Guild Wars 2

Wow… the hyperbole in this thread.
OP comes on and says ‘Cool outfit! Thanks Anet!’ and /instantly/, every hater that has an axe to grind in a furious rage has to come in and scream over him… I’m starting to realize why I don’t like complainers.
It isn’t that they complain. It’s that they must complain over everyone that could possible like something… Again. And again. And again… Aaaaand again… Over and over and over…
And not usually about legitimate issues, but instead making mountains out of anthills like this…

The outfit system is fine, and if you truly don’t like it, then don’t buy it. However, I just feel like pointing out, if this opinion was the majority, then why would Anet continue to make outfits like this? They would be losing money because people wouldn’t be buying them, right?
Well clearly people are buying them.

‘B-but… but Shinjo! THEY AREN’T GIVING US A CHOOOOOOICE!!!’

Actually, you have a lot of choices.
How many dozens of armor pieces are in the game vs outfits?
Lets really weigh things here and put this in perspective.

1254 individual armor pieces of varying weights. (Give or take, my math could be off. Not counting aquatic headgears.)
46 full sets. x3 for each weight class. (Either from the Gem Store in in the game via Karma or Gold or even Crafting.)

By comparison, we have…

18 Outfits, soon to be 1 or 2 more.

Not counting aquatic headgear. Or Back pieces, of which there are 112.

… My numbers might be a bit off, but it hardly seems like they are overloading the game with outfits.

Cool looking outfit. Definitely buying this one.

You took advantage of the terrain.
You didn’t cheat or hack the game. You did nothing wrong.
Some might not consider that an honorable move… but since when did honor have anything to do with WvW PvP?
Sounds like the Mesmer was just angry that you bruised his little ego.

No.
The only people that should have any sort of DPS meter are Developers. The last thing we need is something to further empower elitists and braggarts.

segman.3560:

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

jerkic.6319:

So here is an idea, allow us to purchase an armor set and then add it to the outfit locker, but also add each individual piece to the skin locker, both parties satisfied (may take a bit more work though).

That… probably would take a lot of work, yeah.

I can’t see any problem here. They’re paid for their work.
And I admit the solution suggested by jerkic would make me open my wallet very wide.

I didn’t say it was a problem, per se. Hell, I’d be ecstatic if they did that.
Just saying, yeah, that would probably take a lot of work.

jerkic.6319:

So here is an idea, allow us to purchase an armor set and then add it to the outfit locker, but also add each individual piece to the skin locker, both parties satisfied (may take a bit more work though).

That… probably would take a lot of work, yeah.

Weindrasi.3805:

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

An outfit or armor being new does not matter. The overall total still stands.
Armor available in the game, via gem store or otherwise, -vastly- outnumbers the number of outfits they have made.

So that makes it fine for arenanet to stop adding to our choice of armors?
Will you still be making this argument when we have 50 gemstore outfits and still only 21 armors?
The overall total is utterly insignificant.
We want greater freedom for character design—which the influx of outfits takes away.

The problem with that argument is that Anet has not stopped adding to our choice of armors.
Where is the evidence that Anet will just stop making armor sets?
And even if they did (which I very much doubt they will, since they continue to make more armor pieces and sets) they have a /very/ long way to go before Outfits outnumber armors.
And lastly…
Just because you want to disregard the hundreds of armor pieces in the game that don’t require any gems to buy does not make them magically go away or not count.

An outfit or armor being new does not matter. The overall total still stands.
Armor available in the game, via gem store or otherwise, -vastly- outnumbers the number of outfits they have made.

I didn’t bother with the exact numbers, but I know I came out in the positive as far as gold earned with the Lucky Envelopes.
So, profit!

I think the people raging over Outfits need to relax and put things in perspective a bit…
Lets look at just what is in the Gem store, shall we?

18 outfits total. 9 of which currently available in the Gem Store.

21 full sets of armor (of varying weights) 33 individual armor pieces (gloves, boots, shoulders and helms.)
And 6 back pieces which can be used with everything. All available on the Gem store.

And this isn’t even touching all the armor pieces available in the game, that don’t cost a single Gem.

