Guild Wars 2

Solution:

Pay anet money to transfer to a server that dominates a tier
or Pay anet money to buy legendary skin from tp

gw2 needs more skill customization

combat right now is very flat, regardless of which class

Best advice in this thread ^

If GW2 wants to earn money, they need to sell copies of the game itself by making the game compelling, making characters more diverse and customizable for skills, and release some expansions that open up continents on the map.

The “Living Story”, which is just junk content pumped out to sell stuff on gem store, does not draw in new players. I suspect someone in upper management, who wants to pad their resume with something like, “Dynamically engineered evolving content in MMO” has this kittened bee in his bonnet, and Crystal Cox is forcing anet to put too much staff hours into gem store crap, taking away from development of the GAME.

Shiren.9532:

The monetisation team is drawing the line. Unfortunately they aren’t willing to abandon RNG with that line.

Unfortunately many users are willing to abandon gw2, especially with the slew of new mmos coming out. No real new content, and korean rng gambling, I hardly play anymore except wvw. Will stop playing gw2 if ESO gets good reviews, will still play gw1.

gw2 cannot slide downhill any faster.

Some stupid “trade contract” that honestly, no one cares about. Will have no impact, no real new content. And then new, obviously hastily designed weapon skins that poorly imitate other games, which you can ONLY get through black lion chests, oh I’m sorry, gemstore keys.

Seriously? Anyone else just shaking their head at this, especially after GW1?

Kenetic.9670:

I’ve read several people here who are complaining: Anet needs to stop this lottery, Anet isn’t fair, Anet…
While it is YOU spending the money on these frigging chests… if you don’t like the system, stop pouring money and/or gold in it?
Or is that a too-easy solution?

So it is wrong to complain that a lot of new content being released, as far as equipment, skins, etc, is the rng model? To the point where the GW2 client and website news update is “Important new items in gemstore”? Ok brah

Don’t open chests, don’t buy gems, don’t encourage the continued employment of Crystal Cox (if she can even be fired)

Agreed ********************

Bump, still a huge problem, fights are unplayable with, as wvw is intended, large groups of players. This is an mmo that sells itself for wvw being an enjoyable experience. The current skill lag is unacceptable for a professional company to not have addressed.

Less fluffy crap like all this gem store junk, gameplay fixes, better balancing staff (balancing staff needs balance), unlink skills from weapons, add more utilities and open up slot skill customization, fire the monetization manager, stop wasting time on temp content that gets no publicity outside of existing playerbase and does not draw in new users, upgrade WvW servers, bring the GW1 team back in from the homeless shelter

Anet is screwing people dumb enough to buy these tools, and you knew it by the soulbound status on item in gem store before you bought it

Daily achievement had WvW goals added, gj, now please add WvW goals to monthly achievement.

Bump, in borderlands with a battle numbering around 50 total players in bay, skill lag makes game UNPLAYABLE. Is still very much a large issue, and needs to be addressed, anet you either need to cough up money for better servers, or go back to culling because your current servers cannot handle it.

A stomp is an attack, therefore thief should lose stealth. Many classes like warr, mes, need a target to use downed skills that affect the attacking player. Most skills which can counter a stealth stomp have a good chance of being on cd after a battle that takes more than 10 seconds.

If you objectively watch thief combat in wvw, you will see thief immediately stealth and perform stomp as soon as someone is downed. A stomp is an attack/interaction with enemy player, therefore it should get spotted status for thief, just like every other attack.

In addition, if a thief uses a skill/signet that grants quickness, which does affect finisher, there is more than enough time in stealth to finish an opponent using blinding powder or even d/p 5+2

25% movement speed signet and swiftness boon on the ranger…

Thiefs being able to stealth and then perform a finisher or res an ally is far too op. A thief in stealth interacting with a downed player, whether a teammate or an enemy, should lose stealth just like using an attack.

If a nearby player doesn’t happen to have a cc skill not on cd, a thief can finish off someone without anyone being able to target the thief. Same with healing. I know the 2 people doing “balancing” love their thiefs, but this should be reworked.

