Guild Wars 2

I support you 75%

The reason? I think the concept is amazing and would be a lot of fun, if it scales that is for solo players. But I personally would not want it associated with fractals or agony in any way shape or form. I read adding consumables but armor needed to go all the way. Myself and many others do not do fractals. This should be something not associated in any way so every player can join in on this.

But the concept itself I do really really love! Plus would be a nice new daily that would be fun.

I was curious how can an open world pve player get ascended stuff? I mean bulk amounts before hot comes out.

I do not do fractals ever, or wvw. I make sure to do tequila once a day but have only gotten one ascended item over months. I do other world bosses as well, and I also do SQ a lot farming all the events for killing the champs and what not. Is there some way in open world pve to get ascended gear without crafting? Trying to get somewhat ready for hot and salvaging them all

The same way they brought in each class on release. It’s just a new class not a new race. There isn’t going to be a revenant story or anything sorry. Just the same as every other class.

Getting an elite specizalation however may have its own little story

Well if you think about it. IF they added this, it would reset you to level 2 most likely. Would be silly to just get on warrior, level to 80, then switch to mesmer and be level 80 mesmer and skip leveling a harder class to level.

So your better off actually just making a new character instead of spending money on making a new character

With how long ago the game was announced and still no release date over 6 months later I have lost 97.3% of my hype.

If the max was say 1500 gold. No one would bother selling one on tp at all. Yet alone bother making one unless it’s for themselves

stof.9341:

This has been complained about since before the game release. And they still didn’t do anything visible.

That is why I hope this thread can become active and maybe anet can look into this issue again.

That means November or December huh. If they still have not given a release date that means September or October is out

I just realized this is very long to read.

SHORT VERSION
Zerg fights it is to hard to see what’s happening. Solutions to fix the issue. Couple listed above. What do you think about it?

I might have missed something at the end I’m not sure and I do not fully understand. Spoilers below.

So we know caithe took the dragon egg as soon as it was recovered from the master of piece. We also kinda learned if the dragon is raised in the right hands it could be very helpful for the side of the good guys.

Once we catch caithe she explains the dragon can basically become make sylvari be it’s slaves. So why exactly did caithe take the egg exactly if she wasn’t even under the dragons corruption at the time? Or was she already turning? I didn’t fully understand why she took it at all

Anet. Firstly I would like to say this is the best MMO I have ever played. I really enjoy the combat, the story, the armors, the skins, the classes and the races. I enjoy open world content, I enjoy the “Grind” in this game as I enjoy the game modes enough to not even viewing as grinding. However sense launch there has always been one thing that has always annoyed me, and other players that I know to an extreme amount. The fact that when you are with a zerg you can not see yourself, you can not see the enemy, you can not see what is going on, you do not know when to dodge certain attacks, and I feel like I am not even playing a video game with what is going on. I have attached an image with exactly what I am talking about. The one and only major flaw in this game for me.

I am not just coming onto the forums to complain, I am coming on here to offer a solution to this issue. I have 2 ideas that can help correct this issue for players, not only will it solve the issue, it can also greatly help with lag in certain instances and world bosses.

Solution 1.
In the general options there can be an option that the player can select them selves if they wish to. The option would mark that if there is X amount of players within Y amount of distance of you X amount of the players become hidden (Such as at world bosses there are so many players around they can not be all displayed)

So for an example you can set this if 5+ characters are within 200 range of you, all characters within 100 range will become hidden. That way we can see our characters, and see the champions or bosses. This of course would be an OPTION so stacking will still be just as easy if needed for certain things. the only thing that can show still is player name, and if they are downed.

Option 2
In the settings there should be options for weapon effects. Very simple options.
*Show all player effects
*Show only partys effects
*Show no effects

Of course your effects would be shown as well.

The picture attached is with post-processing OFF as well. Some people states with it off it helps, me personally I do not see a change.

Please post your thoughts, and maybe other ideas to fix this issue.

Wandelaar.3746:

Seems like I was right not merching them after all. :>

Yes they will be salvaged for new legendary weapons. Unsure why you bumped a 5 month old thread

The only thing I think that might get effected is personal story. We might have an option (at least I hope it’s an option?) To fight with the dragon, or stay good.

Either way we know the dragon dies so if you fight with dragon your gonna lose

skowcia.8257:

They have 15sec duration, after that they disappear like spirit weapons for guard.

Oh got it. That’s still long enough. Thanks

Sorry if I missed this. But how exactly will the blades work with the cool down?

For example if I’m in a fight, and I use my heal, but everything dies before I use all the blades. Will they still remain until I use them? Even if the skills off cooldown again?

