Guild Wars 2

Kaimick.5109:

Smelly Bookah.6957:

it’s a great idea. Why the heck are you talking about replay? It’s completely invalid argument. Not everyone thinks the same. For example I invested alot in my guardian. He has msot of the dyes unlocked (including most expensive ones). And you suggest I should make a new character? No thank you, I don’t find it enjoyable. And I am not an altoholic, so if I made a new warrior, I probably would never play tmy guardian again.
Class change is absolutely great idea and I strongly hope it will be implemented into the game.

That is your choice, so instead of investing time into a game you supposedly love, you want to be lazy and just change to a different class when you feel this suits your laziness?

I doubt this will ever be implemented and I for one am glad that NO GAME EVER has done this, if in the process we make a bunch of lazy people mad and they stop playing then so be it I am fine with that.

Before you go off and say “I am not a lazy person I do his this blah blah” I don’t care about your life or what you do, your comment was in a round about way saying,
" I leveled one character, got a lot of stuff on them and I don’t feel like doing it again cause I really didn’t enjoy it the first time. So I don’t see why I should level another character when I think they should just allow me to be what ever class is out there."

I am sorry you don’t understand replay
Why the heck are you talking about replay? It’s completely invalid argument.
Replay: the fact that playing a different race/ profession/ and character personalities can yield different story mechanics through out your game. Your Personality IE: Charming, Ferocious, or Noble change how Npc’s react with you. Doing it once through only shows you a small aspect of how the game reacts to your character and how the world reacts to you. The ability to make different choices and see different things is in all essential REPLAY

Vote NO on Prop
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U failed to make any valid point.

Actually I did enjoy doing it for the 1st time, but to be perfectly honest I probably would find it dull doing it for the second time. Leveling in pretty much empty zones is a terrible experience.
I do understand replay. But I would choose the same path, as it’s the best one (yes, I’ve tried them all), and I would like to see how it would continue in future expansions.
Moreover, if class change would be implemented, it should also reset your personal story. So there goes your replay.

You are entitled to your own opinion, however u cannot force it upon other people. If you don’t like the idea of class change, then don’t use it. I don’t see a point why other people who might want to do it should not be given the opportunity. They would have to pay for it, so I assure you this option would not be abused.

Now, can you come up with some decent counter argument this time? Except alleged laziness of some people? I’d gladly hear it. And don’t try to guess my response to it, as you will probably fail, like this time.

it’s a great idea. Why the heck are you talking about replay? It’s completely invalid argument. Not everyone thinks the same. For example I invested alot in my guardian. He has msot of the dyes unlocked (including most expensive ones). And you suggest I should make a new character? No thank you, I don’t find it enjoyable. And I am not an altoholic, so if I made a new warrior, I probably would never play tmy guardian again.
Class change is absolutely great idea and I strongly hope it will be implemented into the game.

Bring camera smoothing back as a toggle option please.
I am waiting and waiting for this to happen for weeks, yet seems like you completely forgot about it.

I think it would be great idea if instead of just swapping weapon skills when you swap weapons, whole skill bar would be changed. Just like when you go from surface to underwater. That would allow for improved customization.

P.S.
Some people might not consider this thread to be very constructive, however I did come up with some ways to fix problems I have mentioned. I simply didn’t want to include them due to few reasons:
1. the thread would probably be moved to suggestions
2. Some of the people could assume that I am yet another ignorant, wanna-be smart who has solutions to everything.

I seriously wonder who the heck did you hire to work on your game A-Net. I loved GW1, it was the best mmo I’ve played (ok I know technically it’s not even an mmo, but I played it like one and I therefore I call it a mmo. Simple logic.). I only bought GW2 because of its predecessor. And now i feel utterly disappointed. I know alot of changes had to be made since GW2 is all in all different game, however dumbing down core mechanics that made previous game great is a stupid thing to do.
And if that wasn’t enough, you come up with ideas that are the opposite of what many people used to love.
This thread is sort of a warning for you from ME (yes, I don’t even try to usurp right to speak for others, however if you agree with any point of this long thread, please post a comment). If you continue to follow this path I’ll simply quit, as this is not exactly how I expected this game to be.

