Guild Wars 2

Ryuujin.8236:

And yet you’ll only hear people complain about thieves and mesmers being OP

The minority who live in sPvP (and yet somehow fail to see titles, stars, different weapons etc on mesmer clones) are a minority compared to everyone else. Not to mention Mesmers are so tuned for PvP that PvE can get kinda hairy.

It will be nice if/when we can swap builds.

Pretty much the only class you never seem to hear anything bad about is Mesmers.

Mesmer players really love their class despite its many issues. We also tend to keep it to our class forums.

It takes a week or two to get a character to level 80, in full exotics, without the cash shop. If you gather along the way, you might even have leveled a craft or two.

Yep, it’s borked in AC, at least when transformed.

If they’re descendants from that one bunny cave in GW:EN, the local mobs know better than to mess with ’em.

Don’t mess with the bunnies, man.

Nayru.3947:

Micerbeats.9607:

Yaki.9563:

I suppose if all you do is grind to max level so you can grind some more, yea GW2 might feel like that. Fortunately, I’m actually playing it along the way to 80 and it’s the best PvE leveling experience I’ve ever had in over 10 years of MMO’s.

Agreed!

Yeah because everyone buys MMO’s for the levelling experience.

That’s what just about every single beta review said was the main focus of the initial game, while higher-level content was meant for future expansions.

Yeah, I have absolutely no idea what one is supposed to do about them.

I noticed frames are for sale via vendors, but with 200 extra cogs, is there a way to get more?

I’d like it if you could set one point, maybe once per day, as your ‘home’, and make it free to jump there. One of the few things that WoW (and AION, etc) did all right IMO is to let you hearth somewhere for free.

I am level 80, not rolling in monies, and the load time between towns is pretty slow as my machine is a laptop that’s a few years old. So while I have used the mists > portal > wherever thing, since my main hub is NOT LA, that three-jump process takes long enough that it’s tedious, especially if I’m doing this with a group of people. They’re there at least five minutes before I am. _

This game was billed as an MMO for folks who didn’t like them, though.

Please allow us to have multiple guild chat channels? Multi-guilding is a great feature, but allowing us to chat in different guild chat channels (as long as we’re on the roster) would help, IMO, keep solidarity between members even when we aren’t repping.

For example, I am in a few roleplay guilds, as well as a WvW one, and so on, because none of them really overlap. But this means that my ability to still hang out in chat with my roleplay friends whilst, say, running between sieges, is not an option.

Thank you!

Yes, thank you.

PolarisNova.3867:

Yes please Anet give mesmer some sort of trait-able speed boost. Why do they have to lag behind for goodness sake?

My other professions are elementalist and thief…..well, need I say more?

Guess what the people I group with the most play. x.x

I gave up and reruned a set to centaur runes. Now people will get to kitten about my damage instead of my speed, whee.

Of course, unlike all my friends, I can’t farm in the same gear I want to be able to run at, so I still lag behind.

No good for keeping up with your friends, since it has to be used in combat.

LOCO.1785:

Tolmos.8395:

LOCO.1785:

Please don’t, they’re not needed.

Because so many people are running around Orr, doing temples, completing story mode on old dungeons, and hanging around lower level zones to do champion events.

…

Oh wait…

They are on my server…

Have you considered the ramifications of adding this feature to this game? Can you imagine everyone running around with their own party of henchman? The game is already a cakewalk, no thanks.

Limited to dungeons, since it’s the only PvE that forces someone to group with a limited number of people.

Rin of Rivvinda.4971:

And in general you can actually play the story modes of the dungeons (and also watch the story, as most players who want to help you usually force you to skip the story parts, because they cost time….

that option gets my vote. something for everyone.

This doesn’t help folks who need to run dungeons for legendary components, though.

Low mobility was never meant to be a Mesmer weakness anyway. Read the class description.

Which goes for the folks working on skills too, btw.

^
What he said.

Titles also give us away, too, last I knew.

I’d rather buff than nerf if at all possible. It makes for a faster game, but that’s all right.

Ok. Guess I’ll go for whisperblade instead of a legendary. Makes my life easier.

