Guild Wars 2

Sizer.5632:

Farmers seriously think that without them the rest of the game will not have enough population to complete events in game? Wow, well thanks for a good laugh.

Are you still laughing now? I was there last night and the place was empty. People would pop in and see that nothing is happening and just leave. At least the farmers kept the place alive.

I didn’t know people still go to Dry Top, anyway, I agree, it boring and unrewarding, Anet need to spice it up a bit. But since this is Anet we talking about, it won’t happen.

Shen Slayer.3058:

Levian.7683:

This is the best GW2 patch!!!
Season 2 is really good!

I agree…I’m having a blast, it’s been a while since I had this much fun with GW2.

I take it back, it’s not fun anymore, did it/done it, won’t be back. Anet, you can stop patting yourself on the back now. Silverwaste is now pretty much empty and boring.

Levian.7683:

This is the best GW2 patch!!!
Season 2 is really good!

I agree…I’m having a blast, it’s been a while since I had this much fun with GW2.

I have been deleting thousands of them…I hope I wouldn’t regret it.

Just scream Legendary in map chat and you’ll have about 25 people show up in seconds. I have never had a problem kill them.

Lothirieth.3408:

Claudius.5381:

Simply halve the crests given out by chests. That would force farmers to participate in events because otherwise you will run out of keys.

And, yes, thinning out the chest locations around amber would be reasonable, too.

I joined a chest farming map just to see what it’s like.. and the farmers WERE participating in the events. The keeps were defended and the rubble event often wasn’t happening at Amber because the keep was so well defended. Even one time a full clear of the bosses in the Breach happened.

In any case, the farmers do need to participate in the events if they want to get shovels.

I agree…Anet did a great job with Silverwastes, I don’t want them to change a thing. I see the farmers doing the events, I don’t know what OP is talking about. Like you said, they do the events and get the shovels for the chest.

Corpus Christi.2057:

This – “Thank you for interesting build variety” – made me laugh. ;P

HAHAHAAAHAH…build variety, boy OP need to play more MMOs.
GW2 is the worst when it comes to this. Your build is dictated by your weapon which is pretty lame. Now if you really really want a lot of builds, check out GW1, you have thousands to choose from.

In any case OP brings up a good point. Are we going to ever see the Crystal Desert? Or has that been shelf too.

Wasbunny.6531:

Not sure if this has already been posted but here is the TenTonHammer article covering what is now being referred to as ‘GemGate’:

http://www.tentonhammer.com/editorial/guild-wars-2-gemgate

Good…let everyone know how sleazy they can be.

synergy.5809:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Bellizare.5816:

LOL, looks like torches and pitchforks time.

And Gaile, people are reacting in an understandable manner.

It’s because they are angry.

The big question in my mind, is why?

Yeah, I was thinking the same about the pitchforks and torches.

I don’t discount players when they are upset, though, and I truly understand that sometimes things hit close to home and cause some angst, anger, upset, any sort of reaction. (I’d think it was possible to have the discussion without it devolving into unpleasantness, but then, I always was an optimist! )

I asked a quick question of a team leader about the changes. I thought the answers were pretty clear so I posted them. But if you want more info, maybe there’s more to be learned and I’ll ask about that tomorrow.

The answer is simple, its about the money. If you’d simply admit that most people would be less angry about it. They are mostly angry about you blaming it on new players when new players don’t even have enough gold to convert to gems, among many other bs excuses.

They think we are stupid and wouldn’t see thru their scheme.

I’m never going to buy gems with real money again. And I urge everyone to do the same. This will get their attention.

Peachy Keene.9215:

There have been pretty much non-stop posts in this thread all day and yet the last “feedback” we got was 19 hours ago. Where are the devs?

Probably reading this and laughing at us.

Stoaga.8190:

Probably nobody lol. Anet didnt go full kitten on gw1. Feels like im playing an EA game at this point

I was thinking the same thing that Anet is becoming like EA. It’s like the Sims 4 releasing a barebone game for $60, then the very next day release 20 DLC for $19.99 each.
Scam artist.

I think someone from NCSoft needs to step in and protect there investment. This current group is a totally mess.

cesmode.4257:

Curious…where are all of the people that blindly defend the questional decisions and direction of this game? Even they must be like “Wow…can’t really defend it here..”

Because every at Anet is out to lunch.

I miss that team….it’s a shame to see what the current team did to GW1’s creation.

Seriously…is this what the secrecy has been about for the past few months?
Why wasn’t the resources used to create content instead of milking the gem store?

