Guild Wars 2

I can’t really justify 100 gold for a dagger skin. The other option is BLCs but I do terribly when it comes to RNG.

She probably has some incriminating images of Caithe’s body unleafed :U

Plot twist: Scarlet marries Traherne and retires. The end.

SynfulChaot.3169:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

There’s a Hairchanger contract item, just FYI.

Having to pay real money each time you want to switch between hairstyles, even if you’ve used those hairstyles before, is what we wish we didn’t need to do. It seems a bit … high.

Do you have to pay for it? .-. I’ve never actually used one. I have bad RNG luck and it’s too expensive on the TP.

There’s a Hairchanger contract item, just FYI.

I reckon it’d work if it was done well..

Problem is, I’m skeptical they’d be able to get it done well.

I personally have a big beef with Knock-spams. That’s not challenging. Being an Asura foot ball is just boring and dull to experience. |:

I’m surprised they didn’t give FemSylvari Scarlet’s hair.

They won’t do it because as it stands, content is supposed to be completable with Rare let alone Exotic gear.

If they made content that required Ascended gear outside of fractals, people would be like, “Toodle-oo ArenaNet ol’chap” and leave, simple because Ascended is only supposed to be needed in fractals if not even needed.

Chris.4670:

Scarlet said also something about that Faolain doesn’t know it and she will gonna tell to her. So i believe it has to do something about Caithe herself or her relation to Faolain. If she really had killed Snaff then i guess Scarlet would run to Zojja instead to spread chaos between them. We do know that Scarlet knows something that would change the whole world, so maybe it has to do something with the Pale Tree or the Jungle Dragon. When i think about Snaff, i believe she is innocent.

I’m actually really curious about that. Don’t forget, they released Caithe and Scarlet as Minis during this patch too, which whilst isn’t incredibly important, generally minis are associated with the lore of the patch, so there could be some kind of symbolism.

eisberg.2379:

No Walking.6349:

So it’s been over a year. If this game had followed the same path they took in GW1, around this time we would have had a whole new expansion added to the game full of new PERMANENT content, new classes, new races, furthering the dragon story line, maybe added UW, or Cantha, or Elona.

Instead of that however, we’ve gotten a ton of gimmicky, slightly entertaining but overall underwhelming content (most of it reused with scavenger hunts, etc) that is totally removed from the main dragon plot, and injects random sub plots that are pulled out of the devs butts and are killing GW lore.

Was the living story experiment really worth it? I don’t think it was a good trade at all…

For all we know everything that has been happening could have been done by some dragon we do not know about. For all we know Scarlett could be an avatar of a dragon. Or not. Either way, not sure how this stuff is killing GW lore.

Anyways, IMO it has been a really good trade.

This would be absurd simply from the lore standpoint and would pretty much be the most direct way for GW2’s Lore Enthusiasts that Lore isn’t important in this game anymore.

Jski.6180:

Sirendor.1394:

alcopaul.2156:

the point of ascended armor is to kitten me off.

The point of it is to unbalance World vs. World even more, because you don’t even need exotic for doing PvE content, let alone ascended.

Basically it would be the most easy if nobody got ascended, because then nobody would be forced to get it, because it wouldn’t influence WvW if nobody used it.

First wvw was never balanced at all and it was not made to be as such it is a RvR where a world fights another for better or worst.
Second you can get ascended items from running wvw only it may make more time but you can still do it that way.

Let’s make the imbalanced even less balanced! Why? Because who cares about WvW!

WvW will never ever be balanced thanks to people like you. It will always be getting the short stick on everything.
Second yep you’re right but the mere fact that we have to is bull. Ascended is expensive and takes ages to make. Richer people will get it faster too, and those who aren’t won’t. And rightfully so. Please enlighten me; why should I waste obsidian shards from my legendary? Why should I have to build armor for fractals to function well in WvW?

People who want their tiers can have them. I’m beyond caring about that at this point. But thank you for making my game harder for me. Thank you for pouring more poison into WvW. I really, really appreciate it.