We have to hope they are to busy with HoT and they want it out in September

If a world boss could be blinded then world bosses should just be removed. From the amount of people that do them it would be blinded an entire fight and just not be fun.

Yes yes yes. I would like to go and enjoy dungeons by myself. Not play with others wanting me too play meta or other ways I don’t want. I’d love to go in alone and complete these

Would make me prepurchase right away. Right now I’m just waiting on a release date

Yes this will be my main. Not because it’s new and flashy but it fits what I like combined perfect.

I love sword focus guardian
I love thief

I feel like sword shield with Shiro is going to give the perfect thing I’ve been looking for in this game.

Well if they announce a release date this week in Germany I’ll be prepurchasing for sure. I’m going to stick to SW and world bosses to mostly test out the dps for Shiro and dragonhunter. Might try reaper as well. Rather cheb with fights I currently know to measure the class then fighting new monsters in events I don’t know. Plus I’d rather have the new map be a complete surprise same with story

latinkuro.7304:

Sylent.3165:

I have a question. They have stated multiple times all legendary items in the new expansion will be account bound so they must be earned.

That confuses me. These new legendary items involve salvaging alot of ascended items it sounds like, so if they were avalibe on tp would cost a lot.

Correct me if I’m wrong, farming a lot of good for months on end to be able to buy one from the tp is considered earning it. Doing a game mode I hate for months say fotm for a legendary is just torture, not earning it. Why not let people earn them in there own ways?

Farming gold to buy a legendary is NOT by any means earning it !!!
playing the game, mastering all types of content IS earning it !!!

Seeing someone with a gen 2 legendary WILL mean true prestige, simply because “he did all of it”

And that is YOUR opinion. In my opinion farming the gold to be able to get a legendary is earning it.

lil devils x.6071:

Sylent.3165:

They should not rerelease old items in my opinion.

It is a symbol of how long someone has been playing and that they were able to get it.

Now if you lost them my mistake then yes you should be able to get more

Not re-releasing items only decreases the games longevity. You are putting an expiration date on games that are not new player friendly. Why would players want to come into a game only to find they have missed 5, 10, 15 years worth of stuff they will never be able to have? They would be right to think they already missed the boat and should either play a game that does not do that or a game that just started so they have a chance to enjoy all of the content everyone else enjoys as well. The benefits do not outweigh the harm done to the game long term of having items in the game that new players will never be able to obtain. I would rather have new players joining keeping the game fresh instead of having the game die. People should not forget that players do not HAVE to play your game, you want to give them reasons to CHOOSE your game over others, otherwise your game dies while they are playing games that gave them more reasons to play them.

ALSO, Birthday rewards are great vet rewards, new players will get them eventually, but may never actually catch up to vets getting them first. Vets will ALWAYS have more birthday rewards due to them having more birthdays.

I wouldn’t see a real gamer not play a game because they can’t get a cosmetic only back piece that has no effect on the game

I just find it odd we have 2 white dyes, and 3 black dyes. Black is black and white is white.

Yet we have black, darker black, then darker darker black

Personally I don’t care. This game has incredible graphics for an mmo that most computers can currently run.

Why fix what isn’t broken?

They should not rerelease old items in my opinion.

It is a symbol of how long someone has been playing and that they were able to get it.

Now if you lost them my mistake then yes you should be able to get more

I see no reason why anything would change with hot coming out. Everything for current legendary weapons would be the same. Maybe just some price drops

Testudo.4620:

you can buy ascended gear with laurels and gold/wvw tokens, guild commendations, and they drop from champ bags. fractals aren’t the only place they drop from

Laurels are just for logging in. No way too farm them.

I hope the new maps have a way of farming ascended gear at least.

In my opinion longbow is the best option by far. We really needed a range weapon that could do some dps without super slow projectiles. I do wish the 2 skill though didn’t root you.

Does this pod ever have exotics or a possible precursor? I’ve been farming this thing like crazy and get Rares at best only.

Batelle.1680:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Oh no! Devs want players to finally get gud and start doing “endgame”.

People are doing endgame, even if they’re just farming events for gold. Orr is end game. SW and DT are endgame. Fractals and dungeons are not the end all/be all of GW2 gameplay, especially since it all becomes a matter of learning mechanics/spawns and then working with other players to get through the content as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Right. Your defination of end game might be fractals. And that is perfectly fine. Others find event farming end game, or wvw, or other dungeons. This game has never had a true end game it’s always been what the player wants it to be

I have a question. They have stated multiple times all legendary items in the new expansion will be account bound so they must be earned.

That confuses me. These new legendary items involve salvaging alot of ascended items it sounds like, so if they were avalibe on tp would cost a lot.

