Guild Wars 2

I had a guy in my unit who was like that. All he ever did was upper body workouts. So, at first glance you would think, dude, your ripped. Yet, he had little chicken legs skinnier than mine.

Obtena.7952:

^^ You’re just asking for trinity … maybe you don’t realize it.

My main in GW1 was monk, and I personally would like it back, in the next expansion maybe. Not sure if I would actually want the trinity in GW2 though (kind of on the fence about it). I would have preferred they not add raids too, but we see how that is going.

Full berserker gear will always be meta until they rework toughness and the games’ aggro mechanics. I don’t think they have the time or desire to do that.

In my opinion, if you are wearing berserker gear in every slot (so 0 gear toughness), than every time you get hit you should be downed (glass cannon=glass gets hit it breaks) Highest dps should always have aggro, which means that they would have to rework how people “tank” in this game. Once they rework “tanking”, healing would have to be adjusted. We have then moved down the path back towards the trinity, which they kind of have done already. But we can’t have great single player heals because they refuse to separate PvP skills from PvE.

I don’t think they want to go back to the trinity, so people running full raids of almost everyone in berserker gear will never change.

I get that some people find it inconvenient, but they want people who join WvW maps to be doing that content. If you only went to a WvW map to craft and leave, you obviously weren’t interested in WvW (at that moment), so you really don’t need to be there.

The change actually makes sense.

Can I just skip the poll and say that I’d rather they add some new utility skills before they add more elite specs. Would be nice to get some more useful variety on the skill bar.

It depends on what you mean by “raid centric”.

I will note that there are a few things that require HoT and even further, require doing the raid, that give the impression that raids are becoming a central focus.

Without the raid, and only doing PvE, you can get to 161 mastery points. You never need to do WvW or PvP (so just the one game mode needed…PvE). In order to get to 169 (highest total I’ve seen, I think it goes to 171) mastery points you must raid. You can not get additional mastery points in WvW or PvP or anywhere else.

In order to get legendary armor (which is really the only “endgame” content left) you MUST do the raid (for a long, long time).

I literally in 4 years just got my first ascended drop ever, and now the servers crash. I didn’t even get the chance to see how pretty I looked in it.

As much as I liked housing in DAoC, I would prefer they skip that here. If they need to spend time on anything, it’s fixing the things that are already released.

Maybe finish the second underwater weapon for Revenant for example. Or, the character movement lock that has been happening since launch, where you see your character trying to move but are stuck to the ground (even though not immobilized).

I’d rather they fix the current issues first.

It was just something else to do in a zone to give people that liked different things something to do. It is easy XP and if you do them as you run by them it will help you level faster.

I don’t think that they have “forgotten” the casual gamer, but they clearly have lost sight of the notion of “play how you want” that they had at launch.

At launch, the only thing that was really “endgame” was having a legendary weapon. You could craft it yourself, or you could buy it. It didn’t matter how you played the game, you could do any mode and eventually get a precursor drop (if you were lucky) or make money to purchase one.

At the launch of HoT, you can already see they have deviated from this some. I get that the journeys’ were supposed to alleviate some of the issues with precursor RNG, but account binding the HoT legendaries so only someone who bought the expansion can craft them skews the original intent in my opinion. I get that it was a selling point, but I think they made a mistake in making the HoT precursors only craftable. They should have been a rare drop in the HoT zones just like the original precursors…and not account bound.

With raids, however, they have locked (and account bound them) ALL legendary armor. Meaning, the only way to get to “endgame” is to do raids. This goes completely against the “play how you want” idea that made the game awesome at launch.

Honestly, if they were going to lock “legendary” armor behind any gate, it should have been the legendary tier in the pvp track (and I don’t pvp, I’m still rank 1 on both accounts). But, I don’t think they should lock it behind any one mode of play. Whether that means make them sellable on the TP or coming up with equal effort paths in the other modes to get them so be it.

I get that games want to evolve, but they shouldn’t lose sight of where they came from either.

cptaylor.2670:

“And a couple others.” I think WvW is probably less than 40. Pvp more than 10.

Seemingly 20 people on Gemstore!

It really does seem like there should be a lot more happening content-wise though. If the raid team can produce what they have with 6 people, from maps and assets, to encounters… it would seem like we should at least have some new Living Story zone by now. I mean the raid maps are instanced and linear, but they’re pretty fly for such a small team.

