Guild Wars 2

Carighan.6758:

Well I’d say once all are unlocked, allow swapping of abilities between weapon slots, but only on the same weapon.

As in:

• For 2Hed weapons I can swap all abilities in all 5 slots.
• For Main Hand I can change the #1-#3 skills however I want, but I can’t use them to #4 or #5.
• For Off Hand weapons I can only reverse the order.
• For Thieves, #3 is fixed and cannot be moved.

I’d like something like this… Sounds like the most sensible way to do it.

I just can’t fathom that the UI isn’t customizable! Every MMO I have played has had the option to customize your own UI, moving the sliders, and more importantly moving your skills around… Anet! What’s the deal?

So yeah… The skill slots. All the phantasms have their own button, but across all the weapons they are all the same kind of skill. Why can’t they just be locked to one button? I mean… It’s not really game-breaking, it’s just a matter of convenience. If I got used to the Focus Phantasm which is on Slot 5; then I switch to pistol off-hand, and keep pressing Slot 5 to cast a phantasm because I got so used to it on my previous weapon… Except that’s not what happens. What happens is that I fire the magic bullet instead by mistake, because I got so used to having my phantasms on Slot 5 It’s kind of become a reflex to push that button when I need to.

So can’t they just do it simple? For off-hand weapons move the phantasms to button 4 or 5 for ALL the one-handed weapons, then leave the phantasm for two-handers on button 3, as it seems to be where it universally resides(well not really it’s a tie between 3, and 4)

Sword Phantasm:
Slot 5.

Pistol Phantasm:
Slot 4.

Great-sword Phantasm:
Slot 4.

Staff Phantasm:
Slot 3

Focus Phantasm:
Slot 5

Torch Phantasm:
Slot 5

Spear Phantasm:
Slot 3

Trident Phantasm:
Slot 4

Not really keeping it consistent across the board here…

Anyway this is just my opinion.

mercury ranique.2170:

But I think you should tidy up your language and your attitude. A good suggestion is measured by how many supporters you get for one. So tidy it up, make it for all world bosses, not only for dragons, use Jormag as a good example how it can be done, incorporate the fact that they should be still doable with smaller groups of people and you will have my vote.

Don’t need a lesson, and I don’t think you should run around educating people on behavior. Sometimes, ventilation is all that’s needed. The only thing that matters is where you do it.

Yeah, I agree with this guy. I never played WoW, but really the party system is a joke. There is NO benefit to partying, except killing things faster, and you could stalk a random-er in the same area for that. The game is just too easy at the moment.

EDIT: Moved to top post, because why not? No point reading this, but leaving it here nonetheless.

mercury ranique.2170:

Last off all there are 3 dragons in dynamic world events. One could argue that the first two (the shatterer and Tequatl) are a bit easy. On the other hand they are nothing easier then any other world event.

Oh well.

I gave more than enough information in my post on dragons, and if you didn’t get that message or understand what I am talking about then I guess you are just slow… They are simply too easy. 1 minute after they’re announced, they are dead…

Do something for gods sake, it’s ridiculous. I thought events scaled with the amount of players. In which case, Tequatl, and the Shatterer both need desperate attention. They’re the “Big bad dragons” after all, that everyone in the lore is so godkitten afraid of. Really, they are too easy.

Then there is Jormag, whose only difficulty is how he artificially lengthen the battle by forcing players to bash on a block of ice that has far more HP than the boss itself while casting a cheap damaging debuff on people that get too close… He doesn’t do ANYTHING while he’s behind that block of ice! He summons his minions, and that’s it. He just sits there behind his block of ice going “Can’t touch this!”… It’s not hard, it’s just tedious.

Actually, in most of the battles, the dragons don’t do kitten. The things you have to look out for are their minions. Look at Tequatl when he first arrives. He kittening leaps out of the ocean, wrecks a tower before he lands in front of the big scary cannon. Then what? He drops some stuff from his wings… Once in a while he’ll cry, and make everyone turn away laughing at the sight of a crying dragon. What if it used it’s agility to actually do something else than stand still taking anything that hits it? It’s clearly capable of such considering it’s entrance.