First of all I’d like to address ascended gear. I don’t like the whole idea for very simple reason. Ascended items introduce even more FIXED stats. As you probably know stats are important, as you can’t run certain builds efficiently without proper stats.
Acquiring ascended gear is a very long process. You don’t expect people to grind for several sets, just to be able to run few different builds, do you?
You might say nobody is forced to grind as Ascended items makes little difference in terms of stats, so you can as well use exotics, but then again where is the point in this so-called progression?

Relative simplicity of acquiring exotics is important thing in build making. I was hoping you will eventually introduce new skills into the game, as in current state, there is barely anything to choose from.
Now however, it will not make much difference once ascended stuff is fully implemented into the game.

Another thing also regarding ascended stuff is transmutation system. It’s already bad, but it’s about tog et even worse.
Do you expect people to transmute their ascended gear?

I also have to complain there is barely anything to do in the game for me.
I like outfitting, however I don’t like dungeons. Unfortunately alot of the armors are only obtainable through dungeons. I got myself full set of ascalonian armor and you don’t want to hear my opinion on this whole process. Bear in mind AC is relatively simple dungeon.
Exploration is fun, however it ends quite fast.
So maybe achievments?
Umm, nope. The problem is there’s not much point or reward in them. In one of the interviews or articles I’ve seen you said titles gonna be bette than in Guild Wars 1, however this turned out to be yet another undelivered promise. I haven’t seen anyone who would care much about them.
The last thing I can think of are legendary weapons.
Thats probably the best thing to do, however once they get stat upgrade (or did they already?), it will feel more like something compulsory rather than completely I-want-to-have-it-just-because-its-shiny or I-want-to-have-it-cuz-I-like-noobs-running-around-me.

You tried to develop a game without grind, however it’s not what people want.
Whats in my opinion crucial for you to realise is that grind isn’t bad (by grind I generally mean things that require alot of time and effort. Such things usually mean getting alot of something, and as long as there may be multiple ways to do it, there are still not enough of them to make the action diverse. Whats more you usually discover 1 way thats more effective than others and you usually follow it). Grind can actually be quite fun. However it must be fully OPTIONAL. If you force it upon players, it stops to be fun. Even giving multiple ways to achieve the final goal isn’t in my opinion going to improve much. It’s still grind you have to do if you want to enjoy certain portions of the game.

To sum up: try to figure out what was so great about GW1. Then think what kind of players you want to play your game. You will not be able to please everyone.
I assure you that some people will stay with your game longer than others. Those others prefer other game, and some of the actions you take to draw their attention might bring them back, but only for a short while. On the other hand though, you piss your most loyal playerbase who are with you for years.

Like I said at the very beggining of this long thread, I am only speaking for myself. I do like Guild Wars and I don’t really want to quit. I had high hopes for the game and seeing as it goes quite the opposite way makes me sad. Thats why I post it thread. It’s the only way to let A-net know what is my opinion.

EnemyCrusher.7324:

Makeover kits are purely cosmetic, while a class change (or race change) would have a big impact on functionality. You wouldn’t be able to use the same weapons or armor, or learn the same skills or traits. It would still be possible, but you’d have to be willing to have all of your skills, traits, and equipment deleted.

You will be able to make a warrior with your guardian’s name though. There is a kit to change your character name that hasn’t been released yet. Once it is released, you can use that to change your guardian’s name, and then create a warrior with the guardian’s original name. Names are reserved to the account that previously held them for 24 hours, so you won’t be risking anyone else stealing it assuming you create the warrior within that time frame.

