Guild Wars 2

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

If it weren’t for the fact that so much of Liadri is fake difficulty via bad design, the whole encounter wouldn’t be so bad.

The only mechanic I can see that fits that, for Liadri at least, is the arena itself. Having my screen do the mambo when I get too close to the edge isn’t fun, and being colorblind I actually can’t see the AOE on the honeycomb floor at all (I had to dodge by seeing the black stuff forming overhead, and learning the AOE rotation). Those are two things I hope that Arenanet looks into and perhaps improves upon in the future. A dome shape simply isn’t ideal in such close quarters.

But by way of the fight itself? I have no complaints on the mechanics.

It’s BECAUSE Liadri requires so much skill that the reward is crap, and I’m ok with that. It took me a while to beat her, but I have a mini to show for it. That makes me happy. But I understand that many MMO players simply don’t want skill based content- they want # based content, time based content, etc. That being the case, there would be a LOT of mad people out there because they can’t Liadri’s reward, if that reward was something awesome.

This is a way to give those of us who want skill based stuff something to do, without harming (too badly) those who don’t want it at all.

Zanshin.5379:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

Ya, I love the permanent axe. I really want permanent harvesting equipment. It is really a pain to “run out” of charges in the middle of nowhere or have to use up inventory space to make sure you don’t run out.

The problem with these is that if you have more than one character, you’re screwed. Because they’re soul bound.

Oh my… another +1 for telling me this. I’ll have to be kitten sure I know who is getting the set…

outstanding. Thank you both to the OP for this reminder (I missed it entirely in the patch notes and would have hated myself for a while if I missed the chances) and also to Anet for bringing back those temp items. I missed them the first time around due to financial difficulty (was job hunting), but now am ready to buy buy buy (job hunting successful!).

+1 to everyone involved.

Iconik.8712:

Not that difficult.

;)

http://i.imgur.com/DDiEz3h.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GYHu50N.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/QpcDjby.jpg

So wait, I’ve missed all of this. Been crammed in the pavilion for the past 1.5 weeks =D What was it that you did here that got such awesome reactions? =D

Lighter.5631:

Tolmos.8395:

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Fortus.6175:

I dont know about engis, dont play them nor ever seen them.

Engy can use a single Adept Major trait to get perma swiftness. They don’t have much of anything else that helps them move faster, but 100% uptime is 100% uptime, which is a hell of a lot better than what Mesmer gets.

100% uptime if you run kits, which pretty much negates all elixir builds, turret builds and gadget builds. Because thats the requirement on that trait- that you are wearing a kit for the movement speed increase.

So, 100% uptime for only a percentage of the population? Awesome.

wth? all you need to do is change a single utility and a trait when you run thats all.

ROFLMAO. So your “simple” suggestion is for me to respec to take 30 points into Tools every time I want to run 10% faster in the open world? Ignoring the ridiculous cost this would entail, I’d also have to port back to a major city every time I wanted to go back to combat build.

Best

Suggestion

Ever.

The biweekly free updates would be awesome if they actually added stuff that stayed in the game. All these content patches and we don’t exactly have a lot to show for it at this exact moment…

This whole removing content idea isn’t exactly on my list of favorite creative things an MMO has done.

For me- Liadri, since she is physically impossible for me to beat. I’m mildly colorblind and the honeycomb shaped floor does an absolutely perfect job of masking the AOE circles on the ground. The result is that I literally cannot see even if a hint of them, and thus have to play out the entire fight not know where any of the AOEs are about to take place. The additional annoyance of a poorly designed combat arena where the tight dome causes the camera to do the mambo every time you stand near the edge doesn’t help =D

The clocktower, on the other hand, I thoroughly enjoyed. The design was amazing and, colorblind or not, there was no reason it couldn’t be beat. I enjoyed it.

The whole “limited time” thing in general is starting to get a wear a bit thin. It was a cool idea at first, but the longer it goes on, the more wasteful it feels. I start to find myself not bothering to do some of the living story because I have a choice between it or something else I want to do, and if I don’t choose it then I’ll miss out on it permanently.

