Guild Wars 2

The only game that allows to play with the entire community at once is EVE online.

They only allow macros used to play music instruments

Consistent Yes/No dialog box. At the moment some work with esc and enter and some work only with mouse click.

Guild Wars 2: Reborn would be neat.

SuinegTsol.1729:

So no changes here, but maybe we’ll get a return of rev as supporter, depending on how good the dps increase from his new legend pays out.

I though rev support is tied to herald elite spec. Played that class for like 5 hours so no idea.

This is a playtester application not a usual closed or open beta test with a massive amount of feedback and bug/exploit hunting that other games do.

takatsu.9416:

Elite specs needed to be done in PvP and WvW bc this is how to tell class balance. everything would be too easy in pve. there are some simpler pve npcs in HotM.

Then they should have called that a beta. Demo is not for feedback. Demo supposed to show off the game and create good a impression.

Like was said before if scepter burst ele fails to kill the target instantly he is as good as dead.

Abakk.9176:

Duelling in itself wouldn’t be so bad but it is a fact that most people can’t handle such freedom and fall into some form of mental barbarism.

Instanced content, pvp, wvw, party system, guilds, mail, chat and multiplayer are not bad but they do attract kittens. Block button and report system are tools against kittens. Not adding something because bad people MIGHT show up and annoy someone for a split second before getting blocked is pretty terrible excuse.

As a demo it was pretty bad. Instead of hyping people up they just showed very boring story instance, a not even that big empty map and implied that new specs are made with only pvp and wvw in mind. Nice start lol.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Why supply fodder to fuel the fire?

Why bother with fire in the first place when block exists.

Staff has better survivability than x/WH.
https://www.reddit.com/r/guildrecruitment/ You can check this subreddit for guilds.

Abakk.9176:

On this point i would like to throw in my lot with Vayne.8563 on account of having the same issues he/she has with duel-hungry players that keep pestering you to duel with them. To the point even of whispering you and insulting you just to get what they want from you. I personally experience this behavior as invasive and abusive.

It’s not something a yes/no button would be able to prevent.

What is stopping someone from stalking and whispering you ingame now? Dueling not gonna add new ways of being a kitten to the game no matter how much you want to believe in that.

Just move the gw2 folder. It is not tied to the registry.

Eve.9812:

basically, the issue with adding dueling to the open world is not that it would hurt people. the issue is that it is completely unnecessary. it adds nothing of value to the open world. dueling, as a system, does not make sense in the context of open world PvE content.

They made whole expansion based on a repackaged mushroom mastery that you can apply gemstore skins to. Value went out of the window long time ago.

Pretty much the only good point to not have dueling is no longer relevant since the mount announcement.

Swagger.1459:

So what prevents players from setting up “fight clubs” in event/meta areas and trolling other players and taking up pop spots?

Anyone can do that right now without any dueling systems tho.

Damage mods look nice. That’s about it.

Lahmia.2193:

Serophous.9085:

You know what could’ve been a better feature than mounts?

A build template system so we can swap builds and gear faster.

Or gvg

But…ya know…mounts

Not sure what the obsession with Build templates is. I mean they would be a nice convenience but they would save all of about half a minute.

Half a minute, hundreds of clicks and need to google if you forgot some detail.

Tbh if PoF players can’t unlock HoT masteries raids should require both expansions. It will give designers a lot more freedom.

We use calendar events on a website to form groups 2-3 days before the raid starts. System has some issues but so far it was not that bad.

Fractal chest with a t4 daily chest loot table for the home instance would be neat. This is a 1 time expensive purchase tho. Not really a sink.

STIHL.2489:

Considering that it takes full ascended to get enough AR to even have a chance to run T4 (or amazing twitch skill for some fractals), I have no idea how you attract people who put that kind of investment into what would be a poorly done builds. Might be an issue among your social circles to be able to waste that kind of resources on flavor and test builds.