It does seem like capable people working on raids, sadly the rest of the game isn’t getting quite the same love that we know of.

Also, don’t forget to count in the job openings in the numbers count. (direct from their website)

“Take a look at our current job openings at ArenaNet’s offices in Bellevue, WA.”
3D Game Artist- Mobile
Audio Programmer
Character Artist (Contract)
Character Modeler
Embedded QA
FX Artist (Contract)
French Linguistic QA
Game Designer (Combat)
Game Designer (Content)
Game Designer- Mobile
Game Master- Customer Support Specialist
Gameplay Programmer
General Programmer
Maya Plugin Programmer
Playtest Volunteer
Senior Technical Artist- Environments
Server Programmer
Tools Programmer
Web Programmer

If only I lived in WA…that GM position would rock.

It’s a fancy weapon skin with footfalls. You can change stats anytime you want.

Nothing more to see or do here…move along…move along.

I still think they should lock the pet behind the beastmastery trait line. If you don’t have that specialization chosen, you don’t have a pet.

I have no idea how they would make up for the lost dps, since our pets make up close to half the damage we do, but it would be nice to play a build that doesn’t have the pet out. Or, doing jump puzzle and take 1 damage and now your pet is out…/sigh.

What happened is absolutely tragic, but can we please leave the problems of the real world in the real world.

I play to escape reality. So, once I log in, a crisis is something like one of the following:

oh no…dragon minions are attacking, or…

quick, the undead are marching on… *insert town name, or…

centaurs are attacking the human camps…to arms

I really like to use my game time to escape how horrible the situation with humanity is right now.

Some good thoughts on here.

The “In Character” for RP would be great.

I also really like the idea of the order giving us a title, like Synk said above. Would kind of make doing the story line mean something (which it should). Otherwise, why even have the NPC’s call us by those.

Sadly the names aren’t very good. I really just don’t like any of them, and it looks like, based on discussion, Dragon’s Watch is going to win. Dragon’s Watch sounds like a vista, maybe a point of interest, not the name of the group that just killed an elder dragon.

Actually, I know they said it can’t be done due to “no way to remove previous XP gains”, personal story choices, etc…I doubt this is true. Here is why:

My thief is Asuran, and was on the final step of the personal story, Victory or Death. Sadly, as I have 8 other toons, I never made it around to doing the last step in the story line. 3 years go by and I get a mail from Soothsayer Jacinda telling me she can help me with my issues. I was bored and had no idea what it would do, but I talked to her, accepted the choice and it reset my personal story to the beginning or Chapter 7. (sigh) Every step I did after, replaying chapter 7, gave me the rewards/XP as if I had never done them before.

Fun part: my personal story still showed every step that was later in the story I had previously done. Even more amusing, was that the story Jacinda put me on, was not the chain I had done before. It ignored every choice from character creation all the way through my personal story and put me on the story they wanted me on with Jacinda’s reset.

I submitted an email before starting it up again and Anet basically told me they couldn’t reset my story to Victory or Death and I had to replay the rest of the story, which is what I’ve been doing.

When I hit chapter 8, all of my chapter 8 story completed log items vanished. I am now getting all of the game mails from my original story/steps (I chose) and the ones from the story Jacinda put me on (what they chose) every time I do the next step. They are forcing me to do their path, not mine.

TLDR:
I went from Victory or Death (last story quest) to Forming the Pact (start of Act 3) by talking to Soothsayer Jacinda. It changed/ignored every step I chose, both in character creation and personal story choices, and has set me on a completely different story line I didn’t choose. I didn’t lose anything, other than progress, and am getting new XP/rewards as if I never did the story on that toon.

My take: Race changes are possible, I just don’t think they want to spend time making it happen.

This has happened several times now. I reach the part of the story line where I am supposed to “follow Taimi to the draw of ley energy”, and at some point either before she starts walking, or 20 feet from the end, she just stops.

I have tried dying, talking to her, waiting an hour hoping the game might realize she stopped moving…nothing works. I have already done the story on 5 other characters, and am just trying to get the other 4 through this story, but I am stuck on this mission, cause Taimi just keeps stopping, as if Scruffy broke down and she is trapped inside.

Not just the scrolls…with the changes that have come in to the game, there is no reason anything should be soulbound anymore. They really should just make everything account bound.