Correct me if I’m wrong, farming a lot of good for months on end to be able to buy one from the tp is considered earning it. Doing a game mode I hate for months say fotm for a legendary is just torture, not earning it. Why not let people earn them in there own ways?

As much as myself and others agree it will never happen.

Shield is extremely situational and rarely used by anyone. But if it was changed this would upset the people that do use it. Sadly they can’t just change a weapons skills

I know this was brought up a long time ago. But I was curious am I the only one who really enjoyed heart quests and wish they were in the level 80 zones and in new hot maps?

Yes some where very silly and pointless or very annoying lime the one stealth one to get to the flags undetected.

But a lot of them were about learning the area, finding out what helps and why. I’d really like to see some new quests in the game. Maybe in the level 80 zones make them award something a little special to.

I like the fact that it’s perfect for a casual gamer.

I work full time, lots of time with fiance. This is the only mmo besides old Runescape that I can log into for an hour or 2 a night and accomplish things. Not spend a huge amount of time in queues or anything. Just simply play

It’s possible based on how the first 2 go we will be close enough to release to not need a third one

Sadly I won’t buy a game with no release date so farming SW on my guardian lol.

Really can’t wait to see some reaper footage and Shiro though for sure.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Today’s News Blog was about the new Legendary Backpiece (among other things). For information on new Legendary weapons, see the blogpost, ‘A Legendary Journey’.

Good luck.

Yes, yes it was.

I understand right now it looks like the only way to get new legendary items and backpiece is from fotm.

We have to keep in mind anet I do not think would force only one thing onto every single player who wants an item.

There will most likely be another way to get a legendary. Open world pve should always be an option in my opinion so that will most likely involve some of the new events in new map, new wvw map may also have farming for all the new things needed.

Anet has numbers and stats and do know a lot of people do not enjoy fotm so wouldn’t do this to there game (or do I hope)

Greymelken.1892:

sounds like a human interface issue to me, perhaps you need to install more memory.

I have 16gb ddr3. Not a memory issue, or hardware issue on my end. It is the game itself. Been like this sense release

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You can turn off Post-processing, and whatever the ‘minimize effects’ option is, I believe.

Otherwise, there have been multiple threads/posts about this issue.

Good luck.

I set it to best performance when with zergs so I think it does this. Never seems to help

I think I saw a while ago something about this but was wondering if there was any anet comments or posts or bees on it.

When farming with a zerg in wvw or boss events or SW when in lanes I just can’t see! I have no idea what’s ever going on. It becomes impossible to dodge anything as I can not even see the enimies there is just to much flashing at once. I play on minimum settings to when in zergs but it doesn’t help much at all

Ff14 had an option to disable others effects, or make them minimal. Why can they not add it to this game? I really would enjoy events so much more if I could see

I would like another ranged weapon for sure.

Don’t care what it is. Ranged hammer is odd though I think

Zaron.1987:

Sylent.3165:

Same thing happened to me. Yes anet should of announced this before hand. Happened to me last night. I had a claim ticket, could of got free. I lost 800g. Luckily not as much as you but it’s still crazy. 24 hour notice souls of been given

Why they (anet ) should do this?

To help the poor Speculants?

If you maximize profit with your speculations you win, now you lost, thats the risk if you play the Tradingpost game (and dont really know how to do it ; when its better to stop)

I don’t think me or op were playing the tp game. We were trying to get skins we’ve been trying to get a long time. Don’t even try to pretend you wouldn’t be complaining either if it happened to you. Every single person would complain if they’ve been saving and saving for months, then loses all that gold on an item they could of got free.

Everyone on here saying anything, you’d be complaining to if it was you.

Same thing happened to me. Yes anet should of announced this before hand. Happened to me last night. I had a claim ticket, could of got free. I lost 800g. Luckily not as much as you but it’s still crazy. 24 hour notice souls of been given

This angers me very very much!!!

I was not aware of this and have been trying to buy one for weeks!!! So my offer in trading post finally got me one for 800g even though if I knew they were back I just would of bought the thing with my claim ticket!

Talk about losing 800g when I could of got free! Anet really needs to let people know about this stuff sooner

Thanks I will be doing that for sure and binding to f12 i think

Sylvari. With my particular armor set in mind with warden armor and dreamthistle sword and shadow abyss dye it has the perfect look in my mind for an assassin

Well sense I won’t buy a game without a release date I did miss the rev beta. I had a question for those who played it.

I know the dps was low on weapons but now buffed. But I was curious was the hammer “fun”? The 2, 3, and 5 skill looked really fun. Do they work well overall with the energy usage? I saw a few videos looks like a really intresting weapon to use

I hope they DON’T show more of the maps. When gw2 was announced they didn’t preview all the maps and the quests. We need some surprises on release.