Except that to get a legendary, you are forced into dungeons. If there were open-world alternatives, great!

I like people and MMOs, I just don’t like how many of them turn into speed-clearing jerks as soon as you enter a dungeon. No dungeon, no jerkfaces.

alcopaul.2156:

Sylv.5324:

alcopaul.2156:

Devolving GW2 to GW1? No way.

They reduced the party size from 8 to 5. That 3 less kittens, if you insist that the community is all kittens that should be replaced by ai.

Why do you care how other people complete dungeons?

this is an mmo, not a single player game.

Why do you care how other people complete dungeons?

Seven out of eight classes have close to permanent speed boosts, and what mesmers are complaining about is out of combat speed. Invisibility doesn’t allow us to catch up with our friends in WvW, exploration, or dungeons.

Aether McLoud.1975:

Low mobility is a mesmer weakness, deal with it. Can’t have everything of the cake.

I shouldn’t have to deal with people raging in dungeons or WvW because I fall behind, and yet I do. That is not what I signed up for.

Being slow is not as annoying as other people being impatient that you are slow.

alcopaul.2156:

Devolving GW2 to GW1? No way.

They reduced the party size from 8 to 5. That 3 less kittens, if you insist that the community is all kittens that should be replaced by ai.

Why do you care how other people complete dungeons?

It’s just really frustrating. In my personal experience, most people in this game are nice. They’re nice for holiday dungeons, nice in chat (usually), nice at events, nice in Orr, etc.

But as soon as you get into a dungeon, creeps start arglebargling over everything. I haven’t gotten to do most because I am in a small guild. I have tried some large guilds but there is always some drama type looking to start a fight.

I don’t like dungeons, not because of the mechanics, but because of the folks playing. If I want a legendary, I have to do dungeons. But invariably, the formerly nice friend rages if you fall behind, or he rages if you can’t do massive AOE damage, or he rages over this or that. And that is NOT FUN.

Anet, why did you lock content behind dungeons? Why aren’t there alternate paths for guilds who can’t get steady groups? Pugs are horrible. They’re part of why I quit WoW.

GW1 let us do dungeons. I love GW2 but I miss GW1 so hard right now. I just want my tokens, but I am not up to being yelled at for hours (or yelled around if whoever is screaming or sniping at whatever) because players can’t be nice when playing the stuff you’ve created.

Please go back to giving us alternate ways of getting nice things. I understand that some players get angry when you allow smaller groups of folks alternate ways of doing things, but I don’t want to be yelled at for being slow, new to a dungeon, or because my roomate had to help suddenly clean my quad sweetie’s wound!

Zia.9251:

I play a mesmer also, I get my speed from my focus though I agree a torch is better in a dungeon for group support. Seriously if the group is yelling at you for not running fast ALL the time, you better run with people on your friend list or your guildmates. Keep a focus in your inventory for those long runs I dunno?

I’ve tried, then they kitten that the DPS is low. (Because of said focus being equipped when we stop running.)

Then it was like, ‘can you bring your guardian?;’

Like I hadn’t been the one to res everyone all the time, use time warp when their low DPS was dragging on, cleansing, etc.

treborIRL.4521:

ummmmm NO. taking heros for a full arah run? ummmm no. this won’t be happening in this game sorry

Then fix it so that I can keep up with folks running dungeons.

I’d be cool with that.

Riku.4821:

Carighan.6758:

Riku.4821:

Yeah I really hate using mesmers in any PvP(Structured isn’t bad but WvW is awful). A speed buff like this idea or to a signet is needed its quite unfair.

In WvW it’s the least of my worries ,since groups usually have 100% Swiftness coverage on the entire group anyhow.

Yeah well I can never find a nice group like that :P

Neither can I. What I can find is the groups of folks who apply swiftness on everyone in front.

IE, not me.

I don’t mind our in-combat mobility. What I have a problem with is OUT of combat mobility. We’re designed to lag behind everyone else and that results in people being kitten.

That is not fun!

plasmacutter.2709:

This smacks of some people perma-slapped with DR while others are perfectly able to make gold.