Hmm… Doesn’t look like they are overdoing Outfits to me.

Holy necro-post, Batman!

Dramen Maidria.1034:

Ignore that hate man, 99% of the people at FE will sit there for 10 minutes or more, waiting for everyone else to do the pre event. They don’t bother getting a key on their own so they don’t really have any right to complain that there is a smaller group also present who has a slightly different schedule they are working on.
This is nothing like killing a champ train boss out of order deliberately, you aren’t doing this for the sole purpose of annoying people. The bottom line is, almost everyone who is going to do FE is already there when you guys are popping ogre, if they chose to AFK in the FE room then its their own fault for missing out. Just report the vulgar ones and move along. The part I find amusing is they are clearly already just standing around waiting for FE, but this is somehow a problem for them.
All the animosity I see in this thread is based solely off of the idea that there is this order that everyone has to abide by, and that just isn’t true. His guild isn’t doing this as a big middle finger to anyone else, they are just trying to fit more events together since their own train includes more that the typical world boss hoppers do. If you didn’t actually put the effort into making a key then you have no right to complain, and if you were making a key then they just saved you the trouble since you typically show up early for FE to make a key anyway.

I have to mirror this statement.
Everyone getting all foaming-at-the-mouth furious and pounding on their keyboard in righteous indignation because they can’t get to the Steam Ogre should stop and realize that they are raging over a single champ bag.
One. Friggen. Champ bag.

OP, at this point, I’d just say you should stop announcing it in Map chat.

Arkinos.7245:

Underwater combat is garbage….

Stopped reading right here…

Once again it’s not just ‘I don’t like this…’
No, as per usual on these forums, it is portrayed in the most vitriolic and rage-fueled wording as possible.

Azhure.1857:

A forum thread where nobody is arguing and/or knocking down what other posters have to say? Nice.

Isn’t it though? A nice change of pace, I think.

Of myself…

- 39 years old, with the big ‘Four Oh’ coming soon XD
- Single parent to a 19 year old son (yeah, I started early.)
- Veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps
- Favorite colors are red and green
- Have a bachelor’s degree in architectural drafting, but have actually never used it (Don’t you hate it when you realize that you hate the very thing you have worked for?)
-I am a firm believer in ‘Gun Control’… As in ‘Controlling your gun to hit your target’ and that everyone should have basic training in their use (Yeah, that’s the Marine in me speaking, I admit)
- Started playing RPG’s back when I was a kid with my mom, who had some of the original Dungeons and Dragons books and material (don’t ask me which ones, but I do remember the ‘dice’ we used were cut-outs that we had to fold and tape together. :p)
- I have been playing video games for nearly as long… Pong was my first game, and I was lucky enough to have an Atari, Intellivison and a Colecovision in my home (I still say the Intellivison was the best out of the three)
-Aside from gaming, I enjoy writing and drawing, especially fantasy and, to a slightly lesser extent, sci/fi
-I’m currently dabbling in both Flash and 3-D Animation
-I’d really like to try Voice Acting someday…

Eh, that’s all I can really think of off the top of my head.
Like others have said, cool topic, OP. Bravo!

I’m just going to echo what others have already stated.
First and foremost, these farmers do not own the map.
There is zero reason why you or anybody else can not start an event or an event chain. And if somebody with a little icon over their head that they bought wants to throw a fit and verbally harass you because you did, then Report them for such, Block, and then continue on enjoying your time with your wife.

Saying I /love/ Dragonball might be a bit of an overstatement, but I do find the game to be enjoyable, much like Snowball Mayhem during Wintersday.
Like the OP said, everyone gets the same skills, so you’re not having to think about what over-tweaked, meta-cheese build someone is using.
It succeeds at putting everyone on the same level in that aspect.

Which leads to the other thing that is being brought up here… The inability to choose your team mates and go in with preset teams.
Personally I am of a mixed opinion on that…
On one hand, it would be nice to be able to team with your friends/guildmates/etc, but then on the other, I can see how that would detract from the casual nature of the activity as well.
Much like not having to worry about what build someone is using, you don’t have to worry about hyper-coordinated teams fighting against random PUGs that have no chance in hell against them. (And don’t act like that wouldn’t happen…)
In this aspect for a casual activity, I think Anet erred on the right side of things.

