Guild Wars 2

Hey, look, it’s the fractal leaderboard again. Guess we’re getting another PR level reset. You know, to keep things fair for the newer players. Because the leaderboard is totally real and is definitely coming. Mhm.

Purple Miku.7032:

Kordash.2197:

Purple Miku.7032:

I’ll keep doing arah to maintain my lead as person with most arah tokens, but I would not be telling the truth to say that I might have a lot lower motivation than I already do. Don’t really care about the gold that much, it’s the tokens that matter the most but still it’s like getting kicked in the groin… we don’t deserve to get treated like this.

Even if dungeons aren’t worked on anymore it’s stupid to shun people that play them.

So yeah the dungeons gold nerf does kitten me off, but I can’t say I’m surprised considering the track record here. They have disappointing their playerbase down to a science tbh, they’re like the Comcast of the gaming industry for me right now.

Speaking of that, did you reach 100k ?

Looks like someone is trying to rebuild Zhaitan from its shards, and is getting close to succeeding. I daresay the Priory would repay you handsomely for that collection so that they can display the fully-reformed elder beast.

Well, you can always grind the cash you need to buy one.

Legendary gear really really really needs to hold every rune/sigil/whateva in it, and you can choose from the list while ooc, like the stats. Of course you have to add them to the legend first, but after that you should be able to switch between them.

They are legendary items. This needs to happen.

Jade Maw on a 50. Long, annoying, dull and there are tons of mobs who drop no loot (to prevent overfarming I imagine :| ).

I dunno who is the genius who had the Irukandji not drop loot, but I hope Santa brings you wet coals for every Christmas ever.

Zalavaaris.5329:

I haven’t heard anyone say they DON’T want a meta, just that everyone having the same meta being boring. And I agree, if meta for my necro is valk gear or zerker gear so be it, as long as there is more variety between us and the other classes.

You keep using that word “meta”, but I don’t think it means what you think it means…

Kirschsahne.2081:

lxghostxl.5097:

because to me this just sad and very bad move from ANET.

Jepp… you nailed it. For you it’s a bad move.
Everyone else on that planet loves it

No, not everyone loves it. You love it. Just like he does not. And I do not. And some friends I was on skype with during the reveal do not.

It’s funny how you notice that he was a good guy and said it’s his opinion, but then you fall into that self-assuring trap he managed to avoid.

Pandaman.4758:

imsoenthused.1634:

I find it distasteful in the extreme, but arena.net hasn’t declared it verboten, so this is what we get. Personally, I wish they’d make an official statement forbidding it, an then actively ban anyone who tried to do it. Of course, the kind of people who buy and sell these services are hugely offended about anyone who feels this way. They always immediately start screaming “How are they hurting you?” “shouldn’t they be paid for their skill?” etc. I could care less about their arguments though, it’s just tacky and sad, exploitative on the sellers side and pathetic on the buyers. At the very least if Anet banned it they’d have to make shady backroom deals on 3rd party forums and such, and you wouldn’t see it in the LFG tool anymore, and that would be much better. They could hang out in the dark alleys of the internet making shady, shameful deals all they want, always fearful that their dirty secret would come out and their account would be properly banned.

I’ve never bought or sold paths, but this is…

You’re just openly saying you don’t care what other people have to say, you just want people banned because you’re offended. You want to punish other people in the community because they don’t conform to your ideal of gaming, of how they choose to spend their time and money.

If there’s anything toxic about path selling, it’s attitudes like yours.

This man needs to be given a cookie!

imsoenthused.1634:

Pandaman.4758:

I’ve never bought or sold paths, but this is…

You’re just openly saying you don’t care what other people have to say, you just want people banned because you’re offended. You want to punish other people in the community because they don’t conform to your ideal of gaming, of how they choose to spend their time and money.

If there’s anything toxic about path selling, it’s attitudes like yours.

You don’t have to like my opinion, and no, I don’t really care if it bothers you. I never said anything about punishing people, unless Anet changed the rules, which I think they should do. Then, yes, people who didn’t follow them should be banned.

At no point did I say people should be banned because path selling offended me. I said it offended me and that I wish Anet would make it against the rules.