It just means your RNG is bad.

So is mine, btw. Part of why I hate RNG is another NCSoft game, AION’s, RNG system. I had to stop playing because I couldn’t even enchant and socket my gear because of the unyielding RNG.

cesmode.4257:

Im at a loss as to what you want.. As far as I know, these things were never in Guild Wars 2. How could they be brought “back” ?

And Im pretty sure this should be in the suggestions forum.

They told us that they were bringing back the things we loved from GW1. I loved H&H. <3

Also, if it is, a mod will move it soon enough.

With all of the speed buffs that every other class has, I as a mesmer an a detriment to any dungeon group that wants to move fast. I’m tired of everyone zooming ahead, and either I have to equip a subpar weapon or drag behind.

And get yelled at.

Heck, the same goes for WvW. If I’m no longer allowed to keep up with my friends, then please make it so I can play without my friends. I’m tired of being yelled at for being slow. I don’t feel like being yelled at anymore. This is not fun anymore.

My roomie is having issues, too. They are my and my sweetie’s aide. If someone has an emergency, or even just a basic physical need, they have to stop, help us, and come back. This was not an issue in GW1, but in GW2, they get to be made to feel like a jerk for just doing their job.

I realise that fundamentally the issue is with players, but most players don’t want to pause or to go slow. And I don’t think that we should have to put up with nastiness just because we play classes with suboptimal speed or occasionally inconvenient real lives. What GW1 did so well was allow folks like us to access the content without the abuse. Please somehow bring it back.

Doing stuff with friends is starting to turn into a real unfun chore. I was trying to do dungeons with folks and invariably I was the jerk who was lagging behind. I kept getting yelled at, and at one point offered to just leave because I was slowing everyone down.

I don’t want to DO dungeons anymore, and yet I have to go in there for tokens for my legendary.

WvW is going to be a nightmare. How am I going to be able to keep up with my friends? The whole maps were designed around running long distances.

If you’re trying to quietly make us reroll, I’ll just quit, okay? This ISN"T FUN anymore.

And before people kitten about ‘quitting’, I’m one of those players who spends a lot in the cash shop and was planning on spending more, but not unless this gets fixed.

Stratigo.1976:

does this make us better then theives and bunker eles? :P

No.

spacelion.9865:

I seriously can’t understand why anyone would want to self nerf this if they are playing mesmer. It is a bit strong but so what? I main a warrior and I can get 25 stacks on my own with a shout, and elite signet (both of which also give me perma-fury) and a greatsword 20pt trait. I don’t even use a sigil of strength on my weapons either.

Eles can stack 10-15 stacks of might in one round of combos. Thief can have 15 stacks of might for 10 seconds using a signet trait. Boon duration runes and/or food ftw. I play all of these. Including a mesmer. Mesmer needs buffs trust me.

Yeah, I don’t get it. It’s not as easy as other classes can manage (as usual) and a couple folks want it nerfed just because the devs haven’t gotten around to looking at condition builds.

I think I’m just going to forge my focus after this. It doesn’t work with my playstyle, and I don’t like how the devs are forcing me to kitten off my friends by lagging behind them for everything— exploration, running to various stuff, running after them in PvE, or be stuck with a weapon that does very little for me in most contexts. I shouldn’t have to pay to waypoint while they get to save money by running, either.

I understand that we are very mobile in combat but it shouldn’t come at the cost of being a bother for the people I’m with.

If they even just doubled or tripled the length of the speed boost you get from SoI, it would be much better.

So kitten focus. I refuse to use the weapon at all. That skill was not on focus to begin with!

Instead of asking for a nerf of this, which I think was needed, ask for buffs to other specs which are underperforming. Mesmer is already too weak in many specs right now because people keep demanding nerfs without much sense.

Please give us a way to zoom without a focus and out of combat. Losing signet of inspiration’s out of combat buffs was a huge decrease in quality of life for me; not allowing us multiple weapon sets like in GW1 is annoying, too, and runing armor just for speed— what?

I’m tired of always dragging behind everyone else.