My only wish is that they had more then one arena for this, since the same one over and over again can get a bit repetitive. But… -shrug- That’s a minor quibble for me.

-looks at thread-
…

You can get Bank Slots with gold…
Be patient and earn the gold to convert to gems.

Or, get it quicker by using real money to buy those gems.

It’s really that simple. Would it be any different if they charged 100 gold per bank slot?

You know, I actually really like this idea.
Walking into my Home Instance and seeing one or more of my alt characters in there would be rather neat.
I’m not sure how feasible it would be to able to access their inventory, but that would be cool too.

+1 for this idea, OP.

Rin.1046:

I think some people, myself included, just miss that freedom to have a quick duel with someone where ever you happen to be. It felt kind of natural, in a friendly contest of skill between heroes kind of way. I understand there are people who want nothing to do with PvP and that PvP should stay in its own area. And to a large degree I agree with you, but I do miss that freedom of concentual dueling in the open world. If was fun to take part in and often fun to watch.

By separating it off into its own dedicated area, you kind of miss those impromptu moments where you chance upon a player you fancy trying your chances with, or when you stumble across a fight going on and want to watch it unfold. They are often little moments of fun that many miss when PvP and PvE are completely separate.

I can understand the reasons for keeping them separate, but I do miss those little moments of fun.

Rin, I’m just going to say that I truly do envy you, and those that have good experiences and enjoy PvP. PvP and Dueling, in my opinion, should feel like ‘a friendly contest of skill between heroes kind of way’.
Two heroes grin, shake hands, tussle a bit, and then the one that comes out on top helps the other guy up, they shake hands and say ‘Good fight, man.’ and be on their way.
But I have so rarely got that over the past decade+ of serious gaming, that the only conclusion I can come to is that such ‘friendly contests’ are the rare exception, not the rule.
No, much more often it was some over-leveled and over-geared kid with an ego problem picking fights with people that are vastly under their level and have no realistic way of fighting back. Instead of ‘Good fight, man.’ it’s ‘@#$! YOU @#$!ing @#$%! SUCK MY @#$! AND DIE! @#$!ing NUB!!’ and other toxic garbage.
And I’m tired of it. I don’t want to deal with it. Keep it and the ego-stroking trash that seems to inevitably, and unfortunately come with it in the Mists…

Is that really what it’s like? Am I just the exception here and have just been exceedingly unlucky? I dunno… but if you are like me, and have run into seemingly endless oceans of angry, rage-fueled little kids with only the rare, occational island of decent players… Well, perhaps you can see how my opinion of PvP has ended up the way it is…

PistolWhip.2697:

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

Okay so, I think we have made it clear that nobody here is seriously asking for open-world, free for all PvP. (And if you are, then you aren’t really contributing to the thread much.)

What is getting asked for is a PvP arena type area.
Okay… I get that.
What I don’t get is why the Heart of the Mists… a part of the game that has been set up /specifically/ just for this… is being ignored and dismissed out of hand.

Convenience?
HotM is one click away from anywhere in the game world. At worst, a newly minted character might have to run to Lion’s Arch and use the portal there. Easy, since every racial city that you start right outside of has a way to get to Lion’s Arch.

Lack of PvP modes?
If you have your own sPvP arena, who is forcing you to capture the control points rather then duel to your hearts content? Hell, the Courtyard doesn’t even have control points to bother with.

The only argument I am seeing that holds any real weight is the inability in sPvP to keep your Gear Stats/Runes/Sigils/Food Buffs/etc.
sPvP is designed to even the playing field for everyone, regardless of all that. And while I personally think that’s a good thing… if people really want a ‘Fight Club’ mode where you keep your Gear/Runes/Sigils/Food Buffs/etc, then why not propose such an option to be added in the Mists?

Why /must/ this sort of thing be implemented in a PvE zone?

It can be in the Mists. As I said earlier, it doesn’t matter where it is, but the limits on buffs, food, gear and stats make some builds unviable for dueling or FFA in Spvp, and WvW is a not only a mess but impossible to fight those on the same server.

