We find out that our potential reinforcements, Glints children, were smashed when they were eggs by a passive adventurer. At least they didn’t supplant some jungle bandits onto the throne, release titans all over the place, get the Emperor’s half-brother killed, supplant a militia chief as a god and commit an act of genocide against the dwarven race.

Yeah because our ancestors were saints, they totaly wouldnt do that. They also wouldnt almost eradicate a large centaur tribe, help a ancient lich break out from his prison and restore his power. They also wouldnt slaughter themself in a no ending battle between wannabe pirates and tree lovers.

fellyn.5083:

Schwarzseher.9873:

Or they simplay want to prevent people from reaching so many points that they are way beyond the rewards.

They have rewards that start past 36000 ap, which is impossible to get anywhere close to at this point. An entire new set of weapons. That argument doesn’t make any sense.

You have a link to show these weapons? And Im pretty sure without that cap there would be already people beyond 36k ap.

Summed up: We didnt just walking on the same spot for 2 years. We actually made several steps back. And currently its not looking like its becoming better.
So to all new players: Be warned, you will either find your luck (probably in little chunks worth 10, 50, 100, 200 and 500) or will regret that you even dared to think about this game.
If you can live with almost no new content coming, no real endgame, are resitent against frustration and alot of other negative things then try it out. You will find a beautiful world full with fun (which hasnt been patched out at this point) and friendly people.
If not, turn back. Now. You will soon find that spending those bucks on beer or other kind of booze was a far better idea than this game.

A frustrated and angry GW2 and GW1 Vet

Or they simplay want to prevent people from reaching so many points that they are way beyond the rewards.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Not next year, no. Not months from now, no. It’s coming, and it’s coming very soon.

In fact, I’m going to a review in less than an hour, although that doesn’t set a release time quite yet.

What I wonder about is this: What if someone says something is coming “in the next couple of days” or “within the next week” or “by the end of the month” and then testing reveals an issue that delays the implementation? Would you rather hear something rather specific, like “in the next couple of days,” even while you know that it could change for reasons outside our control? Or would you rather hear “soon” and not have as solid an expectation, but also take on board that the implementation is a top priority (as was mentioned in the thread about the Currency Exchange changes)?

I feel that either answer isn’t perfect, so I’d welcome your insights. You should know that I truly do understand that “soon” is frustratingly vague and I argue against.. I mean, “I gently speak in favor of alternatives…” whenever we can use something more meaningful. On the other hand, saying something more specific can result in flaming “You promised it by XX time!” comments, because even a casual possible release time could be adopted as an absolute date/time/time zone promise.

Thoughts?

Lets hope you are right and it will implemented in the next 2-3 weeks.