Elaborate enough for you?

They are too easy. Fix em’.

1 minute after they’re announced, they are dead…

Do something for gods sake, it’s ridiculous. I thought events scaled with the amount of players. In which case, Tequatl, and the Shatterer both need desperate attention. They’re the “Big bad dragons” after all, that everyone in the lore is so godkitten afraid of. Really, they are too easy.

Then there is Jormag, whose only difficulty is how he artificially lengthen the battle by forcing players to bash on a block of ice that has far more HP than the boss itself while casting a cheap damaging debuff on people that get too close… He doesn’t do ANYTHING while he’s behind that block of ice! He summons his minions, and that’s it. He just sits there behind his block of ice going “Can’t touch this!”… It’s not hard, it’s just tedious.

Actually, in most of the battles, the dragons don’t do kitten. The things you have to look out for are their minions. Look at Tequatl when he first arrives. He kittening leaps out of the ocean, wrecks a tower before he lands in front of the big scary cannon. Then what? He drops some stuff from his wings… Once in a while he’ll cry, and make everyone turn away laughing at the sight of a crying dragon. What if it used it’s agility to actually do something else than stand still taking anything that hits it? It’s clearly capable of such considering it’s entrance.

Make it apply even if you’re using kits, because at the moment it doesn’t.

If you’re running healing turret, use your toolbelt heal a second before you activate your rocketboots. You’ll get a healing wave, and heal yourself and your allies at the same time as you break your immobilize/stun/whatever. Well you can’t really use heal if you’re dazed/stunned, but hey… Still fun as hell to use in groups.

… Unless the hammer is one-handed, no thanks. I got my wrench, my crowbar, and a giant cog shield. . . Forgot my magnet. I’m a happy man.

I use P/D, along with S/D… And I am noticing without stealth; I won’t get any kills anytime soon. And I die a lot, so I am kind of failing. This is not in WvW though, just normal PvP.

silentnight warrior.2714:

Not only with thief. They need to nerf the damage to classes, skills with low risk/high reward. Someday they will do it.

The game has been out for almost a year…
They seem to put more focus on events n’stuff rather than balancing the game.

If it hasn’t been done till now, it won’t happen.

Bacon Please.8407:

i spam laugh after all fights because so many people spam it already. Join the bandwagon already

no. I’m not going to do what all the other scrubs are doing… I’m going to sleep.

Title:
Is the general consensus of thieves around the world that Pistols are nonviable in a PvP setting or just in general?

If so, what’s the point of choosing them over the shortbow?

This is a discussion thread, just looking for people’s opinions.

Want to tank? Spec toughness, get utility skills that increase your survivability. Now how to hold aggro? Beats me.

Want to heal? By all means! Spec healing, pick traits and runes that allows you to heal multiple people.

Want to deal DPS? Just play the game.

In no way is GW2’s system perfect though. Kind of miss being able to heal other players by major amounts by pressing one button.

Seriously… Currently the dragons in this game give me this feeling: “Ohh when is this going to end…” it’s literally just a chore. Besides usually the rewards for completing dragons are just as laughable as their difficulty.

Just make the dragon battles in this game harder… You can up the rewards if you feel like it, but make dragon battles more exciting than they currently are. For instance it would be fun if the dragons actually used their flying to move around the battleground bombarding everybody on the ground till he decides to be nice, and come back down again.

Not as far as I know… But I would also like this.

A way to make PvE easier to deal with could be setting yourself some goals for the day. For instance today I am going to complete this zone for the possibly epic rewards I get… Has you working toward something.

Do you lose the 90 toughness you get from shield if switch to the flamethrower? If not what if you use the Juggernaut trait in Firearms alongside that…?

