Guild Wars 2

lordkrall.7241:

Funnily enough I used LOTRO as a basis for ingame voice chat. And that chat IS quite bad. There is a reason why most raids and PvMP groups chooses to use Mumble or TS instead of the built in-voice chat.

Weird, u obviously had a bad experience with it, r u sure it’s not ur equipment? Anyway, i think it’s great and all my friends and kin use it without any problems. If for nothing else, in game voice chat is good to be able to hear group leader’s instructions etc. one doesn’t have to use it to talk but being able to hear those crucial details in a difficult dungeon etc, is extremely helpful.

lordkrall.7241:

The main issue with adding a voice-chat in game is that they are usually quite useless and thus they would spend time and resources on develop something that most people would never use.

That is simply not true! The voice chat in Lotro is amazing. Like the op says push of a button, all you need a headset with a mic and ur immediately talking to ur team or guildies. The only stipulation for use in Lotro, is that ur in a group.

Here, you have to be with a guild that hosts one of those external voice chats, or go through the problem of setting and hosting one yourself and paying for it.

Sure, some offer limited access to free voice chats, but those are very insecure where basically anyone can use them and there’s nothing u can do about it.

I asked about a voice chat way back in beta for gw2, never got any response. Of course, i now know why, there were never planning to put one in, but imo, in game voice chat is fundamental to be able to communicate to ur team and ur guildies and an essential QoL tool besides.

I really thought a modern game like gw2 would have implemented an in game voice chat or at least have plans to put one in. I think it would make a world of difference in improving both the social and cooperative aspects of the game.

PS. major reason why i rarely do dungeons or group in gw2, yet i group in Lotro all the time.

Beldin.5498:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

You have 5 zones for copper, then 25-40 gives iron (So that’s about 6-8 zones), then 40-50 gives platinum and 6o-70 gives platinum into Mithril. 70+ almost always gives Mithril ore, with only 80’ed zones (4) which have Orilachium, and that’s about 5 nodes a map +/- compared to the 20 or so Mithril nodes.

Iron goes up to at least lvl 50 (Dredgehaunt Cliffs). Platinum and Silver are different since they are not used for weapons, only for Jewlery.

Personally i’m happy with the mats prices, since i like running around gathering much more than doing champ trains for earning money

Actually u do use platinum for both ascended and non ascended weapons in a form of darksteel, but platinum is rather abundant in sparkfly fen in particular, so i’ve not run into problem with those thus far. I magine though once they introduce legendary trinkets crafting that will change, should they be part of the required mats.

Andrew.4506:

Harvesting isn’t the only way to get iron and wood. In fact there are much faster and easier ways to obtain them. Maybe look in to those before asking the game be changed to suit your gaming behavior.

Ugh Oh! U mean buy it? or bot it? No thanks. I spent $100’s of RL money to buy full sets of permanent gathering tools for all 9 of my char, why should i have to spend money now on buying those mats?

I used to often get more than 3 but in the last week or two its been strictly 3 only so dunno. like others have said, it’s random just seems weird for that random to persist for so long.

Astralporing.1957:

Dawdler.8521:

If one CC from a mob can easily kill you, you’re either packing too little cleansing or have very weak armor/low HP.

Or you got cc’d right before a candy shower. That happens, you know.

Also, i often saw 2 bosses spawn at the same location. You’d be half way through fighting candy corn then the lich would spawn right on top and each summons waves, not nice.

I’m seriously getting frustrated with these 2 materials for ascended crafting. Others are bad enough, but these 2 I just can’t get enough of just to even level my crafting. And no wonder, x3 chunks of iron to make iron ingot and same for steel. To make 1 ascended component you need 20 iron ingots + 10 steel (among others) which = 90 iron chunks for just 1 component.

I can scour entire map and not find half that amount of iron and soft wood is even worse x 4 logs to make 1 plank! And you need 20 planks to make 1 component that’s 80 logs of soft wood! At the same time, soft wood is even scarcer than iron. I can go through entire Diessa Plateau and be lucky to get 30 logs of soft wood, which can take well over an hour. It’s really getting on my nerves and it’s so boring to keep hunting for these mats aside form others.

