Guild Wars 2

or maybe give us option to make asuras bigger (there is even model from this box of fun ) or let us turn on standard model only on asuras ? sounds a bit crap I spent a lot of gold on my char 4 legendaries and now iam gona look like human low lvl crap ;(

phase 2 is the worst one by rly you can dodge all his attacks

lol people speedkill,solo lupi and go there with pure zerkers and you demend nerf rly ?!

Boneheart.3561:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

NO ONE ACTUALLY PVP’S IN THIS GAME.

Hundreds people with rank 80 massive www communities but who cares give us more 11111 world bosses !!

Tiger maybe it will shock you but dragon burst phase is always in the same window , all phases are the same 3 tendrills . you can even melee them just take some reflections or smoke screen and enjoy bursting it in 7 seconds, most classes can take passive boosts to run faster or weapon with swiftness , avoiding aoe easy mode you keep running out of aoe if you see that you cant do this dodge . If you really have problem with this fight and die 20 times maybe you should stop gaming and try reading books or watching movies becasue this is not for you . I hope that one day all world bosses will be rebuilded and svanir for example will drop few aoe strips where full zerkers go insta down and tanks lose 50% of health (111111 afk event always fun)

rashan I have no idea rly they dont like playing with other players , gameplay is too difficult . I really have no idea what they wont and why they bought it .

ARE YOU kittenIDDING ME ? Almost 2 years and no pvp , www update and now when there is one , pve 1111 cryers come here and whine that this update isnt for them ?! Oh I am so sorry , and yes I hope that soon we will have more rewards for playing pvp and www , so sry pvers you will have to play pvp to get it .

Raziel.4216:

God forbid we have a somewhat challenging encounter. You can group and faceroll it if it’s so kitten hard, but dont ask’em to make it easier like the rest of the game where you can stand anywhere pressing 1
I hope Anet makes some more like this.

sometime ago I read post that somebody doesnt like to party with others and this person expects solo versions of dungs

why not entire pvp , you just turn it on and have it on every arena,hot-join etc ? idiotic decision

Sublimatio.6981:

did anyone figure out how to destroy the healing seeds in challenge mode? i didn’t. i had to outdps the healing of the seeds and i died 2 times, eventually killed the boss on the first try and got achievement. i needed to be fast though. i think destroying the healing seeds would be easier but reading their shield buff didnt teach me anything. i couldn’t damage them. good thing it’s over.

PS. ANet, please add MORE challenging achievements. these aren’t challenging at all. I want hard achievements with UNIQUE rewards like a title for a really hard accomplishment.

you need dna buff , then you can destroy it .

Phoenixlin.8624:

You had a choice to transfer or guest to another server.

And without bringing any good evidence, stop calling others minority.

you are minority megaservers brought so much good stuff that they will never reverse it .

Broom.2561:

I see a lot of the usual ‘learn to play’ nonsense… and I’m sorry guys, but it IS nonsense.
So cool, you’ve played 3000 hours, have excellent gear and tried all possible combinations of traits etc. on your character and can switch builds without even thinking about it. I dare say a lot if not most players are not like that. And for those who are not like that, the fight can get VERY frustrating indeed.

My main is a ranged DPS ranger in full berserker ascended. I’ve player her over 1400 hours and I am completely and totally familiar with her abilities. She only died twice and can probably do better.

After doing the final mission on the ranger, I did the arc on my other 80s. They are all in exotics with decent runes etc. But I don’t play them nearly as much, they are at 200 or so hours each. Their builds are probably not optimal, but they’re not horrible either. The guardian and necromancer managed to solo it, with enough deaths to destroy (not damage, destroy) half their armor. The mesmer… just ouch. Gave up and asked for help. Still working on the warrior.

I’d say my non-mains are a fair approach to what a casual player or newer 80 enters the encounter with. And for many, it will be an excercise in frustration. Which is, if you think about it, a VERY bad thing. This is a personal story arc, content all players should be able to enjoy. In stead, it’s making people unhappy with the game (just repeating what I hear in my guild). And sure, you can group…. but seriously, if you want to actually read NPC responses and see the ones that are unique to your race, that’s not exactly optimal.

I realize that there are people who really want a challenge… but I don’t think this is the way to go about it. Not all players are created equal, and fun and challenging for one can be /ragequit for another.

The best system I’ve seen to date was City of Heroes (sadly gone now), where you could actually pick a difficulty level for instanced missions, and set (multiple) specific challenges, with more loot and cash as a reward.

