Guild Wars 2

Exactly, Achen. I think it would have made much more sense if the event repeated once a month. We would continually keep the Karka at bay. Once ANet is ready to introduce the DSD, we could use SSC as a staging ground similar to Fort Trinity. The Pact would create a permanent base of operations there, with lots of Navy vessels and submarines instead of airships.

Bringing SSC into the personal story like this would make its addition to the world seamless.

@LiquidWolf Where does the nerfing end, though? If people expect nerfs to the few dungeon bosses that are difficult and / or challenging, what happens when they beat it all. They would be conditioned to ask for nerfs at that point. After beating all dungeon content, they would move into Fractals (logical next step). They would run into Imbued Shaman, wouldn’t be able to beat him, then ask for a nerf.

As far as content goes, the majority of it is already easy. It seems unskilled players want all content made easy, yet when skilled players want a little content to be challenging, they are called elitists.

In my opinion, it is the “strategies” such as all-in-melee that are preventing some people to learn how to play effectively. People should be learning how to properly avoid all attacks, not relying on everyone being nearby to pick them up.

@SneakyErvin Death is sacred. Maybe not as much as in our past (ancient Egyptians), but we still bury dead animals and humans. Necromancy in most forms of fiction is regarded as a “dark art”. You actually think society would allow people to summon the dead? The smell alone would be a reason to outlaw it.

Dhuum/Shang Tsung: “Your soul is MINE!”
Grenth: “It’s cool, feel free to come and go as you please.”

So if Sylvari are children of “Mother Earth”, why would Tyria birth this species now? If they are a natural defense against the Elder Dragons, why were they not birthed for the previous awakenings? Doesn’t add up.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/POLL-Race-Gender-Profession-demographics/page/2#post1469939

This is a very insightful thread. Even given its somewhat small sample size, Engineers are still shown to be the least player profession. It also shows a depressingly large amount of males must play as females. Ron Swanson would not approve.

PurebladeProductions.4875:

Probably a Mesmer, just so I can send clones to go to school for me.

What good would that do? You wouldn’t be educated.

Oglaf.1074:

Because that is totally lore related.

Right-o.

The Backpack supports that they are a cute race invented as a mascot. They share many similarities with Warcraft’s Murloc in this respect. Warcraft related merch and ingame pets / mounts often play off Murlocs. The Quaggan Backpack fills the same role. Quaggans even have a cute vocal trait similar to Murlocs: ooOOooooO vs Murgurgugurlgl.

Something on my list must be a problem if people are dieing. It is often too dangerous to rez an ally, so the answer is to not go down in the first place.

Oglaf.1074:

I’d say Skritt are more of a stupid comedic race than the Quaggans. If you read the article I posted you’d see that there is a lot more going on with the Quaggans.

Quaggan Backpack seem to support the issue I have with them.

I realize that you don’t want to her a “learn to play” answer, but it is a very real answer and you can’t ignore self-improvement. Like real-life, no gamer is perfect and there is always room to improve.

1. Do not dodge the fire aoe. Walk out of it.
2. For the ice aoe, count to 2 and dodge.
3. Rally off tendrils.
4. Focus crystal prisons and essences when they are active.
5. If you are out of endurance, use a defensive cooldown.
6. Teleports can break you out of the Prisons (Ele’s Lightning Flash).
7. Always stay mobile.

Dead weight is a good term for them in my opinion. Many franchises create a comedic, cute race as a sort of mascot. It borderline breaks immersion since these races are more often than not very different than other native races.

Moogles in Final Fantasy
Murlocs in Warcraft
Quaggan in Guild Wars

I would have preferred to have a much more fleshed out Krait. Possibly a neutral faction of them that we could have learned from. Dwelve into their history and learn if there is a Krait / Forgotten relationship.

Warriors already exist, though they would use guns in our time.

Guardians, similar to Warriors, would use guns in our time.

Necros would be jailed / killed as it would be highly illegal.

Rangers essentially already exist.

Engineers essentially already exist.

Thieves essentially already exist.

All classes in real life can heal since we have antibiotics.

That leaves the Mesmer and Elementalist. Both use magic that doesn’t exist here, so I would think they would be the two best choices.

I’d go with Elementalist since we could generate our own electricity, start our own fires for heat / cooking, use the water to never be thirsty, and manipulate the earth to landscape.

Triforge is more highly regarded among Zelda fans.

However from a gameplay perspective I would go with Syzygy. In my opinion, the Laurels amulets stand a greater chance to be given an (Infused) recipe in the future since they are listed along with the rings.

I can’t see the AI being viable for Heroes / Mercs.