[sarcasm disengaged].

Xae Isareth.1364:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

I was going to say how WvW was going to become hell with this +Trinkets+Weapons+Bloodlust but then I remembered WvW is the disowned child of Guildwars2.

I don’t quite get why does everyone complain this stuff ruins WvW’s balance when the game mode was never and will never be balanced in the first place. Just the difference in numbers screws the balance, when your squad of 10 gets ambushed by a 50-man enemy army, no Ascended items or bloodlust is going to save you.

You’re absolutely right. You don’t get it.
Just because a mode is slowly made imbalanced doesn’t mean you just say “Oh well, tough” and imbalance it further. Then again, like I said, no one cares enough about WvW, otherwise this destruction and desecration of the mode wouldn’t be happening.

I was going to say how WvW was going to become hell with this +Trinkets+Weapons+Bloodlust but then I remembered WvW is the disowned child of Guildwars2.

How do you loose out when you can Karka people?

Zacchary.6183:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

I think you’ve confused Gaia with GW2, OP.

Perhaps one day GW2 may degenerate to that. Or perhaps they may go and ascend to a new tier, and reach that revolutionary goal they spoke off. It’s too soon to say though.

Its not to late to speculate.

If a car is headed towards a cliff and it keeps heading toward a cliff, then its safe to assume the car might actually fly off the cliff.

They’ve done a number of foolish things no doubt, but I don’t think they’re at the point of potential failure yet.

At the very least I’d give it till the end of the year.

I think it’s silly that they made a title for it.

Anyone who joins after October GG my friends.

Conncept & Eisberg, read the post I made at the bottom of the first page and you’ll understand where the problem is for the OP, and admittedly for me (I don’t use weapon kits myself but that doesn’t change the problem. I don’t have a Charr either.)

I think you’ve confused Gaia with GW2, OP.

Perhaps one day GW2 may degenerate to that. Or perhaps they may go and ascend to a new tier, and reach that revolutionary goal they spoke off. It’s too soon to say though.

I’m noticing its kinda like this. Balance of skills and classes is PVP based, however overall content is dictated by PVE. WvW.. Kinda gets attention? IMO the best thing for WvW this year was the trait reset. But that isn’t much, to be fair, compared to what every other area got.

On a sort of related note, I’m really, really upset that Mini Caithe and Scarlet are Lionbox only :/ ANET Y U DO THIS TO ME

GrandmaFunk.3052:

The flaw at work here is located within the players, not the game.

It’s human nature to find the fastest/easiest path and exploit it… there’s very little any game dev can do to combat this, players will always find a way.

Tbh I have to disagree.

You know that JP in Malchors leap? The one right at the bottom, which takes at least half an hour even if you get good at it? Why bother when you can get the same reward for doing the other one which takes 5 minutes?

Tequatl also suffers from this and that’s why in many servers he’s kinda getting ignored after maybe one or two hits in a day. He’s not giving much of a reward, aside from 1 or 2 minis between a hundred people and what’s pretty much only 1 ascended weapon. The great feeling of conquest is self-staling after the first time you kill him – how quickly, varies from player to player. But loot is very important in proportion to people’s motivations to kill things.

If they make content, they need to make it rewarding enough. Otherwise really no one will do them. Or they will take the path easiest to the same result.

Vayne.8563:

Percentage of players who play charr and engineers combined. My guess is less than 25%.

Percentage of players who use hair. 100%

I’m not thinking that Anet’s priorities are wrong, in spite of the fact I would welcome fixes to charr and engineers also.

Um.

That’s a bullkitten reasoning. At the moment, engineers have no real endgame goals, given this game is supposed to be about looking pretty. Charr don’t function properly eith slot of armor, so that’s lame beyond measure too.

You want to talk priorities; these two things should not even be on the list of things that need to be fixed to begins with. These are things that should’ve been fixed during the first update to legendaries. It’s little things like this that make ArenaNet look incredibly sloppy.

