Guild Wars 2

Sytherek.7689:

I don’t consider doing 100% world completion + other stuff to be “casual”.

You don’t need world complete though, you can get 10 hero points per challenge in HoT areas, which means you only now neeed 19 challenges to finish the elite spec, since you already have world complete, or for someone that does not have world complete they need 40 HoT challenges, it is really not that difficult at all…

and no you did not already do the work for it, please link me where it says work you do in this mmo will be retroactively rewarded in the future… please use logic, that is not how MMO’s work.

Hexalot.8194:

I’m sorry but I’m betting only a small minority has world completion on so many alts thus the rest of us reserve the right to complain about it, thank you.

Your complaining is not based on anything solid though, its basically just crying. The elite specs are new content, therefore you should be required to complete new content to obtain/finish the elite specs, this is very simple logic that anyone should be able to understand. I also have many alts without world complete that I need to get elite specs for, but guess what, I have no issue with having to do the work for it.

Rising Dusk.2408:

I’m sorry, I thought doing 100% map completion just to unlock the elite specialization counted as working for it.

As someone with 11 world completes I am totally fine with it only counting towards half an elite spec, so yeah if you thought it was going to give you the full thing you were indeed wrong, and now have to do some work for it, why should everything be added to the game retroactively? that’s basically what you wanted, new content should require new work to be done to obtain it, basic MMO 101.

I am 100% behind this decision, Elite specs are not called Elite specs for nothing, they are supposed to be something special, do you really think that you would just get that handed on a plate to you? either work for it or don’t, but stop embarrassing yourselves by crying about it.

gavyne.6847:

I have 11 characters that I was excited about playing and using elite specs on them. Now there’s no way I’m going to grind PvE for all of these characters, what a waste.

I’m disappointed Colin, and right now I should feel excited about the expansion, but this news 3 days before launch have soured my mood.

Don’t grind then, sorry but you didn’t buy a silver spoon when you purchased HoT, but here is a /tissue.

So let me break this down for the casual players that think you were just going to login on day one of HoT release and be able to access the new elite specs in all their glory, why would that have ever been the case? this is an expansion, this is new content, obtaining the elite specs should require you to work for it, I’m sorry I don’t know what games you have been playing where you don’t have to do anything to get the things you want, but I’m happy that its not this game.

Offair.2563:

Whilst on it, Ali Baba sentries

You are already Ali Babou the GH sentry :P you just need a little costume change m8.

Ok so with the new desert borders about a week away I realise this is short notice BUT we really need Camels instead of Dolyaks carrying supply, not only would it look more in keeping with the environment but you could also have Camels with 1 hump or 2, the normal 1 hump camel carrying normal amount of supplys and the 2 hump Camels carrying the double supplys (credit to Mollori for this inspiration). So what do you guys think? and Arenanet how fast can you make a Camel? :P

Um you guys clearly don’t WvW, im talking about the stalker in Eternal Battlegrounds that is sandy color exact same model as the black jaguar, and NO we do not have it.

These below.

IndigoSundown.5419:

There should be no “followers’ list.” Anyone who wants to friend one should send a request, and one can accept or not. Not accepted, not added. This works fine in other games. This game is not bloody Facebook, and we players are not commercial entities that want followers because they can’t be bothered to accept a lot of friend requests.

Actually I would hate it if everyone that wanted to follow me I then had to accept/decline as a friend via some confirmation box, it would make things pretty awkward very often, I have over 250 followers and an actual friends list that is less than 10% of that, I do not mind people following me at all, if they consider it worth there while for whatever reason that’s fine by me.
It’s not a bad system really but certain things probably should be fixed, mainly the way block works.

I really want this cat it would make a beautiful pet.

Moonlit.6421:

Well considering all you really did was talk trash about the game and it’s “poorly implemented systems” and you just complained about everything instead of trying to be constructive he essentially gave you the expected reply. At least his reply actually had valid points in it as plenty of other people are excited for the reward tracks but hey if you don’t like it fine, don’t use it. He just explained the simple concept to you, that’s all.

Again this same response “if I don’t like it don’t use it” that logic is just passive aggressive and is not constructive, when I do not like something you can be sure I will voice that to arenanet so that they are aware of it, instead of them thinking everything is pink fluffly clouds, this actually helps them in the long run…

meow one twenty.4376:

No one is impressed by that response.

I wasn’t impressed with his passive aggression towards me right out of the gate, what goes around comes around.