You can climb off your high horse though, Anet isn’t going to change their stance any time soon. Or don’t, whatever. You’ll still think what you do, and I’ll still think what I do, either way.

Let me see if I understand your logic here:

Selling paths offends you => people doing it should be banned

is completely different, actually the opposite from

Selling paths offends you => ANet outlaws it => people doing it should be banned

??

Are you serious?

Wondrouswall.7169:

Looking at the loot available from Black Lion Chests I would like to see some of the more less-rewarding items be removed, others merged, and an increase of quantity of other drops to make it at the very least a bit less disheartening when receiving these.

Remove the following:

• Boost Enchantment Powder
• Beast, Forest, and Furniture Mystery Tonics (the ones that come in quantities of 10)
• Tome of Knowledge
• Large Guild Discovery
• Medium, Large, and Heavy Crafting Bags
• Endless Monkey King Tonic
• All Boosters except the Heroic Booster.

Merge the following:

• Revive Orb & Repair Canister as a Recovery Package
• Merchant Express, Trading Post Express, and Bank Access Express as a Tradesman’s Package
• All individual Miniatures as part of the Toy Miniature Egg

Increase Quantity the following:

• Unidentified Dye to 3-5 per stack (up from 1-2)
• Transmutation Charge to 5 per stack (up from 1)

I’m sure more can be done to improve the BLC contents, and the removal of highly unwanted items and a possible merger of others would be a good start to make BLC more rewarding. Just a suggestion, feel free to criticize or bounce more ideas around.

This is an awesome ideea, please ANet implement this!

Elitarny Mistrz.6051:

Arena net please add other God’s regalias. I really wait for Grenth, Lyssa, Melandru and Kormir Regalias. I think lot of Gw1 players want it after, we’re get Balthazar’s and Dwayna’s.

As a GW1 veteran, I would most certainly NOT want more outfits with the armor of the gods. The only worthy way these could be put into the game would be as cultural armors for their respective races (6 gods for humans, Khan-Ur, Pyre and other famous charr heroes for charr etc). I was dumbfounded when I saw Balthazar armor on charr (well, on any race actually but on charr especially because of their centuries-old enmity).

But since apparently nothing is sacred for ANet, they will probably come out eventually – we’re already through the looking glass since they already released 2 of them.

Wanze.8410:

Sae.8453:

That’s officially a wrap I think. No bunny ears, but I can’t complain. :P

Anet said months ago that they wont release any more single armor skins in the gem store, just outfits.

They already put on sale the shadow of the dragon value pack w/e which contains 3 armor skins, so that’s no reason not to put out bunny ears again. I’m not a fan of them, but many people seem to want them so they might as well. Maybe on Christmas sale.

kitten, the few days I was away on vacation had some items I would have bought. Ah, well.

Can we please get character slot sale, too? Pretty please?

Vancien.1980:

Look folks. Many of you apparently have not ever participated in a random even in Guildwars. Let me welcome you to the experience! First of all, things aren’t always perfect. Sort of like how life usually has curve balls. You have to just overcome them.

There are other things I am sure you could be doing. Like the regular ritual of dailies, perhaps your dungeon runs you have done a million times and a half or fractals on farm. But this is a NEW EXPERIENCE.

Broken or not, it’s not what you would be normally doing and I can assure you from experience that they will figure out the kinks and fix it so that your time is not for nothing. There is no need to make a huge stink about getting nothing while you spent time with your wifey, girlfriend or boyfriend doing these unique events because it’s certainly not the same thing you did last night.

So be a bit more thankful and look at the positive side of things.

To the developers. Thank you for adding another random event we can enjoy and I hope you will get the buggers worked out as always in an expeditious manor.

-Van

Nothing about this experience is new. It’s a rehash of the Scarlet invasions combined with the SW stuff and a with rewards that are very very hard to calculate. And these events are about as challenging as walking from one side of LA to another. The only “challenging” part is tagging as many events as possible in order to maybe get more of the uncertain rewards, which I hope is not what they intended but who knows.

Oh and it’s also buggy as hell. They are working on fixes I guess and maybe fixed some as well, but for an event with such a short duration I doubt they will come out in time and the overall frustration generated must be staggering.