Reason for why people are asking for it to be on a specific pve map? I’d think it was due to scenery, and atmosphere. I don’t think its mandatory for it to take place in a pve map but it wouldn’t hurt in a small section. (I.e. The bottom left corner of one of the maps has an arena.)

Then like I said… Propose an option where the limits on buffs, food, gear and stats are removed in custom sPvP arenas. I’d be much more willing to support that, and I am betting a lot of others would be too.

As for scenery and atmosphere? While I could see that (and even agree to a certain extent) I don’t see how much of that you would really get if you are limited to an arena area anyway.

Okay so, I think we have made it clear that nobody here is seriously asking for open-world, free for all PvP. (And if you are, then you aren’t really contributing to the thread much.)

What is getting asked for is a PvP arena type area.
Okay… I get that.
What I don’t get is why the Heart of the Mists… a part of the game that has been set up /specifically/ just for this… is being ignored and dismissed out of hand.

Convenience?
HotM is one click away from anywhere in the game world. At worst, a newly minted character might have to run to Lion’s Arch and use the portal there. Easy, since every racial city that you start right outside of has a way to get to Lion’s Arch.

Lack of PvP modes?
If you have your own sPvP arena, who is forcing you to capture the control points rather then duel to your hearts content? Hell, the Courtyard doesn’t even have control points to bother with.

The only argument I am seeing that holds any real weight is the inability in sPvP to keep your Gear Stats/Runes/Sigils/Food Buffs/etc.
sPvP is designed to even the playing field for everyone, regardless of all that. And while I personally think that’s a good thing… if people really want a ‘Fight Club’ mode where you keep your Gear/Runes/Sigils/Food Buffs/etc, then why not propose such an option to be added in the Mists?

Why /must/ this sort of thing be implemented in a PvE zone?

Sirius.4510:

It seems some people like outfits, while some don’t and prefer new armor skins. So… I propose ArenaNet make some of both options.

…

I second this proposal.
More of both, because despite what some people on these forums would like to delude themselves into thinking, Anet has made quite a few of both.

No.
sPvP is that way… if you want a new mode of PvP, pester the Devs to put it there.

DeWolfe.2174:

I’d like customization on the Elite transforms. Even customization for the profession color schemes too. A lot of Mesmer’s have voiced a level of disdain over having a male characters with purple and butterflies. Well, I feel similarly over my Necro and the green. I especially dislike the black Scythe animation overlaying on my Kasmeer Staff.

I don’t know, I wonder if the Dev’s ever truly considered how much customization would be required for a game that earns money selling aesthetic items?

More customization along these lines would be fantastic, in my opinion.
But, the amount of work needed to go into it is questionable. Not just talking about new models and such, but the load on the game server as well.
I’m not qualified to really guess at such things, but I know it can be an issue. Hopefully, it’s something they can do… I like to think GW2 is advanced enough to handle such things.

The haters have to find some justification to sling their venom, don’t they?
Well some do, anyway… Other just do it because they can. :p

Ah Cantha. How I do hope we can go back there eventually…
Anyone else find it odd how the Canthan District in Divinity’s Reach was supposedly removed because they didn’t want to possibly offend people… and yet, the Kodan, to me still has a very far eastern feel to them…

My gripes with the stupidity of political correctness aside…

Here are a couple of my characters from the Shinjo family, who migrated north from Cantha a /long/ while ago… like, back before Guild Wars 1. As such, neither of them have ever actually been to Cantha.

First is Naomi. A girl displaced over 250 years out of time. She’s actually the grand daughter of the Shinjo family Patriarch that moved his family from Cantha in the first place! How and why she returned to Tyria now, even she doesn’t know… The Mists are funny that way…

Second is Kyoshi. Much more ‘mundane’ then his long lost cousin, Kyoshi was born in Krytia, and he wields his ancestral two-handed sword as a guardian…

I can already see people complaining about charr getting an inherent speed buff just for being charr while the other races get nothing.
Personally, I have no really issue with how they move, though I do wish that we could get an option as to whether we run on two legs or four, regardless of whether or not we have a weapon drawn. No speed buff necessary.

