Guild Wars 2

man my Warriors got mostly Buffs….

nofo.8469:

digiowl.9620:

Well Anet were trying to drum it up as esport material, but seems to have not been able to deliver fully because the release may have gotten rushed to get out ahead of a certain other games expansion.

In any case, Anet’s ongoing vendetta on bunker style builds is an indication that they still have sPvP in mind regarding balance.

Yeah but let’s be realistic here, this game isn’t going to be esports material. Ever.

Not fun to play, not fun to watch.

Say’s you

I would hold out for Feb or march because thats when there saying the BIG WVW and SPVP stuff is comeing

Shadewolfe.8165:

My girlfriend can’t even start this puzzle because the snowflakes start melting too fast. Usually she loads in to the puzzle and the first few snowflakes are gone.

Her computer is more than up to the task of playing this game. This is unacceptable.

I think you makeing this up. But than my PC is more than up to the task and I loud in first

plasmacutter.2709:

The underlying issue here is not champions hitting hard, its them having some Unbroadcasted Attacks which can 1hko you.

Fix the broadcasting issue, and this goes away.

(please note: a visual broadcast with “shining boss” is actually not so great in groups, you just cant see it through the spell effects, it’s best to have a grunt or roar as well)

Note: Much of this has been improved in new content

critickitten.1498:

People, I know you’re trying to help him with advice, but he’s actually got a valid point.

There are monsters in the game who kill you in one hit, regardless of your stats. It’s not a mysterious phenomenon, it’s an actual mechanic that is part of the game and has appeared in many places. Oh, they try to conceal it well in most cases (like the champion giant in that 15-25 zone), but in others it’s obscenely obvious (like the Jade Maw).

And it does need to be removed. Auto-kill mechanics are ridiculous, and the downed state is not nearly as “cool” and “fun” as they advertised it to be. It’s obnoxious that in many cases you don’t get nearly enough time to react to something like that, and even if you could, the window for dodging it is very very slim. I know the precise timing necessary to dodge the Jade Maw’s auto-kill and still don’t manage to dodge it every time.

you do know that the jad maw sticks a big scull over your head if he tagets you and its EASY to dodge at that point……..

Mr Crazy Moose.5760:

Firebaall.5127:

No matter how the minis are aquired, they should ALWAYS be tradable.

This is a moronic fumble on Anet’s behalf.

Actually I think it’s intentional, they’re getting people to burn out all their gems trying to get the miniatures through the boxes then they pull this out.

Miniature Wintersday Trio

It’s been in the item list since the 14th and it’ll probably encourage even more gems to be bought just to get the pets for certain.

This is exactly why i don’t buy this stuff right away. I have about 2 weeks befor im even going to consider spending a dime. See what changes

so i have the Toy Vantary in my store list now for 350. he wasnt there befor

And unlike most comps that NCsoft produce for Anet. Is still its own entity.

This has nothing to do with reflex, its all about muscle memory.

Vortex.5146:

Rainfall.4017:

The entire of GW2 should not be designed around a minority of players who have trouble. Pretty silly thing to say.

Wow. Way to support someone with a disability. A solution is easy-make 2 or 3 levels of difficulty. Easy=slow melting snowflakes. Hard=fast melting. You get the same achievement but better rewards for the harder one. Simple.

You know what, screw that. I am completly willing to help someone with disabilitys if it means thay will have a better more fofiling life stile but im not going to change or nerf the rules of a sport just so thay can play with pro’s same can be said for video games

If a young 20 year old woman with no lags can divelop a way to run faster than some one with 2 working lags than a makeing his self a way to effectivly do a timed jumping puzzle should be easy

I wonder if there’s a Cap on the amount of people able to downloud at one time???

this is why they didnt give us a time

Draygo.9473:

Arenanet did not lie to you. They have always operated that their day starts and ends in PST/PDT.

I think thay have even said that at some time. any way im EST and I always asume its PST time just going by there past.

DEs need somthing to complement them and bring people out into the world much like the scavanger hunts we have had dering The big events. Even somthing as. Small as dilivering mail to semi random locations located near or even characters in the DE chain. (That will only take the mail and pay you after the DE is done.)

and manny more will be on this weekend at the start of wintersday, I havn been on much this week because i am getting things done and out of the way for the big event

i dont think i am the only one doing this. I also have a few friends who are planing to get on that havnt been on in weeks

Spakpak.7260:

I do not see any comparisons between wow and GW2 here, simply a way to compliment them both. I apologize if mentioning wow here is considered against the rules

There Both MMO’s they compete for our Time.