What if I tell you that it is lvl80 content and you are supposed to know your character,profession and basic game mechanics like dodge . If this fight would be on personal story level 20 I would agree that it is OP but here NO . We need more fights like this where you have to show that you can use your brain . Such a cruel world , you have to try few times to understand fight mechanic instead of standing in one spot pressing 1111111

Davey.7029:

I don’t think this will cause any unbalance issues, since people can already do this if they want. The thing is, dual spec would make it a lot more convenient.

It would be a lot easier to just click on button to change to your second build instead of having to click every single piece of equipment, plus changing your traits and skills (rangers also have to change their pets). It would save you a lot of time and let’s not forget about inventory space. Some people actually carry 3 sets of gear, so I’m sure it can get very confusing at times.

I think it would be beneficial to everyone really, and if you’re worried about WvW then it would be very easy to just add a 1 or 2 minute cooldown and an out of combat restriction.

yh www cd sounds good 60 sec like longer timer on weapon swamp , but any cd in pve wont make sense

YH create warrior and cry in few weeks that it is gona be nerfed no more hammerstuns , no more one shooting zerkers in full PVT . Warriors tears are gona cover entire Tyria . Create guard always usefull .

Actually in dungs/fracts most good players switch their build anyway for a long time (armor is 10 sec , skills maybe 5 , the only problem are traits ,just click armor in your inventory)
for example my guard
-swamp(tree)-switching to zerk+reflections
-dredge(defending panel)-switch armor to pvt+reflections+protection etc
-dredge(fighting ice/suit)-switching to zerk+range dps+root
-arah-switching for pvt for skip -zerk for boss
example of my mesmer roaming build
-i use main PU mesmer when i see ranger with short-bow i switch build or try to dps him down first

So i dont understand why people are crying about it because you can do this anyway . Switching build on www only in towers/keeps god pls no it is step back so now during guild raid ill have to run to tower to switch build , just no .

Dont know what is going on last time after update I had lags every evening on www , it disappeared around friday and now after this update I have same issue . My internet conection is fine in other games I have normal ping during this time . Some players in my guild who are from east europe like me have same problem , does it mean that gw servers are working bad or what ?

sMihaly.1492:

VOLTCIEAGE.3029:

I said this sentence many times "Let us use utility skill instead of elite " Becasue 99% of them are useless and 99% of people even dont use it because it doesnt have any meaning . In your case problem would be some combo fields or DD ele and meteor shower on utility XD.

I didnt say weapon skills in utlity slots, but utility instead of weapon skills

I think it would be too op . Staff ele who can trade some non dmg skills ? OH gosh that dps would be outstanding . They dont want to change stupid elite so iam not sure about weapon skills .

Oh gosh There should be option to switch build on HUD 3 icons ,you click it boom blue light to show that you switched build and
-if skill 7 is on cd(36sec it stays on this cd after swap)
-all buffs,passive are removed. New build nobody cares what was before .
Switching it in towns , keeps doesnt make sense becasue still on some dungs I have to respect to face better some encounters . Sorry I dont get crying people when I roam in my mesmer I have 2 armor sets anyway and I switch it to counter enemy so whats the difference ?

I said this sentence many times "Let us use utility skill instead of elite " Becasue 99% of them are useless and 99% of people even dont use it because it doesnt have any meaning . In your case problem would be some combo fields or DD ele and meteor shower on utility XD.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

As for WvW meta, it’s already horrible, you cant make it worse. And it’ll make things more interesting as players can get out of combat and change their build to suit the opponent.

changing your build to suit your opponent is exactly the problem.

a build is a series of choice, it creates strengths at the cost of weaknesses. being able to toggle at will to move them around effectively removes the strategic aspect of build making. when you don’t have interesting decisions to make, all you’re doing is going through the motions.

there’s dozens of threads that have already gone very in-depth on why this would be the worst thing to happen to the game.

i think it is completly oposite , finally there would be option to counter enemy . Same on pvp I think we should be able to use 3 builds from template but shouldnt be able to switch char . Or maybe you think that switching build is worse then reloging to turret engi on skyhammer ?

Aomine.5012:

I have the best advice for you: L2P
Only thing that’s not soloable is the challenge mode which the boss heals really quickly while he binds you on spot with his vines.

LOL first thing which I did after story mode was challenge mode achi . I did it on first try , died only once . My prec/tank guard is new meta

And maybe roaming on www would require more skill. You attack,scout enemy and quickly change build to counter it ? Finally eaqual fights.