Eh… Good. Bad.
More opinion.
Thanks for sharing yours on it.

Hmm, I’ll have to look more thoroughly through my collection. Most ‘action’ shots I have are usually kind of a mess.
Here’s a decent one though, I think…
‘Facing down a beast…’

@teotl
I’m a CoH refugee too, and I’ll admit… I have no lost love for NCsoft. I think how they handled CoH was a terrible atrocity . It felt like, to me that they shut it down because someone over there in Korea didn’t like it.
But you know what I realized?
NCsoft =/= ArenaNet
And not playing Guild Wars was akin to punishing ArenaNet for what NCsoft did.

I think the situation is also different too.
Paragon Studios was under much more direct control from NCsoft, since NCsoft put the studio together after they got the game from Cryptic Studios…
ArenaNet was it’s own studio before it was acquired by NCsoft…

All I’m saying, I guess, is just take heart. This game isn’t likely going anywhere soon. Jump in and enjoy it!

Pockets.3201:

CalamityO.2890:

slamfunction.7462:

Still here. I wasn’t anti-expansion, i was anti-ANet not telling us anything and not giving us any hope that things would change.

That being said, this is a very bright day indeed, and i think all GW2 fans, including myself, are very happy and joyous with this news.

Now, time to start throwing money at these people(ANet). They deserve it.

The point was, people like yourself disbelieved and took whatever moment to point out just how foolish like the OP was, for saying that there was an x-pac on the horizon. I think they’ve earned the right to gloat as their faith and belief was rewarded. Whilst humble pie is needed for the dis-believers.

There is no right to gloat. It is never a good thing. People need to get over this garbage instead of wasting time being smug about who was wrong about what. It is nether constructive nor a good thing for the community.

I agree with Pockets. These forums are often a cesspool of negativity and bile slinging… We don’t need any more of it…

RPers are still there. Still see them walking around DR, LA or most every other part of the game.
Though who knows… Maybe a lot of them got sick of little kittenheads constantly spamming emotes or AoE’s to just ruin peoples fun. (Because you know, no possible way some gamers out there can just let other people be… Not having fun unless they are ruining some other peoples day…)

-facepalms-

And another thread that devolves to insults and Anet bashing…
Why even bother anymore…

Man… I know it’s supposed to be a joke but some of these… Sheesh…

Here’s my first try at this…

As much as I would really love to see the Tengu become a playable race, I see no real evidence of it happening.
I would love to be proven wrong! And, if this really is going to be an expansion, then this would be good time to bring in a new selectable race.
But, we just have to be patient, wait and see.

WuGzaGenius.5684:

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

WuGzaGenius.5684:

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

Hayashi.3416:

I don’t have any issues with the game mode itself. My main issue is how the other players behave in a PvP scenario.

WvW, you don’t get to hear the other side.

PvE, it’s cooperative.

This about sums it up for me.
If you like the challenge of PvP, then great! I truly believe that player vs player /can/ be a good test of skill and fun.
But unfortunately, as the old saying goes, ‘It takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch.’ And I personally have had more then my fair share of foul-mouthed, rage-fueled mental children who take PvP way too seriously to be healthy.

Some people might find getting page after page of verbal garbage vomited at them amusing. And hey, if you do, then great. Nothing against you.
It’s just not my thing. Simple as that.

have you tried turning map chat off?

Turned off Map Chat.
Reported them when they paged me and blocked them.
Turned off emotes when they start getting creative with those too.

Doesn’t matter. There is always someone else that steps up and is more then eager to hurl insults, accusations and generally behave like immature 12 year olds who only get away with crap like this because they can hide behind the internet.

And quite simply put, I don’t feel like dealing with it anymore. I didn’t like it in any other game I played over the years and I don’t like it here.

You just gotta look at it with a different light. If someone PM’s me and says something along the lines ’you’re so bad lmao trash gg’ I think to my self: “Wow i really made this kid mad. haha” and then i never think about it again. Ya just gotta be a little more thick skinned to people on the internet!