How would they know to trigger combos?
How would they handle jumping, avoiding lava pits, etc?
How would they know not to attack a mob with Reflection?
How would they handle areas that require use of bundles?
Fractals would not work at all.
Torchs in CoF3?
Totems in CoF1?
Barrels in CM?
Laser field in CoE?
Trap event in AC? Hell, the burrows events?
Deathball puzzle in Arah?
Almost every boss in Arah4 requires thoughtful action.
I could make this list massive.

The game is built for teams of 5 competent players. Geez, look at the nerf Simin thread in the Dungeon forum and you’ll see that some humans don’t even know how to play. AI cannot work.

Claw of the Desert and Moonshank are two very awesome dagger skins. The Whispers Secret Dagger is also nice, though it is a bit too flat.

Edit: Fractal Daggers are also a very unique skin, reminiscent of the Mursaat weapons in GW1.

Clipping is a major issue with both armor and weapons. Even te opposite of clipping exists; major space voids where small weapons float too far from the body. My daggers aren’t even close. I can’t mix any of the light armor sets without major clipping. Overall it makes things look very cheap, which is sad, given how nice the graphics are.

I don’t consider the code nonsense. The Order of Whispers works in the shadows to tackle threats that are unseen to others, to tackle challenges that are not apparent to others, and to obtain information that others do not even know exists.

Thus, they “see the unseen”, “climb the unclimbable”, and “know the unknown”. In other words they can climb the mountain, where others don’t even know a mountain exists.

It is my opinion that ANet handles temporary content poorly.

So much work went ito the Halloween, Christmas, and Lost Shores updates, but 11 months out of the year that content is inaccessible. Time spent developing a holiday dungeon could have been spent making a permanent dungeon. In my opinion, holiday patches should not take the place of a month’s permanent content. Especially this early in GW2’s life.

The Lost Shores event could have been set to repeat once a month, instead we were left with an empty island.

Permanent Content > Temporary Content

Doesn’t the Inquest dagger have the same look as the original (bugged) Mystic Spike, and is much easier to obtain?

Hated: All members of Destiny’s Edge as well as Trahearne. I also don’t like that Riel revealed herself as the Master of Whispers. It would have been more Whispers-like if she didn’t show her cards and instead have a Preceptor feigned being the Master.

Loved: All of the political figures and members of the guard that made up the first half of my human story, and many Whispers agents. Specifically Anise and Demmi. I prefer real characters instead of larger-than-life lore figures.

I’m starting to wonder why Anthony hasn’t stepped in yet to explain why it requires the WvW research, at the very least. It would go a long way into easing the virtual tension in this thread.

FYI I’m not in a small guild. I’m an officer in an average-sized guild that has all upgrades finished. I just really sympathize with people who want to enjoy patch day to the fullest.

Sometimes I think Overflow does too good of a job in LA. I don’t see very many people there, but I know there are many more that I can’t see. WvW is actually very popular on some servers, resulting in all maps being queued.

Of course many players reside in Dungeons and sPvP as well.

That would be perfectly reasonable. Small guilds just want to participate using their own means on patch day. That’s what I get out of this thread, anyways.

Vorch.2985:

I’m trying to figure out whether it’s the ability to start the event or the merits that are making these 5-people or less guilds angry.

Small guilds want the ability to easily trigger the introductory Bounty missions on their own, as well as gain the merits rewarded for those missions. This is perfectly reasonable as large guilds still have exclusive access to the harder missions which require more people.

Iason Evan.3806:

Flamenco.3894:

To make this content some kind of end-game and exclusive, make a tier 6 art of war, which will take 3 months to be researched. The reason for this is so the content will last much longer.

You mean it will take longer to start because of the gating. Implying it will last longer means that smaller guilds have to be able to start it. If they can’t start it for a few weeks or months, then your point is moot.

I believe he is using sensationalism to prove a point. “If everything is gated behind a Level 5 gate, why not add a level 6 gate that takes three months to research and go to hell with it?”.

Emergency Fixes and Gem Store changes.

All we know so far is that the three Orders are setting the bounties on various enemies’ heads. Why they are targeted by the Orders? We’ll have to wait and see.

Since it is easy to bypass the LA waypoint cost, they should just remove the extra loading screen and make travelling to LA free. It would literally change nothing except provide a convenience.

If profession-specific armor is introduced in the future, I would rather they wait till they create a profession-specific story arc in the personal story and tie the rewards to that.

Does that whole “two birds” thing.

Gw2lfg is the last place I look for members.

First I ask my guild. I know these people.

Second, I ask in map chat. I want to get to know and play with people on Kaineng.

Finally, I will ask on gw2lfg. I will probably never see these guys again.

Cuchullain.3104:

Please stop adding gated content. For the life of me I can’t understand why you put up so many barriers to having fun in GW2. Is this a game or job?

Just let guilds have fun and do the missions without prerequisites . How hard is that?

This is the other end of the spectrum that I also disagree with. If content wasn’t gated in some way, the content would be consumed within a week and then everyone would be asking for more.