NO, cause I now have autoloot and don’t have to worry about picking stuff up.

I don’t see how this is any different than any other raiding requirement. Be thankful they told you in advance.

If you are not willing to put in the time and effort necessary to clear a raid, don’t raid. (doesn’t that sound familiar?)

Helm – Heritage Mask
Shoulders – Adept Epaulets
Chest – Seer Coat
Gloves – Savant Gloves
Leggings – Seer Pants
Boots – Leystone Shoes

There is only one jump on it that I would even call “tricky”. But, since it is about 70% of the way up, missing the landing is certain death with gliding disabled. Assuming everyone is falling on the same jump I imagine (where I see most people fall from all the time) the key to the jump is not to try jumping straight at the mushroom, but jumping just to the left edge of it and strafe right to land on it. I haven’t had any issues with it doing that.

I’m guessing people are trying to get to the Tiger’s Den at the top. So if you are absolutely stuck on it, and have no alternatives left, hit me up in game and I’ll port you.
I am online a bunch, but AFK often as I have a 2 year old.

Albeit confusing at first, having done HoT completion on 15 characters now, Tangled Depths isn’t that bad. The zone was designed on having masteries. The later the zone, the more masteries you really need to have to move around effectively (or even complete – Itzel poison mastery for example). You have to view the “paths” through the zone including the layers and mastery shortcuts, like wallows, in order to really see where it goes. There are some surprising shortcuts that make the zone really easy to navigate once you have played it a while.

Sitting, mostly AFK, on a map I’d like to do something on while entertaining a toddler…occasionally reading/responding to map chat and porting people to whatever “thing” I am afk at (usually a JP or mastery point).

I just want an exchange service. So we can do a 1 time trade of 1 skin for another.
I bought the first harvesting tool, the jack in the box creepy pop up guy. My mining and lumber ones are the molten. I would love to have a matching, not so creepy, harvesting tool. I only bought it cause at the time they made it seem like they would never add them again or any new ones.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

lol

of course it makes sense, you get more rewards for doing the same thing on a higher difficulty…
Your examples are horribly bad since it’s not even remotely the same.

No, you get better loot in the T4 chest, for doing the harder instance. You should not get all of the loot for every tier below it when you haven’t done it. It makes no sense to give people loot for a tier they did not do. I’m not arguing that the T4 loot couldn’t be better, I’m just saying it makes no sense to get loot for something that wasn’t done.

Yeah, this isn’t really a game where you can do a purge realistically. But, I think they could just delete all the permabanned accounts which would free up at least those names. Permabanned folks shouldn’t be returning anyway.

This will tell you how well it works.

Wife and I are on the same map of VB. Kid wakes up so wife goes to check on her. I get the volunteer message so I move to another map, figuring she can join when she gets back. Over the next 5 mins I get 3 more map closing volunteer requests. I take them because I’m not doing anything. As my wife walks back in and gets ready to sit down, I get another map closing message and take it. It put me back on her map where I started.

I am really hoping they just add the GW1 style districts we can just join. That way you know if you get into district 1 of a map, it will NEVER close.

Wait until they actually DO nerf the loot. It makes absolutely no sense to do the T4 dailies and instantly get credit for the first three tiers and get the loot from those too. Imagine if raiders just went in and killed the last boss in the raid, but were instantly given the loot from all the previous bosses. With the way it is, if you do the Dragon’s Stand meta and AFK through the whole thing, until the Mordremoth mouth part, you should get the chests/drops for the entire event chain all the way through from the start (even though you didn’t do them – which is how daily fractal loot is atm).

When Anet figures out it makes no sense…then make a thread.

Necromancer – Sword main hand
Mesmer – Pistol main hand
Ranger – Rifle
Warrior – Spear for land
Revenant – add the 2nd underwater weapon that wasn’t added in HoT but was supposed to be
Elementalist – Greatsword
Engineer – Shortbow
Thief – Torch off-hand
Guardian – Dagger off-hand

Long live the JP daily.

The jumping puzzles are seriously the best thing to happen to daily achievements.

The one that gets me:

At what point did someone think it was a good idea to cut down saplings to get lumber?