Domino.1359:

you realize you don’t need to activate said reward track, yes?
Rather, the dragon animation is a bit too flashy. I think the best option is to tone down the flames coming out.

You realize you don’t need to use the flashy dragon? yes?

and the moral of the story is, don’t get smart with me…

I’m not to sure what they were thinking with this whole idea, really what is the point in having 10 new finishers when there are so many rank 80 now who will mostly only use dragon finisher anyway, I do not see this as a reward, I see it as 10 reward tracks earning finishers I do not want until I can get another dragon finisher (which btw is far to OTT)
Once again this seems like another poorly implemented system, which will prob get reworked 3 times over the next 2 years, I’m not excited for it at all.

Can you just not paint my dragon finisher gold and be done with it? that’s really all I wanted…

If you are being hunted by packs on their border then you should expect them to hunt you high and low.
If you are being hunted by packs on your own border, then they are either desperate for some action or they have something against you.

On AG we use our dolyaks as spys, they call me the dolyak whisperer.

lolitsage.2185:

Hey guys,
So I was just wondering what the general consensus was around here for the amount of class icons we currently have in the beta.
I understand a new one for Revenant because it is a new class, but releasing 8 more for each class is somewhat overwhelming and unnecessary considering they are only new specialization, is it really necessary?

It takes a bit of time to get used to but that’s just how it is going to be, one thing they could have probably done though is use 2 icons, as example a Reaper would have the original Necro skull and the Reaper hood icon, that way the class maybe easier to recognize for some people, I think down the road as someone already mentioned when there is like 18+ elite specs then this method maybe the way to go.

/signed, make it happen.

Starlightmagus.8654:

Vavume.8065:

I’ve always hated the way that ranger gets forced into taking pets that are meta, instead of pets that you actually love how they look, for example, I love how the jaguar and white wolf look, but running these pets makes you you look like a bit of a noob (I do it anyway because I love them that much)
I have always wished that someday they would rework pets and their ability’s so that you can slot whatever ability you want into any pet you want, I realise it would lose the flavour of each pet aspect it has now and ofc it would require a lot of balancing but yeah I can dream right?

To be clear I dream of the day I can slot fear into my white wolf.

I’m not sure that’s necessarily the best design, though. Perhaps if they made other f2 abilities simply more viable? The snow leopard chill leap thing comes to mind, if I’m remembering it correctly. Landing it was a pain. And the chill wasn’t really that much compared to the cooldown. Perhaps, for an example such as that, increase the chill duration or decrease the cooldown of the ability? If I could land this reliably in pvp, for example, it would actually be pretty awesome for kiting purposes.

Imagine a design where you can breed your pets, take one brown wolf and breed it with a white wolf, the result being a wolf that now has access to an f2 fear OR Chill, which you can choose between using, just like you swap out utilitys, that is the future!

Dare I say full grown bear sounds fun, just from a visual aspect, still wouldn’t run bear though

lxghostxl.5097:

don’t worry about the staff. druid itself as a class is bad…

I am happy with the traits at least, but yeah other than that it still needs a lot of tweaks/reworks, but the core idea is a great one.

Agreed with OP, staff stance is horrible, soon as I equipped a staff and saw it I was like “ewwww”

I’ve always hated the way that ranger gets forced into taking pets that are meta, instead of pets that you actually love how they look, for example, I love how the jaguar and white wolf look, but running these pets makes you you look like a bit of a noob (I do it anyway because I love them that much)
I have always wished that someday they would rework pets and their ability’s so that you can slot whatever ability you want into any pet you want, I realise it would lose the flavour of each pet aspect it has now and ofc it would require a lot of balancing but yeah I can dream right?

To be clear I dream of the day I can slot fear into my white wolf.

Draeyon.4392:

Will Zealots recipes be making a return anytime soon?
Or could Zealots recipes make a permanent return and by extension some way for sprockets to drop?

That is all, thanks.

They will prob be returning as part of the pact commander masterys, one of the tiers unlocks vendors that sell stuff, my guess is that they will be available there.

However if you do not want to wait, you can do what I actually did today, thankfully I already had zealot insignia and inscriptions learned on my crafters, so I just made the inscriptions and insignias and then used to mystic forge to convert old unwanted ascended gear into keepers gear, this worked out far far cheaper than having to buy all the recipes.

GUTB.8436:

Do you just become desensitized to it?