GW1 and GW2 was created by 2 group. I mean literally, GW1 team really cared about the game and it’s player. I think they really enjoyed making and improving these games for us…the fans. There was constant updates and expansions to keep us entertain till this day.

I think GW2 became too corporate, they have no personal connection to us, it became all about the gem store (which gets updated quite a lot) and money. I understand it’s a business, but how about trying to retain a good gamer base that GW1 created. And don’t get me started about constantly keeping us in the dark about the future of the game, total failure.

Maidah.2539:

Thank you for creating this topic. I was wondering why I keep losing the stacks I build up.
Good to know that adding sigil to water weapons will resolve this. I would not have figured it out without the help of this topic.

Same here, I have been avoiding the water like it was the plague. Thanks OP.

If Anet don’t start releasing new content soon, there’s going to many people abandoning this sinking ship. It’s shame, GW1 had such a long run and people still play it, whereas GW2 is already dying after 2 years.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Donari.5237:

The suggestion is a generic lost-companion-animal statue, in an out of the way place (at least my contribution is to make it out of the way).

I would recommend against an inscription that subscribes to any particular faith, however. The statue itself would be enough, if it comprised a small grouping of animals using GW2 existing models such as drakehounds, cats, and birds (ravens?). Those who need it would know what it signifies and it would be more timeless without a particular plaque.

They could do a GW2 based inscription, that would be nifty. Based on the beliefs of the area the statue was in. They’ve done similar with some of the headstones and monuments already in the game, so there is precedent.

I’ll be mighty annoyed if anything is done in-game for the dog, and so will a lot of people. Let’s take the personal aspect away from this game, it’s a business.

Oh god, who are you people. Let’s break this up and not make Chris cry, cause he’s got a lot to do today. Let him concentrate on that game update.

Prophet.6257:

Shen Slayer.3058:

I’m sorry about his pet, but NO, NO, NO. I’m sure a lot of us lost pets, why does one guys unfortunately lose his pet need to be impose on the rest of us.

Besides…what u suggesting is creepy.

How is it creepy? Video games do things like this all the time. Guess you hate the Sanctum of Rall server too?

Chris has been pretty cool to the community especially in the CDIs.

I understand he’s been good to us, but this take time away from resources that’s better spent somewhere else. Spend it update fixes, LS or new content, not this.

I’m sorry about his pet, but NO, NO, NO. I’m sure a lot of us lost pets, why does one guys unfortunately lose his pet need to be impose on the rest of us.

Besides…what u suggesting is creepy.

tofumon.5924:

Just started playing a few months ago and I’m bored already. 6 more levels until I unlock my next trait? Jesus christ. I literally haven’t had any reason to swap my skills since level 30. When do I actually get to be awesome?

There isn’t much skills to swap, that’s all you going to get. Have you played GW1…there’s thousands of skills over the all the profession, plus maps bigger, more things to do.

I think I’ve been there once, was this the place with all the champs that took forever to kill and drop nothing? If thats the place, why would people come here.

You can look different and cool while farming the same content over and over and over and over.

hint…we don’t care for this, where’s the content?

ArchonWing.9480:

The random teq runs I’ve seen have about a 50% success rate. It’s really not that bad any more. Most organized ones just don’t fail much.

I tried the wurm lately, and then facepalmed at how awful the rewards are for the time spent to organize.

Exactly, Anet might as well nerf Triple difficulty level. At least this way, other players would join in on this achievement.

Elrey.5472:

Shen Slayer.3058:

I don’t think Teq is worth doing anymore with the high failure rate, especially when the drop is worst then Karka and that is 100% success rate and takes 2 minute.

O,o i’m sad about your server. In mine Tequatl dies 7 times per day… every day. We didn’t failed in 9 months. Gotta love the spanish teamspeak community

Let’s talk about “worth” as you said. The Lover Precursor dropped for me 5 days ago in Tequatl ^^
Here a picture: http://prntscr.com/4pirsb

Have a nice day.

I’m not saying Teq isn’t killed often, I’m just saying is it worth it, the length of time and you won’t always be successful. Vs Karka which is a guaranteed kill.

That goes back to is Triple worth it…no. Because Teq & Karka drops are just as good.

Liston.9708:

Once I beat the wurm, I never went back. For the time involved, pass/fail type of reward, AND worse loot than Teq – decided not worth the time and effort.

I don’t think Teq is worth doing anymore with the high failure rate, especially when the drop is worst then Karka and that is 100% success rate and takes 2 minute.

I don’t know what drops Triple Trouble gives since I have never beaten it. Then again, I’m not in TTS guild, so that means I’m never going to find out.