@Jski I am in full support of challenging content and I’m looking forward to the AC changes. Though if they are anything like the CoF changes, it might (unfortunately) end up being easier. I’m also hoping that the high-end guild missions provide a level of challenge at least equal to the Orr Temples. Either way, content difficulty is off-topic here.

@Bluewanders To be honest I’m not even considering the rewards and perks in my stance. I simply think that come patch day, many guilds won’t be able to kick off their own missions and will be missing out on a lot of fun and camaraderie. Instead these guilds will have to piggyback on someone else’s parade.

Making them both Account Bound and Exotic would be much better than the current reward.

@Jski Point missed again. It is 100% okay for large guilds to have an advantage in researching the high-end missions. What isn’t okay is that a portion of the playerbase will be excluded even from the very first missions. If the AoW Level 5 gate stays true, this is going to be a very disappointing patch for many guilds.

The whole small guild vs large guild argument isn’t the point, though for some reason a lot of people are focusing on it.

Many people (rightfully) expected small guilds to have easy access to the introductory missions, average guilds would have easier access to intermediate missions, and the mega-guilds would have easier access to the high-end missions.

This could have been done by starting the research at say Level 2-3 of something, then the next step up in difficulty would require Level 4 of something, and finally the massive missions would require Level 5 of something. To gate everything behind a level 5 research is what people have an issue with, especially the WvW track. This hurts small guilds which have not invested in AoW as well as future guilds that will be starting fresh.

As an Elementalist, I already have profession themed armor by means of CoF gear’s fire and stone look.

The Arah set matches a Necro more than it does other professions.

Inquest looks very Mesmer to me.

I’m not familiar with the medium / heavy sets, but I’m sure they have very thematic sets available as well. In my opinion it is better this way (sets look better on certain professions, but can be worn by all of that armor class) as it doesn’t take even more development time.

I disagree that the price needs to be lowered, but agree that the T3 sets could be improved. Human Light T3 isn’t very interesting, but it is a good start. I would buy it if it was worth the price.

It was stated by Anthony in the previous thread that the first guild mission type, Guild Bounties, requires Art of War level 5 to begin research. My questions are:

1. Is this true, or was it miscommunication?
2a. If true, why did you choose the PvP track for this?
2b. If true, why did you choose a prerequisite level of 5 instead of a more accessible level?
3. Do the other mission types require Guild Bounties to be researched first?

No, they specifically mentioned the points gained from Entropy (infinite salvaging). It is very easy to just buy low cost white gear and crude kits, and just salvage your way to a high amount of points. One guy did it to 20k points. To prevent abuse these infinite achievements would need to be capped off at a certain realistic point.

Normal points accrued through unique achievements are 100% safe.

I personally am not on board with mounts, however, eventually ANet is going to want additional revenue from the Gem Store. Mounts would no doubt rake in the cash as many players love that stuff, and the Riding Broom is essentially the foundation for it.

There is of course the old tidbit that Rata Sum is an anagram for Mursaat. Which could mean nothing at all or be major foreshadowing. Also weird is that “Asura” is contained within “M- ursaa -t”, albeit scrambled.

Depending on how these are trigger, the best advice may be to activate the smaller ones during week nights during primetime hours when most people will be online. (Depending on the majority of the guild members’ timezone.)

Save the major events that require large groups for Friday and Saturday night when attendance will likely be higher.

Some people who are online at opposite hours of most of their guild members may miss out on events, or even the people that need to work nights / weekends. However, the number one rule of guilds is that the benefit should always be to the guild instead of select members.

CameronJames.4897:

I’m so worried now!! Even if I bought the influence it would take longer than a week just because of upgrade times to get it to lvl 5 !!!

This is disgusting I’m actually hugely disappointed what if people leave my guild for a more established guild!!!!

This can’t happen!!! It’s terrible!!!!

At least you have two of the most successful movies in history under your belt.

Sorry, I had to. lol

@Waage I considered that we are missing information, but Anthony clearly states that the first Mission type requires Art of War level 5. If researchig Guild Bounties isn’t a requirement for the next Mission types, why would it be labelled as the first.

I don’t know of one, however the PvP locker in the mists performs the basic function of one. You won’t be able to preview dyes, legendaries, unique MF items, or fractal items.

If you want to preview legendaries, MF items, or fractal items, go find a secluded place where your /say won’t bother anyone. Then use the items links found on gw2db. Be careful not to link too many in a short period of time though, as it counts as spam and you will be suppressed.

nerva.7940:

im in a small casual guild (7 people) and we had more than enough influence for Art of War lvl 5. quit your whining.

What’s true for you is not true for every other guild, nor does it mean anything to new guilds. Many people won’t be able to fully enjoy February’s patch.