I can appreciate them producing content every 2 weeks- that’s amazing. But whatever genius decided to REMOVE that content after 2 weeks isn’t exactly the brightest individual around.

So the moral of the OP’s story was “If you aren’t running full zerker, you’re a noob”.

Outstanding. Glad I wasted my time clicking on this thread.

So mesmers have 2 options and engineers have 2 options.

Mesmers get blink + focus. Engineers get a trait that only works with kits and they get Elixir B.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Fortus.6175:

I dont know about engis, dont play them nor ever seen them.

Engy can use a single Adept Major trait to get perma swiftness. They don’t have much of anything else that helps them move faster, but 100% uptime is 100% uptime, which is a hell of a lot better than what Mesmer gets.

100% uptime if you run kits, which pretty much negates all elixir builds, turret builds and gadget builds. Because thats the requirement on that trait- that you are wearing a kit for the movement speed increase.

So, 100% uptime for only a percentage of the population? Awesome.

Caedmon.6798:

Tolmos.8395:

Caedmon.6798:

Are you kidding me ? What you have been using is a bannable offense,you by using a Fov hack gain advantage over other players who are not being able to zoom out and see as far as you can,by using that hack you can also use ac’s to shoot at places no other person can without that tool.

Im glad the latest patch broke your tool,i hope it stays that way.
Also,smart for posting this…

This post should be deleted for being not only rude but downright silly. OP, I can assure you that the number of people who actually believe this inane rambling are slim at best.

Unfortunately, though, I doubt we’ll be seeing a fix to your FoV problem any time soon. That level of fix will take Arenanet probably a year+, and they certainly won’t be making any changes to accommodate a 3rd party application, since it would set a precedent that would have others asking “Oh, hey, btw- I have a quality of life addon that I would love to use. Please mod the game for me so it will work! You did it for -blah-”

Some people get motion sick very easily. My boss, for example, will not play games for that reason. Just watching me play GW2 for a moment would make him ill. Just because others don’t understand it, doesn’t mean it will go away. I don’t understand how someone can get car sick- doesn’t make the ill feeling not exist.

For stating the obvious ? Anet stated that using any tool that gives an advantage over other players is a bannable offense.Since you never played wvw by the looks of it and have absolutely no clue that this is giving people a Huge advantage over other people with the normal fov and bascially screwing up wvw for what it is.There are Loads of people using this type of stuff,and it is considerd to be a Hack.

By all means,send anet an mail with the link to the program you used ( Wich is only available on Hacking/exploits sites with the warning that you might end up getting banned,and see if anet gives you the “ok” to keep on using this type of stuff.

hides WvW rank

Yea… never played it… right. >_>

Vayne.8563:

Tolmos.8395:

Vayne.8563:

Bright.9160:

Vayne.8563:

It would be a better world of more people had empathy.

I was bullied pretty severely in high school. Well, that’s not entirely true… They tried to bully me severely in high school. I didn’t care for a second, and most degrading comments were countered by an even more degrading one.

Don’t get me wrong, bullying in schools and at work is a big problem, and should be dealt with, because I know not everyone can handle it the way I did (my brother for example struggled for years). But I don’t care for bullying over the internet (and especially on MMORPGS), because there is nothing that is avoided more easily than that, and the opinion of an unknown individual who acts like a 12 year old is not something you should care about, nor let it get to you.

It would be a better world if more people stopped caring about pointless stuff.

Being bullied is high school is lousy. But it’s being bullied/abused at a much younger age, during your formative years, that often leads to serious problems like the ones I’m talking about. You’re you. You’re the only you. And it’s nice that you can just turn off that part of you that separates online from the real world. I can too.

Many people can’t, and I feel sympathy for those people because they can’t.

I actually disagree with the being bullied earlier messing you up more. In elementary school, I was bullied pretty hardcore. Not just verbally, but physically. By the time I hit late middle school, I started to identify what was causing the bullying and dealt with it. I changed schools in 9th grade and had a fresh start. A combination of dealing with the personal problems that caused the bullying, combined with becoming more physically active, changed my highschool experience entirely (in comparison).