They should give one to anyone who changed their hair after last Friday. That’d be a super good move for their part. For anyone before though;

Knote.2904:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

Knote.2904:

korelg.7862:

Mathias.9657:

Xista.7391:

I’ve become spoiled.

I tried to play WoW last month. I couldn’t stomach it. 5.2 content has been out since early March. Only thing that has changed was crappy ‘heroic’ scenarios that are kitten easy, and some daily quests in the Barrens.

GW2 has released 13 updates since then, compared to WoW’s 1 since March (had to look it up). Sure I may not be interested in everything that GW2 releases, but it’s still peaks my interest enough to log on an check everything out.

Oh, also I was a huge PvP-er in WoW. I tried queueing for a BG recently. After 9 minutes in queue, i just Alt+f4-ed. The game is no longer worth 15 dollars/month to me.

First off, I’m confused how you couldn’t stomach a few barrens quests or a bg queue (which btw will never take 9 mins if you are lvl 90.) but you can easily handle all the garbage LS content? Spam F 200 times? Do you not remember anything ANet has released? At least 10 x worse than WoW quests, and btw Blizz just let out a ton of new raid content and a new zone that will last a billion times longer than some temporary garbage in GW2.

WoW has already copied or already had every single GW2 feature(lol) so they aren’t unique anymore. Blizz is smart, they aren’t afraid to take a good idea and implement it. ANet on the other hand…. enjoy your zergzergzerg ‘living story’ more like living grind.

This game is terrible right now and it’s sad because it has the most potential out of any MMO out there.

you mean you can still do normal quests? not too long ago i went and tried Tera, all those lame kitten quest drove me away in less than an hour.

“LS garbage” looks like you dont like LS, for me it is fun and convenient

WoW can indeed copy as many features as they want, but at its core is still an old classic MMO, is that bad? not really, I know people that still love the classic style and can’t stand GW2’s style.

“this game is terrible” more like “I dont like this game and I shouldn’t be here”

This is either your honest opinion or you’re not looking at these objectively.

I would personally rather do old fashion quests over having to do any more hearts and boring DE’s to level my alt right now.

They’re really not that different, don’t pretend it’s that much better than old fashion quests… WoW quests especially have a ton of fun gimmicks and variety where as every Event is just : kill this same wave of generic mobs with the same 5 abilities over and over lol.

I’m sick of one, and haven’t had the other in a long time, so of course I’d rather pick WoW quests over this ATM, but that’s just because variety is good.

False. There’s a reasonable variety in DEs. There’s some where you collect objects, some where you kill things, some where you don’t kill things but rather, destroy an object. And if you go to WvW there’s quite a bit of variety there.

Lol…. there is no variety, there is like 5 different types of events TOPS in the entire game.

…5 is a variety..?

If a salad had five vegetables in it, would you not address it as a variety of vegetables?

Knote.2904:

korelg.7862:

Mathias.9657:

Xista.7391:

I’ve become spoiled.

I tried to play WoW last month. I couldn’t stomach it. 5.2 content has been out since early March. Only thing that has changed was crappy ‘heroic’ scenarios that are kitten easy, and some daily quests in the Barrens.

GW2 has released 13 updates since then, compared to WoW’s 1 since March (had to look it up). Sure I may not be interested in everything that GW2 releases, but it’s still peaks my interest enough to log on an check everything out.

Oh, also I was a huge PvP-er in WoW. I tried queueing for a BG recently. After 9 minutes in queue, i just Alt+f4-ed. The game is no longer worth 15 dollars/month to me.

First off, I’m confused how you couldn’t stomach a few barrens quests or a bg queue (which btw will never take 9 mins if you are lvl 90.) but you can easily handle all the garbage LS content? Spam F 200 times? Do you not remember anything ANet has released? At least 10 x worse than WoW quests, and btw Blizz just let out a ton of new raid content and a new zone that will last a billion times longer than some temporary garbage in GW2.

