Guild Wars 2

Daevinity Inspirata.2508:

Hopefully it’s the start of a rotating trend where we get content for each race.

So every new month we can pretend to care about another race that celebrates something else that’s equally unimportant? The point is that everybody is basically being forced to go and care about a race that not everybody cares about or plays. If I wanted to hear about the Queen every day I’d play a human.

Not to mention the fact that because of the new Royal Terrace in DR, you better believe every city will get one. This should already be something every city has – and should be there for free. Anet should encourage people to use their races cities – not ensure they all just hang around Lion’s Arch all day.

This was a big problem with GW1 as well. Every main city of the game was dead except for Lion’s Arch (in Tyria, anyway). They should want Charr to hang out in the Black Citadel – Asura to hang out in Rata sum, etc.

Like make the “mini LA” areas in each city only available to that specific race. That’d keep it “exclusive” while still being open to everybody of that race so that they have somewhere else to be other than Lion’s Arch.

I play a Charr. Friends of mine play Norns, Sylvari, Asura, some human. Why though, are we being forced to care about a human Queen for a month? Go to DR to see the Queen’s fancy new Arena, go hear her talk about stuff.

Like why should I, as a Charr, care about anything this human political figure has to say? Why do I have to get a miniature of her? Why does DR get a mini LA crafting area (That every city should have – and should have free of charge) while the rest of the cities still have no point to going to them?

I guess I’m just a little irritated to see every new event demand me give a darn about humans and nothing else. Meanwhile, Black Citadel, The Grove, Hoelbrak, and Rata Sum are complete ghost towns.

But it’s ok, we can try our luck with the series 2 minipets that are coming out soon. So rather than giving players a gift that contains a random minipet we can just buy them in the gem store.

Now I see what’s changed from GW1 birthdays to GW2 ones.

Why would you do this? It’s not bad enough that the gift is lame (Queen Jennah.. yeah like I want to see more of her after this event) but you had to go and flat out say what EVERY character is going to get at 1 year old?

Clearly some of you working at ArenaNet worked on Guild Wars 1 and realized how much better of a system it was over there.. It was exciting to log in and see a birthday gift saying “Happy 1st (2nd, 3rd, etc.) Birthday!” and then the excitement of opening it up and seeing if you got a rare or a common mini.

Now we know what we’re going to get. And it’s not exciting at all. I was really excited to see what you guys and gals had up your sleeves for character birthdays in this game, but you have gone and disappointed a lot of people with this one.

My 12 mini Queen Jennahs will have a fun time collecting dust in my collectables tab with my 30+ Priests of Balthazar and Holographic Risen Knights. Because everyone likes account-bound minis that you have tons of.

For anyone not familiar (either players or Anet), this is how GW1 did it. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Birthday_Present

Each year a new series of minipets would become available to characters who reached that age. So if you had 10 GW1 characters, you’d get 10 chances at a new series of minipet each year.

This “Everyone gets 1 Queen Jennah mini” thing seems incredibly disappointing. Though as another user on the forums posted,

GW1 players are in the trashbin, this Arenanet, admit it, hates the fact that GW1 ever existed and raised the expectations to so high from what they are lightyears from accomplishing.

That’s why they are turning to GW2 newbies only, and see, if you give them free stuff they will be satisfied – doesn’t matter what’s that.

Hate to say it, but I agree with him.

Well as she said, Dev posting is rare but at least they’re acknowledging these threads exist.

I think part of what makes them cool is that they’re seemingly ordinary weapons until they’re drawn. I like them the way they are.

I’d still like to see more on this subject =) again, if they made those trophies tradable and similar to how GW1 ones worked and just replicate the Nicholas system they had there, it’d be great!

While they’re at it let’s have them convert all existing 2 handers to 1 handers and vice versa…

Omfg I laughed so hard when I read the OP and saw the face lol

I saw her in the arena a few times and yeah she’d get downed and then instead of having downed abilities available, her character spazzed out and did the whip animation and wouldn’t let her do anything.

It’s also worth noting that elementalists using stakitten are at a horrible disadvantage because of the orbs being obstructed (despite nothing being in front of it…)

And no this is not a “NERF HER!” thread, this is a genuine question I have regarding my friends not being able to do the fight on their only level 80s because of bugs.