Scenario:
Need wood for weapons? …yes
Do I have an axe? …also yes and with unlimited uses
Where should I get wood? …from a sapling of course, because everyone knows full grown trees would yield less lumber

Can I please just chop down full grown trees? It would save me a ton of running around.

Update: relogging is not a permanent fix. Went to move some boxes, log back in, new letter….same problem isn’t being fixed by relogging.

I just got it as well, relogging fixed it. Sadly, it just reminds me that I’m still at 49/50 in GW1 and that I should (maybe) someday go back and finish that.

Do the Dragon’s Stand meta chain, over and over. Tons of XP.

If it is a free to play account, you can not send the money back.
If you choose to make it a paid account (so you can return the money), you can buy Heart of Thorns, but then you will have to have verify the account with a phone number (text message) and wait 4 days from the time the Heart of Thorns key was applied to the account before it will unlock the ability to return your gold.

This seems to be an individual problem (that I also have). My wife gets them all the time, and I have never gotten 1, ever. We harvest the same nodes, using the same harvesting tools, and I have 0 to date, yet she has over 100. I know everyone will say it’s just RNG, but after a while, it looks less like RNG and more like broken.

Halvorn.9831:

1. Switch to “hard” trinity (bleed the requirement from 1 optional game mode to all others)
2. Watch your game shift from “unique” to “umpteenth copy of the same old”
3. Read player comments on how other games that have been designed with this concept from the start are doing it better
4. See player figures fade
5. Switch off servers, since you have just nuked yourself out of business.

OR….they could do this and make the game like GW1 again and possibly win everyone back.

1. change nothing about the current classes, but add monk
2. collect the endless praise from all of us monk primary players from GW1
3. realize it changes nothing about how the game currently is played (cause we already have tank/dps/heals)
4. read more comments from people noting that the Trinity already exists in GW2, but people thanking them nonetheless for re-adding monks
5. ignore the few people who think one Trinity (already in the game) will lead to another event (coincidentally named Trinity…see link below)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_

You guys need to put the tin foil hats away and just go play (maybe outside).

Just because you see a ranger or necro’s pet kill something does not mean they are AFK farming. AFK…possibly. Pet killing a mob that is hitting them cause that’s what they do…also a yes. It does not mean they are macro’ing/botting/AFK farming. (I don’t disagree that there may be some of that going on, but it’s not every ranger/necro you see as is implied in this thread)

Silverwastes is a good place to use as an example. There are 4 legendaries that spawn (and worth 5 mastery points). Person spends weeks farming events (7 to be exact), defending Blue solo, and over the course of a month sees the legendary spawn once…but doesn’t get credit for it even though they participated in the entire kill. (first rage…then sad face)

Tired of the hundreds of hours you spent actively trying to get it, you now leave your character on the hill by Blue, mostly AFK, waiting for it to spawn. During your AFK time you play with your kids, clean the house, watch a movie, make breakfast (or lunch/dinner), yet you know that every 15 minutes or so you need to keyboard move your character an inch or so and check upgrade status’ and read chat. If your smart, your computer is in an area you can see the screen from both your kitchen and living room (if not, you should be doing that after you read this).

It is possible that during the noted time above, your pet may have killed multiple mobs…and, as stated by the makers of the game…this is not an exploit.

The above is a true story, except that I was on my mesmer for the entire “wait here for the stupid legendary to spawn again”, and I killed no mobs AFK but did come back to my corpse a number of times.

My overall thought: who cares if someone intentionally (or accidentally) kills a mob while AFK with a ranger or necro. If the devs are going to put any time into fixing a real problem with this game, they should fix actual game play bugs, or maybe find a way to detect the people teleporting to gathering nodes to harvest them (I see this all the time and they teleport away before you can report them as they are usually in the ground).

This game has a lot of issues, but is a great game. The fact you are unhappy that your class dies when you step away for a snack and rangers/necros don’t is a personal issue, not a “needs dev attention” issue.

Restarted my computer and went back and redid W2Z2 to get the song again. Doing everything the second time worked. Not sure why it didn’t take it the first time.

After checking every guide (and watching every video too many times), I think this is broken.

I have:
1. my character in W2Z3 at the right place
2. wooden whistle, equipped and playing the right song 332331 (at the right time, by the door)
3. I have the achievement for all the hidden rooms in W2Z2 – so yes I have the song unlocked and did this in Z2

I have tried it identical to the way Dulfy does it.
I have tried it identical to the way Kelani does it.
I have tried a few other variations changing which of the clouds I land on first and last.

