Guild Wars 2

I’ve had to kill my game sound now and then because of this; I have bad tinnitus due to a medical condition, and the spamming of that high piercing note triggered that, which then triggered a huge migraine, nausea, etc. _ It just took a few seconds for me to be hosed for a few hours.

Karizee.8076:

They lifted the caps earlier this week, and lifted them again 2 weeks before that.

They’ve been lifting them every 1 to 2 weeks since the game launched. Keep your eye peeled for an opening.

What I am asking for is a specific time announced so that guilds and communities can move in an organised fashion.

The servers have already dealt with imbalance during the free transfer period; I think that it will sort itself out, as it already somewhat has.

Leablo.2651:

The caps are needed for WvW balance. You’re expected to fight for the “pride of the server”, despite being forced onto an arbitrary server because you couldn’t join the one you wanted.

That is why I ask that they be temporary. Give folks a week or two window to make the cross-region moves without running into ‘full’ because of the unanticipated region lock, and then set the caps back at whatever.

Because of the unanticipated restrictions on server guesting, specifically the region locking, would it be possible to temporarily raise the caps on server populations?

The RP community, which is about 5-6k strong as of the last self-census (but is much higher given how many new ones I see every day and how there are more high-pop sites than 2RP), initially split along NA/EU lines because we, as of the information we had at the time, thought that we could guest to each others’ worlds.

Because that is not going to happen, many of us (though I can’t speak for all, of course) would like to consolidate our communities. Tight server caps make that very difficult.

However, while my motivation is a roleplayer’s wanting to see the community come together, I’m not asking for some special roleplayer exception: I figure that the guesting setup will cause issues for cross-server guilds or NA/EU friends who’ve been waiting for months to get to play together before the new guesting system’s revisions were announced.

Thanks for your time. <3

I’d like to see less culling in cities, the increase over the last few months makes them seem relatively empty when I know they aren’t. (On Tarnished Coast.) And I often run right by people without seeing them, and then they’re all ‘y u ignoring me :<’.

So far as I can tell, none of the cultural light armor glows on males, which is pretty disappointing. :<

marnick.4305:

30 is when you get a job and wife, lose your virginity and get kids. Because of all the work with your wife, kids and colleagues, there’s no time anymore to play videogames.

And yet, 30 year olds are one of the biggest gamer and MMO demographics. It’s easy for a gamer to game a few hours after the kids are in bed— at least a few times a week. GW2 was designed so that those folks actually can do that.

I’m in my late 30s, no kids, have clocked 1600+hours so far.

Anyway, people who give up everything for work and children tend to be very unhappy people and are not really the majority of folks anyway. Everyone has hobbies.

Build Swapping (traits) and multiple weapon sets (I used 4 in GW1). I don’t mind paying a small fee to build swap instead of having to manually retrait for said small fee, either.

Re: the world being too big : tarnished coast has folks in several major cities and in many ones, so it usually feels pretty busy. 3

There’s a reason I didn’t do Miragent armor in AION either. Same relentless punishing RNG.

I like the male run animation.

Rainzar.6905:

now they can get in line with the rest of us and prepare to throw their gold away or wait even longer or just focus on some other part of the game.

That’s not fun. I’d like Bolt but I’m not going to be played that way by the devs or price-gouging players who keep buying up precursors all at once to jack the price every few days.

I’ll finish quip since I got it a while back, will stick with my greatsaw (which I like best anyway) and figure out what to do for a good one-handed sword.

I think that, if there is so much frustration about legendaries, that folks should outright refuse to do anything toward getting them until there are means of getting it without RNG or trading post shenanigans.

Weindrasi.3805:

Unfortunatley, games don’t roll that way, so I figure it’s better just to avoid the problem all together.

Maybe they should.

I’d love to see some of the skimpier armors from GW1 come back, as they showed off both men and women. Heck, they even put batnips on one of the paragon male armors.

Right now, there’s very little way to show off the bioglow on my male sylvari mesmer. That’s a bummer, since I spent a lot of time in chargen designing him and can’t really show off his glow or body patterns.

I would really rather spend my time in the open world, so I look forward to any improvements.

1558 hours, 46 mins on my main.
1642 hours, 2 minutes across all characters.
(Over the past 4 months.)

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Or you could play the game hardcore for about 4 days and get the 300g for it.

The only way to do that is via the broker, and that’s not hardcore, that’s lame. Besides, by the time he gets the 300, it’ll jump to 350.

This is why I refuse to bother with legendaries; the only legendary part of it is sucking up to a few folks who took advantage of early exploits in order to generate more gold (by buying up every precursor afterward and spiking the prices).

Let those folks trade these things among themselves, and go for a reward that has nothing to do with them, until ANet looks at what should make a legendary legendary. It’s not legendary to blow up and flip items all day.