Thank you Anet more , more pls more content like this where you have to switch positions avoid aoe and learn basics mechanics of the enemy .
Anyway why all mobs dont work like these new ones ?

Jski.6180:

Well first you had to rework the trate system we had to what it is now before you can have “spec swap temples.” Now there is room to add in these temples. So its more on the lines of 1/2 of a year? (not sure how long we had this new system) for a real time line.

Now comes the question of what would be fair for these swap temples. There are a lot of classes who can pre buff in one build and fight in another making the pre buff set up pointless in a fight making a build over all worthless if you can just simply swap out of combat.
Ele is a good example of this Persisting Flames is a very powerful effect but 6 into fire is a hard price to pay for this so ele can have 6 fire build ready before a fight and get the fury from there blast to the point of stacking 1 min worth then switch back into a more “stander” build for the fight. This makes the 6 fire Persisting Flames build worthless in a fight. I image other classes have this same set of builds and abitly to pre buff i only know ele.
Its about making all builds usable not to make it easy to swap builds as needed.

what about switching build removes all buffs ?

sevenDEADLY.5281:

It costs nothing to respec. Just how lazy of a person do you intend on being?

sure 15 slots for armor in inventory and i have 3 sets(1 pve,2www) and then I have to remember all traits , yh easy 3 builds (for pve , few builds for pvp , ohh crap and what about other class ? In most mmos there is build saver , in gw1 there was one but not in gw2 0_0

LetoII.3782:

“EoTM is for training and Karma” Indeed.
Training for what

Man they train PVD , one day they will attack EB . Keeps gates will melt in few seconds

If somebody says that PVE in this game isnt oriented on dps probably didnt play too much . Yes it is , it doesnt make sense to use something different then berzerk gear when every mob,boss can melt before it even attacks !? Just look at example of graveling breeder from ac . As dps you can kill it in one combo and graveling even wont touch you , but as tank,heal you can start fight , after few seconds you have :25 bleed, hundreds small gravelings and you are finally dead . Zerker isnt the only one problem but mostly stupid mob ai that let thme go to the corner like lambs to the slaughter . Better ai, bigger dmg modifer for mobs and zerkers will melt in open fight . It would be still possible to finish every content in full zerker party but it wont be the most efficient way and they will wipe a lot . It will force people to look for different builds and tactics but who cares ? lets go speedrun ls in 50 min and come back to forum .

Just let me change my build in pvp tab , it is easy as hell to implement and I wont have to touch hotm never again .

Morsus.5106:

VOLTCIEAGE.3029:

MeGaZlo.9516:

Brother Grimm.5176:

Where do these jokers come from….

No offense, guys, but I have to agree with him. It seems none of you have been on the WvW, ever heard about support squads, ever seen the endless battle of warrior with guardian or elementalist with necromancer… or five people with Mesmer. And, it seems, no one wore anything but a berserker.

i mainly play www and yh I have full pvt guardian becasue it is must have , without it i would melt in aoe in few seconds just look on eotm . one ac and 20 people insta dead . Balance is required mostly on PVE , it is kindom of zerkers , it doesnt make sense to use something beyond zerker becasue 95% of bosses melt in 5 sec so you dont need healer,support for what ?! sometimes i cant cast empower becasue spider queen in ac is already dead 0_0

Cast empower, then pull the boss.

and ill lose all might stacks before spider queen gets to corner , great tactic.

yh 2 years ago they said that they were working on cmd update and what ? it was just an example , we need more info and some estimated time for developing process right now we are standing like kids in the mist “maybe they are developing something , maybe dont who knows ?”

Lets get rid of power , every build will deal dmg and there would be some place for other builds and it would be easier to balance some stats sets on pve,pvp (celestial eles on pvp rocks !! just kidding nerf it pls). Every class will have base power and it would be easier to control it with updates .

You can argue about how many people left , play ,will be playing but anyway I still think that LS updates doesnt help gw becasue right now they are completly useless . 95% of my guild mates just speedrun through it and never come back .I think most people do that so I have no idea why Anet spends almost all their resources on developing it and completly abandon other game aspects where people play everyday . Really community which plays this game everyday can generate much bigger income then randoms who log in once per 2 weeks . The worst thing is that there is completly no information from devs side . Is it so difficult to write "hey community we are working on build templates , you can expect them in next month cya " anything !!!