Plz reduce the requirement. Make iron & steel ingots only needing 2 chunks and same for soft wood, or at least dramatically increase the nodes available in places like Gandarran Fields and other maps where these materials appear. Even more frustrating is that i often find ore nodes are placed where they,re unreachable or very difficult to get to, making u waste even more time.

Thanks for listening.

I meant to mention this. If u look at my pic, you can see a commander pin tacked in the corner, i guess now we know how commanders survive lol, they hide!

esit.3927:

I love staff on my Mesmer, always use it. I would go for it but still waiting for pre-cursor here unfortunately

Me 2. I always use staff on my mesmer can’t play much of any other weapon sets. I’ve tried but always go back to staff, and yes my mesmer has the bifrost and loving it.

I probably spent about $400-$500 since launch. Some of that went to purchase bank slots and 4 char slots, the rest was spent buying full sets of perma gathering tools for all of my 9 chars.

I know that’s a lot of money for something i feel we should have had in the game to being with, but i couldn’t stand the system of having to keep buying 3 different types of gathering tools, then all different tier ones ugh no.

I even dislike how the node are gathered, having to keep clicking on them if there’s more than 3 chunks of ore or wood to be gathered. it’s especially annoying on a rich node. Gathering should be one action, click on the node and ur char keeps gathering till its done. Sorry to say this, but waaaaay too much clicking in this game.

Lolz look what I stumbled into!

I doubt very much any of the past LS content has gone "poof"as one of the poster above suggests. It would be all stored on their database and don’t be surprised if u see some of that stuff return, perhaps in a different form but still.

I have to agree though, too much temp content isn’t good for a game. An MMO in particular has to keep growing to keep their players entertained. As beautiful as it is the limited amount of Tyria we see now, it eventually gets taken for granted when u see it time and time again. People stop looking and rush about (as i see them do all the time nowadays and do it myself too) as there isn’t much new stuff to see.

Believe it or not, people can even get sick of paradise, as Tyria first appeared to me. To give u an example, A number of years ago, all i dreamed about was living on The Great Barrier Reef. So i moved there and lived in a most gorgeous area, a paradise to be sure, but after seeing the same places over and over for several years, i got bored of it and moved away again.

So i feel that if Anet wants to keep their players, they need to open up this massive land of Tyria and so what if players get spread out? They are spread out now anyway. Well not so much spread out as being funneled into certain areas/events which still gives the feeling of many zones being unpopulated.

New expansions, new zones bring in new player and many of them will start from scratch, so in fact you may see many of those currently empty zones actually being played.

Ofc, there should always be options for those who want to group, but personally i loved the fact it was solo. It gave me the sense that it was ME being summoned on an important mission and not having to worry about anyone else while in there gave me a chance to immerse myself more into what it was all about.

Disastro.4086:

Targarion.8046:

An MMORPG should NEVER force solo play.

The fact it is there means they think it’s OK. I think choice is important of course but the fact this is forced solo begins to also highlight and explain the mentality of a massive plethora of inherent design flaws across the board that they’re constantly fighting and struggling with. It could be the current people just inherited these problems from others but it’s starting to reach god-tier BS mode. It’s like the game itself is a wobbly rope bridge with a few rotten wooden planks in it, you need to be very careful how you cross it or players start falling through never to return.

Lol, you name perfectly reflects your outlook on things.

I think what may add a bit of spice to all this, is if Anet introduced a completely new solo roaming Rare Elites that may appear randomly in any given map.

These Rare Elites would have special loot and a rainbow kinda flaming ring around their portrait to distinguish them from others. These Rare Elites would be more dangerous than a typical champ and could be part of say a daily hunt or something like that. They would roam a particular area of the map and spawn maybe once every 45 min to an hour or something like that if they’ve been killed, if not they keep roaming the area till they have been dealt with. If a solo player comes across them, they could call him out or simply run lol.