Engineer is by far the most fun class to play… Alongside Ele, and Mesmer IMO. Simply because of the crapton of utility, and variation you get with the class.

marnick.4305:

Furthermore, it’s a profession, not a class.

No. It is a class, hidden under the tag of profession. Just like classes are professions, hiding under the tag of class. THERE IS NO #&¤/(#& DIFFERENCE.

notanewmethod.8267:

its not fair man. My thief doesn’t use the offhand pistol when attacking with dagger.

its not fair man. My warrior doesn’t use the warhorn when attacking with sword.

its not fair man. My gaurdian doesn’t use shield when attacking with scepter.

wth i didnt understand anything.

Hey… kitten-off. All of those are so easily avoided by simply leaving them as they are.

I agree with the OP on the aesthetics. I want to fire both my weapons like in a western if I had two revolvers! Looks so silly just running around using one gun while the other serves as dead-weight till I decide “Okay. Now it’s your turn to play, you get one move. But after that, it’s back to the waiting corner! YOU HEAR?!”.

For Aesthetics sake, c’mon! xD

P/P is still awesome though. I really like P/S aswell. Screw the hipshot sniper.

There is a good chance I did just that. Will check.

EDIT:
Yes I did.
Thanks a lot Jeffrey! The mystery has been solved!

“Because you purchased gems through our Gem Store or a Guild Wars 2 Gem Card between the launch of Guild Wars 2, and June 9, 2013, please enjoy the attached gift from ArenaNet.”

So it came with this box of three mini’s. I opened the box, but I didn’t see if the mini’s were on a timer, being one-time consumable or something. They didn’t appear to be as I could switch between them as I wanted for a short while, but then later on they disappeared from my inventory. Is that supposed to happen?

Torguish.4786:

2) Something other to farm and achieve other than PRETTY gear.
Seriously now, i have achieved my epic level of coolness, not the only thing missing in my opinion is a motorcycle from my charr. I’m literally sick and tired of having nothing new to look forward to in… anything. Always gear, which in the end, looks the same and makes no difference what so ever.

I just want a really cool hard to get mount with what i can boast to other people and be all like ‘’LOOK AT MY AMAZING STEED, LET YOUR EYES FEAST ON IT.’’

Because that’s the only reason to farm in this game really. There’s just no variety in farming anything anymore. I’m bored

Emphasized what I think bugs me the most. All the gear looks the same… Wish they would make everything more unique looking instead of seeing the same bronze/iron sword every crafting level I get to.

An updated character creation? YES PLEASE.

Playing elementalist and mesmer at the moment. Both classes are tremendously more fun than the Engineer is in it’s current state. Won’t touch my engie for a while I’m afraid…

There are already hairstyle appearance changers for gems in the Trading Post. They gotta earn their money somehow to extend the games livetime.

Remove the ability to whack a dragons toe to kill it and rely on siege weaponry to make it vulnerable. Or rather make siege weapons have the dragon fall to the ground so that whacking it’s face becomes possible. It looks stupid that a lot of tiny midgets just swarm the darn things feet and smack it several times. One dragon where you have the option to use some kind of floating lazer cannon, the cannon is NEVER used. People just charge head-on and smack the darn things toes… Yeah that’s fun. I’m having more fun at regular events and other kind of boss events than dragons simply because dragons are big piles of SUCK.

ArtemusHunter.9521:

TwiceDead.1963:

Current skillsystem is fine.

@thread title
Don’t we all…?

It is fine. I didn’t say it wasn’t. All this would do is add more customization to builds.

Also, that’s why I came to the ‘Suggestions’ page. That’s where you should go, if you have a suggestion, is it not?

Yeah, you’re right… Sorry.

Well on the first try of picking the plant up I didn’t get a carrot, but an unidentified dye. Then the plant didn’t disappear on the first try, so I tried to pick it up again, then I got a carrot. o-o

“Wanna jump?”
“I’ll do it.”