GW2 is 2 years old, it’s stale and dying…put a fork in it, it’s done.

If you included all the expansions for GW1, then there’s no comparison…GW1 is much much bigger then GW2.

hannah mee.7925:

Shen Slayer.3058:

hannah mee.7925:

For what it’s worth, many professions in GW2 are much, much, much stronger than the professions in GW1. Look at mesmers, warriors and rangers to their GW1 variants.

I have to disagree, GW1 had the ability to mix and match skills and place whatever we wanted on the skill bar, making them pretty powerful. Whereas GW2 is tied to the weapon, you have skills that are hardly used or want on there.

While mixing and matching skills was semi-evident, don’t kid yourself into actually believing that it was that much more evident? Sure, there were hundreds of skills – but, for example, warrior only had 14 sword skills and 4 elite sword skills. Of those 14 as well, 2 were repeats. That basically meant you had 12 unique sword skills and 4 unique elites for sword.

Now, even further, only a handful of these skills were used in the endgame and metagame and only a slightly larger portion of these skills were even viable. Unlike GW2, some builds in GW1 were very bad and actually wouldn’t work at all.

There was still more diversity, but…it’s not quite as much diversity as people are led to believe. I’d say the diversity could easily be made again by just allowing every weapon have two skill set options (not 2 skill options, as it would inevitably lead to a pretty strict metagame). That way people who liked a certain amount of skills weren’t pushed onto a certain weapon.

Warriors has over 100 skills, and on top of that your secondary professions skills too. So we talking about well over 200 skills to mix to your content.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/List_of_warrior_skills

Pyrotechnic Hell.3209:

just this from me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WenzlbYJ-lo

Nice video, brings back good memories from GW1.

I know after I leave GW2, I won’t won’t have any type of nostalgic memories. Here’s another one of those sequel that will never live up to the original, it’s a shame.

hannah mee.7925:

For what it’s worth, many professions in GW2 are much, much, much stronger than the professions in GW1. Look at mesmers, warriors and rangers to their GW1 variants.

I have to disagree, GW1 had the ability to mix and match skills and place whatever we wanted on the skill bar, making them pretty powerful. Whereas GW2 is tied to the weapon, you have skills that are hardly used or want on there.

I remember leaving pre-searing and thinking the game was done, only to find out that I only completed 1% of the game.

I agree with OP, there’s absolutely no reason to mix PVE and PVP. If they were around during GW1, they would know that players hated this and there was constant bickering about it.

It comes a time to just say good-bye. Anet is not releasing new content, no reason to stay. There’s plenty of new games coming out.

I just think Anet blew it, they had a good game name because of GW1 and they didn’t know what to do with it. Personally, NcSoft should just fire the whole bunch of them and bring in another group to take over the development of this game.

I just checked out Archeage and it looks pretty good. From the youtube, it looks almost like GW, except it has:

1. You can raise your own mount
2. Build you farm and house
3. Claim a land for you guild
4. Fee to play and No monthly fee

I’m going to try it out when I get home. I’m so looking forward to dumping GW, I hope it’s good. LOL…it feels like I’m in a bad realtionship trying to get out.

In GW1, the junks you generally try keep to trade in for items during festivals. I guess, these GW2 dev are not as creative as the previous crew.

nexxe.7081:

As for people that keep bringing up AA…

Archeage is nothing like GW2. For one, it’s tab-target without dodge. It has quest hubs, worse dungeons with 3 player limit, no raids, etc. All it has is open world pvp, where guilds will control open land, raze your house and ships, and you will be left helpless without a mega guild to protect you. It also uses labor points for everything… no seriously, literally for everything. If you want to harvest, craft, open loot, you will need labor points. Just think how “energy” works in those facebook games, and that’s archeage’s labor point system.

Archeage sounds like what I wanted GW2 to be, sounds very interesting. I might be leaving GW sooner then I thought.

Take care guys…this veteran might be joining you soon. I’m not too sure how much more I can take of this game.

Sarabande.8260:

Perhaps some people just really love the game.

Yeah…thousands of post fighting all the negative comments. It would take a full-time job to do that, wait…

Of course Anet employee will have private accounts, it’ll be naive to think they don’t. And of course they white knight these threads.

Is it illegal, no. Is it immoral..yes.

Another veteran gone. You won Anet, you won!

Didn’t Samsung get caught for do this last year and had to end up paying a big fine?
I guess companies does it all the time.

Just great, something we didn’t ask for.

It’s not working for me either. kitten Anet, do you have to screw up everything!