Guild Wars 2

Robert Hrouda.1327:

We’re currently working on a way to make the paths you have accomplished more visible without further cluttering up the achievement page.

It was decided that it clutters up the achievement page, I am sorry.

Precursors….. blind luck (RNG) or grinding champions to pay TP flippers is your only way. There’s nothing legendary about that.

The whole concept of precursors in their current state is fundamentally flawed.

This must change.

This thread gave me a good laugh for the day!

Thx for necroing <3

Tarnished Coast do some good PvE and are great for RP too.

Turgut.4397:

It’s quite sad to see the game brought down the such a casual level too.

I’m a WvW player in GW2, first and foremost. When I play a week of evenly matched up servers the fights that ensure are exciting every time.

I just steam roll through the PvE content.

Vorch.2985:

GWAMM here…and I usually see another gwamm title in my dungeon groups, or at least a title associated with the Hall of Monuments.

Same, I see enough titles around to think that there’s still a significant GW1 population in GW2.

Morinmeth.9823:

we should suggest some solutions to how it could be and what WE, the playerbase want

GvG scene flushed out more.

PvP with a focus on fighting not on capping.

andytango.2950:

sPvP has always been the neglected aspect of GW2.

You had some good points, except for this point. PvP has had HUGE support precisely BECAUSE it was supposed to be their e-sport. Even before the game was released devs would comment on and say just as much. Feel free to google it. It’s only more recently that WvW has enjoyed anywhere near the same attention.

You are right about the GvG scene, it has (had?) the most potential. Long story short the PvP team can’t/won’t support GvG, google ‘Sacrx the Machine’ and his NDA leak. I’d provide the link but I don’t want to get banned again.

Did you see the vid of the ANet employee trolling a GvG match? The symbolism was obvious.

PvP is boring, and like Caffynated said there doesn’t appear to be any real momentum behind it.

Compare that to WvW and the sub-scene that developed from that, GvG.

There was (is?) a space to develop that further, but it feels like they missed the boat.

Long over due.

I should stop reading these threads, I see issues like this and think to myself ’It’s STILL not addressed?’

One way to manage guild roster and check activity is to change everyone’s tag to say ‘inactive’ as you see them log on you can change their tag back to w/e. After a month or so kick those that haven’t logged on.

Anyways I agree with everything you’ve just asked for, for the most part

Man Slauterer.5984:

“Another feature that was always handy was having the guild message broadcast in chat once when a person logs in”.

Dunno why you need this tbh? I’d be asking to get the basics of guild management in their first.

Oldman Playing.5607:

“translucent players issue”

I empathize with your plight, particularly if you are a one guild person.

To assume tho a guild would be great if all people represented it 100% is not conducive, there’s more dynamics at play than that.

The current system allows flexibility and if you don’t ask people to rep 100% then why should they? As explained above specialised guilds offer more specific interest and focus compared to a general ‘one guild fits all’.

As far as it feeling ‘shallow’ is concerned, it’s probably more of a case of each to their own. I enjoy the general bantering that exists in my WvW guild and I have a Friend’s List for those I’m particularly close to.

My ghastly shield doesn’t look so ghastly with a blue hue across it.

Pixelpumpkin has pretty much described my situation.

Being restricted to 5 guilds is very limiting and decreases ones ability to interact and socialise in this game.

It restricts content that people may want to do, as some encounters cannot be overcome by yourself. Other encounters are enjoyed best with a coordinated group of people.

Being part of specialised groups opens doors. Numerous times I’ve received PM’s from people asking me to go along and participate in activities because I’m part of a specialised guild, they know I want to participate in these activities. It’s great.

I’m in a weird situation now where I’ll join a guild, leave it after I’ve done an activity so I can join another guild to link in with their activity to leave and join the other guild again.

I’m already involved in more than 5 guilds. I just have to work around this silly system to do it.

This mistlock made me appreciate people who understood builds beyond full zerker ppc dps RAWR

It was kinda amusing tho watching some get five hits off, then having to kite for 30 secs till their heal was up again.

It also made me think about the path of least resistance.

And then I was surrounded…

This statement by Half-Tooth resonated with me:

Half Tooth.1867:

There is a kind of unspoken preassure in the LS to do it as fast as possible before it goes.