They totally screwed gs + two 1 handed weapon combos. Instead of fixing the “weak” classes and the fundamental problems with lack of utility diversity and binding skills to weapons, the 2 people doing balancing decided to just nerf all the other classes to lower the bar. I suspect that with these radical changes the game population will drop even further, as many people will be too frustrated with their working builds suddenly changing and trait options being so unwisely changed.

The worst thing about the patch is that they have only 2 people doing “balancing” for WvW, PvE, and Pvp. GW2 is so dependent on traiting because of locking in skills with weapons and limited utilities, and the changes they have made have severely unbalanced warrior traiting. Time to start a new char in Skyrim and hope they sort this out in a couple of weeks, else other mmo’s are coming out that haven’t from the very design of gameplay, made chars so limited.

It seems like instead of redesigning the “weak” classes they just decided to nerf all the other classes

Including traits, it still dropped by about 15%

You sacrifice too much with traits to use gs/any other weapon pair, either move back heightened focus and berserkers power, or move back gs buff skills. Again this is an instance of anet deciding how we should play a char instead of letting us play it how we want.

My critical chance dropped by like 15% with this newest patch

0/10, I had a nice wvw build

Whats funny is I have had players playing thief rage when I stay in the area they are obviously going to try to take, when they try to stealth and run away, threats of reporting me etc cause I stay by the camp they are trying to take, I think thief players depend way too much on stealth, and the other mechanics possible with thief are overlooked. If stealth was tuned down a notch, it would encourage wider builds and creativity with the thief, which has more to offer than just stealth and run away.

JQ server

Has been going on for over 3 months, it often becomes unplayable when more than 30 people in the area. The biggest draw of the game, needs attention asap. Battle starts and you cannot use skills, you press the button and it does not trigger. Might trigger 30 seconds later if you are lucky, but fast paced battles become impossible. This especially hurts chars that depend on quickly chaining skills, which are most people.

GW2 WvW is growing stagnant because its all the same guilds, just occasionally hopping to other servers when drama occurs. GW2 needs more players, and you cannot attract new players by doling out temporary content that gets no fanfare from the gaming community and gaming publications.

Start working on an expansion.

Really? Catching fireflies? Awesome bro. Go check how many level 80 chars are just running around with joy at that completed karma heart, catching bugs for fun. You are ignoring and failing to address the OP’s original points.

In addition, go check on a full or high pop server how many players agree with you and are running around low to medium level areas just exploring “for fun”. Very very few, you will be lucky to find 10-15 players on any given map except the orr maps, where they will be repeating a few quest chains to gain karma.

After you have dredged your way through a completed karma heart, there is no fun, nor any motivation, to re-do those areas for the heck of it. You sound like an anet PR stooge reading off a list of canned “features”. Or perhaps you didn’t like WvW and are enjoying wrecking NPCs all day in a field of daisies.

You are the minority. The majority of players need a strong reason to go mess around in an area of a map they have cleared.

Temariah.9372:

TheLaughingMan.4320:

No endgame other than WvW. The players who keep saying, “The game is the endgame!” are just anet parrots and absolutely nuts. Why was GW1 so popular for so many years after it was released? Why did people keep playing even PvE for so many years? Challenging end-game areas, and truly open-ended character building, which took trinity and threw in hybrids and so many different options.

GW2 after you have made a couple chars and leveled to 80, PVE has NOTHING to offer. What, do Orr quest chains over and over? Boring. “Explore”? All the hearts are “kill x” and frankly, if you are saying to play the game itself is the endgame, you have not made more than one character.

GW2 needs a radical change in how character skills are handled, need more freedom and more possibilities with builds, and needs combat to not be just a numbers fest.

They may have one moderator reading this section just to remove posts that are foul rants, but almost nothing anyone has suggested in here has been even close to implemented.

The game is turning into a korean-style cash RNG squeeze while the game is dying. NCSoft and Anet have some financial and structural problems, so this may not change anytime soon. Anet is designing content around the gemstore, rather than the other way around.

