Guild Wars 2

Define “mature” skin.

People still cry about ascended gear. Only ascended armor is “hard” to get and it gives you almost no stat advantage. Now imagine a weapon that is really “hard” to get and gives you big damage boost + maybe some special damage effects on hit. The qq would be real.

Don’t forget about broken hitbox in snowblind and final instance of season 2.

<1 hour after the change when new highest damage gear is found>
AC full run 5k ap <new best stat combo> or kick.

Fenrir.3609:

Are people really so desperate to get their nomads facetank into the speed run meta that they want to change the games combat system?

Yup. People really want to get rewards for doing nothing but occasionally spawning waterfields.

I don’t care about shifts :P. Weapons are cheap to make and ascended armor only required (easy bypass is buying +10 infusions) for fractal 50.

Windsagio.1340:

NikeEU.7690:

Windsagio.1340:

NikeEU.7690:

Is the concept of Active Defense not “inherent to GW2”? The second the combat was designed around active defense, positioning and parry/blocks PvE was destined to be dominated by glass cannon builds among players at the skill/experience cap. It may not be exactly how the developers envisioned it, but it is the inevitable end result of that decision.

The concept of active defenses does not make glass king, the high power of the active defenses makes glass king.

Do you see the difference? It’s all in the numbers and the balance.

As your buddy noted, they’re not going to touch old content much, but we’re seeing the new content already impacting things — just not in a form where you’d want to have the ‘meta’ discussion.

If you take the current balance as the be-all and end-all and as what must be in the system, you’re making a pretty basic mistake.

Active defense in this game is binary. You dodge or you don’t. You block or you don’t. You stand out of the arc of attack or red circle or you don’t. You can make content where those things are more challenging or less challenging to do, but those are binary actions.

Active defense is binary, but lets take (and admittedly crazy) test case.

Let’s say every 3 seconds the boss pulses a dodge/blockable 500 damage attack on the whole area in addition to his normal attacks. The boss has wyvern style defiance and enough health that at max dps it’s a 5 minute fight

There are problems with this fight (numbers are kitten -pulled so they might be very wrong), but it’s (hopefully) illustrative of a point so I hope we can stay focused on that.

The fight takes a very different flavor, because toughness and healing support (and protection) are much much much more important than dps or active defenses. Aegis will be stripped almost immediately and even if the pulse was worth dodging it’s not realistic to be able to keep your dodges up even with vigor.

There, simply, is a fight that would work within the current system but emphasizes a whole different set of defensive abilities and actions than the current model. It’s not likely that they’d do so much to deemphasize active defenses, but it’s a design decision not to.

If they wanted to design encounters that made toughness more valuable, they could. If they wanted to design encounters where dodge was useless, they could. They choose not to, but nothing in the system forces them to play exactly like the existing archetype you’re used to from dungeons.

So basically add healing check like in every trinity mmo ever made?

Scoobaniec.9561:

Just checked “news”.. LS3 confirmed. Another recap..I dont even..

Cant w8 to that awesome next blog soon about “mushroom lore” or another recap.

Recap of all recaps we had so far, a bit more lore about how gliders were invented and maybe a sentence about awesome rewards and/or challanges.

I think there was a bug that allowed you to color fire effects or something so it should not be that hard to implement.

Point Blank Shot Lava Font.

Lampshade.7569:

Interesting to see how easy it is to get some data about the playerbase. Too bad ANet can’t be bothered because . . . reasons.

Who cares about what players think if you have METRICS.

Kaleban.9834:

J Eberle.9312:

Dungeons wont have anything in the future except more bugs and ‘fixes’.

Compare the original manifesto to the current SotG, or the idea that they would NEVER do an expansion in favor of the LS release method, etc., etc.

A quote would be nice. I only could find “not in the near future” written back in 2010.

Add lfg filter and/or party leader system. Problems solved.

Ralanost.8913:

lordkrall.7241:

Ralanost.8913:

There are actually people that don’t pvp. And some pvpers actually don’t like that style of play.

Quite irrelevant.
New stuff is new stuff no matter if you are interested in it or not.

I prefer more mechanical or technical news that effects everyone. Lore? I would rather read it in game than out of context in a blog. PvP? Meh, people had the chance to test it. We don’t need another blog on it. There are a good deal of features that they mentioned that we know essentially nothing about. But I guess you are happy hearing about frogs.

You want to say that guild content and “challenging challenges” are more important than high frogs? How dare you!

5 man nomad party can beat pretty much everything in this game so i would say that every single stat combo is viable.

I do daily pvp in a rankfarm. That takes around 10-15 minutes and gives you 6 pvp reward track potions/day. You can just hoard them untill anet releases new reward track or use them right now to get some easy leveling tomes or dungeon weapon/armor chests for dungeon collections or forging. Rewards are still meh but at least u get something remotely useful.

Outfits in the gem store and armors exclusive to pvp/pve like they did with luminescent and glorious armor

“September 2014 feature pack” aka china client port to eu/na. I want my human female animations back -_- .

DontJudgeMe.3958:

So that’s why the Hylek are capturing those Giant Beetles in Silverwastes!

TRICKY TRICKY! I’m on to you ANet, I’ll be searching for more clues!

Pet system confirmed. You can tame wild animals and use them as mounts or as pokemons and fight other players. HYPE!

Hmmm check your selling orders. Tp sometimes puts items that you wanted to quickly sell to your selling orders.

If you used autosell and first person on the list ordered 1 item you will sell only 1. Check your mat storage maybe it is there.

Still waiting for words like “new fractals” or “new guild missions/challanges/trials”.