JTGuevara.9018:

VOLKON.1290:

I think I stomped a few enemy before I realized that I was stomping NPC enemies thanks to extended WvW time, and I love it! Not only can they be stomped, but I’ve seen enemies try to revive enemies in the downed state and that just made me smile. Much better NPC mechanics with that little addition there! I’d like to see that spread to all sentient enemy NPCs to be honest.

So far I’m really enjoying this update!

I like the improved AI, I hope it’s permanent.

Yea, that was actually cool, I forgot to mention that in my post above. Also, I noticed when talking to Kasmeer after the solo instance, she actually addressed me with my name in a dialogue, that was a nice touch. It was something i suggested in one of my posts that it would be cool to have that in to improve immersion and make the interaction a bit more personal. So it was great to see it.

NargofWoV.4267:

WilliamDaBloody.2591:

I expected nothing and still was disappointed.

Instance = Killing some mobs, then a champ you can kill naked with green weapons, no story

Tower Event = running from one event to another that require no challenge or skills, just boring after 3 ones. What is the purpose of a big tower if you cannot enter it? Maybe that will change. Probably a dungeon.

Witches = kill them three times, no mechanics. I was hoping for some boss fight here. More waiting to spawn then anything else.

Obelisk Hunt = nice, as you can see them from far away, the first scavenger hunt I enjoyed. Although the Veterans guarding the obelisks get a bit annoying.

Cleaning Spore Corrupted Mobs = maeh, running Queensdale Champ train, as this is too random. Boring, grindy.

New skins = don’t like them. But sure some people have use for them.

New Skill = worthless at the moment – we’ll see. Probably if toxin concentration will spread out to in the future it could be of use.

New Receipes = have no use for them, but some might have and might even enjoy the grind here. At least the receips offer you to do something with the bloodstone dust.

Visual Appeal = seems rushed, tons of re-used elements from Tequatl 2.0. New Krait are nice though, but same lame mechanics as before, meaning none. At least something would have been nice.

Toxic Effect = can’t even describe how lame this is gameplay and visual style wise. Yeah, the sound effects are nice when you hear them the first time. After that it’s just annoyig. Also has zero impact on playing and can be completly ignored.

But at least something is changing, hope changes don’t just go away but we finally get some permanent impact on the world.

All in all just another fill-in, still hoping because of some bigger works going on. 14 days release cycle is too ambitious and I expected some rushed patches while working on something more profound ones.

Basically I was done with all of this patch in a couple of hours. Nothing to explore, no interesting rewards. Moving on.

At least Anet didn’t require us to do to 250 spore events or collect 1000 spores. So at least not a total boring grind, just boring.

Story line has me totally lost… I read this guy’s retort and feel even more lost. No clue I had to do so many different things. Nothing in the single player instance led me to any of those other events. Brought my 5 spores to the NPC and ???? That was it? Saw some commander pins ran around with them killing mobs, noticed they were getting something at a obelisk recharged but I didn’t have what ever it was they were recharging… Killed some things… ran around a bit and left.

Still after reading the above have zero clue how to proceed.

Give the patch a 2 out of 10.

Perhaps reading the update notes may help? They certainly helped me anyway.

Didn’t u know it’s women who rule the world? We just let the men think they do lol.

Geez guys, you really need to stop complaining about everything. After all you’ve been getting free updates since launch. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

Sure these updates may not always be perfect and some episodes are a hit and miss affair but despite that, some of them are better than sub games offer at times?

I haven’t necessarily liked every LS update and much improvement can be made, as it can with anything, but I let each update take me on a ride and if i like it i keep riding, if not, i get off the horse and go do something else.