So while looking at the positive side of being able to get some older skins and rewards and the other positive side of having a break from the daily routine, there is also the negative side of those skins costing prohibitive amounts of tokens that are very very hard to get, if not impossible, in those quantities or at all, and the fact that the event is overall not only not rewarding but also very frustrating due to its bugs, while actually being quite boring and unchallenging.

Now you tell me what result you arrive to when you balance those pros and cons. I know my conclusion.

I think about 38k or so. Saving them for the big awesome merchant that will exchange bags of green gear for 1k badges.

1 year ago t2 it was the place to be. In 10 months it’ll be t4.

Yaaaaaawn…

Kordash.2197:

Excuse me, but the user experience of the LFG is actually tied to people mostly using it wrong, aka, “DIDN’T READ LOL HURR DURR”, and not the tool in itself. Working on features to prevent things that can be prevented with a bit of common sense isn’t good. For the very simple reason that doesn’t help people to improve their very basics social skills.

Yes in some case the tool allow griefing (instance stealing for example), and that should be worked on. But not the “not reading” part.

The tool can be changed by ANet. The mentality of players cannot, ANet can’t force people to read and in general to be better individuals, especially in this case where we all know how idiotic can people behave.

A filter to the lfg would be most useful.

Princ.3598:

Qugi.2653:

You should wait for maybe new legendary. Twilight and sunrise are the two most used legedary in game. Everyone that can use great sword seem to have one.

Then you can have more sleep not worry about it.

Well i’ve heard there are only going to be 3 new legendary weapons…

I think that’s only at first, when the xpac hits. More should be on the way as the story progresses.

No way, the gw2 weapons are already disproportionately huge to the point where they look ridiculous. If anything, they should be made smaller.

Baldur’s Gate 2 all the way, there’s not even a question about it. Why would you pay now for an expansion which is highly doubtful we will get to play in the next 6 months and has so little revealed about? And from what it has revealed it’s mostly stuff that should have been in the game from the start. Even more so if you say you don’t care about the betas and the other stuff you would get. ANet needs to deliver a lot more to justify that huge price tag…

Waiting is by far the best policy without even a release date announced.

I’ve found a vid that exactly represents my thoughts on the HoT pricing policy.

Carcharias from a FR bloke in EotM, which I sold for ~120g. I never got any really awesomely expensive drops, but I got stuff worth 10-30g fairly regularly so can’t really complain that much. Still, i’m kinda bummed that the 3 precursors I got as drops were silly ones (Carcharias and 2x Bard).

Thaddeus.4891:

Well it’s the best solution I can come up with to try to please all those anti-zerk poster. A kind of compromise. Again, personally I prefer the current system.

One should not give in to a minority simply because they are loud about it… It is a sad and twisted world where the majority changes to suit the minority, and it’s a world where democracy has failed.

This has been asked time and time again and still no fix. I doubt they will fix it in the future. It’s kitten annoying and demeaning to get tossed out even if you have the pass in your inventory.

Following this trend, I can’t wait for the new engineer elite specialization: the IT Guy! The healing skill animation will be your character smashing some paperpusher’s face into a PC monitor. The elite skill will be Use Google.

sorudo.9054:

Caedmon.6798:

sorudo.9054:

Caedmon.6798:

Because you have a 100b at 1500 range while being able to move around and projectiles following targets,compare that to the actual 100b skill of gs which roots you in place and has a 130 range and is incredibly difficult to fully land it on a person,and you might understand why some weaps have a higher base stats than others.

i move around all the time with the GS…..what are you talking about with the “root in place” part?

Sorry,i meant the GS for warrior in this case when i made the comparison about 100b rooting you into place when using it.

nop, still the same, i still move around with my warrior (GS main).
the only one who is really rooted in place is the ranger but that’s it.

The warrior greatsword skill #2, called Hundred Blades (or 100b in short), roots you in place. You cannot channel it while moving. If you start it and then move, the skill stops…

IMO it should emit light, but I’m not overly inconvenienced that it does not.

However, an awesome change would be for its runes to stop glowing when stowed and only come to life when the sword is wielded (just like Beacon of Light). I never regretted crafting it, but this kinda bothers me.