Why delete qeuipment? They shouldnt delete anything, except for personal story and biography. Rest should be preserved, just like levels.
As far as skills go, all SP and trait allocations should be reseted. It’s very simple to execute I think.

And like I said I am not going to do new character, I’ve spent way too much time and effor on my guardian to just let it go like that.

Class change should be available, I don’t really see any problem with them. Of course you may have some disadvantage, with gear stats or weapons for example. But thats very little to worry about as long as everything else is preserved. Remaking whole character would be worse.

We have makeover kits, so why not make class change kits?
Currently, I have a 80 guardian, but im totally fed up with it. I regret thatI didnt make the warrior. Sure I could just make a new character, however I am not an altoholic and I’d like to use the same name. I’ve invested too much time and effort in this character to just delete it and start from the evry scratch (for example I have most of the dyes in game, including most expensive ones). For now I just stopped playing as I don’t feel like playing on my guardian anymore.

I’d love to change the class and to be perfectly honest I see no reason why this should not be implemented.
Bearing in mind that class also changes the personal story, this aspect of the game should be reset and you should be allowed to write your biography once more.
Thats simple solution imo and i really hope it gets implemented some day.

I would like to suggest screams when you fall from heights to Wilhelm screams. I think it would be quite funny

If somebody doesnt quite know what it sounds like, heres a sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio

Ive just noticed distant blur is malfunctioning. When the option is on, it blurs even nearby objects and characters. Had to turn it off, as my eyes went crazy after short time of playing.
What might be improtant, I have increased FOV (it’s still in beta, right?).
If necessary I might provide screenshots. Im just too lazy to do it now.

its been over 3 months that the game is up and running and lifetime survivor is bugged all the time.

It is now possible to progress in it, however when you change zone it resets :S I got 437k exp out of required 500k and I have to start over.
Do you mind fixing it finally? once and for all?

I totally disagree with you. Dyes would significantly drop in value if they are account based.

Anyways there has been long, long discussion about it during beta and A-Net said no.
I agree with them on this particular point. Be happy that u unlock dyes forever and dont have to buy em to dye every single part of the armor.

soulwblood.1529:

I agree with some nerfing (Not AC kind of nerf, that dungeon is ridiculously easy now, but still challenging for newly lvl 30, which is kinda good) but CM is quite a jump from AC still.

I’d mostly say, a balance, and not a nerf. Dungeon should have a ramp of difficulty -Making CoF, CoE and Arah the hardest.

There are also some events that can one-shot players or NPCs, those need to be balanced too.

But! I still think things like the clocktower have to be kept. I enjoyed very much doing the clocktower, my heart pounded, my hand shake. But I enjoyed it. And it was a great achievment doing it. And that’s it. An achievment. It’s not content that needs to be completed. So it’s completely OK to be hard. (Same thing with mini dungeons/puzzles)

EDIT: Spelling typos

Clocktower was epic. It was hard but in a very good way. I hope for even harder jumping puzzle. Josh Foreman said he is working on something hardcore

You obviously haven’t read A-Net blog articles about WvWvW. They said that you would be able to ally with other server in orer to defeat the 3rd one. Seems like they either forgot or resigned from it. It’s a shame as it would add interesting twists to WvWvW matches (arent u tired with fighting servers that always win?).

I think some form of communication should be implemented.

I have a feeling that some of the things are hard in a very negative way. Let’s take Caudecus Manor for example. Mobs there are so hard it’s impossible to get through the dungeon with melee character without dying. The whole thing is it’s hard because mobs deal craploads of damage and it’s pretty much impossible to avoid it. Not much tactics is required to beat them, they dont have any intereseting mechanics that makes you think what would be the best and most efficient way to deal with them. All you need is brute strength. And that is a bit frustrating in my opinion.

I’ve been surprised that so many items are soul or account bound. In Guild Wars 1 pretty much nothing was bound to you and you could sell it to someone. Of course some items had no value at all, but still if you found someone who wanted it, there was nothing on your way to sell it.

