Guild Wars 2

Breakbar isn’t too bad, but Anet definitely went a little overboard with it. More so in the new maps, where a lot of vets and such have it as well.

The scaling with breakbars is annoying to say the least. Then there are mobs, where even when you break the bar, the stun lasts a second at most.

What if…. a level 400 scribe could combine 1000 clouds, plus a bunch of other mats, to create an arcade box in the guild hall, 1 for world 1, another for world 2?? Allowing people to play SAB forever?

And yes, itd be pricy, but I imagine people would be more than willing to make SAB focused guilds to do it, if they don’t want to do it in their current guilds, and people could join these just for SAB

Yea, considering the water tunnels in TD, I was expecting something fun for water events. Maybe a miniboss that snaked around in them

Yea, for me, the first 3, n now 4 aren’t too unique as far as their design. Only things that really stand out on em are the sound effects and projectiles. Like, running around, I’d never notice someone with one of the new legendaries until I hear the SFX, assuming I’m not listening to music.

This, coupled with how much more effort it takes to make one compared to the older legendaries, makes them even more “meh” for me.

I really like the orange personally, looks great with the sword and shield. Though yea, blue is still one of the better colors generally.

(I liked the orange shades for lightsabers most in SWKotoR and ToR, well, aside from silver/white lol)

….. hmm, white SAB skins anyone??

Hmm, that’d work too, would be nice if it was basically a reward for completing SAB, like, every character that finishes SAB gets to pick one endgame skin.

My fav armor for female heavy is the Aetherblade set, looks pretty much like thick leather with metal accents.

The final boss has black swords with a red outline iirc, was thinking that’d be the final coloring scheme.

Yea, it’s a lot harder to notice the lack of individual player skill over all since everything now depends on numbers, and with enough numbers, you just have to follow the crowd.

Case in point would be the HoT maps, where people were constantly complaining (and still do) about being unable to get through them solo. But then you get boss events, metas, that all require numbers to complete.
This was the nice thing about Gerent initially though, where each member had to maximize their builds and play to successfully kill the Gerent.

A lot of people going on about money though…. how many pure dungeon runners could be counted among the richest in the game, from just doing dungeons and such? Even if you got a precursor drop, you’d barely be any richer than the average player.
Even if you sold dungeon paths, you’d basically be middle class at most. The vast amounts of wealth people get are from other things.

How about you get attacked by ravens while you glide?

Back on a more important note: Nunchucks could totally be a sword skin, or maybe daggers.

It’s for use with the Stronghold heroes you summon, it’s not a skin for personal use.

Don’t really need to memorize the maps, but do remember landmarks, and pathways. TD is considered the toughest map to navigate, but once you realize most of the map is the 4 lanes, and everything else branching off from it, becomes a lot easier.

Like finding shortcuts from home to your school (way back when kids were allowed to walk to school).

I enjoy it for the fact that it isn’t just a straight path from point A to point B.. what kind of forest would that be then…..

Ah k, just misread your meaning then:) Yea, while their overall kit does sound op based on numbers/paper, but in practice, I find them very underwhelming and easy to counter for the most part.
I got very bored of rev when I tried it out, really didn’t like the inability to change your whole utility set based on what you want, instead having to focus on picking the legend with the abilities you need.

So I’m the only one who really has no issue against revs? Honestly Scrappers are the only ones I worry about when I see them in the roster, but even then, not many can use Scrappers to their fullest.

Yes revs have a lot of gimmicks, but learn to tell when they use em, and learn to counter play em.

Yea, sadly for my guild of 250 people, we only have 70ish clouds, most of which were mine lol /cry

Yea just tried building a spiral upwards, and worked without issue, which is weird, but good:D

I mean, I’ve made JP’s with far fewer pieces spread out more, but hit limits quite easily.

Most if not all knockback/knockdown mechanics in fractals are pretty easy to deal with, and change the flow of combat. I’d rather not be able to stack a spot and “1” everything down.

I like the idea of a Mursaat fractal though (but if you recall, the Mursaat liked their interrupt/kd’s too )

The comments on dungeons creating a toxic grp environment…… because raid and fractal grps are any less “toxic”

I personally have never really experienced a level of toxicity that would make me dislike trying to party up for dungeons, but at the same time, I avoided any LFG’s that looked particularly arrogant/toxic, because from experience, those were rarely my fastest runs.

As far as success for the raids, it was always meant for a smaller subset of the population, similar to tribulation mode, most of the population will never try it, and many of those who do try, will probably try once, ever.

Even with fractals, I find it hard to persuade non-fractal people to do fractals, even when I tell them my friends and I will basically carry them lol…..

Dungeons were a lot easier to get people into, and once they had a good experience with the dungeons, they liked it, some more than others, but at least it broke the notion of “dungeons are hard, I don’t wanna touch it ever”.