The thing was, there were other students who went to my highschool who were not so lucky. They got picked on then and it was devastating. Everyone that I knew who had been picked on in some way during elementary or middle school, but not in highschool, came out without too terribly many anger issues and generally went on to have fulfilling relationships. But those who got bullied in highschool had it FAR worse. Many had anger issues, and most had great difficulty settling into relationships and were generally awkward in social settings.

To this day, I swear that being bullied in highschool is far FAR worse than elementary/middle school. The damage that I’ve personally seen done to individuals who were generally good people, just socially awkward, was horrendous. And yet some of the most successful (socially and professionally) people I’ve met went through some form of early years bullying.

Not really pertinent to the original topic, but I just thought I’d share my opinion.

I’m not making this stuff up. I was involved in a project for people who suffered early abuse (particularly sexual abuse) and the currently thinking is the younger you’re abused, and the more people who are involved, the worse it hits you later in life. There are quite a few papers that suggest this is true (though it can’t be proven of course).

Everyone is different and reacts differently. No one person’s experiences will be the same as anyone else’s, which is WHY I talk tolerance. You never know what someone else has been through.

Woah, now. There is a HUGE, HUUUUUUUGE difference between simple bullying and sexual assault. It’s like comparing getting kicked in the shin to getting shot in the face. I’m talking BULLYING here, not kitten .

Vayne.8563:

Tolmos.8395:

OOOOO You said a bad word! I’m telling the teacher on you!

Ahh, this is why I love GW2 forums. Gives me nostalgia of 1st-3rd grade.

Almost makes me want to follow them around in game going “tattle-tale! tattle-tale!” =D

Oh GW2 forums. <3 you so, and your immaturity. You bring out the best in me =D

Not sure this occurred to you, but very often the people most offended by such language are older, not younger. Different people grew up with different cultural standards.

If you think it’s okay to curse because it doesn’t offend you, well there’s not much I can say to that. But I think you’ll find that most of the people here arguing against freely used profanity are adults.

Over the years I’ve come to realize that age does not immediately exclude one from being immature.

I cannot be held accountable for someone else being overly sensitive. I’m sorry, but there are people who can so easily be offended that you could never appease them. This game openly states in its T rating that profane language is to be expected. Someone who comes into this game, sees profane language, and becomes “outraged” gets no sympathy from me.

This doesn’t include direct attacks, however. The T rating says nothing about harassment. But if the only issue is the language, then the problem is neither with the game nor the person who said the “bad words”. It’s as simple as that.

Vayne.8563:

Bright.9160:

Vayne.8563:

It would be a better world of more people had empathy.

I was bullied pretty severely in high school. Well, that’s not entirely true… They tried to bully me severely in high school. I didn’t care for a second, and most degrading comments were countered by an even more degrading one.

Don’t get me wrong, bullying in schools and at work is a big problem, and should be dealt with, because I know not everyone can handle it the way I did (my brother for example struggled for years). But I don’t care for bullying over the internet (and especially on MMORPGS), because there is nothing that is avoided more easily than that, and the opinion of an unknown individual who acts like a 12 year old is not something you should care about, nor let it get to you.

It would be a better world if more people stopped caring about pointless stuff.

Being bullied is high school is lousy. But it’s being bullied/abused at a much younger age, during your formative years, that often leads to serious problems like the ones I’m talking about. You’re you. You’re the only you. And it’s nice that you can just turn off that part of you that separates online from the real world. I can too.

Many people can’t, and I feel sympathy for those people because they can’t.

I actually disagree with the being bullied earlier messing you up more. In elementary school, I was bullied pretty hardcore. Not just verbally, but physically. By the time I hit late middle school, I started to identify what was causing the bullying and dealt with it. I changed schools in 9th grade and had a fresh start. A combination of dealing with the personal problems that caused the bullying, combined with becoming more physically active, changed my highschool experience entirely (in comparison).