I really hope ANet lets us circumvent these folks. It’s the one thing that’s consistently disgusted me, and I understand that ANet is cautious about tampering with the market, but I think most folks would have less of a problem with it if it wasn’t players dishonestly gouging other players and which is exacerbated by punishing RNG.

This has not self-corrected, and it’s not going to as things stand.

I understand that folks love WoW’s combat, but I’d prefer that GW2 stick with the system it advertised and that I bought it for.

I liked healing in other games, but I also like the way that this game does things, and would prefer that it stay as it is. <3

Piken Square. (Unofficial EU RP server.)

Also, go to guildwars2roleplayers.com

Vasham.2408:

I personally can’t wait for the players who would insult anyone who perfers the trinity as “unskilled.” I dare you to go up to a top 100 WoW raiding guild and say that.

This isn’t WoW, and you are unskilled at GW2 combat if you can’t master it.

Rhysati.4932:

On GW2, I frequently use 1 or 2 abilities with a few of my 6-10 skills being used if the situation actually calls for it.

You’re not playing a Mesmer, then.

KRUSSIDULL.6845:

I know it sucks.

RIP GW2

Sincerely
GW1 players

Please stop acting like all GW1 players agree with you.

Sincerely
a GW1 player

I’m not sure why everyone claims ‘everyone is DPS’ when everyone is really a hybrid. Everytime I see ‘everyone is DPS’, I see someone who doesn’t pay much attention to the classes, and they should know better since they come from games that usually have some hybrid classes.

Yes, they made the classes more egalitarian and tanks and healers less important. I usually play healers in other games, but I think that’s fine. There are things I can do that are still very useful.

Most people in GW1 ran whatever meta of the week build was available, there wasn’t a lot of variation and you got punished if you ran variations.

I ran an elemonk/elerit healer build that was very good for a lot of things, but got passed over for monks and refused places in groups— even though those builds were designed for hard modes where eles could pump out much more heals, and much bigger ones, due to having such huge energy pools.

Didn’t matter that I’d played monk and rit for years; no one would take the ele. Nonstandard build.

I had a necro with a homemade SS build, indestructible if anything nearby died or their health dropped below 50, pve, pvp, etc. Same thing— not the cookie cutter build, no go.

ANet noticed this kind of thing, too— in theory you could make any build you wanted, but a disproportionate amount of players only used specific builds and refused to play with anyone who did not. So making all of those various skills ended up being a waste of time, money, and balancing.

Please don’t make up bad statistics. I am a GW1 vet and I love GW2.

It IS silly to complain that ‘WoW has x content, GW2 has to as well!’ or somesuch, when it’s impossible to do so. No game starting out has that budget. You guys have to be reasonable in your expectations. They upfront said at launch that endgame stuff was going to mostly come out in expansions.

The repeated topics about this annoy me so much that I’ve decided not to buy Pandaria. Every time I reconsider picking up new blizzard stuff, their fanboys start raging here about how the game doesn’t have this or that or it should have ten years of content up front rageeeee. They did this in GW1, AION, every MMO I’ve been.

So, OP, there’s no escaping the ragers. They flood game after game. I think it’s fair to complain about this or that, but the irrationality of the raids/endgame/etc crowd, who were told up front what to expect but are still upset, it just bogs the forums down.

Games improve because of positive feedback, too, because then the developers know what they’re doing right. A game should have gushing fans, that means that they are connecting with their players.

(And it means that they can gauge who likes what they’re doing, as opposed to the ‘endgame sux this game is dying need moar raids’ crowd.) And I think that it bothers that crowd that people DO like how GW is going so far overall, because they feel that it undermines their complaints.

I have clocked about 1600 hours, and I like this game. I came in knowing that their vanilla focus would be on making the world and the leveling experience (five races and their starter zones), and that the post-80 content would mostly be released in expansions (paid and free).

Knowing that, I have not been disappointed. A lot of other games skipped the earlier content in favor of dungeons, but earlier zones help the game’s initial longevity and replayability. I think that, even though it made the endgame types angry, that it was the right choice.

I am a GW1 vet, and while there are things I miss about the old game (guild-centric stuff, skill caps, Fort Aspenwood, skimpier armor for dudes, sunglasses as armor), I love the way the new game has made the world more alive.

So, if they bring some of these things back, I will be extremely happy.

I would dump a bunch of monies into the cash shop if they made the glasses available to skin over actual armor. GW1 did, and I really miss that look.

Kakeru.2873:

What’s annoying is people like you telling people how they should play their games, you have no right to tell people at what moderation they should play their games. Leveling in this game isn’t exactually hard or long, so reaching max in a month is not due to people “rushing” the game but rather people playing the game at thier own moderation which is DIFFERENT to yours not WRONG or the WRONG WAY TO PLAY.