Yeah you do, the human male voice has always annoyed me, its same guy that voiced one of the SWTOR characters that I disliked also, but as you guessed, over time you just stop noticing it.
It takes quite some time to adjust to GW2 after you have played games like WoW and SWTOR, I would say it took me 2 years before I stopped comparing it to WoW, but now, I don’t look back at all, this game is pretty amazing when you get your head around it.

cos… so much synergy and so many possible builds, so much to think about, now my head hurts :P

What they need to implement is a system where healing someone that has done damage to a player/creature should also give you credit for that player/creatures loot.

Its probably either a miss typed twitter message or they plan to call the show something different.

What happens if he is fighting you and an engi, and you both use thunderclap on him? I can already see you are unwilling to back down from your original “its just a name” comment, so not expecting you to come to your senses now either, but the more you continue the bigger hole you are digging for yourself, quite embarrassing really.

Been on Aurora Glade 3 years since release, capped 20k camps and killed 29k dolys, that’s loyalty.

Calcifire.1864:

Joshhh.2076:

Considering how low the droprate was to begin with, 18 hours probably isn’t enough time to guage whether anything has changed.

according to a thread on reddit, at least 20 people have had keys drop since the patch.

considering that most weren’t aware keys even dropped, and how reddit is a tiny fraction of the actual playerbase, it seems like the key droprate has been increased by a good few orders of magnitude

Not really since 20 people having keys drops means nothing, you could have asked the same thing before the patch and 20 people could have reported having keys drop. IF 20 people reported having 2 keys drop in one day AFTER the patch I might be inclined to pay attention.

Well gratz, I do understand because I have a similar goal, but with 21 characters, currently 11 world completes about 7 full ascended, still a long long way to go, but its part of what drives me on

They prob should have just placed the key at a higher level instead of creating more inconsistancys in the game (yes I am aware there are other keys are higher levels too).

nottsgman.8206:

if you didn’t delete it, and she was wearing it when the wardrobe update hit, you should still be able to get it off her. just go to the black lion armorsmith with the character and choose the option “What are town clothes?”. if you continue along that line, it will eventually bring up the option to exchange your old town clothes. this should give you the skin.

The hat is not town clothes, or am I missing something here?

Also ended up with 445, I just hope we can gain more in HoT (and that the vendor is still there).

As someone that asked for the removal of displacement I was very happy to see you have removed it, gg.

I would remove deathblossom from my power Dagger dagger build and replace it with a utility skill.

A legendary mawdrey would be great IF I could change its color, I simply never use mine because it it currently purple, I’m getting a bit tired of all these girly themed items, purples, pinks etc, this game needs more fierce looking stuff….

What item increases stack sizes to 500? are you talking about collection tab or something else?

I hope the sales over, the gold to gem price is just stupid…

DresdenAllblack.1249:

Warriors unite. It’s a simple request, simple fix. Anet do this

I actually main a thief, but I will fight your cause for you! :P

The Op is making the point that he has to play selfishly in order to get the rewards he wants, along with probably 70% of other players at these events, I totally get what he is saying and I agree with him 100%. Does this make us bad people? no, what it does though is show how badly the reward structure was designed.

uncomfortably energetic.9153:

Even if they make it go for 2 weeks you still need a min of 18 hours doing the events to get a potion….

Nah, either your maths is fail or you are not aware of the best methods to obtain blooms. It’s just under 7 hours, maybe less if there are other factors im not aware of.

Gratz on creating a tag and leave leachfest event, where everyone plays selfishly, new meta? oh man /facepalm

/signed
This event is so fail, its just a tag and leave leachfest, its shameful, and really goes against the previous “everyone works together” mantra. After a year of no content we get a failed golem rush event and now this, like really? no wait really really?

lordkrall.7241:

Sarevok.2638:

Unfortunately the only way to get that many stacks is to run to an event, tag a few mobs, then just leave.

Truely the biggest mistake of this event was ALLOWING that.

That is outright lying though. I got 26 stacks while still completing all the events that I found.

Running together with the whole map as a massive blob however, is not a good idea, since the events scales and thus takes longer.

I think it’s you that is lying…

Yeah its stupid, when after 30 mins people are posting how they have 25+ stacks and are proud of it, despite the fact that they just leached every event they possibly could, this stacks idea is just terrible and just promotes leaching.

They wont cancel it, look what happened with the golem rush week, they just let it play out and didn’t say a word…