Soon this game will be in graveyard too . Around 70% of ppl already left this game and this trend still peaks down , reason always is the same "there is nothing to do " . People only log in once per 2 weeks to click through wall of text , clear all mobs in few minutes,click through wall of text , log out . Pve in this game has the most pathetic difficult level I have ever seen in any mmo . Braindead monkey can complete story and ls without any problems !!!just spamming all skills !!!!! dungs are the same running from one corner to another one , there is no harcore dung , only skipping mobs is more difficult on some like arah . I would preffer to dont get any LS for month but then recieve finally pvp patch , www patch ,getting rid of zerker meta from pve, better mob ai, no corner stacking . Ls doesnt help this game , it need patches to balance,fix parts which players use everyday

+1 Karla Grey you sum up everything in perfect way .

I agree with Vercinorix , great idea !

Anet before april patch had to discuss this idea and they knew that leveling is too easy and too fast . They wont change it back beause:
-there isnt much endgame for some players and using this simple trick new players will spend more time in game so maybe they will find activity which will interest them or they will spend some gems before they leave
-they dont care, in one thread somebody posted that around 40% people dont change their traits so why they should revert so much work which was done ?!
- most people can buy traits anyway so they dont see any difference 60g pls it can be farmed in one day

Lheimroo.2947:

VOLTCIEAGE.3029:

lol just keep leveling , come back to traits when you are 80. Any party wont take you for dung . go for hearths and story, there is no need for traits.

And there you have it. Even a proponent of the system admits that it might be better to ignore it entirely until you’re max level.

And .. it isn’t a failure, somehow, despite saying that?

failure is entire pve in this game it is easy as hell but anyway i dont care I have all traits on my guard my gf has all traits on mesmer , you can keep whining guys how cruel is this world , i dont care . geting traits or leveling is easy when you compare it to other mmos but keep complaining

lol just keep leveling , come back to traits when you are 80. Any party wont take you for dung . go for hearths and story, there is no need for traits.

I just want to say that for new comers unlocking traits is great fun, few extra hours before endgame but people who already has main char and know how to play ,can level really fast (eotm,scrolls,pvp) ,they can also unlock all traits with gold .

Warriors elite, this should be example how elite skills should look like .

I know how to fix www and end this pvd crap
-caping camp 5s
-caping tower 25s
-caping keep 50s
Reward will increase with tier of object and there should be rewards for defending object

Straegen.2938:

Offair.2563:

Straegen.2938:

I believe all NPC guards should report enemy movement on the WvW map. A little alert icon for each NPC seeing enemy movement and a popup box when hovering over the icon stating approximate numbers of enemy forces.

Read: Byebye guerilla attacks?

It would still allow these types of attacks but they would have to be planned better. Essentially a group would send a scout ahead to dispatch guards along the way or would simply take less direct routes. Either way it adds an extra element to this type of fighting… IMO a good one that requires more strategy and less brute force.

blob melting gate without rams is always cool ! i agree we need more strategy not brainless running from tower to tower , but we also need fights it is one of the best parts of www.

i only gave her gold after she reached 80 to let her buy full exotic set and i was helping her to level but didnt push her to do that or that , i was just following her buffing and healing with my guard . and she just liked that idea of trait hunt , there was extra challenge for her she had to visit places,kill bosses which she had no idea that exists probably she wont like it on next char but during lvling first mesmer she really enjoyed that .

Sariel V.7024:

I’m with Volt. The Elites are almost 100% crap with little utility thanks to mediocre power, short durations and long cooldowns. They also synergize poorly with the rest of the bar. I barely use any of them outside of my Ele, who needs it to survive. There are a few outliers, but not enough that I’d really consider speccing most of them.

There also needs to be better variety for underwater elites, because those are uniformly kitten.

underwater 1 elite skill this should be enough for your entire build

blakdoxa.7520:

VOLTCIEAGE.3029:

lol people are still crying about trait system . my gf was leveling her first char not so long ago and yes new trait system is great , she had motivation to unlock,do,go to places which she would skip for 99% . problem is with all crap chars from eotm but anyway if it is your alt go buy traits from vendor and dont cry . THIS SYSTEM WORKS GREAT FOR FIRST CHAR

Well for someone who is playing after Apr 15th not knowing how the previous was perfectly fine (save the free trait reset), of course.
It’s also funny that you talk about someone else’s experience rather than put out your own.