Parlourbeatflex.5970:

Krait allied with anyone is a massive. The little I know about the games deep lore tells me krait arnt the type to ally with other races. Example comes directly from gw2 krait wiki;

“Krait are vicious creatures, completely uninterested in the needs or well-being of others. The krait have never felt threatened by any of the land or other sea-dwelling races. They believe other, lesser races have nothing to offer them, so the krait never bother to communicate with them. Never beaten, they are convinced that they are blessed and elevated: the superior species in the world. The krait will seize whatever they want for themselves — slaves in particular — with a ruthless efficiency.”

It’s called “poetic license” Anet can do what it likes with the story & lore of their game and Krait, like anyone else can evolve. Being rather intelligent, they are quite capable of changing their mind about other races, at least once given enough incentive to do so.

I really enjoyed the story too and the open world events aren’t bad but i felt the toxin at the events and around the tower in particular was OP. The new heal skill just didn’t seem to heal enough and didn’t heal my pet at all, so it was constantly dying, like real fast. So was I around that tower. Maybe the cd of 30s is too long, don’t know but it seems a bit weak compared to my other heal skills.

I’m not sure how ppl will take it if the changes to KH is perma. Not sure even how i feel about it at this stage. It looks cool, but I know lots of ppl love that map as it was so yea, if stays as is now, u may get lots of complaints.

The other thing i would suggest if this is perma change, is to synch the other events around the affected areas so they don’t overlap. it becomes a bit too much when other events pop up on top you while ur doing the ToN ones and also seems a bit weird having those normal events happening at the same time, like nothing has changed.

My only problem with champ train is that it runs 24/7 and they are huge, basically filling the map and more often than not putting me in OF when i just want to kill jormag or SB. The only time i’m able to get into maps like Frostgorge Sound or Queensdale is when America is asleep lol. Although i swear, some of these folks never sleep.

I think gw2 effects are amazing, but they really need be toned down. don’t want to lose the effects entirely just tone them down. Even better, like some people have already suggested in other posts, having a slider like for gamma for eg: would be an ideal solution. That way, in big battles u could turn them down and turn them up when the party is smaller or playing solo.

haviz.1340:

This might be a shock for 99% of gw2 playerbase but world bosses, at least temple bosses in Orr, are challenging and fun.

When you try to do them with five or less people. Zerging and range combat simply promotes laziness (that’s still an understatement).

What most of the population would do if they had to kill world boss with just few people? They would ask for more people on map chat. And that’s just sad…

i don’t disagree with you. but you can’t really compare temple events to dragon one or any world bosses for that matter, simply coz of their sheer size. Targeting such gigantic bosses is very difficult even with ranged let alone with melee.

Well if they turn other dragons events into Teq. I will be one less player doing those events and it will be yet another kitten in my support for this game. The kittens are building up at a steady rate atm.

Edit: Lol why is kitten….a bad word?

OMG! nvm, maybe dent will be accepted?

It would be nice if Anet introduced a similar system as in gw1, where it showed on your friends list who your recent team mates were.

Today I did invasion, MK Lab, fire ele and other events and in each case, my turrets were melted as soon as i summoned them and b4 they even fired off a shot! That really sucks. I haven’t done too many big events on my Engi b4 and it was a shock to see how fast they got destroyed.

I think turrets should have their health doubled or event tripled or get some elemental immunity or something, since they can’t dodge things, otherwise they’re really quite useless imo, at least in the bigger events where bosses hit like trucks.

This is directed at Anet Staff. Please accept my apology. I was rather sick yesterday (although not an excuse for forgetting) but i completely forgot i bought an ascended recepe. I had logged in my alt so quickly to by it and logged her out that i completely forgot. It was only while i was leveling my Huntsman crafting a short while ago, that i remembered.

Moderator please pass this message on to relevant staff if required and plz delete this post, sorry about that.

Yesterday after completing my dailies, i had 201 laurels today i got 196. I haven’t used any to buy anything, so anyone knows what’s going on?

I’ve heard there were some issues with the dailies yesterday, but had no problems with doing them at all and it’s left me confused.