It’s at the top center of the screen when you are in the PvP lobby. You only choose which rune you want to use now and it automatically applies all 6 bonuses from it. You don’t need more pieces than the starter armor ones, those give full armor bonus in PvP.

You will have to do them again, they said this outright when they added these tracks. It sucks, but it’s not that hard, all of them are very easy and you only need to do them on one char and the track is unlocked for the entire account.

PyroKenny.1427:

I just don’t see it… They have big ears, but they flop down on the sides of their heads. The only rodent I’ve found that has 3 toes is the kangaroo rat, but Asura don’t hop around. Their anatomy looks more related to humans. Rodents also have pitch black eyes but the Asura have visible pupils with irises that vary in different colors. The shape of their heads don’t look rodent like either… They’re more round and spherical instead or long. I actually can’t help but get offended when people refer to them as rodents since I often play the Asura, and see it as a racial slur for them… If you have proof or any evidence that the Asura are rodents please share, but as of now I am just unable to see them as such.

This is exactly what a rat would say if it were trying to draw attention away from itself… ^^

I only play humans and I have one char for each class. However, I did make one of each other race (except asura so far) to experience their story and have more mules. The sylvari is an ele that I raised to level 55 and left there in order to open containers on him for best loot. The norn and charr are both warriors, because this is the class I most enjoy playing and am most comfortable with, especially in low levels. And I also wanted to have a space marine with a chainsword, and the norn provides that.

I would love to see this in the game, it might well be the most enjoyable GW2 form of PvP… No NPCs, no siege, just good ol’ honest fighting!

Kal Spiro.9745:

My hope is that each skill point will be converted into a bag that will randomly drop a forge specific mat. So the more skill points you have, the more chances you’ll have to get something good, like clovers. It’s probably just wishful thinking though.

I really really really not want this to happen, we already have enough RNG in this game. Just give us selectable mats for them or, even better, a choice between regular MF mats that are available now at the trader and a special container with a chance at rarer stuff, like spend 20 SP with a chance to get a MF mat worth more SP (like orrian jewelry boxes).

They said some time ago something along the lines of “skill points won’t be earned when you level up after lvl 80 since the masteries take over, but instead will be earned from doing challenges”. Something like that. So the hero points won’t be finite, if by doing those challenges we gain them. This is only deduction and speculation, we won’t know for sure until they tell us, though. Seems reasonable, though.

I am curious myself on the skill scrolls, I have some 5-6 stacks of them and I’d like to know if I should consume them now or if it’s okay to sit on them till after expansion hits. Too lazy to turn them into gold, but maybe I’ll get off my kitten and start doing it anyway, I have several thousands skill points as it is now across all chars and skill scroll stacks…

That’s what you get for playing a rat… ^^

Siliness aside, it’s an annoying bug but not limited to Incinerator – it’s just as annoying with Frostfang, the ice-on-hand is actually a huge block of ice compared to the asura’s tiny body. I noticed this in the Thaumanova fractal and it looks really dumb…

Blue: hey-gusie-lets-get-somfin-goin-and-b-nice commander
Red: aaarrrgghhh-kill-everything-kill-kill-kill commander
Yellow: kitten-is-this-thing-over-my-head-how-do-I-turn-it-off commander
Purple: pimp commander (it ain’t easy…)

spoj.9672:

Molten lodestone is 90 silver. Thats not double and 2.3g still seems a bit low for a fractal 50 dont you think?

I… Uhm… Wh… What?!

Has my sarcasm reached such a level that it’s taken seriously now?)

Of course it’s a stupidly small reward for a fotm 50…

Valik Shin.9027:

U should get 1g per reward tier so a 50 would be 6g

This would be acceptable IMO.

GrandHaven.1052:

How is this related to NPE?

If you are asking how is engineer damage related to NPE, it’s simple: since the NPE, level 1-2 chars only have one weapon skill they can use, one healing skill and no utility skills. Engineer weapons do potato damage by themelves, you need kits to be able to do something if you don’t have traits. Since kits are utility skills, and since NPE new chars can’t use utility skills until a certain level, and then only 1 by 1 instead of 3 at lvl 1 like it was before… I think you get it.