The LS content and it’s associated AP, being temporary and buggy creates a discourse between enjoyment and frustration.

Previously having attempted to get the achievement for ‘Portal Closures’ and being stuck on 11/13 for days and days. I had to repeat it because some events didn’t register and there was no tracker to tell me which ones I’d missed.

I would log onto GW2 and would look at that outstanding achievement and think ‘Do I REALLY have to try this again?’ Now of course the answer is ‘No, you don’t’. However, if I don’t do it NOW, I will NEVER be able to do it, ever. I’m not exactly happy with that prospect either. This example could be applied to other LS content, I has similar issues with SAB and it not registering achievements and feeling I had to replay content.

So now I feel this pressure. I can let it go, walk away, turn my back on it. But honestly, who out there would be happy to leave it at 11/13? Perhaps those that don’t care. Perhaps those that are thinking of leaving the game, maybe it’s what made them leave.

Others say you have a choice. You participate or not, the decision is up to you and they’re right, ultimately it is my choice.

The temporary nature of LS coupled with buggy achievements, that don’t register when you have actually completed them or similar (game breaking?) issues. All creates a kind of frustration, a kind of pressure.

Perhaps if I could get away from it, the buggy monotony of it all, take a month off and come back and try it again, it wouldn’t be so bad. But no I have to do it now, or not at all.

It’s how I feel about LS, a grind that’s buggy that if your having issues with, walk away and never look back. That or thrust yourself right back into it again before it goes.

As a side point perhaps, but still relevant to this discussion I believe, there had been a significant amount of talk about the state of WvW at one point. Why introduce Bloodlust? Why no area for GvG? (ofc this has changed now)
Responses (or lack of) to these points seemed…. interesting.

Long story short, the decisions that were being made simply didn’t make sense. It felt at the time that a lot of it was common sense that would be obvious to the devs.

Then at one point an alpha tester leaked a bunch of information ( I won’t link due to having been banned previously for doing it.)

He highlighted that WvW is supposed to be imbalanced to force players that want balance into PvP. That any ideas for WvW goes through the PvP team first. That the PvP team dislike GvG because they want those players in PvP and concurrently GvG has no place in WvW.

This culminated in a dev trolling a GvG match. The leak stating that the GvG arena only came about to stem the anger from the GvG community over this.

My point is, we don’t know the ‘office politics’ at Anet and while overall most people with perspective will agree that while Mike O’Brien is in charge we won’t lose a healthy perspective of the game overall. However, the same kind of hubris that creeps into any office setting. Where people look out for their own interests is inevitable.

Us as consumers however usually don’t know the details.

As a player who has all the achievements I have no reason to return to the tower. I returned a few times for dailies but avoided the top where possible, for awhile I left my toon at the top, so it would be there when i logged in.

Players that haven’t gotten to the top or need to get there again will find mobs on the 3rd floor difficult (impossible?).

Guesting to other servers may help but there’s no guarantees, even on bigger PvE servers like JQ it’s pretty quiet nowadays.

Aside from getting lucky and finding a zerg/guild heading to the top, maybe try posting a lfg here or in game?

ANet need to offer incentives for people to return to the tower if they want to make group content like this.

MAUS HOUS.8047:

SoPP.7034:

Elite skills are useless in some scenarios… can be useful however are very SITUATIONAL

Elite skills are MEANT to be situational!

My understanding is that elite skills were more along the lines of a ‘oh snap’ button. Not a ‘oh look, someone made golems, might as well use TW’.

There’s nothing elite about that.

I got a few around release but recently…. they’ve taken on a precursor drop %…

Elite skills are useless in some scenarios.

For example in underwater combat my mesmer has access to timewarp and mass invisibility. Two skills which can be useful however are very SITUATIONAL, making them useless 90% of the time.

Additionally in WvW running my mesmer I have a particular skill set I want to run. I use veil a lot, I’m also asked to take null field and feedback, i like to have blink handy for myself to get out of trouble quickly and sometimes need to set up a portal.

For elite skills on the very RARE occasion I’ll timewarp a golem and IF I’m doing havoc group I MIGHT use mass invisibility.

Elite skill slots for me are useless most of the time and i have other skills I’d rather have handy. Either makes elite skills ‘elite’ or free the slot up so we can use more useful skills.