IndigoSundown.5419:

The obscuring of target models by particle effects in this game are the worst I’ve seen. There’s a megadestroyer in there somewhere, you can sort of see his leg. This is with the option selected to make targets more visible.

Well for a start u could improve that a bit by turning player names off, but yea have to agree with bad visibility. Its especially bad in those invasions when Aetherblades spawn, coz there are so many of them and they all spam those stun skills in addition to all the player spell effects, its just a jumble of mess.

Shifu.4321:

You must not have played World of Warcraft

Omg! Are u kidding me? How could u possibly play with all that stuff on ur screen? OMG lol never seen anything like it.

Reading all your comments, all i can say, your speculations are more interesting than the story of this patch will be i’m sure lol.

Charak.9761:

It doesn’t make sense to still be making these charge quartz, they haven’t made it worthwhile to use. If you’re still using celestial in a zerker gameplay, then you’re hurting yourself and others around you.

Some of the Ascended inscriptions require charged crystals too, not just celestial gear.

Vayne.8563:

Gene Archer.8560:

Vayne.8563:

Except that I’m A) not alone in my views and there are more people on the other side of the coin, who don’t play like I do that would agree with me.

Who do you think the people generally are that think that it’s okay to have ultra hard content that requires organization? I’ll give you a hint…it’s not carebears like me. lol

I know you’re not alone in your views, that’s why I didn’t say “all” forum goers.

But what I mean is this: You basically just said “I don’t see why people would want to experience every part of the game they just bought.”

It just seems like a silly thing to say, in my opinion.

I’m saying that in a themepark game (and this game is very much a theme park) not everything will be for everyone. It would be like going to Disneyworld and paying the admission price and then insisting every single ride be something you’d enjoy. If you only like roller coasters, then you’re going to be very disappointed. If you don’t like roller coasters, you don’t go on space mountain.

It’s the same here. There are, in every single MMO, a percentage of people who want to be challenged. This isn’t news to anyone. And there are a percentage of people who want to bang around the world and have a good time without any risk at all. This also shouldn’t be news to anyone.

All I’m saying is that this game has a bevy of stuff for the latter group, but relatively little for the group that wants a challenge. Providing stuff for the group that wants a challenge IS going to leave some people out…probably most people. But you can’t leave out an entire portion of the population just because it’s not your portion.

I think it’s a silly thing to assume that most people expect everything in the game to be for them, or even finishable by them. I think some people do expect that, but I don’t think they’re the majority. Any more than most people who buy a five day pass to Disneyworld expect to enjoy every ride.

It’s simply not reasonable.

I can see what ur saying about a group that wants challenge.

Well lets see. Would u say that group represents 1/3rd of the player base? I doubt it very much. And if they don’t, why should they get 1 of the 3 dragon events? Why didn’t Anet do one of the other bosses (or even 2) that no one bothers with and make them attractive to this so called hard core group that desire this extreme challenge? And why do it in the open world anyway if it was meant for this elite group and not for everyone? Parts of open world should never, ever be exclusive to any group in an MMO period!

Why alienate a huge portion of players that used to able to do and did Teq on regular basis, but now they can’t. And as a result, the whole map has become a ghost town even when Teq is up. That group that wants challenge don’t want to really share it with the rest of us plebs and have used the game’s OF system to create their own private instance….by invitation only? And you know how human nature works? when one feels they’re excluded, that something is denied to them they have a right to, they want it all the more. And why shouldn’t they feel the right to it? We all bought the game and it was supposed to include access to all the content in the game, all of it, not just some of it.

Relshdan.6854:

the game needs to have pve content like this. the rewards should be better, and it should probably be an instanced event…….but this type of event is needed (more difficult/coordinated large-scale events) even if only a small fraction of players will want to play it.

there are tons of content options that are quick and efficiently rewarding (most world bosses, champ trains, and some dungeon paths).

Does it really? are you sure? coz i’m on one of the busy servers i’ve still not done Teq, why? every time i’ve gone to sparkfly the place is deserted.