So instead of the foul-mouth, trash-talkers being at fault, it’s all me and the people who don’t care to deal with their rage-fueled tirades.
Sigh…
It’s the equivalent of placing blame of a crime on the victem…
Sorry, but no. Like I said, I have dealt with it quite enough in my time playing online games. And being told the equivalent of ‘Toughen up, Princess!!’ is not going to help change anything.

WuGzaGenius.5684:

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

Hayashi.3416:

I don’t have any issues with the game mode itself. My main issue is how the other players behave in a PvP scenario.

WvW, you don’t get to hear the other side.

PvE, it’s cooperative.

This about sums it up for me.
If you like the challenge of PvP, then great! I truly believe that player vs player /can/ be a good test of skill and fun.
But unfortunately, as the old saying goes, ‘It takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch.’ And I personally have had more then my fair share of foul-mouthed, rage-fueled mental children who take PvP way too seriously to be healthy.

Some people might find getting page after page of verbal garbage vomited at them amusing. And hey, if you do, then great. Nothing against you.
It’s just not my thing. Simple as that.

have you tried turning map chat off?

Turned off Map Chat.
Reported them when they paged me and blocked them.
Turned off emotes when they start getting creative with those too.

Doesn’t matter. There is always someone else that steps up and is more then eager to hurl insults, accusations and generally behave like immature 12 year olds who only get away with crap like this because they can hide behind the internet.

And quite simply put, I don’t feel like dealing with it anymore. I didn’t like it in any other game I played over the years and I don’t like it here.

Hayashi.3416:

I don’t have any issues with the game mode itself. My main issue is how the other players behave in a PvP scenario.

WvW, you don’t get to hear the other side.

PvE, it’s cooperative.

This about sums it up for me.
If you like the challenge of PvP, then great! I truly believe that player vs player /can/ be a good test of skill and fun.
But unfortunately, as the old saying goes, ‘It takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch.’ And I personally have had more then my fair share of foul-mouthed, rage-fueled mental children who take PvP way too seriously to be healthy.

Some people might find getting page after page of verbal garbage vomited at them amusing. And hey, if you do, then great. Nothing against you.
It’s just not my thing. Simple as that.

I have been wanting to post here for a long while now. I’m fairly happy with how most of my characters look, but this one is the one I am most proud of.

Human Mesmer (and my namesake!) wearing the following…

Head: Carapace Cowl (Dijon Dye)
Shoulders: Trickster’s Mantle (Antique Gold and Blood Dyes)
Chest: Vestments of the Lich (Ocean, Antique Gold and Midnight Ice Dyes)
Hands: Dry Bones Gloves (Mindnight Ice, Red and Antique Gold Dyes)
Legs: Council Ministry Hose (Ocean and Antique Gold Dyes)
Feet: Incarnate Shoes (Blood, Midnight Ice and Antique Gold Dyes)
Weapon: Cobalt

Note: I was trying to go for an Orrian feel for her look, without using the entirety the Arah armor set (nothing against it, but so much of it looks a bit too ragged.) I dunno how well I succeeded with that though, since there is precious few good images of what the Orrian’s looked like before they all became corrupted Risen. x.x I’m open to any suggestions though! ^-^

Garrisyl.7402:

I like it more this way than in the personal story where you leave fields of corpses behind and get ignored, while Glorious Leader Trahearne whacks away on a trash mob for half an hour and everyone celebrates him like he just found a culinary application for Bloodstone Dust.

And here we go with this hyperbole again…

Hey… somebody show me in the game where everyone heaped praise on Trahearne, proclaiming him the savior of the world, and ignored you.
Tell me when, exactly, Trahearne just turned towards our character with a grin and said ‘This was all me…’
What story instance or cut scene was this in?

I’m sure I’m not the only one here that would love to finally see where this happens…

As for getting praised by the NPCs at the end of that fight with the Shadow of the Dragon…
I would have been happy with just having Jory simply say ‘Good fight there, Boss.’ and be done with it.
But like others have said… People whined that they didn’t feel like the center of the universe.
Because hey… screw just being ‘a hero’ who did what they had to do… It’s all about being /THE HERO!!/ who is obviously the biggest special snowflake in all creation and who /must/ be reminded of that at every single opportunity!

