Guild Wars 2

AngelExtreme.4872:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

It’s not forbidden, just like selling dungeon spots.

That being said, I might be interested in this myself. What is your price?

LOL? are you really buying? hahaha

nvm found some nice guides and a friend willing to help me out.

It’s not forbidden, just like selling dungeon spots.

That being said, I might be interested in this myself. What is your price?

I like it, looks like protoss armor

I just hope that raiders won’t all be like
“+5k AP, Full Ascended and X build or GTFO”
Then I definitely won’t be getting Legendary armor. I have no problem having to actually work for something as special as legendary armor, but I’ll be kitten ed if I’m going to put up with such toxicity weeks at the time.

piano man.1672:

Aeolus.3615:

We would see players flipping to the class that Anet elects “as most effective” most of the time.

This isn’t the case with people who have at least one character of every class, like myself. I don’t switch to classes because they’re good. I switch to different classes because I’m in the mood to play a certain way at a certain time. The thing about GW2 is that there isn’t a “superior” or “most effective” class.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

What’s the point of having alts then…………….

Right, because race doesn’t play a factor in having alts either. Oh wait, it sometimes does!

This system wouldn’t disallow people from making alts, it would just allow characters to swap its class.

making alts should have more incentives than just different looks imo. Many people make more characters because they want to play the other classes, sure the looks are a great bonus but ultimately it’s mostly about the class.

I doubt a system like this would ever be implemented though.
Having to level more characters = more playtime = more potential gem purchases = more $$$ for anet.

Ascii Red.4029:

“getting your account to maximum”.

Fixed. Considering Masteries are account wide.

What’s the point of having alts then…………….

meeflak.9714:

Someone explain 15 char to me…. Please

People who have yet to find out that you can just add a lot of spaces use it to post short posts (as there is a 15 character limit).

DevilLordLaser.8619:

Thief Elite Specialization.

win

zaced.7948:

how are they supposed to get ascended amulets?

By buying the full game.

To the quitters, can I have your gold please?

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Ranael.6423:

Uriel.6310:

Im not sure how to feel about this F2P business… the first thing that comes to mind is League of Legends.

Dont get me wrong, its a great game.. but their community of players has to be the worst I have ever seen in online gaming.. Its straight toxic and they have not figured out a way to fix it.

Now Arenanet would like to go the same route? Lol.. man SPVP will be the new grounds for trolls especially with the introduction of leagues. If this goes through we can kiss our good little community goodbye.

I’m sure that this is not what you mean but I don’t see why there should be a correlation between how nice is a community and the amount of money people spent. Such thought could then be derived to say that CE buyers are nicer within the community while the 10 € players are some toxic newbies…. again not saying you said that but just that this would be an easy way to take.

More specifically for League, my experience was the higher rank you were the less toxic people were, even if all players were still F2P. On the other hand I played some PvP game on GW2 were some players were at least as toxic… so no correlation again.
I think the comunity is what the players and the game make it to be. This game and the previous one always had nice people playing for the fun, taking time to dress their barbie, exploring landscape, organising crazy events… there is no reason why more players arriving would end that.

It’s not a statement of “more money spent means they’re better people”
or “more people is bad”

The problem a lot of us have with opening the floodgates that is f2p is that there’s zero barrier to entry. Any troll can pick up an account to troll people, and when he gets banned he can create another free account, and then another, and then another.
Having a small fee to entry means the players are much more likely to honestly be interested in playing the game than just here to troll.

I’ve played a lot of games, many f2p, and there are a lot of people who get their kicks from ruining other peoples experiences.
Met one guy (or girl, who knows) who had decided his goal in the game was to troll people until he got 100 accounts banned. iirc he was on his 14th account when I ran into him.
He (or she) played the game, invested many hours, solely into ruining it for everyone he (or she) could. And while that individual’s goal of 100 banned accounts was an anomaly that mindset is anything but. Trolls abound.
And from the trolls perspective, given the choice between trolling in a free game that costs him nothing if he gets banned, and a game where he has to spend $10-$20 each time, even $10 can be enough to either convince the troll to go elsewhere or to reconsider behavior that might cost him that money.
People tend not to respect what they haven’t paid for in some way, I’ve seen it in nearly every aspect of life. Company laptop? It’s not mine why should I take care of it? Same thing with company cars, rentals, friends stuff, the game is free who cares if I get banned?

That’s why we don’t want F2P, B2P is a small but reasonably effective barrier that keeps a great deal of grief at bay. No it’s not perfect there are still people who would go for getting 100 accounts banned even at $20 bucks each. But there are a lot less of those.
When they get in for free there’s no monetary loss to give a ban teeth.