The thing was, there were other students who went to my highschool who were not so lucky. They got picked on then and it was devastating. Everyone that I knew who had been picked on in some way during elementary or middle school, but not in highschool, came out without too terribly many anger issues and generally went on to have fulfilling relationships. But those who got bullied in highschool had it FAR worse. Many had anger issues, and most had great difficulty settling into relationships and were generally awkward in social settings.

To this day, I swear that being bullied in highschool is far FAR worse than elementary/middle school. The damage that I’ve personally seen done to individuals who were generally good people, just socially awkward, was horrendous. And yet some of the most successful (socially and professionally) people I’ve met went through some form of early years bullying.

Not really pertinent to the original topic, but I just thought I’d share my opinion.

callidus.7085:

Noobkaka.5067:

ThiBash.5634:

The main issue here is that you ‘think’ swear words don’t hurt. However, to some people they do. And while you may find them sad, or even think it’s funny that you can affect them as much by just using those words…

…how many children have commited suïcide because they’ve been verbally harassed for years on end by their peers?

Then again, you probably don’t consider this to be real. To you, they’re just candy and whomever hangs themselves because your words gave them the last push are just crybabies…

Oh my kittening god, holy kitten!
Are you seriously bringing kids who have suecided into this whole thread?
SERIOUSLY?
Jesus christ I am done with with this thread. You people NEED to stop takeing swear words so kitten seriously.
inb4 I receive another moderators infraction point for expressing my freedom of speeche! Yeeehaaaw!

You realize the rating on this game is T right? That means it’s for kids from 13+… I wouldn’t want my 13 year old exposed to some of the language here. People take swear words seriously because they are offensive, rude and often don’t want the youngest of our community to be exposed to that. To overlook this and assume that everyone is just being too sensitive is a little childish, try to think of everyone in the community not just a few you may know.

I’d also like to say I agree with a lot of what was said here as well, and that people really should try to relax a little while playing the game… You don’t need to flip out because you lose a tpvp match, your team most likely did the best they could.. your party probably did the best they could in that dungeon etc etc… Getting hostile about a loss or a failure does not help you grow as a person and certainly doesn’t help whoever you were playing with (they probably feel as bad as you do for the loss or failure). Instead try to be positive and inspire those around you to do the same to help build a better community.

Better not let that 13 year old watch cable television.

And definitely don’t let them go to school- far worse language used by students in the classrooms.

In fact, keep them indoors entirely. That’s the best way to keep them safe from the “bad words”

The problem with toolkit shield/pistol is that the second someone utters the word “zerker”, you are odd man out in the group >_>

Noobkaka.5067:

ThiBash.5634:

The main issue here is that you ‘think’ swear words don’t hurt. However, to some people they do. And while you may find them sad, or even think it’s funny that you can affect them as much by just using those words…

…how many children have commited suïcide because they’ve been verbally harassed for years on end by their peers?

Then again, you probably don’t consider this to be real. To you, they’re just candy and whomever hangs themselves because your words gave them the last push are just crybabies…

Oh my kittening god, holy kitten!
Are you seriously bringing kids who have suecided into this whole thread?
SERIOUSLY?
Jesus christ I am done with with this thread. You people NEED to stop takeing swear words so kitten seriously.
inb4 I receive another moderators infraction point for expressing my freedom of speeche! Yeeehaaaw!

Welcome to the internet, where everything (like politics) is about “THE CHILDREN! THE CHIIIIIIILDDREEEEEEEN!!!!1!!!”

ThiBash.5634:

Tolmos.8395:

OOOOO You said a bad word! I’m telling the teacher on you!

Ahh, this is why I love GW2 forums. Gives me nostalgia of 1st-3rd grade.

You call what happened to you in january this year ‘nostalgia’ already? Kids…

OOOOO You said a bad word! I’m telling the teacher on you!

Ahh, this is why I love GW2 forums. Gives me nostalgia of 1st-3rd grade.