OP, I don’t understand how you can complain after getting a full LODESTONE from the endchest, thus doubling your end reward…

I don’t think there was ever a 10v10, but there was 8v8. However, I have not played since launch but rather ~2 months after, so I may have missed it.

IIRC, someone from ANet said that the reason behind the elimination of 8v8 was that the game is balanced around 5v5 and 8v8 was too much and not balanced, or something like that. I miss the old 8v8, they were random and quite fun and a 7v8 was not that much of a difference, as opposed to the 4v5s we get now sometimes…

Anyhow, it’s gone and it’s highly unlikely it will come back.

I think you can make your own private server and set it to 8v8, but not sure.

Basaltface.2786:

Phoenixlin.8624:

Yeah locking up everything behind level-gate requires less grind than the old-fashioned way.

All hail NPE and its super progression ideas!

Yea try to level an engi now with the npe. 1 pistol and no kits… was worried the fun might start.

Engineers are by far the hardest hit by the nightmare that is the NPE. The pistol or rifle deal potato damage and you spend a lot of time killing every mob… it’s a nightmare.

maddoctor.2738:

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

27. forum is buggy and it’s impossible to use the search function, taking much away from its utility

How is this a “questionable decision”? I doubt they decided one day to say: “Hey let’s not have a working search function on our forums for <reasons>”

I’m actually not ruling that out, but what I meant was that there are ten million billion forums out there and I don’t think they all have this issue; not working on fixing it is a questionable decision.

Forum bug is awesome…

Olvendred.3027:

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

Linken.6345:

Dont see how its hard to spam 2 buttons

No, but picture this scenario: you are in wvw/eotm during a zerg fight, there are downed people everywhere, both allies and enemies, and maybe some herbs to be gathered. Now, what happens when you press the F key to loot all while moving? Do you think it’s maybe possible to get run past a downed player or another interactive object and have the option to interact with it immediately supercede the loot all option? And there you are, reviving or stomping or gathering mats when you just wanted to loot and move on to the killing. This happens literally every time in a zerg fight and it’s annoying to no end.

Either bind AoE loot to a different key, or put AoE loot as F and bind Interact to a different key. It’s not difficult.

It kinda is when every other key in that region is bound to something. Ofc this is not a major issue, but it would be a great QoL improvement.

Linken.6345:

Dont see how its hard to spam 2 buttons

No, but picture this scenario: you are in wvw/eotm during a zerg fight, there are downed people everywhere, both allies and enemies, and maybe some herbs to be gathered. Now, what happens when you press the F key to loot all while moving? Do you think it’s maybe possible to get run past a downed player or another interactive object and have the option to interact with it immediately supercede the loot all option? And there you are, reviving or stomping or gathering mats when you just wanted to loot and move on to the killing. This happens literally every time in a zerg fight and it’s annoying to no end.

Please put in an option to automatically autoloot everything in range to inventory without human interaction (an option that can be disabled, ofc). Or, even better, simply directly put all loot in inventory (and if inventory is full, then let it on the ground to be picked up later)! Maybe only in wvw, where this is truly an issue when you die with loot bags and chests near you which will be gone when you return…

After getting a new account and trying to play on newer chars on my main one, I can say that, for me, the NPE is the second worst thing that has happened to gw2 (after the Fractured update).

How can anyone possibly see the reworked level-up “rewards” as rewards is beyond me, it’s just stuff that was previously available at level one but is now hidden behind levels. ANet literally removed access to game features, then made them alowly available again through level up, called it rewards and expect people to accept that. It’s ridiculous. Granted, there are some rewards that are actual rewards (dyes and mats and stuff like that, but too few to really matter).

The trait costs are insanely high. Of course you have the option to do some content and get them for free, but some of the chores are downright ridiculous (completion of an entire map for one trait?!) and they take a long time. So you either waste time or you waste cash to get something that was originally in the game for free. I am not really playing many of my alts outside of PvP because I refuse to pay for something that was free until not long ago and was changed for no good reason except to add a new gold sink.

Making a new account is one of the most demeaning experiences I have had so far in this game. The game downright treats you like a kitten. There is no tutorial where the mechanics can be explained, you just get very small bits every level up while playing. Granted, leveling up is very fast at the early levels, but when you are doing it having access to only one weapon skill and no utilities makes such a chore it’s incredible. Now, I have experience with the game and my frustration amounted to higher levels because of this, but even for fresh new players this must be infuriating, having your hand held like a helpless child.

