Guild Wars 2

No one can really tell you if it worth it on not since you need to buy game to play the beta in the first place. If you have any doubts just wait for more info. You can get digital crap from preorder if you buy it right before release.

eisberg.2379:

Aenaos.8160:

Behellagh.1468:

Honestly now, players are getting upset because the game is informing players that a beta weekend is going on and in tiny print if you want to join in then buy the expansion and they give you a link that will pop up your browser.

Look at it! How is that a problem. Having it in game like the P4F accounts have then I can understand the rage but the load screens? Seriously?

The devil’s in the details.
It’s not upsetting.
It’s just one more little brick in the wall of sloppiness and the ‘one size fits all’
mentality.And as a whole,that wall makes me worry about the quality of future content,UI design etc etc.

No, that is not an indication for sloppiness. It is a stupid waste of money to program a system to determine who should get the message on a loading screen and who shouldn’t just for something that last 3 days. Loading screen is a good place to make sure people see the message and give a link to buying it if one wants to. This is nothing more than you people being petty and complaining about stuff for the sake to complain.

It was a stupid waste of money to add it in the first place. Information about weekend and that you need to preorder hot to participate can be seen on the game launcher, website, reddit and on the countless google ad banners. Why add it to the every single loading screen in the game? inb4 not everyone uses the internet.

One question. Do you want to have somewhat balanced skill based dueling or you just want to pwn noobz and brag about it in openworld?

Nemesis.8593:

Arantheal.7396:

Nemesis.8593:

Thaddeus.4891:

nacario.9417:

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your personal dps doesn’t really matter

… and here i was thinking that the warrior buffs were there to buff high DPSers like me, to increase our personal DPS and therefor the team’s overall DPS, i was doing it wrong all this time… We need to buff-bribe bosses in this game, maybe if we buff them hard enough… they will just surrender the loot and no one has to get hurt…

That would probably work in a 10 man raiding party but who are you going to replace in a 5 man dungeon/fractal party? Just a reminder that even without icebows eles have a lot of utility and damage.

Reading glasses were on the gem store in the style tab for a looooong time. Guess they were removed few months ago when anet deleted a bunch of old skins from the gem store,

Wait wait wait. So all this pointless threads and unreadable posts exist because necro can outdps support warrior who is in the party because of his buffs in the first place? Someone enlighten me.

Crystal Reid.2481:

They will be disabled.

That’s more information about raids than we got from announcement and few blog posts.

I like how people in the chat are analyzing a fight and theory crafting their way to tanks and healers when all they had to do to win was dodging obvious telegraph.

He’s dead, Jim!

So it’s pretty much the exact same feedback that was given after first bwe. inb4 feedback was positive, have some damage adjustments.

Entitled blaming entitled for being entitled. Oh internet.

WTB adblock for gw2.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Batresh is his friend healer guardian from the fractal 50 screenshots where both him and Nemesis were flaming a Necro in their party for his build (was using assassin’s)

Elitism from anti-elitist guy? Tsk-tsk.

Eh that guy again with his “damage/inventory/terrain is exploit” and “players split so bosses can downscale”.

Envy.1679:

I was in queensdale with an Anet employee, the producer. Knyghtblade.

He said raid servers are going to be powered by the Tears of Players.

Raid servers will be permanently offline?

Selver.1307:

Would have to rename skill. Retreat indicates going the opposite direction, not just any of them, from your opponent.

Tell that to the guardians with their retreat shout and eles with burning retreat.

StrangerDanger.3496:

For instance, he hated ESO and pretty much tore it a new one. I agreed with him initially with that game, it was akward to get into, didn’t seem like a TES game. However once I got past the “tutorial” mini instance and got into the story, I quickly forgot that it was a mmorpg with mmorpg combat rather than an TES game.

That’s actually why ESO was not that good. MMORPG with MMO part being complete crap.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Bandit.8279:

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Get ready to grind some masteries before you enter the raids. Doesn’t sound like content gating at all, does it.