Almost makes me want to follow them around in game going “tattle-tale! tattle-tale!” =D

Oh GW2 forums. <3 you so, and your immaturity. You bring out the best in me =D

Noobkaka.5067:

Tolmos.8395:

Noobkaka.5067:

Tolmos.8395:

Caedmon.6798:

Are you kidding me ? What you have been using is a bannable offense,you by using a Fov hack gain advantage over other players who are not being able to zoom out and see as far as you can,by using that hack you can also use ac’s to shoot at places no other person can without that tool.

Im glad the latest patch broke your tool,i hope it stays that way.
Also,smart for posting this…

This post should be deleted for being not only rude but downright silly. OP, I can assure you that the number of people who actually believe this inane rambling are slim at best.

Unfortunately, though, I doubt we’ll be seeing a fix to your FoV problem any time soon. That level of fix will take Arenanet probably a year+, and they certainly won’t be making any changes to accommodate a 3rd party application, since it would set a precedent that would have others asking “Oh, hey, btw- I have a quality of life addon that I would love to use. Please mod the game for me so it will work! You did it for -blah-”

Some people get motion sick very easily. My boss, for example, will not play games for that reason. Just watching me play GW2 for a moment would make him ill. Just because others don’t understand it, doesn’t mean it will go away. I don’t understand how someone can get car sick- doesn’t make the ill feeling not exist.

wow if your boss gets motion sick so easily then he should really go check it out at a doctor.

I would assume that he has, but what exactly could we expect doctors to do? They are hardly magical. Unless there is some issue that can be surgically fixed, the best they could offer him is medication to deal with it. Still wouldn’t help GW2, though. :-\ Would be a bit overboard to load up on Dramamine every time you want to play =D

I don’t know maybe he has a tumor in his balance area connected to the ears/eyes. Maybe the doctors could do surgery in his head to remove that, just my thoughts.

lol =D I’ll let him know the internet has diagnosed him with a tumor and he should get his head cut open ASAP.

Noobkaka.5067:

Tolmos.8395:

Caedmon.6798:

Are you kidding me ? What you have been using is a bannable offense,you by using a Fov hack gain advantage over other players who are not being able to zoom out and see as far as you can,by using that hack you can also use ac’s to shoot at places no other person can without that tool.

Im glad the latest patch broke your tool,i hope it stays that way.
Also,smart for posting this…

This post should be deleted for being not only rude but downright silly. OP, I can assure you that the number of people who actually believe this inane rambling are slim at best.

Unfortunately, though, I doubt we’ll be seeing a fix to your FoV problem any time soon. That level of fix will take Arenanet probably a year+, and they certainly won’t be making any changes to accommodate a 3rd party application, since it would set a precedent that would have others asking “Oh, hey, btw- I have a quality of life addon that I would love to use. Please mod the game for me so it will work! You did it for -blah-”

Some people get motion sick very easily. My boss, for example, will not play games for that reason. Just watching me play GW2 for a moment would make him ill. Just because others don’t understand it, doesn’t mean it will go away. I don’t understand how someone can get car sick- doesn’t make the ill feeling not exist.

wow if your boss gets motion sick so easily then he should really go check it out at a doctor.

I would assume that he has, but what exactly could we expect doctors to do? They are hardly magical. Unless there is some issue that can be surgically fixed, the best they could offer him is medication to deal with it. Still wouldn’t help GW2, though. :-\ Would be a bit overboard to load up on Dramamine every time you want to play =D

Siphaed.9235:

“Our team is a bunch of losers. Y’all suck!”

Use…

“Shucks, better luck next time.”

I loled far more than I should have at this.

Caedmon.6798:

Are you kidding me ? What you have been using is a bannable offense,you by using a Fov hack gain advantage over other players who are not being able to zoom out and see as far as you can,by using that hack you can also use ac’s to shoot at places no other person can without that tool.

Im glad the latest patch broke your tool,i hope it stays that way.
Also,smart for posting this…

This post should be deleted for being not only rude but downright silly. OP, I can assure you that the number of people who actually believe this inane rambling are slim at best.