Please change this ridiculous update and especially remove the trait costs.

In no particular order:

1. fractal reset and everything that came along with it (this annoyed me to no end, and still does)
2. watchwork pick
3. outfits and (almost) no new armors
4. fractal rewards
5. wvw being mostly ignored since launch
6. NPE
7. changed traits so you now have to buy them and they cost A LOT
8. sellable legendaries, these should have always been account bound on acquire
9. awful communication, failure to accept mistakes, apologise and make amends
10. abysmal customer support with ridiculous excuses and computer-like answers
11. town clothes into tonics
12. adding additional currencies to clutter inventories and not to the wallet
13. very poor class balance
14. no guild halls at game launch for a game called Guild Wars
15. no gvg for a game called Guild Wars
16. skyhammer
17. putting soloq and teamq in the same q
18. putting out the gw2 manifesto only to ignore it
19. releasing HoT info at an abysmal rate (if this keeps up, we’ll be lucky to get it at about Christmas 2016)
20. implementing megaservers (a good ideea IMO) without putting an option for server-only chat or making the major cities server-only, thus screwing server communities
21. no possibility of saving builds so you can load them instantly
22. disbanding dungeon team
23. only adding one dungeon path in 2.5 years (admiteddly a good one), at the price of removing another path
24. almost no elite areas/group raids (we only have fractals, wurm and teq), no FoW or UW
25. guilds can start a world boss, but they can’t instance it and invite whom they choose
26. no real solutions for the insane amounts of Bloodstone Dust, Empyreal Fragments and Dragonite Ore that you get
27. forum is buggy and it’s impossible to use the search function, taking much away from its utility

Jedi Knight.3708:

recently since I’ve been active again there’s been a huge amount of buy the last run for Arah while not against the game it is very annoying it takes away the fun of adventure and no one else can get groups I’ve been kicked from groups for “refusing to pay the fee” what can be done and should this allowed to continue? I’ve spoken to more than a few players who are upset by this also

Please stop disrespecting other people’s groups and abusing the lfg system. Make your own group or join one doing a regular clearing like, you know, the lfg group right under the one you pointed out.

While indeed human male faces tend to be on the prettier side of the spectrum, you should know that there are sliders after you have chosen a face that allow you to alter it significantly and in every detail. You should try playing with those, you might find what you’re looking for.

Why should people go to a website when the tool is already in the game and it only needs a bit of improvement? That website existed because of how poorly done was gw2 when it came out and it did not have a built-in lfg tool, which they corrected.

You are taking this discrimination thing way too far and it’s getting kittened. Nobody is bashing on casuals, in fact this would ensure that this sort of bashing does not take place in-game – this filter would actually help casuals not interact with people with different views than them and would remove a significant amount of drama. How is this concept so hard to wrap your heads around?!

Marge.4035:

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

They almost stopped making armor sets and have been rolling out only outfits for a good while now.

No they didn’t. See my above post, besides, where did those glorious, carapace, hellfire and radiant pieces come from lately?

You don’t seem to grasp the concept of “almost”. Maybe google can help you?

Hellfire and Radiant armors have been around for ages, since the AP rewards were introduced. Or are you going to tell me they did not make the full sets then, but only the head, shoulders and gloves, and they only made the other 3 pieces for each only recently? You know how that sounds… right?

So that leaves us with Glorious and Carapace. Each has 2 versions, true, but to count them as different armors is laughable since they are not only simillar, but almost identical.

So we have that. 2 armor sets (granted, for each weight) against all the outfits. But I have to give ANet a big thumbs-up for making these 2 obtainable only through gameplay and not gem store; that was an awesome thing!

Regarding the mined armors – it’s good news, but that doesn’t mean they will necessarily be put into the game; not everything that is data mined is. And they may come with the expansion, which is not exactly coming in the near future, the way things are looking. And it’s kinda obvious that the expansion will come with new armors and weapons, I never heard of one that didn’t. So the armors from the expansion don’t really count towards this discussion, since this is about the stuff they introduce to the gem store/game regularly.