For some classes Liadri is impossible to defeat. I’ve gotten my mini but several of my friends play Elementalists and they are having a rough time with the orbs not being able to be killed because their attacks are obstructed, they start doing her whip animation when they get into the downed state, and their camera seems to do all sorts of crazy stuff.

So are there any plans on fixing the bugs or is it basically going to be “Well, those who were able to do it did it and oh well on the rest.”?

Changed to 3 separate overflows tonight because of this. Really annoying spawning in to the pavilion and seeing 3 or 5 of these swords spinning around killing everyone.

You bought keys… -_-….

But on topic, no they don’t sell it anymore.

Gele.2048:

MOUNTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS i love mounts

Lol they’re not adding mounts.

It’d be nice if every account was given at least a few guest passes, but in most games that these are available, they are almost always abused.

I don’t understand what the problem is. The fact that water is coming out of leeks?

Erasculio.2914:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Sorry, but this deserves it’s own thread. So it’s been said that there’s “probability of a new race or profession is high and so are the currently unreachable lands of the original Guild Wars”.

Uh… Collin mentioned on Reddit today:

You won’t be seeing a new region this year. This is however an example of living world content as discussed in the blog post in July that has a wider affect on the world, and more permanent impact as well.

So no “currently unreachable lands of the original Guild Wars” this year. Where did you read that? Feels like second to third hand information.

The lead content Designer said they expect that as well as playable races, old regions from GW1 will return with expansions or expansion-esque living story updates.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

JT, I don’t think a Grub Story Mode would be that interesting. It would mostly just be born—>grow big—>zerged by WvW players.

Another player suggests it’s going to be Tengu. I wouldn’t mind that at all, esp. if it’s connected to Cantha.

If you ask me, Tengu are the most likely for when it does happen.

They already said that likely candidates for playable races are Heket, Tengu, or Kodan. Skritt, Quaggan, and Grawl are likely never going to be playable if you ask me. Also from what I recall they said if they even do another profession it’ll be WAYYY down the road and likely another soldier profession.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

One can dream, can’t they? Playing as a Tengu would be interesting. I’d love to see their Story Mode. That’s definitely worth the purchase of Character slots.

Absolutely. They’re iconic characters just like Charr. My new main will be a Tengu when they’re released for sure. Their character models look great compared to Guild Wars 1.

They never said anything about Quaggan being a playable race. My bet would be Tengu.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

TehPwnerer.7215:

Did you guys see this yet?

Lead content designer “I’d love to go back to Cantha and Elona”
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/09/guild-wars-2-teases-anniversary-plans

My work firewalled the videos. Can you give any more details?

Lead Content Designer Mike Zadorojny was interviewed by IGN and asked about the way that the living world fits into the game, why they did it that way, what his thoughts are etc.

They asked him about expansions and they said that they’d love to roll out expansion content via the living story and only release boxed expansions if they felt the need for it or if it made sense to (ie: something that they couldn’t just do in living story would be my guess).

Then as far as what these expansions or living story (expansion) releases would include would be, he then said that the probability of a new race or profession is high and so are the currently unreachable lands of the original Guild Wars.

He then says word for word, “I would love to see us go back to Cantha and Elona….” “…we wanted to build on the lore and history from the original Guild Wars and there’s some really cool stories we wrapped up with Guild Wars Beyond and Winds of change, I’d love to see what happened over the last 250 years since we last left them.”

Jovel.5706:

I agree with everything the OP has said about the Fellblade and the “Lord Taeres’ Shadow” Fellblade.

I know a friend of mine who played GW1 with me a long time ago that bought the game solely to achieve 23 points in the Hall of Monuments for the Fellblade skin BEFORE THE RELEASE OF THE GAME, only to find the dull excuse we got for Guild Wars 2. He quit the game and no longer plays, sadly, but I’m sure he’d appreciate ArenaNet copying the Fellblade, resizing it, adding purple patterns on it (which I don’t care about and isn’t the issue), and like the OP said a more noticeable smoke animation. OP also suggested that the HoM Fellblade should be given the same effects it had in GW1, with clouds moving within the blade instead of smoke radiating from the sword, something alot of people agreed to in an earlier thread on the Queen’s Jubilee forum.