Original state or even returns it to an account bound state.

Even if the said item was limited to account bound I’d still use it.

There really does need to be a simplified trait swap system than we currently have now and provided it happens OUT OF COMBAT, it’s fine.

What I do now is take a screen pic of my traits, then double click the pic later when I swap back later if I don’t recall. It works fine for me but it’s an unnecessary fiddly system that REALLY doesn’t need to be.

Garrisyl.7402:

the range is one minimap radius when it’s zoomed in all the way.

Once you know this and your experienced the current portal system is fiddly rather than somehow limiting portals from being OP.

The OP is right, and it doesn’t suddenly make portals OP as a result it just saves you from doing a weird shuffle as you adjust you mini map in the right direction to make sure your in range.

Yes BUT (let me explain)

The queues, the AP farmers, the PvErs in some ways it was rather horrible, the number of facepalm moments were astounding.

Having said that, the WvW scene is now reinvigorated. I have no doubt that some of those that came for seasons have come to realise how much they enjoy WvW. These people are the commanders of tomorrow.

It was good to do BUT there needs to be some space, time for everything to settle down. Older players can go back to their old thing and new players can become part of the old thing.

Then you can look at a season 2.

Draco.2806:

Think about it: when the height of what you can do with your villains is for them to be bland and forgettable, and any character you try to give them makes them outright hated, what does it say?

This resonates with me.

Lore has to be consistent so that it’s followers can appreciate it however it can do just about anything because if your the developer, you create it.

It’s a fantasy game you could literally come up with some impressing, other worldly creature that strikes you with a sense of awe and excitement to meet and fight. Rather than a Mary Sue with a British accent…

It’s a failure to imagine.

Carighan.6758:

I find dragons as the momentum behind a fantasy story “lame”. It’s overdone

Fair point, however I’m working with what we’ve got as far as impressionable enemies are concerned and at this time elder dragons give you a greater sense of foreboding and a sense of excitement than anything Scarlett has to offer.

It’s subjective but you shouldn’t be saying Scarlett and dragons are the same, because they’re not. Dragons, while having been done to death offer a lot more and offer far greater scope than the Mary Sue does. Even from a concept piece of art perspective the construction of branded mobs from elder dragons that have changed the landscape is much more fascinating. Why aren’t we seeing them more flushed out?

Rather than talk about what you don’t want, lets talk about what you do want.

Latinkuro.9420:

1st of all CoF takes 6.1/2 minutes to finish.

Always one who wants to split hairs (see where he used the word ‘about’).

OP is wrong to think that most would be happy with such a step. Additionally it’s not proportional to what has happened with dungeons for example. Offer incentives that make people want to do different paths.

Atm all you have working for you is “Do whatever is rolled first, cause I say so”. There’s no incentive to do water over swamp and simply ‘locking’ people into something will just make them unhappy.

You might be surprised if I tell you that when I roll, if water pops I’ll ask the group if it’s ok, usually one says it’s not so I keep rolling and I can understand why they say that.

What happen to our elder dragons -.-

Seigfried.5938:

SoS be the next t1 contender.

again?

dwahvel.7356:

I just hope finally the T1 servers stop with the “arms race” and try to even out the other Tiers before season 2 starts.

The whole idea of paid transfers started no less than 3 weeks after the introduction of gems to transfer were introduced, amusingly. Meaning the arms race won’t stop anytime soon, as transferring is now the industry standard.

Perhaps if one server completely dominates, the others will relax on the arms race. As it is now it’s something of a give and take.

I’m curious why not many talk of what happens in EU and servers like VS with regards to this. On the note of EU when did IRON leave exactly? I’m assuming it was after ZDs touched down? -.-

Phoenixfudge.5290:

I’m voting my server, the best and only. Blackgate.

Genius. Read more, and why is it always a BG player -.-

Gummy.4278:

I think my Mesmer is lacking in that area of the continuous variety.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Speed
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_the_Traveler

You’re welcome.
Please send all gold coin donations to SoPP.7034

Jeydra.4386:

‘other than this there is not much more you can do at this point’

Well that’s a little disappointing.

I don’t know the complete context however if swearing or other profanities are involved, then ANet should respond to that, even if they don’t care about the harassment.