Unfortunately, though, I doubt we’ll be seeing a fix to your FoV problem any time soon. That level of fix will take Arenanet probably a year+, and they certainly won’t be making any changes to accommodate a 3rd party application, since it would set a precedent that would have others asking “Oh, hey, btw- I have a quality of life addon that I would love to use. Please mod the game for me so it will work! You did it for -blah-”

Some people get motion sick very easily. My boss, for example, will not play games for that reason. Just watching me play GW2 for a moment would make him ill. Just because others don’t understand it, doesn’t mean it will go away. I don’t understand how someone can get car sick- doesn’t make the ill feeling not exist.

nowitsawn.1276:

Or instead make it a cage.

It does need something sealing it off, though. Otherwise mesmers would be able to port people into their fights.

Ahhh good point. Clever.

milo.6942:

you could still have a dome, just make it so the area you can walk in is smaller than the edge of the dome

Also a good idea.

CobaltSixty.1542:

What if the environment is part of the challenge?!?!?

It depends on what they part of the environment they intend to make challenging. Some ideas in that regard can be clever and fulfilling. Others can be downright idiotic.

For example: Battles that have open edges along the sides, or platforms that you have to jump to, etc are clever and fulfilling. If you make the wrong move, you can fall off the edge and plummet to your death, so you have to play smart in order to win.

However, then compare it to this event. In this event, the “challenge” of the environment is that the floor is designed in such a fashion that certain individuals with a natural handicap are entirely unable to see the AOE indicator (not everyone, just certain individuals), and so that your camera bounces off the side of the environment if you get too close to the edge, and generally goes crazy because of the shape of the arena.

That is in no way, shape or form clever or fulfilling. It would take a raging fanboi of epic proportions to try to spin that as anything other than a mistake that one would hope would get hotfixed before the end the event, so that everyone could have an equal chance at winning, not just those lucky enough to not be colorblind.

We have been begging for this since release and have only just now gotten a “Hey, we’re considering doing something about this at some point maybe in the future when it’s possible. Maybe.”

I just hope they dont make the minis soulbound. I want to be able to sell them years down the road for massive gold to new players who want my 4 and 5 year minis.

There isn’t an achievement for an 80 of every class? Odd. Of all of the things in this game that I’ve heard of people do, that is one of the few I honestly look at as being an “Achievement”, far beyond making a “legendary” weapon or completing some instance.

In fact, the only other thing someone could tell me that they have done in this game that would actually impress me would be beating Liadri. :-P

If they had experience scrolls that jumped you 20 levels, I would be all over that. After three level 80s, I’m tired of leveling… but I’m not tired of alts =D

sigh More people trying to turn anet into a bigger nanny than it already is. Joy.

Dagraan.2854:

Erick Alastor.3917:

More people = lower chance of obtaining weapons.
I think this could fix the problem.
(furthermore zerging is not even so challenging)

that would literally kill a part of what made Gw2 stand out from the rest of the MMORPGS. if that happened then it wouldn’t be people yelling at you for ruining their farming spot, it be people yelling at you for just being there.

least now you can be there and join the farm.

Yea, I’m not a fan of creating an “us vs them” mentality with the loot. It’s part of what I love about GW2, and don’t want to see it shift in the opposite direction :-\

carrying a twinkie

Woah… that’s a lot of words and so very few breaks for air.

tl;dr- paragraphs am friend

This is probably one of my favorite patches that has come out so far, and with all the negativity out there I wanted to say “thanks”.

The champion loot buff has made doing open world content rewarding enough that I no longer feel pressured to just speed run instances over and over to get money. I despise instances of all kinds, so Im really happy getting an open world alternative. Try not to nerf it too hard when the inevitable time comes…

The queen’s gauntlet has given me, someone who has logged well over 1,100+ hours since headstart, a reason to play regularly again. Yes, the design of the arena floor and the dome, combined with Liadri, has made me want to punch my monitor on more than one occasion… but up until this point it has been a blast =D.