Saw that variagated plant just lying there waiting for a pick-up, so I wen’t ahead to get it.

Instead of a carrot, I got an unidentified dye… wat? o-o

EDIT:
On a sidenote:
I got 5 Unidentified dyes today!

evolverzilla.2359:

@Twicedead
And how someone will be level 1 with 100% completion? Please can you explain it to me? Even to complete some dungeons you have some level cap to play it in a normal mode without be killed by one shot, i can´t even imagine how it will work to play as LV1 complete normal and hard as LV1… or you have a real good friends to put you in a 20 slot bag or kill every single mob in the dungeon in normal and hard, just for you to get rare itens at level 1…

Sorry you are telling nothing with sense to me.

People making stupid things like confronting a boss naked in a dungeon inf front other players to receive nothing is real stupid, it´s not acomplishment. Is like those world records some people made like stay in a poll fulled with kitten for a month or something like that.

And give a player something more to do when we have nothing more is a good way to keep people playing but it can be a dubious concept for some people and I will not waste more of mi time trying to make anyone understand my point of view.

Bye.

You didn’t get my point. o_o

People have more than one character, and can easily share gear between them. Get one character to 100% completion, use him/her as a moneymaker then the rest of the characters will be handheld through the rest of the game since level 1. That’s how.

Again i’ll ask are we doing this for the challenge or for the rewards? Turning this game to hard mode won’t necessarily make it any harder whatsoever since the AI in this game isn’t exactly smart, more often than not it’s easily countered, that’s part the reason the game is so kittening easy.

I like your arrogance by the way, sorry for wasting your precious time even though you yourself made the choice to read my posts… If they are such a waste of time, why bother?

Would be nice yeah.

evolverzilla.2359:

@Twice dead
What you are saying is, for people to feel acomplishment they must act against the logic and give nothing in return except do something against of logic.

Yeah, very clever.

And if ANY TIME you ever played GW, you will know something about what HARD MODE is for a GW1 player, instead of just mumbling that people must act like idiots just to feel acomplishment.

Hard mode is not about powerful itens, its more about better rewards. GW1 has a cap for everything so you never have something better just because you do something harder, it´s more getting a better chance to get a new sprite or a perfect rune or a rare polymock piece.

So before telling something more just know what people are talking about instead telling them to shut off.

And in GW1 newer players have to complete 100% of something to enable hard mode, so it was never a problem for anyone.

You just proved yourself wrong. You didn’t understand.

What I am saying is Hard Mode is unnecessary to give players who have already accomplished a lot even easier access to good content. It makes the game economy totally imbalanced. We would start seeing level 1’s running around with rare sets sold for 10 gold had this persisted a year (although level 1 rare’s doesn’t exist as far as I know). This is not Guild Wars 1, deal with it.

If you want a tougher more challenging experience, i’m telling you to make your own challenges instead of having the developers create a mode for a certain few people.

Players acting like idiots is what you regard a person giving himself a challenge? So what? If it’s fun for them and they don’t ruin for other people what’s the problem?

I was not speaking of getting BETTER items, I was speaking of getting MORE of the better stuff. If you want to get better stuff, purchase a magic find booster for 150 gems in the store, or get one from a black lion chest or something of the like.

So is this topic on a hard mode specifically for the challenge or for the increase in drop rate for easier access to the good stuff? If it’s for the challenge BY ALL MEANS by my guest! You don’t need hard mode for a challenge. If it’s for more rewards, then i’m not for it.

Also I’m not telling anyone to shut off, so far I’ve remained rather civil unlike my usual standards. Like you, I am expressing my opinion without claiming that you are attacking people.

evolverzilla.2359:

Forget what twice dead is mumbling, he don´t understand at all your sugestion.

On the contrary, you don’t understand what I’m saying.