I play this game since beta . I have 4 char on 80 and in bank I have 5 scrolls(20lvl),300 tomes ( 1 lvl) and really ! I dont cry about traits and it was nice to see my gf lvling and it really works for new comers .

lol people are still crying about trait system . my gf was leveling her first char not so long ago and yes new trait system is great , she had motivation to unlock,do,go to places which she would skip for 99% . problem is with all crap chars from eotm but anyway if it is your alt go buy traits from vendor and dont cry . THIS SYSTEM WORKS GREAT FOR FIRST CHAR

I suggested many times to let us switch elite for normal skill because 99% elite skills are useless .Mostly every class has one elite per one game type and people take it only becasue it is the smallest harm .

ocirne.7915:

Except pvp is completely terrible..

it is really good , it has a lot of potential like www but there is no development on this aspects of the game . Anet rly almost 2 years after release and 4 maps on team arena 4 maps !!! and 1 game type !!!

FrostSpectre.4198:

Yea, I forgot about writing down the late players as one reason about my suggestion not gonna work.

Gotta admit, my suggestion was abit half-baked, didn’t think about it much, but seeing community opinion pretty much is far better than singular selfish suggestion…

do you understand that there isnt someting like beeing late , you finish event or you dont finish it . It is really simple .

Godzzila.3752:

Zardul.3952:

Clerigo.9475:

After some reading, posting and debating in 2 known mmorpgs sites, i was so confused about my feelings towards this game and mmorpgs in general. I mean, theres only like 20 to 30% of people defending the same views i have.

So glad i came here after that. Not that i havent already read thousands of posts like this, about GW2 and other mmorpgs in general, but i dont know lol, guess i “see the light” :P

But now i know. Thank you to the OP for this post. I share your concerns.

Now i see that my gaming time in mmorpg genre is probably over. And its ok, been playing for too long. Maybe its time for mmorpgs to be made for this new crowd of younger less demanding players.

Me, im not a guy that can live with such low expectations, even when we are talking about something so shallow as a game.

I love playing games, but i love some meaning behind all of it.

GW2 is a solid game, i had alot of fun for about 5 months and its ok i suppose. Was worth the money spent.

GW2 has no end game content, lost the magic of its predecessor, and failed to hit many of the marks ANet set with their manifesto.
But has many great stuff happening and it probably is the perfect game for the casual player, now i see it.

Sadly, and if we could meld time, its not half the game GW1 was back in the days. Still i will miss it, and perhaps one day ANet sees the potential of this game to be more than just a runner up contender and aim higher.

Its funny, lol, never would thought a game i so overhyped in all known to humanity game forums, would turn out to be the game that pushed me to the corner…

I highly recommend, if you are a casual and mmorpg lover, to not seek other game for you. I have played …hundreds? i lost count. GW2 is most likely the best choice for you.

As for me, i guess ill keep downloading those games hoping to find what i seek.

I confess, ill be keeping an eye open for GW2, maybe something good will happen eh?

Good luck to you all and have fun.

i think ill be taking a long break too.. might keep an eye out for the Elder dragon. but then i think it will be quits for me too..

I’m on the same path, I’m just waiting for dragon’s reach part 2 ‘cause apparently after that they will be taking a break on LS, I’ll probably just last till that, I’m curious to see what they can put out during that break period. Probably just Gemstore and patches that will barely matter…
As I stated before, I don’t expect at any point in time they change their path. They will just keep shooting out underwhelming stuff over and over again till this game hit’s a point of no return… But I guess deeply inside I hope they change something…

I already did that long time ago , today I just log in to do daily maybe run few dung paths for some gold and if iam in the mood for pvp or www I play it but mostly turn it off . There is nothing to do , my gf who started leveling 2 days after festival release already said that there is nothing to do . I dont know who killed this game is it devs fault or maybe community but mostly both . Devs didnt create any endgame content and hardcore players left this game after month and only casuals are left . And after very long time when finally they started adding any content it was aimed for casual . But how knows Diablo 3 came back from grave , maybe same will happen to gw but they would have to announce DLC to make it happen(a lot of rebuild content )

PS
I love all people who say “dlc would be against their promise” , kid before gw2 was relased I heard about non trinity system where every class can be support healer etc. I heard about esport pvp, massive www , GUILD WARS gvg and all we have is casual zerker pve . And who can fell cheated ? Almost every great aspect from gw1 is horrible in gw2 or there is none .

cya on wildstar battlefields