The account wallet has made my life as an alt-o-holic a 100000000000x easier when it comes to gold. I finally, FINALLY, have all my gold in 1 spot without having to run back to the bank every time I want something.

So all together- thanks for this

Zine.2136:

I went to cursed shore today to try out some of the scaling events. One of the events spawns a lot of elemental champs. Soon I was being blasted in map chat and folks were saying to block me, some suggesting that I should be banned for botting.

I left without completing the event – but was rather disappointed in the experience and concerned my account would be flagged.

Is it ok to complete the events in cursed shore? With the amount of folks in the event farming, I am rather concerned about the economy going belly up. The immersion in the game also seems to break, adding to the unfun factor. Other events in the zone are ignored too with everyone focusing on the farm. I sincerely hope ANet nerfs farming of events such as this, such as encouraging people to complete the event.

So my question is, am I ok completing these events without ANet punishment?

This is why I turn off map chat entirely. There are better things to do than listen little children threaten to tattle on me for a PERCEIVED wrongdoing, simply because I’m getting nicer stuff than them. No matter what their idle threats, I suspect nothing will actually happen because I’m playing the game. And on the off chance Anet does turn out to be so daft that they actually ban me for playing normally, then I would know to find a new game.

tl;dr- ignore map chat. You lose brain cells reading it, anyhow.

darkace.8925:

They chose to cater to the wrong MMO crowd, in my opinion. The “MOAR!!!” MMOers are the wrong kind of players to build a community – or a game – around.

Normally I would disagree, but this time I don’t. Before this, the best rewards came from instances. That pidgeonholed everyone into a single style of play. The goal of this was to open up the opportunity for everyone to play what they enjoy and get rewarded equivalently. No, it’s not perfect yet and no, it’s not balanced yet. But the idea is on the right track.

This isn’t about MOAR, it’s about giving everyone, not just dungeon runners, something to play for.

Sanctus.8350:

The most annoying carebear feature in the game is rallying in pvp. All it does is reward bad players.

And yet, it’s available to everyone, including both participants in that particular PvP match. So whenever I read a line like this, what I read is “Anet introduced something more than just facerolling WoW style in PvP and I lost because the other player used to better than I did, so please remove it from the game”.

Rytlock, stumbling drunk,

Back at headstart and for like a month after, 60g was a less attainable goal than 700g is now.

If Arenanet ever takes anything from this event, I hope it is that they should never use tightly domed environments or honeycomb floors again.

My biggest problem with the Liadri fight is not how difficult Liadri herself is, but how difficult the environment makes the fight!

With the honeycomb style flooring, someone like me who is mildly colorblind simply cannot see the ground AOE. Like, at all. With or without post-processing on. Nowhere else in the game have I ever had a problem like that. >_>

Secondly, the dome… yea, that thing. Who in the world thought a dome where the camera couldn’t penetrate and thus gets crammed into unsightly angles would be a good idea for this particular arena? >_>

The thing is- the Liadri fight, to me, doesn’t seem that bad. I actually feel confident I could beat it, minus the angles problem. Even though I can’t see the ground AOE, I CAN see the black stuff hovering in the air before the attack. Using that, I can time the dodge and know where/when to dodge. The angles caused by the dome, however, block my view of them when the white spiral is in a corner, and it makes it possible for the AOE to sneak up on me. Basically creates a perfect storm where I’m simply rendered helpless against the AOE. 0_o

So yea… maybe no round domes or crazy honeycomb floors next next? =D

Ok, so I’m on an RP server and every once in a while a lore based discussion will come into play in a major city. Usually fun to watch players bicker about generally nonsensical stuff, but this time around they said something that honestly has me curious.

A player made the statement that EVERY class dabbles in magic. Without fail, every player in the game is somehow magic based. Of course, as an engineer, I heartily disagreed. I do science, not magic! Their response was that an Arenanet employee, in an interview, had stated that Alchemy was actually magic… and therefor engineers do magic, not science.

I don’t buy it.

So I figured “Hey, I bet the lore writers poke their heads into the forums now and again. Lets see what they say! Put an end to the confusion once and for all!”