Ultimately tho as you’ve said the block feature is a huge failure and really opens it up for people to harass/stalk if they are that way inclined.

When you block someone, it’s for a good reason and it should be a 100% block, not the current half attempt we see.

Hey Jeydra,

While the ‘block’ feature in GW2 has a lot to be desired ANet are quite strong on enforcing appropriate behaviour in GW2.

If someone is following you and saying unwanted things make sure you record it all and inform support that it’s not wanted and that it hasn’t been encouraged.

This won’t stop the blocking issue, but in the long run will help you to enjoy the game away from the less balanced people in this world.

Regards

Zikory.6871:

Well people out side of T1/T2.

Good question.

My Friend on IoJ would be happy to read this.

Personally I’d say FA. There ‘If it’s red it’s dead’ policy has frustrated people many a time, but by god i respect them for it.

Zikory.6871:

SoPP.7034:

Zikory.6871:

I’m merely voicing my opinion on the matters

Which is my point, you comment on things you have a limited insight into.

How is that any different from those commenting on T1?

People from tier 1 or outside of it?

Zikory.6871:

I’m merely voicing my opinion on the matters

Which is my point, you comment on things you have a limited insight into.

Zikory.6871:

I’m having a hard time caring about anything you say

And yet you reply? I’ll just leave this here

Zikory.6871:

It’s up to you to make it fun

Tier 1 player telling a lower tier server how to play WvW (Not that your wrong of course).

Zikory.6871:

Aww I’m sorry, I guess if winning is the only way to have fun for you I can see why you are so bitter. I wish you the best. <3

Once again missing the point I see.

Zikory.6871:

I have heard rumors of things going on in SoR and JQ.

More insight into other servers again? By all means feel free to bump the thread where you explain to lower tiered servers how some lower tier servers can have fun without winning -.-

I wouldn’t worry, you’ll just get crap from the other chest anyway.

ANet’s idea of good rewards is to give you a heap of stuff you’ll need to sell at merchant or recycle then have to click through a bunch of times to get rid of.

I got my title and haven’t been back since

My goodness some people are self-entitled.

It’s prestige gear, it doesn’t change the game at all. But some people either worked their kitten off by running those dungeons again and again or maybe just super lucky (and no I wasn’t one of them). You got your dungeons back, why undermine the prestige items of others in the process.

Some of the people in this thread would be super upset if they got a nice drop once, that was 1000’s gold worth, only to have it trivialised later and made worth 2 gold.

Astral Projections.7320:

I use this site to find events for daily when I’m in a hurry and need a particular area. http://www.gw2state.com/events.html#. Just set it for your server and the map you want.

Didn’t know about this. Thanks! Will check it out.

Brother Grimm.5176:

You do have to move around areas to find some Events.

Yup, you highlighted why I usually tend to skip it.

WXP SHOULD BE ACCOUNT BOUND (caps)

It’s so silly that it’s not.
I used to be an altoholic but this along with the further push into ascended gear that’s heavily gated makes me focus on 2 toons in particular. My other 6 lvl 80’s farm world bosses…

Out of combat weapon slots

Clearer title from this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Ele-weapon-changing-tab-when-OCC/first#post3231088

But same points, and for the sake of clarity:

Astral Projections.7320:

I would like to have more OUT OF COMBAT weapon slots for all professions.

One possibility is the 4 choices like in Guild Wars 1. While OOC you click on a choice both to select and deselect. Once IN COMBAT the choice(s) are locked. The Ele and the Engineer still have only one weapon and can’t switch again until OOC.

This would have multiple benefits for all professions.

1. it would encourage using weapons depending on what is coming up rather than staying with the same set continuously.
2. Having to stop and dig around in the inventory discourages people from trying out different weapons. Staying with the same weapons all the time instead of switching around makes combat stale.
3. it would free up inventory slots for all the professions.
4. it would keep the weapons better organized. Now if you swap them using the inventory, they go to different places each time which makes them hard to find and increases the chance they will be sold or salvaged.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

3 month topic. Do you, by any chance, main a necromancer?

No, however I do have 8 lvl 80’s and I used to use my nec a lot in WvW for tagging but toon bound wxp fixed that, so I’m stuck on my mes.