WoW has already copied or already had every single GW2 feature(lol) so they aren’t unique anymore. Blizz is smart, they aren’t afraid to take a good idea and implement it. ANet on the other hand…. enjoy your zergzergzerg ‘living story’ more like living grind.

This game is terrible right now and it’s sad because it has the most potential out of any MMO out there.

you mean you can still do normal quests? not too long ago i went and tried Tera, all those lame kitten quest drove me away in less than an hour.

“LS garbage” looks like you dont like LS, for me it is fun and convenient

WoW can indeed copy as many features as they want, but at its core is still an old classic MMO, is that bad? not really, I know people that still love the classic style and can’t stand GW2’s style.

“this game is terrible” more like “I dont like this game and I shouldn’t be here”

This is either your honest opinion or you’re not looking at these objectively.

I would personally rather do old fashion quests over having to do any more hearts and boring DE’s to level my alt right now.

They’re really not that different, don’t pretend it’s that much better than old fashion quests… WoW quests especially have a ton of fun gimmicks and variety where as every Event is just : kill this same wave of generic mobs with the same 5 abilities over and over lol.

I’m sick of one, and haven’t had the other in a long time, so of course I’d rather pick WoW quests over this ATM, but that’s just because variety is good.

False. There’s a reasonable variety in DEs. There’s some where you collect objects, some where you kill things, some where you don’t kill things but rather, destroy an object. And if you go to WvW there’s quite a bit of variety there.

AntiGw.9367:

Entitled, is the word I’d choose.

To be fair, there’s always supposed to a basic level entitlement; for example, Tequatl loot. Noones really going to spend fifteen minutes on nicely design, effort implemented high level content if they’re just going to get a bunch of greens, a couple of medallions and a porous bone. That’s not entitlement when you’re asking for better drops. If you make content, it had to be reward in accordance to it’s difficulty.

Then you also have.. I don’t have the word, but these are really small things that could go A LONG way. For example. Assume somone logged on today, used a Hair styling kit. A few hours later, they check the forums after playing for the day. They find out there’s new hair coming tommorow. By no means should ANet HAVE TO GIVE them a new hair kit, or refund the other one. But if they did, that player, unless he’s a real prick, will remember that and those small things are what will lead to people actually defending the other good things in the game, and overall motivate players here and there.

One thing I really think LoL did well, was they connected to the player base by being enormously active on the forums. I still remember getting an art piece of a champion from one of the game artists who conceptualised her, and I still have it to this day. That was a really nice week for me personally 0:

Rin.8035:

Eep! Thanks guys! .///. I appreciate it! and Seven, I saw! That’s why I’m asking! I’m working on fixing up my portfolio and working towards a good application to ANET

Thank you guys! ^__^

I don’t know if you know, but you can sell character art for gold in the community creations forums. You should look into that, because if you’re reasonable, people will gladly pay.~

http://us.ncsoft.com/en/jobs/

My gift to you, OP. I’ll remember this day when I see your lovely art in game. c:

I might actually go for this. Do you do any deals?

Getefix.9150:

logical belief, apparently, (dont hold me accountable for this, i heard it off a friend) the belief of not eating pork for some religions is due to the fact that pork spoiled really quickly in those countries (before fridges) so were told it best to avoid it, this then got taken into religion over time

I’ve never heard of a religion with that, though I guess it’s a detailed point from the thread topic .-.

Lonami.2987:

I think it was an ERROR to force story into Tequatl Rising. It feels cheap and lame, and even more, emphasizes the storytelling problems of the game when they do stuff like this.

First of all, the revamp shouldn’t have altered the timeline. If it got any story, it should have been placed chronologically when Sparkfly Swamp “storyline” happens. Gameplay patches need no lore-reasons to happen, and when you try to give them any, in most cases you only manage to hurt lore.