The first couple of weeks, i couldn’t get on my own server, overflow, after overflow. Since then i’ve gone there many times in hope of getting him done but most times i’m there alone.

I’ve lvled 9 chars to 80 with 100% map completion on all of them. Every time i went thru Sparkfly b4 Teq2, the map was always full of ppl doing all the events around the map, waiting for Teq to appear etc.

Now, no one does anything, no one goes there, at least not when i’ve been there and i’ve tried to go there at different times.

I’ve heard however, that this event has become exclusive to certain groups/guilds that taxi ppl to their own private overflows and that’s how it gets done.

So i guess this boss is reserved for elite groups and rest of us miss out. Like the OP, i feel saddened when i go there and see Teq in the cage. I often ask in map chat if anyone is there when he pops up and never get any response. So as usual, I go about and gather my wood/ore and leave with a feeling that yet another map has gone down the drain.

I actually think it’s an awesome idea. got sick of looking for a place of power and all the loading screens to get to it….now get ur nodes and do it all in once place!

Thanks Anet! It’s little improvements like these that make the nice QoL changes.

As for Krait Tower, yea I was mystified by it the first time i saw the lake and was being pushed back when trying to swim in that area.

The trees being cut from the near by hills made the place look very different too….opened up the view as well…and made me wonder what was going on. However, Krait are one of my most hated enemies, so not sure how much i’m gonna enjoy it lol.

Priam.8079:

So I have been trying GW2 for the first time over the last two weeks.

I have tried every class and every race except the salad people. I can see where the game has it’s strengths and weaknesses. Granted, two weeks doesn’t give you a huge perspective.

The only class that I seem to be able to play at all is the Guardian. To me, this is a major disappointment.

I have been an MMO player for years, from Ultima Online to Everquest, Star Wars, RIFT and WoW, I have played a lot. I used to raid high end content in WoW a few years back, but now I think I am becoming “that guy”. The guy who is mediocre or bad at gaming.

Guild Wars 2 should be in my wheelhouse. I should be excelling at the game. Instead, I find myself dying every night at least a half a dozen times. The game has continued to be frustrating to me. Meanwhile, I am surrounded by a really nice community that seems to be doing well.

So what if you find that you are “that guy”. Is Guild Wars 2 a much more difficult MMO than the others? Or am I at the end of my hobby?

What level are you?

For a start, if you’ve only played for 2 weeks, you would not have unlocked all your skills/traits etc. For eg: you don’t get ur first elite skill till lvl 30. You will find once you unlock some of the better skills and traits and are able to get the multi/runed armor and trinkets, you will feel much better. I would suggest you play in lower lvl areas for a bit till you get used to the gameplay, which yeah, after coming form rooted combat you will find a bit difficult to adjust to. But trust me, if u stick with it, you will get better at it.

Also try different weapon sets, make sure u unlock all the weapon skills, guardians can use quite a lot of them and see which you like best. And ofc, don’t forget to switch your weapon sets during combat too and get a use of an extra skills set. As I said, not sure what lvl u are but i think you get your weapon switching at lvl 7.

Anyway, good luck and welcome to gw2! Hope you rediscover the fun you once felt in MMO’s.

Shyhalu.4891:

But not for PvE really right? Since Beserker gear is king.. and I believe (generally) phantasm builds are best for PvE? The iWarlock isn’t very strong.. as far as I know.

Personally, my fav mesmer weap is a staff. I’ve tried all others but don’t like any of them. Perhaps coz i’ve always used a staff since launch and got used to it. I use g/s as a 2nd weap but in a mob situation, i’ll always die with g/s while rarely when using a staff. I gave my mesmer the bifrost and not regretted it. It looks great on her, matches the mesmer colour tones of purples/mauves etc, plus it’s nice to see all ur clones using it as well; best value for money sort of speak hehe.

gumoor.5674:

By the way, if you end a sentence with ‘s’ and then the next word is ‘hit’…it changes the word to kitten. See previous post. LOL!