It is not that impressive now. They added a lot of different and easy ways to get ascended gear and AR in the last few months. It is not that rare to meet someone with 150 AR and have absolutely no idea how fractals work.

Aldath.1275:

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Ayuruk.3980:

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Serious? This game has more rewards for doing nothing than anything I have experienced, it’s literally inventory filling with loot every 20 mins.

And items do not inflate currency, only coin rewards do that.

I think you just need to look into how you can take better advantage of the loot you are getting.

Yea it fills ur inventory with trash. Nothing of value or use

Do you want a precursor every kill? What do you actually expect?

ScottBroChill.3254:

If I’m in a level 80 zone I shouldn’t be getting a bunch of useless greens and blues, especially underleveled gear. Just give me silver and copper at that point. And the stupid chests around maps should actually have a chance for good drops, not a blue pair of gloves and 3 empyreal fragments.

Those drops are worth silver and copper at that point, sell them on the TP or salvage them and sell the mats. They can’t just keep adding gold to the game.

Why not just handing out material bags or plain copper and silver? You have to spend on salvage kits, you won’t use those blues or greens, selling them as they are is much less proffitable than disarming them for materials and selling those anyways…

Infinite salvage tools and extra inventory space now on gem store!

Reward system is terrible on purpose. Like RedDeadFred said you are supposed to salvage all trash you getting and then buy yourself a reward from the market or convert gold to gems and buy some skins from gem store.

You don’t need dps meter or a gear check tool to know what other people run and how much they are contribute btw. Party window and player character itself give away plenty of information and if that is not enough you can just look at the rotation and what skills player uses.

One day I would like to see ANet change the aggro logic to target squishiest first and go from there.

It feels like it is already the case in open world and some older fractals I get boss hate like 80% of the time on my ele.

voidvector.2780:

does not benefit the community as a whole.

Neither does kitten posting and not reading op post or even the name of the thread.

voidvector.2780:

Basically, what people are asking here is they want more rewards for fractals than what Anet has already given to them without putting up new effort.

Read op post.

Blaeys.3102:

Developers waste too much time policing these things and chasing after violators. A zero tolerance policy for violators is the only way to ensure future tools can be created without pulling away valuable developer resources.

Chriss Cleary is a security lead. Chasing after violators and policing things is what he does.

Reducing gold cost for obi shards should be a priority. Gimmick vendor that sells fractal boss combat tonics or something that is useless but fun would be neat. Tbh literally anything would work because numbers are getting ridiculous.

You don’t get fall damage when you fall with a mount. I just got knocked down for like 2 seconds. Maybe that was just a bug tho.

Valky.2574:

Draco.9480:

Rhanoa.3960:

Draco.9480:

Feothyr.6072:

Story and open world is endgame content. Don’t you know anything about Guild Wars 2?

No, it’s not end game. it’s a start for expansion so ya can advance and access more content. Don’t be ridiculous. No one is going to repeat the same story over and over.
However, people do enjoy do raids multiple times.

No Raids + No DPS Meters = No Forced Meta Builds

No Raids = people will ragequit and anet will lose their sustainers. good logic man.
No one is forcing ya to play raids nor force ya to use meta. Yer choice to leech but not giving endgame content is a failure for an expansion.

Yea the raiders keep the game alive … ( That’s sarcasm btw)
And yea raids are def not endgame not when what 1% play them

They are endgame in gw2. Even if nobody is playing them they are still endgame.

lorddarkflare.9186:

Unless they get everything JUST right, people WILL complain.

There did get it just right last year in pve. It lasted for around 3 months. Was ruined by a few balance changes for wvw.

Tbh its time to move to a different forum board. This one is dated and broken.
Also this needs some updating.

Faaris.8013:

maddoctor.2738:

Faaris.8013:

Some people here want to modify their posts. The dps meters that show other peoples’ damage without them using the same tool and having opted in to share it via server, are against the Terms of Use.

Got a source for this?