Also, I can’t believe I’m still seeing people justifying the return of some enemies. There’s only one Shatterer, and it dies. When we fight him again, we’re repeating content, not fighting his twin brother. Same for Tequatl, I hated when they said “waypoints were canon”, and now fighting Tequatl repeatedly seems to be canon, too, which is awful storytelling.

Tequatl Rising shouldn’t have any story at all, at least not outside his original timeline. Things like this make me lose hope in the storytelling of this game.

If it was in my hands, I would retcon the living world of this release, or just change it to something like Rox searching dragon pieces, with no relationship to the revamp at all.

I can’t believe we got this poor lore-excuse of living world story after all the storytelling problems . Seriously.

I think if they keep scarlet separate from TQ it can have the potential for a decent story.

Perhaps I was too harsh on the OP e____e;

They should bring back the old GW1 emotes for free (/Roar, /Rock, ectz.) but make new gem store ones too.

jheryn.8390:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

That’s an absurd statement. Feedback and moaning are defined by the reader. What’s complaining uselessly to you can be legitimate feedback to another, negative or positive.

Let ANet decide what they call feedback and whining. You don’t work for them. You don’t represent them. Who are you to tell anyone on this forum as to how they can express themselves? |:

I agree, but I also think I know what the OP is talking about. People that post things like “The game wont last much longer”, “ANet is struggling”, “GW2 is dying because of RNG” etc., etc., etc. Are just as bad and are annoying as they can be. Those are not opinions, they are statements about the game and the company that provides the game.

Just as you said to the OP, those people don’t work for the company or represent them. Making such statements are also absurd and stupid. I don’t read them any longer, but just seeing them annoys the kitten out of me.

ArenaNet can deal with them as they will. Factor in also, some of thee threads do have reasonably helpful suggestions in them. If you’re going to ban a thread by title.. Well, GG I guess..

They already said they’re introducing more perma to content, and that last year was more a kind of structuring phase. You can see with the Big TQ update, the other boss updates, Scarlet’s invasions. The new TAP4 will be permanent too.

They need to really balance loot tables. You get thousands of these, in a day, and not a single precursor in a year. Wtf?

Nybor.9687:

Let me set this straight, once again. My point is, it’s fine to make constructive feedback about things your not happy with, but to make whiny posts about how the game as a whole is failing or going downhill is just complete rubbish and that’s what brings the negatively. ANet appreciate feedback, they don’t appreciate people telling them the game they have worked so hard with and continue to do so is failing, when it isn’t.

That’s an absurd statement. Feedback and moaning are defined by the reader. What’s complaining uselessly to you can be legitimate feedback to another, negative or positive.

Let ANet decide what they call feedback and whining. You don’t work for them. You don’t represent them. Who are you to tell anyone on this forum as to how they can express themselves? |:

Partially..?

It’s more like, some players are more spoiled than others because what they want is more widely available. I can tell you now, players of PVE get much more than WvW players. You only need the last two patches to see this.

Engineers are certainly the least spoiled class, with broken footfalls on weapon kits, back pieces disappearing on weapon kits, lack of variety on weapon kit animation with legendaries and skins, along with the stupid RNG dependant skillset (for elixirs), with Elementalists close enough behind (Luckily they largely don’t suffer from that) Mesmers have the best utility on the game, and are visually stunning. Warriors have the best weapon visual appeal (5 Legendaries, 7 if you include Underwaters, and so many weapon skins.).

Don’t forget, in a game of aesthetics and visual end game, Visual beauty is like the most important thing to look forward to

Vayne.8563:

MikaHR.1978:

Vayne.8563:

MikaHR.1978:

Vayne.8563:

MikaHR.1978:

Fernling.1729:

Fungalfoot.7213:

One of the most common complaints about the game is that the cosmetic progression is a bust and I can’t help but wholeheartedly agree with that assessment. The transmutation system needs to be sloped and replaced by a proper wardrobe system in which you unlock skins. My bank is filled with cosmetic items I’ll never get to use due to the sheer hassle of it all and I dare to wager that I’m not alone in that.