Haha yea, this forum filter is like a “Lunatic Inquisition” onto itself. I often have to chuckle at the words it picks out to sensor, lot of them just simple words, not even closely resembling a swear word.

I find every time i want to edit my post and click edit, it goes into a loading mode and just keeps loading for evermore. does not complete, yet when i click back on the post it has been updated.

Is this a known bug or is it just happening to me?

Astral Projections.7320:

From an old forum post that said “I spent more than 30 minutes designing my character and this is the first male NPC I see”

Lol Astral That’s even better than mine haha. Good one, made me laugh.

I’m the one on the right, the smaller one. Don’t u think they look like sisters? I created my charr ranger during the head start so had no idea about the NPC’s likeness and so forth, but ever since i came cross this charr, sitting by herself in remote part of Diessa Plateau, I kept telling myself I must got there one day with my charr and take a pic, coz she looks very much like her sister lol.

If you have similar pics feel free to post.

PS. Just to clarify, i didn’t mean ppl should post pics that only resemble other NPCS can be other players too or any look alikes.

Justdeifyme.9387:

We are nothing, we are faceless, voiceless and never mentioned anywhere. We’re ‘The commander’, The ‘Lightbringer’, the ‘Warmaster’. Everything we do will never matter for the story, the writers are not skilled enough to implement that.

This aspect of the story in gw2 could have been improved if they had just added ur character’s name to the written dialogue at least, if not the voice overs. I love that in Lotro, whenever u speak to a quest NPC, especially ones related to the epic storyline, your name is always written in the dialogue. It just makes it more intimate and personal imo and would have made a big difference had it been included here. I mean i see the name inclusion in official mail u get, your name is included in the story part of whatever it’s describing but the rest of the dialogue in the game is bereft of any personal acknowledgement of your character, or even remembering you for having done something.

It’s little things like these that make or break immersion and a sense of being the “hero” in a game, although i’m not sure how little or how much work it would have entailed to incorporate this into the story. Still, I think if a game like Lotro could have done it, so could have Anet, but it’s possible they just didn’t think of it and who knows, we may yet see it happen one day.

Unique.9351:

I was just casually champ farming when i just came with this brilliant idea! I mean i map and guild chat it and everyone said it was a good idea.

Why did you guys not give us an option to be good or evil? I mean think about it making a norn who is good or a norn who is an icebroad born? Another example, good asuran or inquest asuran? Good sylvari or nightmare court sylvari?

And it would have also benefit the storyline. If you were an icebroad norn, you could have been cleansed/ inquest asuran you decide to use your evil knowledge for good/ nightmare court pale tree speaks to you/cleansed? Then in the middle after the personal story, both side come together like all the races and armies and go against the elder dragon (UNITE AS ONE!!!!). I mean i woulda loved to have an icebroad norn.

Discuss please!!!

Well i guess if they made those options, then they would have to create a parallel ‘evil’ story for each race and work out how they would blend together as well much bigger character creation options, which means a lot of extra work and cost. Even in gw1, we were all too goody shoes, but then again u are in most games.

I’ve not played any MMO’s that allow players be evil except in Lotro’s MPvP, where Free People side plays against monster players, but i’ve yet to play the monster side, although many players do. Free to play players can only play monster side but most people do it for extra commendations, not necessarily because they want to be evil.

But i’m not averse to your idea, variety is spice of life, as they say.

Khisanth.2948:

Evan Lesh.3295:

The change to ‘Target Nearest’ was unintentional and actually didn’t even reliably use distance before. This was reported in the bug sub forum and has already been addressed. Thanks for the reports! You targeting will be back to normal soon!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Abhor-the-new-targeting-system/3060291

Yea well the issue with “target nearest” is just one of the problems here. but it would certainly help a bit if at least that was restored.

It’s worse than b4 the update and very confusing. My C key (mapped to target nearest) don’t work at all. Was doing invasion today, it was a nightmare.