Took me only a couple of hours through normal varied game play to get my gliding unlocked. After BWE1 I had made significant headway into Gliding, Mushroom and Itzel Lore.

The fact that masteries can be completed doing what you want to do in-game made it feel like anything but grindy.

With all due respect, you made it to the first unlock of one mastery, which is not that impressive.

I suspect you will need more than one reputation (mastery) high enough to use some special abilities. The glider alone will need the skill for catching an updraft, which is sort of down the road.

Colin specifically said they will give players time to grind reputations (fill up masteries) before they release the raids.

The content will be gated, and people late to the party will have a rough time to catch up. Well, they can enter the raid at least, but for what…

If the raids require more than one mastery to be maxed to succeed, it is worse than what we have as attunements in most other MMOs for raids…

People will also have to grind reputation (level to 80) to do end game.

phys.7689:

this is why they are making fractals more dungeon like, id say both fractas and dungeons died. And the new fractals is child of the two.

New fractals look like a botchling to me.

Corran.4957:

wtf does your guild do if so few in a 500man guild would want raids? Sit in LA spamming mapchat and reading forums because it to scary outside the zone!?

From my experience around 60/500 are actually active and around 10 know how to play. That’s how huge guilds roll.

Jerus.4350:

So, 2X on my 30 fractal last night, 3rd fractal, Thaumanova, everyone crashes after activating the side events… fun stuff. ANet didn’t want me to do a 30 last night.

Lol that crash is still not fixed?

It is not really a paywall. HoT is expansion/season pass.

Draknar.5748:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

MidnightSun.7964:

1. How much has changed? I know Lion’s Arch got finished or something like that.
2. Has much changed in the way of the “meta”? All zerk with warriors, ele’s, thief/guardian is what it was when I left.
3. Has the state of the Necro’s changed much? I guess any class for that matter.

1. They cleaned up trait system a bit from all the junk traits. Crippled personal story with “1 chapter every 10 levels” thing. Arah story is not part of personal story and can be soloed. Stacking cap on some conditions was increased from 25 to 1000+.

Are you sure it’s not part of personal story still? I thought it was, the only change being it is a solo instance now.

Typo :P.

MidnightSun.7964:

1. How much has changed? I know Lion’s Arch got finished or something like that.
2. Has much changed in the way of the “meta”? All zerk with warriors, ele’s, thief/guardian is what it was when I left.
3. Has the state of the Necro’s changed much? I guess any class for that matter.

1. They cleaned up trait system a bit from all the junk traits. Crippled personal story with “1 chapter every 10 levels” thing. Arah story is now part of personal story and can be soloed. Stacking cap on some conditions was increased from 25 to 1000+.
2. A whole lot of nothing was added to instanced pve world. Meta is mostly the same.
3. Necro got a bit more coverage on youtube. Still has same old problems but at least you can find some good guides now.

tl;dr Call of Duty is ARMA clone.

1. Nope
2. With scaling comes huge balance problems so probably nope.

nehezbegar.1065:

I think how will it affect a development of GW2 in the future. Actually has NCSoft ever had any decision makin power over GW2?

I heard not long after release that giant hole in DR is a result of ncsoft banning cantha (asian) district. No idea if it is true though.

Mayga.7241:

Nobody has seen raids, no one killed last boss, but you have already divided people on PUG’s who do not deserve and for yourself, who of course deserve. What happened to you, people? Are you crazy with your elitism?

I hope the developers read all this and draw conclusions. I really hope.

The only crazy person here is you. Or you are just trolling. In that case you should try to be less dramatic. More drama = people take you less seriously.

Seera.5916:

Dinks.2478:

Seera.5916:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Mayga.7241:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

There is smaaall little reason why legendary armor must remain locked behind hardest content in the game. It is called Crafting.