I agree. It’s no wonder their “cosmetic progression” failed, making them add vertical progression into the game. GW2 has one of the worst cosmetic systems I have seen in any of my recent mmos. Even F2P games like DCUO and Rift have wardrobe systems that are so much more user friendly.

Yup, LOTRO was first to implemet absolutely perfect cosmetic system couple a YEARS ago. Thats YEARS were talking about.

Thats the thing, ANEt delivered broken/not there horizontal progressin and then rushed gear grind treadmill to the game instead working on delivering what they advertised for 5 years with manifesto.

Now the game is a mish-mash of crap+BS

Yep, Lotro is a great game. Well it was before Turbine took it over. Can you still buy traits in the cash shop?

Ahahahhahahahaah, Turbine developed LOTRO.

Too bad you have 0 facts and relevance.

I have lots of facts, too bad you avoided the question. Can you still buy traits in the cash shop. It’s not a hard question. Surely you know the answer to it.

Yes, Lotro had a very nice cosmetics armor system, (I bought all the wardrobe tabs from the cash shop myself), and Lotro has a lovely way of making you pay three times for the same storage. Pay for your bank storage (which wasn’t account wide), account wide bank storage, and cosmetic item storage seperately.

And you think Anet has strange cash shop practices? Go ahead and refute me.

You dont HAVE to pay for anything of that, you can expand bank starge with gold and its quite cheap, and you GET 20 account storage and 20 wardrobe storage.

And ill actually bother with your strawman: yes you can buy traits, also you can sub for 1 month and unlock everything on all of your characters FOREVER.

LOTRO is truly F2P game, if you want to grind it you can play EVERYTHING AND GET EVERYTHING COMPLETELY FREE.

FAIL again, but what do you expect froma guy that didnt even know Turbine developed LOTRO rofl.

If you want to grind, you can get everything truly free, but I played the game and ended up spending money to avoid the grind. It’s not truly free.

Sure you’re playing with your friends and suddenly you get to an area which they’ve purchased and you haven’t. Oh sorry, guy, I thought you had this.

Well sure you can grind to get it,. it’ll only take a few days. In the mean time your friends are finished with the area and on the way forward.

In fact, I’ve seldom seen a greedier company than Turbine. Nice try.

I see your turbine and raise you a GaiaOnline.

Pretty much everything so far has come back at least once. It’s a dissappeareance, yes, but I doubt it’s permanent.

Just FYI, MA and AR are going to become fractals. From what I heard, at least.

Siphaed.9235:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

This would be amazing, but I don’t expect much from ANet.

Actually, you’re expecting far too much. The flames of the armor retain their orangy-yellow look to keep them relatable to the Citadel of Flame. It was a design decision to make them better associate with the location they came from.

Be mindful that this is a game that designed by A.Net, played by the gamers. Not the other way around.

Thank you admiral obvious, I figured that it was made by a company called ArenaNet and not the player base.

I suppose that’s fair because dredge armor can’t be recoloured either on the fiery sections, but it feels like they could’ve kept it to make the armor all the more pleasant as a whole. Little things like that go a long way.

I never run with strangers. Ever.

Which sucks because as a result, I only ever get AC done. :|

The personal story before Traherne.

This would be amazing, but I don’t expect much from ANet.

OP, you’re implying ANet gives a Risen rump about GvG.

Considering how little they care about WvWvW, do you really think they’re going to let you enjoy GvG for what it’s worth? Once you break out of that mindset that deludes you into that mindset, you’ll realise you’re wasting your time even bothering with this. Sad, but it’s just how it is.

No less, you have my sympathies, you and your guild.

Dawdler.8521:

So does players.

I call this… the “Bane look”.

Ah, you thought Magitech was your ally.

mojowalker.3798:

Any more detail for folks trapped in the office and whose company’s system security protocols prevent watching a bit of youtube?

You didn’t miss much. It was really fifteen minutes of “Nothing’s off the table” tbh.

.-.

Was kinda bland. Not much info, either, really.