Pick up GW1, hope they keep the servers up for a while.

Take the time to look for books to read in Divinity’s Reach. Actually admire the vista when you find it. Don’t just play just to play. Play to enjoy.

Sorry for the wall of text, but it really bothers me when people say that there isn’t much endgame. I won’t say that the whole game is endgame because I’m sure that line has been overused by now, but honestly, even without creating alts, there is so much to do. The reason people don’t do those things is because they may not get tangible rewards for it. But isn’t fun a reward in and of itself?

Lol

Go play Skyrim if you want to admire vistas, this is an mmorpg. Saying “Oh go admire the game engine its so great” is stupid, its a dx9 engine, and not what the gw series are about. I have explored all the zones, I’ve created a legendary and that is a prereq. All the zones are copy/paste “kill x”, the quests are boring and repetitive. Again, you must not have made more than one character, and must not play other video games including GW1. You are the anet parrot of the day.

^
Good suggestions

Who said anything about WoW?

You can extrapolate from what the gw2 team’s priority has been, and still is, to what the future will look like. For instance, taking the long-term end gamish goal of a legendary, and making them purchasable on TP in an attempt to gain gem revenue.

Step 1.

Stop wasting time on “temp” content designed to sell gem store junk

Step 2.

Put all the effort into temp stuff into an expansion with more classes, skills, traits, and bring the trinity in a more concrete form like GW1

In PVE you run into NPCs blocking roads with stuff that needs to be destroyed to clear the road.

WvW have siege that is medium-expensive, and requires a few people to deploy. One person uses the siege item, and can use 1 and 2 to rotate angle, and when locked, shows 3 circles on the line where other players will have to stand and build.

When inner gates at keeps/towers/SM are breached and a zerg is rushing through, even if you have a bunch of traditional siege set up, they will overwhelm and wreck the siege. Barricades could be a strategic option to slow down chokepoints.

Barricades could scale destruction HP based on amount of enemies present or siege deployment cost (player could say “lets spend 100 siege on this barricade and have it be very strong, or 30 siege on this barricade and have it not be strong”). Scaling is better because if gank team barricades supply camp exit, instead of flipping, yaks could destroy in a few min.

It is one of the most amusing features in the game, do not change please.

Minis should not deposit when you say ‘Deposit all collectables’ as must players do this every 3 minutes to get rid of salvage materials taking up space. This is again a basic programming issue that has been ignored for a long time because staff is top-heavy and art/gem-store heavy rather than programmer-heavy.

No endgame other than WvW. The players who keep saying, “The game is the endgame!” are just anet parrots and absolutely nuts. Why was GW1 so popular for so many years after it was released? Why did people keep playing even PvE for so many years? Challenging end-game areas, and truly open-ended character building, which took trinity and threw in hybrids and so many different options.

GW2 after you have made a couple chars and leveled to 80, PVE has NOTHING to offer. What, do Orr quest chains over and over? Boring. “Explore”? All the hearts are “kill x” and frankly, if you are saying to play the game itself is the endgame, you have not made more than one character.

GW2 needs a radical change in how character skills are handled, need more freedom and more possibilities with builds, and needs combat to not be just a numbers fest.

They may have one moderator reading this section just to remove posts that are foul rants, but almost nothing anyone has suggested in here has been even close to implemented.

The game is turning into a korean-style cash RNG squeeze while the game is dying. NCSoft and Anet have some financial and structural problems, so this may not change anytime soon. Anet is designing content around the gemstore, rather than the other way around.

Pick up GW1, hope they keep the servers up for a while.

Guild Wars 2 is dying because they have too many art designers throwing crap out on their in-game browser trying to squeeze gems out of people, and not enough programmers. They are ignoring major issues and shooting themselves in the foot by releasing temp content, instead of attracting new players and gaining revenue through box sales.

The game environment and feel has veered very far from the “rugged” feel of GW1. Gw1 felt far more realistic.

Server: JQ

2 nights ago a player named “A BlackGate Spy” was killing our golems that we had parked by JQ Bl entrance portal, and just in general trolling.