WoW more so because thay need you to keep paying that sub

But GW2 only needs you to come to the event 1 Time a month and buy some stuff in the cash shop if you like. ((i have spent more than 3 months worth of a sub in the damn thing…. i dont like to think about that as it was nothing i needed))

crazzed misfit toy’s

I already haveafew keys i’m going to use but past that im not planing on it. got nothing of any worth for haloween

vespers.1759:

with all the available lore i don’t understand why these events all need to be slightly altered versions of christian holidays. this is a world wide game. can’t we have holidays celebrating each race/god/battle instead of having halloween and christmas and (probably) easter?

i get enough christmas bombardment during the holidays. i don’t need anymore of it in a game that should have its own holidays and avoid real ones. i usually really love ingame events, but i probably won’t log in for this.

right…. so most people dont feel the same way.

dont forget we will also have 3 weeks to try and get this one done not just a weekend like we did with the mad king

I just now got to the Misson "through the looking glass ((glad its fixed tommarow for selvary)) Trahearne kinda killed it for me

Quaz.4931:

Q: Why?
A: Because A-net spent a lot of effort making FEW characters have any real personality that comes through in the story, and then kills them off in a hope that you will feel emotions for a brief minute. Therefore we are left with the second thought characters to make up the gap… and Trahearne.

Instead, how about killing off characters we don’t care about, giving us a sense of mortality and danger in the world, but keeping the charismatic and well thought out characters alive in order to flesh out the story and surrounding universe.

ps. I am not opposed to killing lovable characters, I am opposed to killing the ONLY lovable characters.

I with you on this one dude

you know what would have work a little betterw with Trahern, he should have just been the damn comander, he shouldn’t have come on any of the missions with you, he should have sent other characters with you and let you leed them, instead he take’s over completely

BladeDVD.6234:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

No, Tixx’s airship flies very high. And fast. It is worth noting, however, that we could feasibly make this happen. I’m just not sure we get much gameplay out of it since the airship is too big to fly low enough to be interacted with.

I’m sure it’s too late now, but can you imagine how cool it would be to be fighting in a zone and then all of a sudden you see a huge shadow on the ground and hear Wintersday Music playing and then you look up and see the air ship? Talk about your one time event moments!

I still jump a bit when the big dragon shadows fly across where ever I am in the game. When I first saw it I’d start looking up in the air trying to figure out what the heck was going on. Very cool effect.

indeed this is the type of thing the one time events need to be, no one really miss’s out on game play or item’s this way but the people who do see it are just like "Cooooooo(l) "

I bought a Gem card for a friend of mine

if its anything like haloween it was posable if you were lucky to get the skins from the mad kings chest

Gilosean.3805:

Not harder, please. Some people don’t have the hardware, wrists, or time but don’t want to miss out.

Sucks to be them

mulch.2586:

We have other threads about it.

Most rpgs have some progression to them, either “vertical” of improving your character’s capabilities, or progressing a story. With regard to GW1, it was notable in that there was limited gear progression that was vertical, and very limited time leveling.

Horizontal progression is a term for not having any vertical progression. I guess it’d be like advancing a story-line, except there isn’t really any in GW2.

The potential bad part of vertical progression isn’t the progression part, but rather that “gating” is often associated with it, where a player may be effectively locked out of game content if they haven’t vertically-progressed enough.

To add to this often when it comes to gear there is only one way to get it, this is not A_nets plan and they have admited to KITTENING UP by only putting the first bit of acended gear into just the fractals and are on record as saying that wont happen again.

Oh ok my falt. Kinda at work so i just skim the fourms. What the op wants is a little overkill

Kontrolle.3514:

Plz no mounts in this game. It ruined WARhammer.

Lots of things were wrong with WAR mounts had vary little to do with its failings

Webba.3071:

UnderdogSMO.9428:

Webba.3071:

Its a moot point – the game (zone size and density, travel mechanics, economy etc) was designed to not have mounts. Adding them in any form other than purely cosmetic would require either a massive amount of work or would break the game completely. Its not even a remote possibility.

Have you seen the witchs broom stick….. thats nothing but a cosmetic mount……

Which is what I said. Only cosmetic mounts would work without completely redesigning the game. And how would a cosmetic mount help the op enjoy travel more?

Emertion (also just fun how do mini pets help people enjoy the game more? Untell they add polimoc that is)

And i do have to ask if thay added speed bost when mounted that were attached to your skill bar ((as the teck is there)) that were no faster than any other speed boost. And vanished (along with the mount)) when entering combat (hell hit the player with a knock down if hit with a crit as if getting knocked off the mount). How dose that brake anything?

I already drop my banner and use the speed boost from that to move faster than others and with the trate i have my speed runs out only 3 sec before the skill comes off cool down.

Also there status of humans on horse back. So there in the lore

Webba.3071:

Its a moot point – the game (zone size and density, travel mechanics, economy etc) was designed to not have mounts. Adding them in any form other than purely cosmetic would require either a massive amount of work or would break the game completely. Its not even a remote possibility.

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Have you seen the witchs broom stick….. thats nothing but a cosmetic mount……

Also who cares mounts are not what make WoW what it is, the combat the grind the lore, the lore, the hours of time it takes to get anything done.

Mounts wont harm this game in any way and if we are given ways to obtane them in game as well as in the store than all it will do is help the game grow

Make it so mounts change you fist five to skills involving speed and mabby even nock backs (no speed boost without skills)

Every one see the broom stick for the witch this halloween… thats kinda a cosmetic mount right?