I think that you should follow that path.
Here isn an example:
Toncis. Especially endless ones (like the ones from ToT bags from halloween). Who thought it will be a good idea to make em account bound? They are garbage now, even though they could become highly sought-after collectibles. But now nobody is going to bother with them.

Of course there are more examples of it.

P.S.
I’ve also been highly surprised that miniature Rytlock from CE is bound as well. Now it’s worth nothing at all, it doesnt even contribute for your miniature collection achievment.

Epic fail. Or in the light of recent news shall I say Ascended fail?

The whole transmutation system in my humble opinion should be redesigned. It’s pure failure so far as it even punishes you for transmuting gear. You jsut waste your money on it. You transmute your armor but then get bored with the look. What do you do then? Transmute it again? And then when u get bored u do the same thing? And completely waste cosmetic gear you have collected? Not much sense of achievment in it.
Of course u could get exotics with proper stats and transmute every single set however you want and then switch between them. But that is ridiculous…

In my opinion they could copy Lord of the Rings online outfitting system, with this exception that you would need transmutation stones in order to use certain armor as a cosmetic.

I am quite upset with the news about ascended gear.

You know why I bought this game? Because I was Guild Wars 1 player. I loved that game. I was really hoping that Guild Wars 2 will be an improvement to the previous game.

Guild Wars 2 though seems to go far away from its predecessor, and in a very negative way for me. Seriously, adding content that can be beaten only if you have good gear (which u need to grind for) is just pathetic. Look, game lacks skills and I personally think it would be way better to make character customization (in terms of mentioned skills and traits) deeper. Make it so you need skill and not gear to beat content.

As for gear I dont care about stupid legendary weapons. I dont like their skins. Let’s take greatswords for example. For me Dawn isnt even half as cool as Ebonblade. So far I could ignore them, but now I will have to grind for it just to get better stats (and eventually transmute it). It’s a fail for me. I wouldnt mind it if it was some other mmo. But it’s GUILD WARS !!!! Don’t forget about players who bought this game because they played GW1, ok?

Focus on skills instead of new uber-duper pro items. Add more of them, so we can put many different builds together. Don’t make stuff that can only be beaten with high-end gear. If I were Mike O’Brien I’d fire the person who even came up with this ridiculously stupid idea.

P.S.

Dear mdoerators, don’t you dare to delete this post. There are a few suggestions in it. Read it twice if you can’t find em for the 1st time.

I hope they will change existing system some time in the future.

They should just implement first person view. And thats all. it’s very simple and very useful, not only for taking screenshots.

Lutharr.1035:

its all about getting you to buy gems

What exactly do you mean? Right now, like mentioned, I don’t find any encouragement at all to buy gems. I might buy some for bag slots only, but I will never ever spend it on cosmetic items (even though I love outfitting). That’s becasue I find current system terrible and it makesme feel that any investment in it is simple waste of money.

In my opinion armor transmutation system is very bad, it’s way too restrictive.

You are limited to 1 set at a time only and whenever you transmute, one of the items gets destroyed. It’s seriously the worst outfitting system I’ve seen. It does not encourage me at all to buy any costumes or transmutation stones from item shop. And I can already tell you that I will not buy any if the system remains the same. I just feel like it’s a complete waste of money.

In my opinion there should be few cosmetic armor slots (similar to town clothing). Lets say you would get one for free and could buy more in item shop. Then in order to equip something cosmetically you would have to use transmutation stone which would copy item’s appearance in proper slot (the item would not be destroyed).
If you think items should be destroyed though then explain me why. Just don’t say there needs to be sinkhole for equipment as this is invalid argument.

Also I think it should be made possible to transmute head armor pieces without any restrictions (by that I mean transmuting heavy headgear with light / medium ones or cosmetic items from the store). Rest of the pieces however should only be transmuteable with other items of the same category, otherwise it would be somewhat ridiculous.