I’m sure this is not their main account, please check what other accounts have had logins from that same IP.

Not pointing a finger at blackgate, even though they were making taunts about blackgate winning while wrecking the golem, however they were not named “A DragonBrand Spy”

No reason to say this is BG/X’s/Whoever’s fault or plan. However, this person is willing to spend $50 on a key in order to do this.

EDIT: Still on, active right now JQ BL

digiowl.9620:

Shows the pace ANet think we play the game i guess.

Shows new staff have caused GW2 to become a grind-focused RNG fest

Don’t blame the players who are idling, blame anet for sloppy planning

wars.2083:

i would rather see more content rather then a new client for those 3 extra players

qft

I lol when linux users say their OS is superior… Sorry but Directx is the dominant library for developing games aimed at a mass market, and unless a company can afford to muck about on something that will not make them much money compared to expenses, don’t hold your breath.

JQ

On any battle/server where there are more than 30+ people in the area, the lag gets to the point where you can be jamming a skill button and 30 seconds later it finally casts. So battles in lords room of a keep are just everyone running around unsynched with server, jamming skill buttons hoping that a minute later it will cast. Need better servers for large WvW battles

kebaa.5147:

@ [… just dual boot Windows …]
sorry, i’m no opportunist. i’m using / programing for linux, cause i’m loving it. i love the idea of free software and open source code so anyone can contribute. it’s not about being cool or whatever, it’s about being myself.

I’M NO MARKET, AT FIRST I AM A HUMAN.

@ Shahrizai and Leios
thnx for the reply

i found an alternative to gw2: ryzom (http://dev.ryzom.com/projects/ryzom/wiki). it’s not that good, but also not that bad. it uses opengl and it’s native on linux.

So your problem is you cannot be yourself by dual booting windows, hence you won’t play gw2?

I really like homebrew’d console systems, why don’t I ask sony to put out the next FF game for my homebrew console system as well? I use it to program and I like the idea, its really cool, so Sony should publish for it as well!!

Ursan.7846:

It is regulated by the players though. More people converting gold -> gems means a higher exchange rate.

DarkSpirit.7046:

The gems currency exchange is already regulated based on supply and demand. It is good if gems are expensive as that would limit the profitability of gold sellers. Besides, you can always use real money for gems anyway when they are expensive.

When gems are cheap, I don’t feel like using real money to buy them when I can easily buy them with gold.

If you believe that, I have some land in Florida I’d like to sell to you

Hawk.3574:

This is why all minis(except HoM) need to be trade-able. Is there a reason why the minis need to be account bound?

Look up the investment an infamous korean RNG/Ripoff RPG company made in Anet/NCSoft, and who they, in exchange for putting up the money, sent over as a “monetization manager” to run this stuff in GW2, and you will know why. Let the game sink due to changes that need to be made, as long as they wring as much cash out of people as they can while it happens.

TheLaughingMan.4320:

Mourningcry.9428:

Rouven.7409:

Mourningcry.9428:

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Lol.

I thought the quota for BLTC/RNG rants for this week was already met.

Does that tell us anything? One can only hope that there is need for fresh blood to continue the chest frenzy. If such fresh blood lacks perhaps the scale will tip towards not favouring RNG-chests.

Not holding my breath though

It tells me some people have horrible, or at least delusional, expectation management skills combined with a distinct ability to project blame for regretable (to them) decision making from themselves unto others.

No worries though, I doubt there is any shortage of these kind of people.

Definitely don’t hold your breath

Lol at the anet fanboi goon squad

There are so many problems with this game and it seems like most of time and energy is into putting terrible skins in gem store, then further anally plundering fanbase by making random chests thanks to you-know-who Cox

We don’t need no stinking badges

I still cannot tell when the last time a player logged in or represented was.

They need new/more skills in general for all professions, not just elites.

All the arguments about why legendaries are called legendary, and how they are not pay to get, how it requires a legendary amount of effort, etc etc are just nerfed by the fact that you can buy the kitten thing on the trading post now.

I want a mini starving refugee