Nothing should belong only to a small fraction of the players in this game. I can go through a raid – this is no problem, I have years of experience in hardmode content.

But why is it necessary? Why this should be tied to the raid content? We have here WoW or GW2? I came to play in GW2. And I want to stay in it – not in clone of WoW.
So legendary armor must be hard-to-get, but only like legendary weapon. Raids must be pure challenge. This is only way to prevent the separation of the community.

Here we go again. WoW and doom in the same post. “Years of experience” yet you don’t understand why armor sets with free stat swapping should not be available to everyone.

Just like the weapons? Oh wait, I’m down to the stuff the needs gold. Gold is not hard to earn. And no where near hardcore.

It becomes something for hardcore players only and hardcore groups that can do it with a few under ten, they will likely sell the other spots for gold. Just like they do in dungeons.

So might as well make it doable by PUGs. It doesn’t have to be easy for them.to do it. But once guides get released, it should be doable, but difficult.

They CAN do it, there is no restriction blocking them aside from difficulty. It is CHALLENGING content. If they can do it they can do it. That is the only way to put it. Nobody will stop them from doing it but themselves.

Claiming because of the stat swapping they shouldn’t be available to everyone when the weapons aren’t is what I was replying to. And that there will be raid spot sellers just like there are dungeon spot sellers. And even some casuals will be willing to organize to defeat the content once guides are out.

I was saying that they should not be available outside of raids like some individuals here want them to be.

Eldbrand Charging.8902:

quote[“Years of experience” yet you don’t understand why armor sets with free stat swapping should not be available to everyone.] end quote

And who is supposed to decide who it should be available too, you?

Developers of course. They already decided that it should be available only to people that will do raids.

jazzllanna.1278:

I was wondering if we have been told or could be told how the raid lock outs are going to work in this game. Are people going to be able to enter a raid multiple times but only get loot once a week, or are there going to be complete lock out and once you complete a raid you cannot enter again until the following week?

It will probably work like dungeons/fractals. Enter at any time with daily reward reset. It is not a guild mission after all.

Mayga.7241:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

There is smaaall little reason why legendary armor must remain locked behind hardest content in the game. It is called Crafting.

Nothing should belong only to a small fraction of the players in this game. I can go through a raid – this is no problem, I have years of experience in hardmode content.

But why is it necessary? Why this should be tied to the raid content? We have here WoW or GW2? I came to play in GW2. And I want to stay in it – not in clone of WoW.
So legendary armor must be hard-to-get, but only like legendary weapon. Raids must be pure challenge. This is only way to prevent the separation of the community.

Here we go again. WoW and doom in the same post. “Years of experience” yet you don’t understand why armor sets with free stat swapping should not be available to everyone.

Mayga.7241:

That is what I predicted in another topic about the raids. That’s what I’m talking about the second day. Elitists irreparably divide the community. I know what I’m saying – I’m one of them had once been. When I played in WoW. GW2 changed me. I so do not want to see it here, now I’m trying to convey to the community of the danger of division in the 1% elitist and “crowd”.
That is why the legendary armor should be made available not only in the raids. This is the path in the darkness, exactly – in WoW

There is smaaall little reason why legendary armor must remain locked behind hardest content in the game. It is called Crafting.

All I saw in starting maps was “Welcome” spam and huge amount of people + cakes + guild consumables. Fps drops all over the place and annoying chat spam combined with particle spam is kinda weird way of welcoming new players.

Strach.1572:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Strach.1572:

I was toxic to free players on pvp becuse they dont respect server rule in rank farm , its 1 big chaos there.

Free players can’t access custom arenas until rank 20+ which is impossible to have reach at this point, so yeah…

then dunno that 2 different servers were full of ppl that ddint follow

Nothing unusual. Reading and following rules is frowned upon here.