Camilla.5470:

Dear GM
im a guardian player and as a female player, i realy wish my character do have some kind of High-heeled shoes designed like light armor does, but unfortunately only light armor have some kind of design when female characters are wearing it, so i realy want if it possible to change some design of heary armor shoes to high-heeled, i know what i am asking may be to much, but i realy frustrating only see light armors have this design and other armors don’t.

i understand to change the game design are a lot of work to do, so at least could you guys just change culture armor T3 to high-heeled shoes please

Best regard

Go find yourself some asian mmo then

I am mighty disappointed too. I wanetd to roll a charr but resigned simply cuz most of the armors look awful on them .

Generally I am quite disappointed even with humans. Guild Wars 1 armors were awesome, every single one was nicely modeled, unlike some armors in GW2.

Stop QQing please.

Life is brutal and you don’t always have time to play. If you miss it, then too bad for you. But if you manage to make it then it’s even mroe fun f something is unique and will never happen again.

All in all you can watch it on youtube. It’s not like participating in the event yourself, but still better than nothing.

Meh I seriously dont get why people have to moan about everything….

I have lvl 80 guardian.
I am not an altoholic and I usually play on just 1 character.
Moreover I’ve unlocked most of the dyes on him (including most expensive ones, that is abyss, black, white and celestial).

Recantly though I came to conclusion that I’d prefer a warrior instead. It’s not like this guardian is terrible or something. I just think I would enjoy warrior even more. The problem is I don’t feel like doing the same stuff over and over again. Therefore I though it would be great idea if you could change your class for gems.

Class change should also reset your biography and personal story, as class has some impact after all.

I’d really love to see it in the store.

I wish all stats were customizable. But then armor crafting would bcome petty much useless…

Ehh I miss GW1 much.

Agreed! Awesome idea! I still use some rare gear as I am too poor to buy full exotic at the moment and I still have plenty of basic transmutation stone. I think your idea is great.

I suggest few changes to camera options:

-camera position- please make it so you can move it further to the side

-camera height- plase add it so you can move camera up and down, whatever suits you best. My human guardian isnt the highest in the game, but when I zoom in, his back takes whole center of the screen. I would like to make the center of the camera to be above my shoulders so i can see the environment better

-camera smoothness – I know you got rid of it cuz alot of people were complaining about it, but I think you should bring it back as a toggle option. Of course amount of smoothing would be customizable by a nice slider.

Free server transfers will be closed some time in the future and instead guesting feature will be introduced (which allows you to play pve as a guest on any server u want, but u cant represent it on wvwvw). Not sure why it hasn’t been done yet. I think A-Net should work on it instead of adding any new stuff.

Travel cost should be cheaper if you are low on money. I am lvl 80 and right now I only have 17 silver cuz ive spent the rest on some fancy stuff. Short distance teleports are 1s+, not to mention the longer ones. There should be gold sink, but sometimes theres nothing to sink :/

Of course the idea would require alot of polishing just so it wasnt possible to exploit the system (for example the game would take into account all of your characters, and not just the one your playing on for example).

Svenn.5209:

1) A way to unlock a skin for use permanently. This could be a special item purchased for gems/from Black Lion Chests. When you use this item on a weapon/armor piece the skin is saved permanently for your character.

Thats definitely a great idea. I would love to see something like this implemented. I hate that by transmuting you destroy one of the items. I think your idea is great as it would allow A-Net to make more money and that would also please players who like collecting cosmetic stuff (like myself).

Now some people will probably come up with contrargument saying that there must be a gold sink, but thats not very valid argument. There are enough gold sinks already and earning money is very difficult.

funny thing is whips are already in the game. At least the animtions. First of all nightmare court have em, and you asa player can use them too in one of the renown heart quests

Like you have too much gold to care about additional gold sink…

Sounds like a good idea but I wouldnt like to see it as another daily achievment. Less grind, the better. Sometimes theres not much time to play and z-coins are useful.