This is probably asking too much of ArenaNet. The Rainbow Jellyfish used to have almost, if not the exact, model as the Blue Jellyfish ranger pet. So after months, Jon Peters made a thread on the ranger forums asking the ranger community for feedback on the new appearance, attaching an image of the new Rainbow Jellyfish and stating the following:

I added an image for reference. It doesn’t really show it off in motion, but I’m not skilled enough to make an animated gif. I will say the new one is cooler looking IMO and does have a cool “glowy” membrane on its head.

source

I agreed to the changes assuming this “glowy” membrane was noticeable and more fitting to the “Rainbow Jellyfish.” But nope, it’s an exact copy of the Green Jellyfish which used to be in the beta weekends.

Wouldn’t be surprised if ArenaNet did something just as goofy to the Fellblade, possibly making it look worse. Just throwing this interesting piece of information out there.

That is indeed interesting. I do have all of my HoM rewards unlocked and I was definitely questioning when I saw the rainbow jellyfish. The blue one looks more rainbow than the rainbow one… So I’m not sure if they already changed it or what (the thread makes me think they did but what I see in game has me saying “That can’t be what they did to it”), but regardless I’m requesting very specific things to be done here. So I’m hoping that if something is ever done about this it’ll be done the right way.

Daecollo.9578:

I don’t want pretty colors on my swords plz.

You didn’t read a single word of the OP. I do not want the colors.

CC Danicia.1394:

Navzar.2938:

Yeah people don’t really look at the suggestions section much. So it’s not a place that will show how popular a suggestion is with the players.

The Dev Team does. So does the Community Team. Whilst we don’t respond to each suggestion, we do review them.

Danicia thank you again for replying to my email earlier. I wasn’t aware that things worked the way you said they do, and I’m glad that you helped me out and passed things along!

Lead content designer says that he’d love to go back to Elona and Cantha. I like that guy, keep him around Anet. Doesn’t matter when, just so long as we know it’s coming eventually =)

Did you guys see this yet?

Lead content designer “I’d love to go back to Cantha and Elona”
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/09/guild-wars-2-teases-anniversary-plans

Beast Sos.1457:

Its pretty much doing that except its in my inventory lol. I hope we get one of these options bc atm i have a weap i spent 400+ hours building and i dont even use it, unless im akitten LA lol.

There are several safeguards in place that make sure you are 100% confidant that you get the legendary you want. Salvage it, transmute it to another character, or merch it.

There’s more to the game than using Zerker gear to do boss mobs in seconds.

So you made 100g farming 1 mob all day and Anet nerfed it… And there’s a problem where?

I didnt say they created them I said they remind me of those. So I’m sorry, but no. They also said that we’re going to get one more soldier profession down the road but that’ll probably be it.

Gmr Leon.1846:

Crazy thought for you all: maybe they scrapped the Great Collapse being the Canthan District for the Arts District because they realized they could have a load of Cantha via the tengu in the Dominion of Winds. You get one of the more interesting races of Cantha that’s not just more humanity silliness, an entirely different yet still compelling backstory for Cantha from the tengu perspective, and you get their unique and fascinating architecture that is a loose blend of Asiatic themes with somewhat avian-stylings.

How awesome would that be? We’ve heard the Dragon Empire’s tale, now let’s hear another perspective. They would, as far as we can tell anyway, be the “best” source of Canthan info on Tyria. Unless they shoehorn in a random refugee boat sailing in.

Can’t WAIT for Tengu to start playing a bigger role in the story.

Zyphent.2967:

They already said in the “Looking Ahead” blog post recently that there will be some way to obtain legendary weapons in sPvP, but I doubt that means you’ll be able to bring over the one you crafted in PvE.

This. They did mention it but didn’t provide details.

Biggest thread on the forums and I’m glad it’s such a good cause. Posting my daily support to bring back Cantha. Even if it’s not tomorrow, even if it’s not this year, I just want some confirmation of it.

Vorch.2985:

It’s bad now.

It will hopefully be adjusted later.

It’s really bad.

Did mine as a condition warrior. Sat there and spammed rifle shots all day, knocked her back with Rifle butt if she got too close, and slowed her constantly.

Morrigan.2809:

The Champs in Queensdale die quickly but it is a starter zone and they need to match the level of the players.
OP Queensdale is a really nice zone- I spend quite a bit of time there because it is friendly, the people are funny and helpful and it is very social.

I recently leveled my thief and my ele there from lvl2-15 and I had no problem finding things t o do, events to run or champs to kill.