I’m pretty glad that they chucked the trinity (despite having been a healer in every other game). Was doing fine in a dungeon today, was usually the one resing my comrades, using time warp at key moments, cleansing, interrupts and knockbacks, etc.

And yet, since I wasn’t a guardian, I wasn’t support enough, and they wanted yet one more guardian.

I bailed before the whining went on and on. I was doing my job, I’m not going to switch classes because people can’t do theirs.

The way that I farm DEs with a lot of aoe is that I play melee in DEs and have traited myself to act like a clone as well, so even without clones up, I can use sword 1 and 2 and shatters 1 and 2, and that usually results in the ground being covered in sparkles.

Yes, this is in Orr.

I’ve noticed that folks complaining about lack of teamwork also are the same ones refusing to change their playstyle.

Folks, please stop being hyperbolic and refusing to learn the new system. If you understood the new system, you’d know how players can work together.

I’m someone who always plays healers in MMOs, but I managed to adapt. It often ends up that I end up cleansing, my roomie does direct heals, another will drop prot stuff, etc. It’s not all on me to keep everyone alive, it’s up to everyone to do so, and good groups will work together.

Saying, “But I like to be the one to keep people alive!” is in no way about teamwork; you’re actually trying to STOP others from working together to keep the group alive.

The game is not dying. OP is burned out because he exhausted a lot of the content so fast, and now has to wait for more expansions to provide more content in the style that he likes.

Re: population drop: there is always a drop after 2-3 months, this is a well-known thing and companies plan around it. It is basically the point where folks like the OP burn through the first wave of stuff and then wait for the next one.

Re: re: population drop: my server is always full. Folks are consolidating in the communities they prefer, so the even spread is starting to get lopsided.

tl;dr: game is not dying. Every game, WoW included, goes through this after every launch/expansion. OP needs to take a break, feel less mad that he blew through things so fast, and come back when there’s more new stuff for him to do.

While I think the kittens are funny, maybe they should do it so that it’s like in Johnny Dangerously:

“You fargin icehole son of a bench!” etc.

Tarnished Coast seems to have folks around at all hours, and not just in LA.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ash_Legion_Spy_Kit

Use this for if you get overwhelmed (drops aggros), or you want to mine something but there are hostile mobs, or in dungeons where you might want to fiddle with levers or whatevs without aggros from the boss.

If you are a mesmer, keep in mind that neither the world completion star, or titles, show up on your clones.

You can make ten-ish gold in a couple hours of Orr farming without touching any cash shop anything, so I’m not sure why folks are complaining about low rates. Ten gold is enough to buy several pieces of exotic gear off the AH, or a full set of rares.

I guess taking two or three days to be completely kitted out in full exotics is too hard.

Araushnee.1852:

My husband refused to buy the game when he heard there would be no healing class.

He should give water ele a shot (reactive AOE heals— think smite spec disc priest without bubbles), or guardian (WoW pally of various flavors, mostly mitigation, shields, and some heals) or engineer (back to heals with the kits— I am told like a shaman with totems, though I never played shammy).

I only play healers usually (and end up defaulting back to it in any other game because I am twitchy about health bars) but presently play a Mesmer. Since I’d get tapped for cleansing in WoW, it works, since Mesmer is one of the classes that can do so for others.

The broom didn’t cause problems, I don’t see why adding more would.

’They’d cause problems in jumping puzzles!’ So disable them on puzzles.

’They’d make the world smaller!’ So make them ground only, and limit their speed. The broom feels fast enough with no increase.

’They’re what’s different from…’ I think this is silly.

‘I like seeing my character run everywhere!’ So keep running. If there’s no speed difference, there’s no reason why you can’t stay on foot.

I’d love mounts, I’d spend a lot of time collecting them if they were around. Just make the speed difference minimal (so it doesn’t shorten the world) and keep it to ground ones.

The broom’s shown that they won’t break the world.

I prefer to run somewhere rather than waypoint if at all possible (I used ground mounts whenever possible in WoW, too), and watching my charcter run is so much less restful than watching him noodle around on his broom or whatever.