There is nothing about it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5sw8ey/arenanets_official_stance_on_3rd_party_dps_meters/?st=j6bztaty&sh=5d928a42

Hmm, looks like arcdps is legitimate. I don’t remember why I thought arcdps fails the requirements, it’s been a while since I searched for the rules. Maybe at that point the gear check was still in.

It is BGDM that used to fail the requirements because it had QoL and gear check running in a “tos friendly” build without anyone but select few knowing it. No idea if it is still true but it was pretty shady.

AegisRunestone.8672:

That allows exploitation of other players, it isn’t right.

It’s the opposite actually. Party with a dps meter can spot a leecher or a liar in their group before first boss is even dead and decide if they should carry or get rid of him.

AegisRunestone.8672:

Regardless, it’s still illegal in GW2 to use DPS meters to track other peoples’ DPS.

Nope. It is legal. Here is the link https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/66m13h/anet_this_really_should_be_part_of_the_game/dgjwapj/

AegisRunestone.8672:

It’s also illegal to use third-party programs to see other peoples’ equipment. This isn’t something to take lightly.

And this is illegal because it falls under QoL and not combat data.

Vlad Morbius.1759:

Every MMO in history has gone down the same path and there are always people claiming it’s needed to ensure they can do the most difficult content etc. and that only certain people abuse it. All rubbish as every MMO in history has proven out, it’s a tool used that propagate elitism and it absolutely has far more negative effects than positive.
This is a subculture

Link to research please.

I saw this animation a couple of times in current demo. It is probably just bugged or pops up only when you do some huge crits.

Halandir.3609:

• Developer written guides on using LFG

LFG guide and tutorial made by devs would legit solve every single accessibility and toxicity issue in this game. Future can’t come soon enough.

Mounts are pretty well done. Lack of feathers on a raptor is slightly annoying considering that they made raptors right before but this is not that important.
The only thing they are lacking at this point is a good reason to exist.

Some dev somewhere said that new fractals and raids will only require HoT. No idea where this is coming from but that’s what a lot of people say.

Djinn.9245:

And I agree that most responses are not helpful.

He did not ask for help. He said that story is hard and that he runs high level fractals so his skill should not be questioned.

hlaraujo.3210:

There is so much in this expansion other than elite specs that is really sad to see you guys talking about how useless this is if it doesnt include elites ????

So far they advertised mounts, biggest deserts ever shipped and elite specs. Out of the 3 selling points elite specs is by far the most important and easiest to completely mess up for at least 6 months after release. Of course people will consider testing them a priority.

Scipion.7548:

I personnally don’t understand the point of a public beta test if the elite spec aren’t avaible. I don’t want story spoilers …

This is not a beta test tho. This is just a small demo.

Zones don’t fill up naturally because of a weird design decision. HoT maps are built like giant raids or guild missions but are implemented as open world maps. When people go to AB or DS they want to do a meta event. If you miss that meta event restart window of around 10 minutes then you have to taxi on a map that does the event, wait for the next cycle or play on a low population version that is not focused on the main event.

Astralporing.1957:

Yobculture.5786:

Astralporing.1957:

Erzian.5218:

Or you just do it in normal mode which is super easy once you have understood about 5 (special action key, catching the ball, pushing orbs at the last boss and evading a couple of highly telegraphed skills) mechanics in total?

I heard pretty much the same about every single raid encounter: “it’s really easy, once you understand the mechanics”. Somehow it doesn’t work like that in reality however.

They meant to say it’s easy once you’ve played the content for a time so you can familiarise yourself with the mechanics.

The “it’s easy once it becomes easy” argument?
Right…

It is called “Learning”.

Did anet break the content guide? It used to be on by default for everyone.

Shared slots and infinite salvaging tool are must have items. Bank tabs if you have or going for permanent bank access. Pretty much everything else is not important and can be bought with gold later on. Never buy keys unless you are bored.

Try uninstalling RTSS and stuff like MSI Afterburner. Had the same problem after win 10 creators update. Was fixed as soon as I uninstalled all overlays and hardware monitoring stuff and restarted PC.