If anything I leveled much faster because all the events are constantly up because of the heavy pop.
There are many new players on my server and they are doing the same thing- they seem to be happy about it, because not only do they get to participate, there are always someone around to answer questions, help with a skill point or a res.
Queensdale is popular because it is fun and friendly .

Mind you the other starter zones are pretty busy too, so is Orr

Friendly people answering questions? Sounds like a nice server. Not so fortunate on Darkhaven.

Email has been sent, hopefully this thread gets moved back to the QJ forum where it’ll get the attention it had before.

If you notice during the daily kill variety, nothing down there updates it. Grubs, humanoids, animals, Fish, Quaggen, Giants. They’re all Risen. Which means you get the Zhaitan’s Bane achievement updated but no other ones.

No. I connect the word monk in the way that you’re talking about to Diablo 3 and WoW. If it was healer monk like GW1 that used holy spells, then maybe, but you’re literally asking them to replicate WoW / Diablo 3’s fighter monk so I’m going to vote no.

Azure Prower.8701:

This sounds amusing. About as amusing how people build trebs at gates and rams on hills. Thanks for the tip.

Lmao is that something people do?

kokiman.2364:

I would but I don’t like your idea, sorry I enjoy the fellblade they way it is.

Fair enough then. No problem.

kokiman.2364:

TehPwnerer.7215:

kokiman.2364:

Maybe you should make 2 threads. One thread is the suggestion and the other one is a discussion about your suggestion and links to your suggestion-thread.

I haven’t checked, but I’m not sure if that’s allowed.

Me neither and it would require a lot of more moderation, I think.

Not sure but if you’re curious, the thread I made is found here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Please-apply-the-same-affect-to-Fellblades/first

and there’s really no downside to supporting it so please show some love in there if you feel inclined. =)

kokiman.2364:

Maybe you should make 2 threads. One thread is the suggestion and the other one is a discussion about your suggestion and links to your suggestion-thread.

I haven’t checked, but I’m not sure if that’s allowed.

I’m pretty sure petitions are against the forum rules..

On topic though the fight itself is not overly difficult. It may be for Elementalists (beat it on all my characters except for my Ele) but all in all the fight isn’t hard. The camera angles and RNG involved with the shades spawning right behind you is the problem.

So no, don’t nerf it, but open up the domes so we can see.

akamon.2769:

back in the day, Queensdale was definitely something else. :///

and sadly, lately i’ve been noticing a lot of trolling on Queensdale. people call events that are not up. for someone who’s new, they may not have a lot of gold to spare to WP around like that. and i don’t know which is worse, when people call out events or ask if there are events, people don’t link WPs or say stuff like “ever heard of wiki / google?” or say there is nothing going on (when there is), etc etc the list goes on.

and this, in addition to the massive farming, don’t help new players at all. well for the time being, what we can do is, i’ll say, is if you do happen to spot new players or who don’t seem like they know what they’re doing or are evident from map chat (if they’re not trolling themselves), take that extra step and give ’em a helping hand. show ’em around a bit and let them know not all maps in the game are like this.

and on that note, i do wish there was more incentive to hit up the mid-level maps so when new players get there, they won’t be empty either. all the goodies are at high level maps. but the low level maps are easy enough to complete from a time perspective. the middle, however, they’re stuck in limbo and the rewards don’t seem worth the investment.

Very well put. The trolling, the lack of player cooperation and overall trolling / flaming new or unfamiliar players, really the zone has become a joke. But you’ll find more people in Queensdale per server than you will on probably the rest of the maps (excluding LA) combined on that same server.

That’s really dumb that people are doing that. I’m glad I’ve never seen that stuff happening but kitten that sucks. Sorry to hear about that. Report them and move on. Take screen caps and send them in don’t use in game report options.

I mean it’s very discouraging posting suggestions that are extremely valid and well received by TONS of people, but then are moved to other sub forums that are completely ignored.

I have a post in QJ forum get 2k views in under a day. Over the next 24 hours it got less than 20 views. People previously posting and providing feedback and support. Now the thread is dead in a sea of other dead posts that never get seen by anyone…

KICKER.3874:

I was one of the guys who did AC all paths every day. I haven`t been there after seeing the “revamps”. AC is just annoying, not harder, not better, simply annoying.

Putting it at the same reward as ARAH p3 ? Have I missed how they removed Lupicus from Arah 3 or what ?

I really don`t understand how they picked such awful gold numbers.

Your entire post is exactly what’s on my mind.