The door never opens.

misterman.1530:

How about giving us the armor they used in promotional images for the Reaper elite spec?

Also, I would love this set.

I had been wearing the T3 racial Asura armor for years, but recently switched out for the reaper hood and a few exalted pieces. It would be nice if we had a few more choices though.

TheSwede.9512:

Wildfires are a common natural phenomena and they are extremely necessery for the sake of maintaining the status quo in Nature, as it burns down old and possibly dying fauna from which new life can spring (In the most simplest of terms). You don’t see nature suddenly starting to shoot lead everywhere through complicated contraptions made from metal and wood, ignited by naturally existing gunpowder.

The core reason why the Rifle isn’t a staple in the Ranger weaponry is because they represent Industrialization and Progression away from a Hunter-gatherer society towards a Settler society. It is in every way the anti-thesis to what the Ranger is supposed to represent, which is Naturalism and to some extent, Regression back to Nature and the Roots of creation and all that hippie mumbo-jumbo.

Rangers have changed almost nothing from their GW1 Counterpart and I’m fairly certain this is a deliberate move from ANet’s side. They use the same Traps, Spirits, Weapons and Survival Skills in 1328 AE as they did centuries ago, and excel at it. They’re the complete opposite to Engineer, who represents Industrialism and Utilitarian Progressiveness.

Also, the whole “Rifle vs Longbow” as a Hunting weapon thing? Lemme put it this way: The Rifle was designed as a weapon of war (Which is why Warrior has it) and wasn’t adapted for hunting purposes until the more Accurate and reliable Rifles of the 19th century were introduced. Meanwhile, the Bow is the archetypical Hunting weapon alongside the Spear and Skinning Knife, having been around since humanity learned to tie a piece of rope between two ends of a slightly flexible stick. Clearly, the Bow is the better representative for Hunting.

Could there be an Elite Specialization for Ranger that uses Rifle? Oh heck yeah there could be! The whole idea of Elite Specializations is to take the Core Profession and completely flip its theme on its head, and a Rifle would work wonders for that. But Core Ranger will never and should never have a Rifle as their weapon, because as has been stated several times before, it clashes with the thematics of the Ranger itself.

I’d reply but I think King Cephalopod.7942 summed it up quite nicely. Scroll up.

If the only reason to not have a ranger use a gun is that it “goes against nature”, than they need to remove our use of torches. Nothing destroys more of “nature” than fire (other than real world humans…and I live where this has happened and it’s not pretty). What “nature conscious” person runs around setting fire to things? (sure, you can use fire to fight fires, but the game doesn’t employ any firefighters that I’ve seen)

The idea that “rangers” MUST conform to D&D is also just silly. Does no one remember the mission in Orr to use a giant “robot” battle suit to save a “tank” crew? (just one example) I think it’s safe to say that we are beyond the simple guidelines set forth in D&D.

I get that some people have fixed views of what it means to be a ranger in a fantasy setting, but if those opposed are so dead set against a ranger wielding a long gun, they can choose to not use one if they ever gave it to us. For me, the weapon I refuse to use is a shortbow…because it’s horrible. We have much better choices. If they give us a long gun, and it was decent and balanced…I might use it.

MithranArkanere.8957:

A ranger with a rifle could become a sniper, or a hunter. But he would no longer be a ‘ranger’.

Even Colonel Benjamin Church had a gun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Rangers

Spending most of my time on my ranger as of late.

I have HoT and would love to be able to turn off items on that list. In particular, the PvP Leagues are Active and the Forsaken Thicket-Salvation Pass ones.

I really don’t like a lot of clutter on the screen and have made things as small as I can, as it gets in the way. I wish we could do a little more to customize the UI, and maybe check a box to remove items we don’t want to see.

With 0 buffs on myself and standing alone in the middle of different level 80 zones and cities, my health is never the same.

No gear changes, no buffs from myself/traits/other players, my health is almost never the same. Anyone know why this happens? It happens on every toon I have on multiple accounts.

Can be as much as 2.5k difference on my necro, a little less for others. For example, I have 25.4k health on my Revenant at times, and other times (like right now) I’m at 23.8k.
All of this is with no buffs/food/etc.