Quin Marino.6384:

The spider queen change was definitely intended. I was in a guild with the dev who made the change, he had talked about it during an AC run as “imagine how people would fight her if the poison didn’t have a minimum range…”

And the answer is “they will kill her before her model loads”

I would love to see mode filter in unranked. Problem is that they have only 1 deathmatch map, 1 stronghold and 1 capture the flag. Not enough for a separate queue.

The Itzel: Long-Legged and Laid-Back

Weed frogs. Nice.

Vikkela.7261:

Personally I hate the idea of encouraging people to not learn English and continue to only be able to communicate in their own language, it feels like you would help them keep shooting themselves in the foot.

That coe door reminds me this. It is not a bug or exploit. It is called “lol lets make a huge hole above that door”.

Daym this threads still popular.

Harder content = less build variety.

Plane crash is too old now. Cool kids looking for something else to be offended by.

Add some instanced squares pls.
Yeah this squares hurt my eyes but i am afraid that they can’t do anything about this now.

I would like Flame Legion charr slave as my mount. What i would like even more is mounts as a rewards for achievements or something hard (inb4 kill 1 giant. That’s gw2 after all). Kinda tired of “everything in gemstore” model.

Well you asked for sub based mmo with regular expansions.

Eve online. Free expansion 2 times/year.
FF14. 5 decent content patches in 2 years that added a lot of stuff. From mini games to new raids, difficult modes for existing dungeons and a whole new class and a subclass. Not “traditional” expansions but they still add a lot and expand what is already there.

Yeah if you mean d/f build.

Well… there is no kill/resource node stealing. Many skills can be used on the move. Do not rush leveling. “exp” in lfg means “experienced” and not “explorable”. AP means achievement points. Try to upgrade weapons every 5 levels and armor at least every 10 levels. People are usually friendly so you can ask your questions in /map chat. Exploration is good way to get some xp.

Nothing is broken so i doubt it will be fixed.

If with sub devs would add hard content, more dungeons, hardmode, a lot more rewards, a lot more fractals and fractal levels, at least 3 new maps for every pvp game mode and release new expansion at least every 6 months i would instantly sub for a year. And if no… well i am out of here then.

kamix.4713:

We need diversity! Make some new dungeons with some new boss mechanics in which you’ll need guardian support build, condi necros etc….

Sorry but that goes against gw2 design. Oh and meta guardian build has 5/6 points in support line.

I played only ele for almost a year and a half. Recently i created 7 more characters and got them to level 80 but still play ele 90% of the time. Sometimes i play guardian, war or thief if no one else wants.

Hyareil.1850:

• Add more ways to acquire these items – for example add them as possible rewards to the defense events

This. I still don’t know why anet did not do this to begin with.

Well filter or not people still kick rangers/necros/whatever that can’t be bothered to read few words in lfg.

Running speed directly affected by number of empty inventory slots please.

Ayrilana.1396:

i do wonder what exactly they have lied about. They said they will implement precursor crafting and they are with the expansion. They said they will bring back SAB after the expansion and there’s no reason to say that they won’t.

They promised fractal leaderboards, did fractal level reset and never delivered or talked about it since. Oh and don’t forget fractal gear box that drops only at level 51+ with fractal 50 being the cap. And i am sure you can find more if you start digging.

Badwolf.9725:

1) Ok, so, assuming your right, I can expect them to abandon any future content they add instead of fixing it? AC, the first thing players can run, is still a joke. Dungeons are all exploited, bugged, tons of content skipped and the moment you suggest NOT exploiting broken mechanics, you can expect to be kicked out of the group or laughed at. When the expansion releases, I can expect 90% BS mechanics and the other 10% i have to pay extra for to be halfway decent?

2) ‘Use in niche" is great…if only anyone cared about those niches… As it stands, Necromancer has been fubar since release and there has been no real attempt to fix it. At best, with HoT I can expect to see every Necro running the one GS build. Also, considering how few kittens the devs gave in the last 2 years, assuming they still have an underpowered necro class, I can expect another 2 years of underpowered necros. The devs made it rather clear they give 0 kittens about an entire class, and I don’t see why they would start now.

3) Again, 90% of the content will be terrible, bland, and boring static fights and then I can choose to pay extra for good content? I don’t see the developer’s abandoning their old content as a good thing I guess, and I don’t see how that is a good model for the future of their game.

4) Stacking is an issue when it becomes, basically, every fight. WvW, stack here. Dungeons, stack here. World bosses….stack here…. Stack here? Stack here! Stack there? No, Stack THERE! There? THERE!!!!

1) Only widespread exploit i can think of is arah p3 and p4 skip. And people being kittenbags is not a game’s problem by the way.

2) “Underpowered necros” have a lot of power and are a lot of fun actually so don’t know what you are talking about. Only thing they lack is party support. But hey there is no support in gw2 anyway because you only press 1.

3)Maybe they will revisit old content after HoT or maybe not. Still we have a guarantee that there will be no more shatterer like bosses in the future.

4)I recommend you reading this https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Boon .

Leave outfits in gem store and add new armor as a reward for doing stuff. All problems solved.

My favorite unlocked title is dungeoneer.
I would add fractal collection that has all rings (infused and normal), all weapons and fractal tonic that would reward player with 3 ap and title “Slave of RNG” or something like that lol.

So this is infamous forum bug?

Ragnarox.9601:

CoF p2 final boss: Eternal flame cannot be autoattacked? We can only dmg it by aoe based attacks.

This is a general hitbox bug. As far as i know swirly thingy in snowblind fractal, season 2 last boss and cof p2 last boss are affected.

cesmode.4257:

Ascended Gear

Can someone tell me why ascended gear is a bad thing?

Filter would make things a lot easier and faster and it definitely will not make “class discrimination” worse.