Dungeons provided an easy option for people to spend their time, whether or not they needed gold or tokens.

Raids are fine and all, but how easy is it to throw together a group and get going.

Fractals were fun, but now it’s just a swamp fest, easier than running AC…….. even at high lvls

The Aetherblade addition to TA was one of my favorite add on’s in general

And it would be easy enough to update the things you can buy with tokens: we have guild halls that need decorations, among other things.

How are you able to put so many clouds together without hitting limits?

I’ve made JP’s and such, but always run into limits with placing more:( Are the limits less noticeable due to the vertical pathing?

It’d be easy to make a new toon just for the title though:)

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

For your viewing pleasure, filters have been added under visual options. You can now view the game in sepia, black and white, and smokescale.

Rangers can now steal other ranger’s pets by taming them away if they don’t already have that pet tamed.

Fixed

In smokescale filter, you will randomly have a smokescale appear, blocking your view and drenching the screen in red.

Yea, there’s no reason to remove jump pad capability when we’ve had it long before gliding.

Have you not learned anything Rusty??? NEVER destroy anything, ever!!!!! j/k:D

Oh only 30k is needed? so close…. yet so so far lol (I’m at like 21k or something)

I did play it, but wasn’t willing to pay for something that honestly didn’t feel worth it, and as F2P you’re severely limited:(
(I did pay for some things to support em, easy enough to do if you like the game enough, but their business model was very meh)

Anyone remember the riddles and puzzles from the the old RPGs like Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate 2? or the bridge puzzle in Dragon Age?

I think maps similar in idea to those might be fun, though I’m sure people would cry quite a bit lol.

Like: Solve the puzzle as a team within the time limit, if you succeed, you get a bonus chest and move on, if you fail, the forest comes alive, you fight it off, and move on.

Or rather than forest and trees coming alive (a tad overdone atm), perhaps the boulders and stones around you come alive, queue cool coming alive cinematic that lasts 3s

I was hoping it’d be similar to when asura overload water, they spin around in the bubble:D oh well, still getting it lol.

That’s the nice thing about GW1 and GW2 though, you can take breaks, without fear of missing out on everything or being left in the dust when you come back, maybe a few hours to figure out what, if anything, has changed since you’ve been gone:)

Though you might want to at least log in to unlock living stories for future play.

Just an idea, what if… some of the people on the gemstore team, were moved to other teams, I mean, we get more gliders and outfits than we know what to do with, while the teams on the Legendaries and Fractals (among others) appear to be having trouble.
Granted, I don’t know what’s goin on behind the scenes, all I know is what I see coming out every week or 2.

Don’t get me wrong, I love this new bubble glider, but I’d gladly trade it for fractal updates:)

Yea, if we take the pvp backpiece for a reference:

1 gift via achievement rewards
1 gift via mystic forge + mats
1 gift of fortune

For fractals, like others have said, a collection/achievement based one is likely
and the last one, maybe purchasing a few things with our matrices, relics and pristine relics, thrown in the forge with some other things? Maybe a complete journal here, obtained by doing fractal 100?

As for time of release…. well, lets hope for the quarterly update in April (sooner would be nice, but doesn’t seem like Anet’s gonna do it)

Kind of funny/sad that the first legendary we were shown prior to expansion release has taken so long to actually be made available:(

I enjoy it:

The whole map for me is a whole situational awareness map. Know where you are, know what can happen to you depending on where you stand and what abilities you use.

Skyhammer: now that we can block/evade it, less of an issue. The team that controls it and is using it, has 1 less player to rotate, so use that to your advantage. If instead, your whole team sits at mid getting blasted, that’s on your team….

Falls: I’ve used knock backs n pulls to great effect here, and I’ve been on the receiving end a lot as well. Teaches you to pay attention to who you’re playing against, and understanding how best to position yourself in a fight.

We have more than enough maps where all you need to do is roll your face really hard to win, I’d rather not lose the unique aspects of some of these maps, it’s already boring enough doing Nifhel and Foefire constantly……

EDIT: Please don’t make the skyhammer automated either, a skilled skyhammer user vs an inexperienced user changes the game quite a bit, and both teams have to take that into account, as to whether or not they should bother taking out the skyhammer user.

Though, adding a second way to get into the skyhammer could be nice

Farewell, and best of luck to you where ever you go!

A lot of the GW1 missions would make pretty good fractals, like the final Shiro fight, or the final fight with Abaddon.

Maybe something from the books, perhaps a battle against the bone golem in the first book?

Or something based on the dungeons of GW1?

Marge, you need a makeover kit, make yer toon all black with yellow eyes:) that and Vivi’s pants are green:D

Not to mention tempests lol….