I like the fact that it targets champs first now in those situations, as it was very hard to pick them out b4 among gazillion mobs that spawn around them, but the rest of the time the targeting sucks. I also don’t like the ground targeting system, never have. The ground fields that get locked onto your mouse if u want accuracy is an awfully cumbersome system and the the alternative, ur aoe’s just drop around you, which is terrible if the enemy is not near u and u end up wasting ur skills on cd.

Why can’t we have lock on target system like we had in gw1 and where it brought you automatically within range of the target for all your skills be it ranged or otherwise? It would resolve this targeting problem once and for all for everyone would it not? And more importantly, simplify the targeting system. Why does a targeting system need to be so complex anyway? Does it really make it better? I don’t think so.

All i can say, since the start of gw2, i’ve been struggling with it’s target system. I’m just can’t get a grip on it and it’s terribly annoying especially since this game encourages such a big group play. But this new system since the update just isn’t working very well. It makes the whole combat chaotic and clumsy and it’s a real shame as it could be great when combined with the mobility we have.

I’ve also always been confused by what the melee assistance option does. Been meaning to ask about it but keep forgetting. As far as i can tell it does nothing obvious to me. It certainly don’t bring me within target range, which is the thing i would have thought it should assist you with?

Astral Projections.7320:

Try removing the duplicate heavy items from the PvP locker with your warrior then switch characters and have that one send the items in the bank to the PvP locker.

OMG! tnx for the suggestion, but are u serious? If that’s the only solution, I don’t think I’ll bother, what a mess! I think I’ll just delete them.

Fortus.6175:

No!!!!! LOL. , you got it all backwards! hahaha

Ok, you can deposit ALL those armors to the PvP wardrove, just like you would depost materials in PvE (something we could definitely use for PvE!!) , they become account bound! Once you go to the mist, where the NPC that sell the weapos and armor, there are some “doors” to the right, that is the wardrove! Check it out today when you get a chance, you will say “WHY DONT WE HAVE THIS CONVINIENT THING IN PVE?!”

Hope that helps

I’m aware of the auto deposit of pvp gear to the pvp locker, however if u get a duplicate of something it won’t stack up, that is why i was saving the boxes till i had time to gear up my alts etc.

When my ranger opened the boxes, i was at the locker in the Mists and deposited all the stuff that would go in, but the remainder that wouldn’t go in now says it’s bound, I assume to my ranger as she’s the only one who handled the stuff.

As already stated, I’ve deposited all that would go into the locker and the rest i assumed were duplicates, so i stored them in normal bank for my alts to go thru and see if there’s anything they wanted. I just checked the stuff with my warrior as there was some heavy armor pces there, but she couldn’t withdraw any of them coz it says bound to another character on all of the items. How can something get bound to a character if they are unable to even equip them or wear them? And why should it get bound to a char simply for opening the box?

Edit: and its not as if know what’s in the box till we open it, so we can decide which char/class should open it.

I saved 9 pvp boxes i got from my achievement chests and finally i decided to open them with my ranger yesterday to see if there were any items i wanted for her, only to find all items she opened are now bound to her, including all the stuff she cannot even use, such as heavy armor and various weapons. So now, I have 1 full panel in my bank of pvp gear that no one can use?

When i first started getting these achievement chests and pvp boxes from them, i opened a few and i don’t remember having this issue.

Is this a bug or working as intended? If latter, it don’t make sense at all.

On a side note, why don’t we have a bank in the Mist? it’s kind of bad having to leave and come back each time you need something stored in your bank that’s related to pvp.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

Lol, it’s just happened again…no afk all. Been playing for a while was ok until I got to back to town to visit the bank.
Please fix this guys if you can.

Ok this bug has returned for me in the last month. Like today, first time i got to use TP and i get this “Error Invalid Authorization”. It’s been happening almost every day for the past few weeks, I don’t understand why it keeps coming back at me, when i hardly use TP these days.

A fix would be very much appreciated. Thanks

PS. I wasn’t afk either as the title of this topic seems to imply.