Kimyrielle.3826:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Kimyrielle.3826:

Substance E.4852:

Kimyrielle.3826:

rotten.9753:

Ohoni.6057:

Nobody’s talking about “facerolling” anything except for straw men, but there should be alternatives that don’t involve having to participate in raiding. Raiding is not for everybody, that’s one of the main reasons why GW2 has players, because some people didn’t want to be playing WoW.

You probably misheard Colin but Gw2 raids are not WoW raids.

From what I read on their website, that’s pretty much what I gathered, though. Instances with (gimmick) mechanics that require you to execute certain steps in a certain order inside a very small margin of error to get exclusive shinies to brag with. That’s…WoW.

That’s called good pve content, that all other MMO’s have.

I’m sorry your blind hatred of WoW and general lack of MMO experience causes you to not see this.

Let’s just disagree on that. Yes, I hate scripted gimmick fights (and that’s the only thing I actually hate WoW for, btw – for inflicting this stuff on the MMO genre, because they really came up with it). Scripted fights are ultimately boring and the only reason why they are difficult at all is their ridiculously low margin for error in execution.

What I don’t understand nor ever will understand is why fans of said content come to the ONLY game not having it and nag the devs for three years to add it, instead of simply playing one of the 20 WoW clones providing that exact content.
Me? I was very happy that GW2 didn’t make me feel like a second class player and lock me out from content and desirable items just because I don’t and never will like WoW-style raids. There is a reason why I liked GW2 you know? It NOT being like other MMOs. Thing of the past, I guess. You guys couldn’t let people like me have ONE game that’s different and didn’t make me feel left out just because I don’t want to raid or be in a raiding guild. Congratulations. You won. I lost. I guess in the end the loudest voice always wins after all and I have to give it to the raiding crowd that they were both loud and persistent.

Left out of what? Optional content that has only one prerequisite which is ability to type words?

Left out of experiencing that content and its story. Left out of pursuing a legendary set of armor. And the other stuff they will add to appease the raiding crowd and its thirst for having exclusive shinies.

Raiders love to pull the "hey, it’s optional!!!!’ card, I know. They do forget adding that in every single MMO ever having raids, that content completely took over focus and is usually considered the only PvE content worth doing (for said exclusive rewards). If I cannot get a set of legendary armor since it’s locked behind raids, what should I do then? Farming SW for another 2 years? Twiddling thumbs? Stand in LA and admire the raiders bragging with their phat l00t that scrubs like me can’t have?

How can you be left out of something that has no entry requirements other than having a level 80 character and a brain?

Kimyrielle.3826:

Substance E.4852:

Kimyrielle.3826:

rotten.9753:

Ohoni.6057:

Nobody’s talking about “facerolling” anything except for straw men, but there should be alternatives that don’t involve having to participate in raiding. Raiding is not for everybody, that’s one of the main reasons why GW2 has players, because some people didn’t want to be playing WoW.

You probably misheard Colin but Gw2 raids are not WoW raids.

From what I read on their website, that’s pretty much what I gathered, though. Instances with (gimmick) mechanics that require you to execute certain steps in a certain order inside a very small margin of error to get exclusive shinies to brag with. That’s…WoW.

That’s called good pve content, that all other MMO’s have.

I’m sorry your blind hatred of WoW and general lack of MMO experience causes you to not see this.

Let’s just disagree on that. Yes, I hate scripted gimmick fights (and that’s the only thing I actually hate WoW for, btw – for inflicting this stuff on the MMO genre, because they really came up with it). Scripted fights are ultimately boring and the only reason why they are difficult at all is their ridiculously low margin for error in execution.

What I don’t understand nor ever will understand is why fans of said content come to the ONLY game not having it and nag the devs for three years to add it, instead of simply playing one of the 20 WoW clones providing that exact content.
Me? I was very happy that GW2 didn’t make me feel like a second class player and lock me out from content and desirable items just because I don’t and never will like WoW-style raids. There is a reason why I liked GW2 you know? It NOT being like other MMOs. Thing of the past, I guess. You guys couldn’t let people like me have ONE game that’s different and didn’t make me feel left out just because I don’t want to raid or be in a raiding guild. Congratulations. You won. I lost. I guess in the end the loudest voice always wins after all and I have to give it to the raiding crowd that they were both loud and persistent.