Whirlwind and Invuln from earth focus, whirlwind with fire overload, earth aura lol…
And even as they are now, theyre pretty well equipped against ranged. A few blasts as well to top it all off.

Yea, and I do agree, that losing games due to sheer ineptitude of teammates is aggravating.
But, I’d blame that more on the fact that everyone who wants the reward HAS to do ranked, no matter how experienced, and they have no reason to do unranked if theyre only pvping for rewards.
As far as LoL, was fun for a while for me, but got old fast.
I enjoy PvP, but I also enjoy getting rewards, and I like getting skins, why? Who knows, who really knows lol…..

And all the sudden you get 10 total people q’ed at peak times… (exaggerated, in case you don’t catch the sarcasm )

People will complain about rewards locked behind specific content no matter what, “I don’t want to do raids, wvw, fractals, dungeons, etc. for the sake of a skin”

Rather than removing the reward, perhaps making it so they can at least get a couple tiers of rewards via unranked, so they can learn without affecting ranked, and after they build up experience, they’ll at least not be a super detriment to a team in ranked.

As far as the mentality of “needing” a skin or completion, yea, that’s kind of what gaming in general has gotten to, people want goals, and goals are the way games maintain their player base, remove all rewards, remove all goals, lose most of your player base.

Interesting for sure, but definitely not needed…..

Imagine what a full bunker guard/war could do… or scrappers (among other classes)

Hammer Trap guard for even more pulls into the traps lol….

omg, for real???? I’ve wanted this forever!! (been forced to dye my gear to match my hat instead)

I run my war with Paladins amulet, Rifle Sword/Shield, similar to what ive run in the past.

Shield is invaluable for dealing with all the aoes every other class brings, from DH traps to Reaper bursts, and Mesmer shatter bursts. Combines with the shield trait, you can make a lot of classes regret fighting you

Rifle has a lot of utility once you get used to it, and gunflame is frankly awesome, huge range, piercing, daze, and high damage.

One thing to note, it’s a lot harder for any melee nowadays due to the amount of aoe dmg some classes can bring, but it can still be done, you just have to be a lot more mobile.

I rarely lose in 1v1’s, whether against reapers, chronos, or others, however scrappers can basically hard counter my build if they’re any good (Have won plenty of 1v2’s as well)

Also keep that in mind, a lot of classes carry reflect, so be careful with shooting lol, luckily wars have awesome weap swap speed, so just swap to melee when they pop reflects.

As for hammer, I loved it, the amount of cc you can do is insane, and against low stab comps, you can destroy, but I agree with the others, it’s just not as effective right now in pvp team fights. (I haven’t tried Rifle/Hammer though, which might be a nice midground, more cc/aoe with less defense/mobility)

Was just thinking, we have a lot of old event related items, like Marjory’s Journal, or the Zephyr Sanctum model, and I was thinking it’d be cool if we could donate those to the guild halls for decorations.
Like, the Flame of Kryta (I think it was called) could be turned into wall mounted torches
Marjory’s Journal could become books placed on the ground, and combined with bookshelves
The Sanctum Model.. already has a deco like model for it, and maybe a scribe could combine a few of em with other mats to make a larger more comprehensive model?

Ah I see, I’ve used this site’s search function before a long time ago I think, without these issues.

Eh, this would get abused too easily, and would snowball into other issues, some of which others have touched on.
I could understand fully blocking a player who afk’s, runs around doing nothing, etc.
But plenty of people block others because of rather silly reasons. “Oh, you’re rolling warrior? I’m blocking you”

Most matches I’ve had, there has been a clear disparity in skill/experience between the teams, especially in lower ranks.
I have had a few very close games, some being within 10 points, but those are extremely rare.
But yea, I think main disparity is due to a lot of people having to grind up through the ranks till they reach their “native” rank, so early in the season you will get these types of matches more often.

Only thing that bums me out about this season (though not much) is that we can’t get triple pips n such anymore, and we can gain pips despite a loss.

Did the Auric Basin Meta a few times yesterday, we succeeded pretty much every time, however twice, the meta showed as a failure (event indicator saying we failed) despite succeeding. The entire bottom level was unlocked as though it were a success.
Many on the maps (not sure if everyone on the maps) had this issue, and we didn’t receive the “success” rewards.

Trying to search some issues using the search bar, but I can’t even finish typing my search before it tries to do a search.
I don’t have this issue on any other website.

I wonder, if the legendary armor can swap weights, then might there just be one skin for all 3?

Also just thought of an idea: For runes, what if, by applying a rune, it unlocks that rune for that armor piece, and you can select between all unlocked runes.

I’ve been wanting to move the target info bar at the top center of the screen for a long time, even if just moving it off center a bit.

Also, a toggle for things like showing/hiding the minipet without going into inventory would be nice (since apparently it’s an issue in wvw)