We will probably see anouther mass bot ban right befor the wintersday events start. As that seems to be what they aim for. Cant do it all the time or betters figger out how to hide from there systom quicker

Twitchz.6407:

But Fractrals aren’t horizontal progression, they require you to have finished the previous tier before moving on to the next. As I understand it you are then required to get agony items for resistance so you can go further.

Ansultares.1567:

They’re horizontal to the rest of the game, as is agony so long as the mechanic is contained purely within FotM.

It’s like a mini-game, but someone slapped on gear superior to previous endgame gear, for no other reason than that they could.

and that bit about gear being slaped in is really the hole problem

happily A-net Know’s this and plans to add that gear to the rest of the game, As well as any gear after that.

Its all about Options and letting us grow stronger or progress in the game the way we want to, not be forced into one part of content in order to progress in the game.

thats mine and MOST players problems with other MMO’s not that there is gear Progresstion just that there is only one way to get said gear ((dungeon running))

the thing people seem to not understand is that unlike wow all the content in this game is ((or is ment to be)) optional, on how you progress. when they add Acended to other parts of the game Fractals will no longer be required ((something A_net is well aware was a Kitten Up))

Dinks.2478:

UnderdogSMO.9428:

Dinks.2478:

Yes. I was looking forward to Guild Wars 1 with better graphics, revamped skill system and a non-instanced world. Instead I got WoW with no raids and the ability to dodge.

MAn i played wow GW2 is no wow. ((although its not GW1 ether))

I would have agreed two months ago. It isn’t quite there yet. Give it time. It is getting there. Much closer to WoW than GW1.

how so? I dont give me that Gear treadmill Crap, Gear in this game is still MUCH easier to get and less important to how well you do in this game than it is in a game like WoW ((not to mention it is planed that ALL gear can be obtend in Moltaple way’s not just dungeons))

Dinks.2478:

Yes. I was looking forward to Guild Wars 1 with better graphics, revamped skill system and a non-instanced world. Instead I got WoW with no raids and the ability to dodge.

MAn i played wow GW2 is no wow. ((although its not GW1 ether))

Playing at peek hours and theres still planty of people playing in lower level zones when im running with my buddys that are new to the game

well considering I can still actively go for Ascended gear as well as my lagandary i don’t see the problem. weather it be a wepon or gear its still something to go for

William Fairfield.1428:

Braxxis is correct. The Golem boss is more of a “mini-boss” and it is by design that you fight him while the waves are coming.

Its designed poorly. they shouldn’t be able to spawn camp.

Polymok. With the closed (but taged) gate in rata sum that go’s to the arena and tixx being a toy maker i see us getting it some time this mounth.

For any one ho dosnt know mini pets are toys broght to life in lore

I dont play this game to level

I hit 80 a long time ago, still playing and still enjoying it.
also… an event planed for every mounth

Mirta.5029:

kKagari.6804:

Mirta.5029:

kKagari.6804:

How has the game gone uphill then? There are less people playing and everyone is shuffling themselves to that new dungeon. So much harder to get a group to do any PvE content that is non dungeon.

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6915/99384436.png
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There’s just as much people playing as there was.
If I want to do an event, all I need to do is yell about it on the map chat. I’m seeing plenty of people and we got new content. How did it go downhill?

Actually, this was explained by an Arenanet employee that it isn’t indicative of how many players are actively online at that time.

I’m referring to how before Nov15, there was the ever present issue of player congestion in Orr, and that there was simply no reason to go elsewhere in the game. Arenanet’s solution, to introduce FotM, simply solidifies this problem by adding another tier of loot only accessible via one dungeon in the game, with horrendous grind. There’s simply no-one in the mid level areas, and with good reason too.

Then why am I actually seeing people in the mid level areas? No matter what zone I went to there were still people doing events with me. There is still the same population. In level 70-80 zone people are still doing Claw of Jormag in big numbers. You can catch groups doing events in level 50 zones… The only less populated place is 2/3 maps of Orr and even then I’ve seen 6 people there. Starter areas are booming in population too.

thats what i see on my sever as well

Einlanzer.1627:

Yeah, frankly, when the game has as many unaddressed issues as it has (and, I’m sorry, but the November event was a mess, people were not really happy about it), new content is not nearly as exciting as it would be otherwise. I know there are different teams doing the different activities, but still, they need to get it together and fix all the broken crap in the game before they keep hyping new content.

and this is probably why wintersday is 3 weeks long.

you fail to relize alot of this content was probably in the works well befor the game came out, alot of it there still lerning from.

tigirius.9014:

Volomon.9147:

Ya its kind of hard to get excited about anything they say, they have a record of slow turn around. Not to mention when are they getting around to the ton of bugs? I’m actually at this point more interested in bug fixes, minor tweaks, and a DR reduction <- talked about adjustment 1-2 months ago. Still nothing.

Exactly what I was thinking while reading that. The entire interview was a hole buncha pr mess imo.

They didn’t touch on a single thing that is a concern for the community not one.

No bug fixes, no loot issues, nothing.

you do know… we Just HAD THE FREAKING AMA

We are still selling copy’s were I work

Tarnished cost. Always has a good ternout after work hours