In GW1 we also had alot of skills and dual-class system, allowing us to create many, many interesting builds.
We also had trade, which now has been nerfed down to stupid TP which find you the lowest prices…

I kinda agree with the OP that GW2 in quite a few aspects is a step back compared to GW1

Bear in mind that most of the people still use graphics cards that support dx 9.0
(like 9800gt which is most commonyl used card atm). Anet policy was to make this game available for the widest audience. Do you get it? It’s that simple.

oh, I almopst forgot, here’s official word from A-Net. And next time before you start crying about something make sure you have checked A-Net facebook, reddit, or gw2 site. Thank you.

“For those of you who have been asking about DX11 support for Guild Wars 2, our goal with GW2 has always been to provide a gorgeous fantasy world while at the same time running on a wide range of gaming PCs.

Focusing on DX9 allows us to do this, as it’s a much wider supported graphics API than DX11 is and we wanted our game to reach as many of our fans as possible.

We will be evaluating supporting DX11 post launch."

i say no. Dyes are decent gold sinks. I didnt like the idea of dyes being character-bound at first, but now I see why it makes sense. There has been whole war going on, yet anet stated clearly they are not going to change it.

Great idea. Sometimes u can miss-click and then you are screwed.
Such option wouldnt affect the game much if at all, so no reason to say no.

LISTEN UP!

Server transfers are going to cost gems (1800) plus you will be restricted to 1 transfer per 7 days.

So far they are free only so people have a chance to decide with their friends where exactly they want to play.

In the future (near future, I hope) free server transfers will be gone and guesting feature will be implemented. This will allow you to play as a guest on any server you want, although you will only be able to represent your home server in wvwvw.

I hope that make things clear for you. A-Net please correct me if I am wrong, and please implement guesting feature A.S.A.P.

P.S.
Ive found server transfers very usefull. It helped me discover all wvwvw zones without waiting for new match to begin

Donari.5237:

I don’t know if anything will glow on its own, though, if that’s what you’re seeking. A matte/glossy toggle as you suggest might help give more customization, which is always nice.

I dont mean glowing on its own, more like making items look like well polished.

But its not the kind of shininess I have in mind. I was more thinking about the effect u can get while wieldinglegendary juggernaut for example. Here’s link for reference

Tarkaroshe.8370:

*Previewing items on the BLTC is needed immediately imo.

One lady from A-Net already confirmed in one of the threads that they are working on it. Just be patient.

I thought it would be excellent if each dye had two modes: mat or glossy.

I would really love to see that implemented, I think it would great, especially with heavy armors.

EDIT

Shininess I am thinking about looks like the effect on your armor when you carry legendary juggernaut for example:

I think it is neccessary to put “finish them off” mechanics on cooldown. Right now you have very small chances of getting back on your feet after you get downed in PvP and that is simply because “finish them off” doesnt have any cooldown. You can interrput an enemy trying to kill you, but then not evens econd after they can try finish you off again.
That makes no sense whatsoever and is quite frustrating in some cases.

How long do we have to wait for guesting feature?

I know there are free sever transfers but id like to play with my friends withoug having to transfer to their server. Please make Guesting system available A.S.A.P.

Unfortunately but I kinda agree witht he OP. Some boss fights are jsut dumb (dragons for example). You jsut stand there and bash em until they are dead, dodging from time to time or reviving fallen dudes.

YES! Particle effect slider is needed. Currently it’s jsut ridiculous when you fight in a larger group. You can barely see anything through all those particle effects.

minipets in GW2 are completely and utterly useless. In Guild Wars 1 minis were highly desired, but now that you can only buy them with rl cash nobody cares about them. It just sucks.

As for equipment slot though, I totally agree, I could at least display my mini Rytlock.

This feature has been in Guild Wars 1 and so I was absolutely suprised that its not present in GW2. It definitely must be added.