Left out of what? Optional content that has only one prerequisite which is ability to type words?

Tongku.5326:

Harper.4173:

Kidel.2057:

I’m pretty sure he said you need 2 players keeping cc on the boss while the others glide away. Am I wrong?
However with similar gimmicks coming into place I can definitely see a change in the full zerker meta.

So I can’t cc as full zerker now? My hammer CCs on warrior require me to wear PVT armor?

Not necessarily, you can still do it, but someone else will have to keep you up and provide prot, regen, stability, group cleansing, aegis, etc. as it was stated earlier in today’s feed on twitch.

All that can be done with any gear.

Raid Exclusive Legendary Armor. Nuff said.

That’s the only reason why I still have not finished season 2 achievements. Hardest part of some achievements is not to fall asleep before you can actually start trying to do them.

Code must contain at least 15 bugs.

Maybe not all npcs are handmade. Could be random name generation thing. Or sounds cool > consistency.

Only way to use overloads without having giant “kill me” sign over your head is to hide somewhere, precast it and then blink in. Might as well go scepter burst build and have more support and surviveability and some synergy between your skills, play style and weapons.

Tempest is not good or bad. Tempest just makes no sense. While other elite specializations add something different to core class or at least change a bit already existing ways of playing tempest just goes against base ele. One trait line refuses to work with other two.

This date leaves them almost no time to polish tempest, berserker, daredevil, forge and druid. Unless they will spam beta weekends till release and will make corrections on the fly.

mrstealth.6701:

Am I the only one that doesn’t see this on twitter unless it’s a direct link to that tweet?

Looks like Anet and IGN forgot how to use calendar.
Or it was planned leak to distract people at f2p ragecamp

Don’t know if anyone mentioned it but cannons at mai trin make farting noise too.

Gaab.4257:

Just thinking out loud as I’ve never played WoW (got bored to hell after 15 mins): what makes a raid “raid”? What exactly is missing from GW2 that this magical word “raid” would solve?

Don’t shoot me just wondering.

Instance with higher difficulty, more coordination and increased player cap. Instanced part is optional. That’s short version.

ham.8209:

Randulf.7614:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/IGN-Tweet-Core-Game-F2P-what-does-this-mean-unconfirmed/first

http://dulfy.net/2015/08/27/gw2-getting-raids-with-core-game-being-free/

Also, the idea elites were built as part of a larger picture including the challenging content was something most people expected

these have been posted already and in my book there is a super very small chance this is true . but yet they are very well disproved by the fact Anet did not come running out and saying yes or no. matter of fact Anet has not said a word about this problem Tweet that only leaves it to just another rumor . and some ones hoping that it will happen at best. and is not a fact it will

Here is how it works.
Anet sends information to all gaming news websites they want few days before the announcement. Writers read that information and prepare the article together with tweet that is meant to hype people and lead them to the article. All that is prepared and is ready to be posted automatically when embargo is lifted. Suddenly IGN messed up and released article AND new gw2 trailer where anet said that gw2 is going f2p. They instantly delete all this and turn on silent mode. But since it is 2015 and internet is fast they fail to delete it in time.
Anet is silent because “No” is a lie and “Yes” breaks the embargo.

Killyox.3950:

Daredevil = someone fearless, extremely fearless

So I get they named it like that because what? They expect him to Dash/Leap/Roll into battle head first like being…fearless? :P

Name makes sense if you compare spec to Daredevil from comic books. Thats the only reason why name is not bad.

uknortherner.2670:

Toxity.2547:

We are getting raids and f2p aids.

Source?

Trigger happy IGN employee. Links are all over the place.