This isn’t a korean grinder. (I played AION for two years.) If you’ve managed to plow through what a vanilla release has to offer in a couple months and now you’re bored, well, wait for more content to be released. They put out what they could with the budget they had, and we knew prior to release that the first release was going to focus mostly on the 1-80 experience (with later stuff in expansions).

AION kept people playing by making everything take an insane amount of time. GW2 requires about an hour to complete a level; AION sometimes required days just to get from 43 to 44, and all you did was grind calydons or abyss guards!

I’m not telling you you’re playing wrong so much as I’m saying, there is a finite amount of content that was stacked toward the leveling experience for the vanilla release. If you want more content NOW instead of soon, then fork over a few million, I guess.

Apparently there’s to be a PvP update in the next month or two.

We all float down here… D8

You’re welcome, and I look forward to seeing you on TC!

They’ve never said that the game begins at 80. They said that the whole game is meant to be endgame, as 80 is not meant to be different from before.

For vanilla, they focused on making a broad leveling experience with some post-80 content (remember that all the dungeon sets except AC are level 80), and were reserving more of the higher-level stuff for expansions.

So, to the OP, as someone who plays a lot and still loves the game, don’t rush, take time, have fun, and don’t get caught up in the aggros over fractals and legendaries. And welcome to Tyria!

If you transfer, all your characters move with you.

I would like to see more guild wars 1 lore themed events for wintersday, yeah. I know that the gods are around less now, but Balth did show up once to open a gate to the mists; surely Dwayna and Grenth can have their old wintersday rivalry for a few days!

In general, though, I liked the event.

I read the article. I’m not sure why the author had to go into all that detail to say that he didn’t like the game as much as he thought he would.

I played the betas, so the live game’s all right by me.

Zeldain.5710:

But what we didn’t expect was absolutely no guild-driven team play or progression. What we didn’t expect was another solo MMO that throws out everything that is great about team-based progressive gameplay.

Please stop using buzzwords for raids and GvG. You knew you would not get the former ever and the latter at launch. You knew what you were buying, so I don’t understand why you’re upset now.

The fact that you need to be required to play together instead of opting to play together is probably why you are not doing well in this game.

I am trying to understand the mentality behind insulting people who like a game, or support the features it was released with, as ‘fanboys’. If you don’t like the game, then register your complaints and go play a game you like.

You’d think there was something wrong with buying a game and liking it.

Also, buying a game’s vanilla launch and then complaining that WoW has a lot more to do is pretty silly. WoW’s had far, far more money and time to invest in its game, which at launch was also pretty bare and a lot more rough around the edges.

Zeldain.5710:

And GW1 didn’t do just fine. It was a small niche game… if you’re ready to admit that’s what GW2 is, I’m ok with that.

If ‘no raids and no major gear grind’ is niche, then I have no problem with that. Everyone knew GW2 was not going to be that kind of game. That’s why many of us BOUGHT the game.

The game is not dead, or dying, and I wish y’all would knock this crud off. If you don’t like the game, then don’t play. If you do, then play. If you have gripes, then make them. But enough with the dying and the WoW comparisons, it’s pointless and mean-spirited.

Avigrus.2871:

Never done fractals… saw some of the stats on these items last night and i’m thinking i may have no choice if i want to remain on par in WvW.

Right now it’s so few pieces that it won’t make much difference in WvW. They’ll release asceded stuff in other areas of the game soonish, so folks staying out of fractals for now can upgrade too.

I think I read that they’ll make the crafting costs less silly, too, but am not sure.

This isn’t WoW. If you want WoW but with better graphics, put pressure on the WoW devs to make that game instead of pressure on ANet to make this game more like WoW.

They don’t outshine staff on Mesmer (but it is as effective for its playstyle as staff is for its own).

If you buy a vanilla game, blast through all the content, and then say you will quit instead of waiting for free and paid expansions, I dunno why you bought an MMO. That’s just treating it like a single-player game.

If that’s how folks plan to play, then buy the game at least a year after release so there’s more stuff to get through before the next one hits.

Y’all people make no sense to me.

Also, at 1600 hours or so, I’m not a casual player.

Riyu.2103:

yes game is awesome until you get to 80, fullequipped with some exotic sets of gear for different purposes, fancy skins from dungeons etc and 50g on the bank.

then come and tell us again its the best mmo.

It still is. Just take a break for a little while until they release new content.

I’ve ignored fractals for now, as the stat difference presently has a minimal impact in WvW and PvE outside fractals, and those pieces can’t be used in sPvP.

They will seed that stuff through the rest of the world, including WvW, so I’m willing to wait as it’s only a few pieces so far.

Find a nicer server.

Early early morning on an NA server is going to make things a little dodgy, though, especially if you haven’t got much of an Oceanic presence.