I don’t really mind the Charr running around on all fours. In my mind, it emphasizes the fact that they are not human. And that’s fine by me.
What I want to know is why the PCs are the only ones that do that, while all the NPC Charr do not!

Some misinformation that seems to be propagated here about Custom Arenas…

It’s 200 gold to buy a custom arena kit. There are no Gems involved in it anymore (unless you are converting Gems to Gold for this…)
That’s an arena you own for 30 days, which you can customize however you want (within the bounds of what the game provides for you, of course…) and that’s not counting Arena Tokens that you can buy, or that drop as PvP rewards.
For those worried about random people jumping in and ruining your duel, (PvPers griefing other PvPers? Well huh…) these arenas can have passwords put on them to keep that from happening. And, if you do end up with some trash-talking foul mouth brat, you can ban them from stepping foot in there again.

Now, while some might argue ‘I shouldn’t have to pay 200 Gold!’ I feel the need to point out that if there are enough people who really want to duel, can you not pool your gold for something like this? Form a Dueling Guild for just this purpose? Even a small guild could be able to foot this bill easily and keep their arena up for a while. (And that’s not taking into account buying Arena Tokens.. I have 16 of them just sitting in my bank, and I hardly step foot in sPvP.)

Here is the link for all the details on this…
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Custom_Arena

It amazes me how people want to shove PvP in the only mode of the game that doesn’t have it.
Keep your duels in the HotM. And if you want a mode that lets you keep all your gear and what-not, then ask for the devs to add it over there.

That’s a phishing attempt and you should most certainly /not/ go to that link, Uriko.
It’s one that has been going around for a little bit now. If such a thing was official, the mail would let you know it was from Anet.
As it is, if Anet has any problem with your account, they wouldn’t contact you though the in-game email like that.

Things they have done right? Quite a bit in my opinion… Lets see…

-The B2P model… No monthly subscription for a game that is as big as this one. The only time I felt any pressure to log in and ‘get my moneys worth’ is when a new Chapter of the LS comes out or annual events like Halloween or Wintersday happens. And even during those events, I never felt like I was racing to try and get things done before I ran out of time.

-Combat… The pace of combat in this game far exceeds anything else I have bothered to try. As much as I loved City of Heroes, practically every attack you did rooted you to the ground. Most other games are the same way (with FFXIV being an exception in that aspect.)
Another thing about the combat in this game is how I feel like I am actually playing the game during a fight, rather then playing the skill bar. Add the Dodge ability, and combat can be the most fluid, engaging experience I have had in an MMORPG.

-Quality of Life Improvements… The Wardrobe and Transmutation systems are a -huge- improvement over the previous system. The Wallet was a much needed and desired upgrade that made currency so much easier to use between alts. The Story Journal. The Trading Post. The sPvP reward tracks…

-Travel… I can’t think of any other game that allowed players to move around the map with such ease. FFXIV comes close, but the way their map is set up make’s it far less convenient.

-Graphics… The look of this game is amazing. Whether you are in one of the main cities, or wandering around the world, the place looks kitten ed good.

-WvW… Some people complain that this is stale… I still say it’s the best realm vs realm PvP out there. If you like the idea of big armies of players fighting each other, invading and defending forts and castles, and otherwise the feel of a huge open-field war, this is for you. It might not be perfect (is anything, really?) but it’s still good.

-Dynamic Events… Far and away better then the standard, time-worn ‘Quest giving NPCs’ that is used everywhere else.

I could say more, but that’s two more then the OP asked for. Suffice to say, that while not everything in this game is perfect, there is quite a bit they have done well (which is all too often conveniently overlooked/forgotten/ignored.)

I have a feeling that it’s a pretty common problem in MMO’s, actually.

Best example I can think of off the top of my head…
Anyone that played City of Heroes (Rest in peace… such a good game… ) could tell you about the construction projects that NPC’s worked on since seemingly forever.
Any CoH veterans remember the Faultline zone? Did those NPC construction workers /ever/ make any headway in rebuilding that area?
Hell, that zone was so much trapped in time, you could actually go there and meet a young NPC named Penelope Yin.
You could then go to another zone, and see the very same NPC, all grown up and part of a major super hero team.
It was weird…

Lion’s Arch feels like it’s kinda in a similar limbo… I dunno how much developer resources it would take to fix things there, but I would guess that they are just focusing on other things right now.