For some reason I start imagining golden pickaxes… In theory, that can’t be very efficient at all considering gold is a very soft metal…

But yeah! I support this!

tomshreds.1745:

I’m using xpadder to play with the gamepad and it goes very well. To all of those who thinks there’s a lot of button to bind: hey even freakin’ flight simulator fits on a gamepad!

No they don’t. Come back and say that after you’ve tried Falcon 4:BMS and Lock:On.

On topic:

Gamepad support sounds fun, I’d try it only to get a new sense of control and see how it’d be. I’d still use Keyboard and Mouse for main though, as it tends to have an advantage over Gamepad in terms of situational awareness.

Abigor.4952:

You ain’t getting a thing! You know why? Santa is not real! (As well as Christmas and New Year) =P

You… You! You liar! How dare you!
SOMEONE GRAB THE TAR AND GET FEATHERS! We’ll boil this heathen!

Wall of text… Will read it some other time.

What… Why?
Part of the games beauty is it’s replayability. Myself I have one of each class/race and I am happy with every character except the Sylvari because they suck (IMO).

Again, why? Why do you want to change races? What’s the point? Just re-roll! Easy as that! Unless you by some godforbidding mistake made every and each one of your character of the same race and brought them all up to 80 for some stupid reason in which case you’re on your own. An appearance change I get, but a race change? I wouldn’t bet my life on that.

Re-roll. That simple. The experience won’t be the same because you’ll be in a different starting area with different quests.

Current skillsystem is fine.

@thread title
Don’t we all…?

… What?

Add more to the game?

Why the hell would they ever do that?! It would completely ruin the current games beauty and alter it’s gameplay significantly! People would miss the games original beauty and style! Overlook the things they run past and not take time to appreciate the beautiful landscape! One does not simply add more stuff to the game….

It’s MADNESS!

(For those unable to read sarcasm: /sarcasm)

Join a guild. There’s your group. There’s really no advantages to being in a group anyway besides the guild chat as far as I’ve noticed. Even while grouped, I don’t get credit for another group members accomplishments, all you do ungrouped is still in play grouped. Except that you can see your partymembers health I guess.

No. Nerf yourself instead of having the entire game give you a hardmode, create a hardmode for yourself.

Instead of equipping your best gear, equip gear 10-20 levels bellow your level. Use a weapon you’re unfamiliar with an such. There’s no need for the developers to alter droprates for a few completionists in their favor, it would be downright unfair because other (newer) players wouldn’t have the same privilege, or rather they would be unable to.

Nah. Instead spending time implementing a hardmode while there is still a bazillion bugs to be fixed in the game, just make a hardmode for yourself.

“I am invincible! I can’t die! Nerf the haxing ELE! It’s OP! Because it beat me!”
/thread

Move on folks…

I don’t mind the trinity, but I prefer GW2’s solution to be honest… Doesn’t matter to me eitherway what they do.

mXz.4512:

I’ve only seen a few, but nothing close the number of malicious people you’re describing..
Sure it’d be funny at times and could be taken advantage but as said in another post, anything nowadays could be taken advantage of or exploited to some degree.

I think you’ve seen more than you can count even with a thousand hands combined…

The number of trolls in games nowadays almost equals the number of casual normal players… Actually the trolls should start being called the normal players.

Besides, you do realize that only ONE of these trolls would be enough to kitten up the entire system? Imagine what a handful could do? A guild of trolls?

Oh my god, the world is gonna end at that point…

DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE TROLLS! >_>

See a thief stealthing?

POP YOUR kitten AOE’S.

Is the Solution.

… Ice isn’t an element in itself, so it wouldn’t really fit the elementalist.

Considering Ice is just cold water that has frozen over due to drops in temperature, Ice would be a combination of Air and Water, whereas I imagine air has the ability to control temperature, which could be wishful thinking.

Under a normal circumstance, for ice to become really solid it will have to linger in one place for a really long time to reach the potential that rock has.

Nah, the elementalist is fine with the current weapons IMO.