So I ask of you, Lore Writing peoples of Arenanet: is alchemy magic, or science?

Please don’t say both ;_; lol

For me, there is nothing more annoying than running across a mod post when I’m not expecting one. Example: I am browsing through forums and find a hot, controversial, topic on the front page. I may have even been following this topic for some time, so I have quite an interest in what is being said. So, of course, when I see that there is an Arenanet official response on the topic, what is the first thing that pops into my head? “WOOO OFFICIAL CLARIFICATION ON THE TOPIC!”. What am I greeted with instead, when I find the “official response”?

“Keep it civil guys or we’ll close the thread”

…

Seriously, create a difference between mod replies and dev replies so that we can at least tell early on which we will be seeing. >_>

K U T M.4539:

I have a Logitech G600 and a Razer Nostromo

Weapon skills 12345
Heal Q
Utilities SHIFT + B, 6, 8,
Elite 9

Toolbelt, M4, M3, M5, =

Move 03, 07, 08, 09, E (Effectively WASDE)

Tab is for Combat Mode

Next Target is C, Call target is SHIFT + =

Jump is Left Alt

Loot is F, AoE loot is SHIFT + F

(Note: 1-0 are the first 10 buttons on the side of my mouse, – = are the last two on the side, M3/M4/M5 are pressing down, left, and right on the scroll wheel of the mouse, and SHIFT + B is the button behind the scroll wheel)

What the holy crap? It’s like you went out of your way to spread your hotkeys all over the place so it would look like you are playing the piano while playing GW2 =D Most people try to cram all their hotkeys into 1 section of the keyboard so they don’t have to move their hand around… you specifically set yours up all over the place so you DO. =D

This setup made me chuckle.

xaviyago.7924:

I just finished reading Rob Thody’s news article about <a href=“https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-wallet/”>the wallet</a> and had to cringe when I saw the word “amongst” used in the text. No offense to Rob here, I’m nitpicking on the word itself.

I’m definitely not a grammarista, but didn’t “amongst” go out of style, I don’t know… many years ago? I thought the word was only a pompous version of “among”. Truly, is there any difference between among and amongst (other than the latter is not used in every day conversation)?

I hate the word “amongst” so much that I refuse to wear the “God walking…” title.

I was wondering if anyone else felt the same way.

The Oxford Dictionary would like to take this moment to point out that there is no difference in usage between Among and Amongst.

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/02/among-amongst/

It’s the hobosacks, probably. They are a particular level of unappealing, and it generally runs off most new engies. They get there thinking “Oh this will be great!”, then realize that their character is not only wearing a hideous hobosack, but looks completely idiotic in the process. At that point they usually roll a ranger or thief :-P

TehPwnerer.7215:

Azure Prower.8701:

This sounds amusing. About as amusing how people build trebs at gates and rams on hills. Thanks for the tip.

Lmao is that something people do?

I’ve got one better. I was in DR and was clicking on one of those fun box thingies. All of a sudden a portal appeared on top of the box, which I immediately gained activating priority on over it. Result? I hit F, and was ported to a location WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY above the ground, between the first and second floors of DR, and fell to my untimely demise =D As did about 8 or 9 other people. We all splatted about the same time.

1 2 3 4 5 = 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 0 = Shift + 1 2 3 4 5
F1 F2 F3 F4 = ctrl + 1 2 3 4

Daecollo.9578:

I play males, however I feel its kind of weird that females hold things differently then males do, females seem to be more aggressive and I like the way they attack more.

I see different querky things like kites which allow me to wield like a female would, and females can wield things like a male can, which leaves me to believe that it doesn’t matter, they are just different.

Why isn’t there an option to allow my male to carry and swing like the way I want to? Honestly its a little sexist.

I actually agree with this in many ways. The staff is the first to come to my mind. The female staff wielders hold the staff in a manner that screams sage wisdom, while the males hold it like they are preparing to sprint off in a race. It looks beyond ridiculous when idling in a city and holding the staff.