I would be far more willing to accept people’s arguments on these forums if the large majority of them didn’t come off like over-entitled10-year olds having a fit, or condescending know-it-alls who think they know how to run an MMO better then the company that’s doing it, and repeatedly dismiss anything and everything that other people might say that doesn’t conform to their opinion.
There are precious few real conversations on these forums, and far too many people simply yelling into echo chambers.

And that can fully apply to both ‘negative nancy’s and ‘white knights’…

The biggest difference is, which side usually starts all the angry, rage-filled negativity that turns things into a toxic cesspit?
You can argue that it’s the people that happen to like the game that causes it by not agreeing with those who don’t, but I have yet to see very many threads that basically start out saying…
‘I think this is great! And if you don’t agree with me, you suck…’
No, it’s usually the other extreme… The ‘Anti-GW2’ crowd flinging hyperbole and thinly veiled insults and starting drama…
The ‘pro-GW2’ crowd are far more reactionary with such things, finally having enough mud and bile slung at them and the game they happen to like before slinging it back.

Greyhound.2058:

Redenaz.8631:

Reducing the range on /me emotes would be a good thing, too.

I think that is probably the one and only option that would be welcomed by all parties and inconvenience no-one

Seconded. I mean, do emotes really have to travel as far as they do? Does someone across the zone need to see me nodding in agreement to someone else?

As for the topic at hand… RPers have every right to RP where they want.
If they are crossing the line with their public RP, then yeah, you have every right to ignore/block/report them.
Conversely, they have every right to do the same to anyone who is, say… spamming emotes ad nauseum just to grief them.

Unfortunately, that’s the way of the interwebz. Sorry, but it’s ‘Multiplayer’ for a reason. And if you can’t (or more likely, won’t) deal with that fact, then playing MMO’s is /probably/ not a good idea…

ourplague.7196:

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

ShinjoNaomi.1896: How people find this Bell Choir mini-game so difficult is beyond me. Hit the corresponding button when the light is in the blue circle… So hard. So impossible.

It is when you literally only have one hand to play with. It is quite easy to accomplish every other feat in this game with ease using a gaming mouse….. Throwing an achievement into the meta that requires two hands and absolute coordination…. Yeah – Unfortunately it is an impossible feat.

For lack of a nicer way of putting this…
If you are playing this game with only one hand (due to a physical impediment,) then that puts you in a minority.
And even then, as Ardenwolfe has pointed out above, it’s not impossible. The point and click method works. Or remapping the 1 through 4 buttons so they are right under 6 through 9, and able to hit with one hand with practice.
Unlike console gamers who are much more limited with their options, PC gamers have a ton more freedom with their keyboard and mouse. If you choose not to take advantage of that, then that is all on you.

How people find this Bell Choir mini-game so difficult is beyond me. Hit the corresponding button when the light is in the blue circle… So hard. So impossible.
You’d think from the complaints here that the lights were moving at literally the speed of light and the game was unplugging your keyboard every time you went to hit a button.
While I guess one persons ‘difficult’ is another persons ‘easy’, my cynicism towards the complaints in these forums being what it is, I am more apt to believe that it’s more forum hyperbole then actual fact.

All that being said, I am sure -some- circumstances can happen which makes the mini-game difficult. Lag is one that comes to mind. But that, and lack of coordination (for whatever reason) on the part of the player, is not Anets fault. Sorry, if you have a bad connection, you shouldn’t expect Anet (or any other company for that matter) to come and upgrade your network.

And last, but certainly not least… if it was /really/ that bloody difficult and impossible to do, then why are their people that have accomplished it? If it is that hard, then logic would dictate that only a select few lucky people should have the achievement. In which case, very few people would be able to accomplish the Wintersday meta…
Which is not what I have been seeing so far from people in game.

Seriously, what do people want? A big fat ‘I WIN!’ button? Sheesh…