To exacerbate the problem, the company is hoping these people spend money in the cash shop. Which sometimes leads to GMs being more and more likely to ignore behavior.

More players is a good thing, especially if those players spend money on the gem store and that money goes to fund more content.
But more players isn’t so good when many of them are as I described above, only here to mess around because the game is free.

Knighthonor.4061:

Menadena.7482:

Thanks for spoiling it for us ign. I guess I know who NOT to get my gaming news from now as every game maker now knows you do not know the definition of ‘embargo’.

I hate how people like you pretent you dont look at spoiler feature reveals from That_Shaman….but when ign do it all hell breaks loose

I’m actually grateful, because of this huge content drought I hunger for any information regarding new content and it can’t come soon enough.

I assume the raids in gw2 will just be like dungeons, but with more than 5 players. And won’t do anything with ilvls and gear threadmills. Gw2 isn’t that kind of game.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

• It’s only new to thieves.

And rangers

Doggie.3184:

Because Tyrian technology isn’t ready for Pistols so they decided to focus it more on Rifles,

Which are only used by 2 professions lol.

In gw1 you had secondary professions. Basically a class could learn to do almost everything another class can. So a warrior could use necromancer magic, a mesmer could use monk skills etc. 1 character could even learn all of them (though not use them at the same time).

So it’s not unprecedented in the lore.

I’m not worried about the raiding. I only usually hate it because it’s often required to keep up with a gear threadmill. But since gw2 doesn’t have that I don’t mind. It’s just a big dungeon nothing more.

Anet just merged it into one thread with “spoiler” in the title.
Well that basically confirms it, If the information was false it wouldn’t be a spoiler now would it?

Going F2P just before a paid expansion comes out.. wat..

http://dulfy.net/2015/08/27/gw2-getting-raids-with-core-game-being-free/

Daredevil is still under development, so I’d take all those values with a grain of salt.

forum bug

Ayrilana.1396:

Media with dragons use it as a description of an occupation where someone hunts dragons.

And that’s exactly what Guild Wars 2 does? Except that in Guild Wars 2, everyone hunts dragons, it’s what the whole story is about. Which makes the name Dragonhunter even more nonsensical.

Besides, how are a Guardian and a big game hunter even remotely related.

Ayrilana.1396:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Ayrilana.1396:

Dwayna forbid Anet for trying to do something different and come up with their own names.

Yeah because Daredevil and Dragonhunter are so unique and original.

Where else are they used in RPG’s?

As far as the daredevil naming, read the blog post and you’ll see it’s fitting.

The term/title Dragonhunter is widely used in movies, games and books that feature dragons. (the movie Dragon Hunter for example, and in Dragon Age Inquisition it’s a title/achievement, the list goes on).

As for daredevil…

Ayrilana.1396:

Dwayna forbid Anet for trying to do something different and come up with their own names.

Yeah because Daredevil and Dragonhunter are so unique and original.

They never promised that everything ever released would always be for free.

What they DID promise is that you will never fall behind if you stop playing for a long time, as there is no gear threadmill and increased level caps.

yolo swaggins.2570:

Anet better make this good. Otherwise there will a massive humble pie and a truckload of “I told you so”s for this forum.

I can’t speak for others, but all I ever said is that Thief was going to have a staff.
I never said it was going to be good, since that is impossible to predict, but I said that’s what Thief was going to get. From that picture that was released it was 100% clear Thief was getting a staff.

Though some people somehow saw a rifle where none existed. That was, at least for me, what the whole discussion was about.

Mounts confirmed!

Tyr.6097:

Thanks A-Net. One well paying customer lost.

Maugetarr.6823:

Landspear Confirmed!

A shame anet already confirmed there would be no new weapon types.
Land spear would have been cool though.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Still think that stick is a rifle people?

ham.8209:

ZDragon.3046:

Why have we not seen this kind of content sold in the gem store more often. Things like instruments are nice and all but im sure tons of players would insta buy things like this if offered more often.

Any chance we could see things like this come with HoT? – fingers crossed -

we can only hope NOT some of us do not want to see this trash in the game .and hope they never add it they do it will only go to kill this game even more

“I don’t want it so no one must be allowed to have it.” mkay
And yeah, emotes are totally going to kill the game lol.

Conski Deshan.2057:

Or , here me out here. They could just add more emotes to the game in say an update or the expansion rather than yet another gem store item. Especially so soon after a paid expansion.

Imagine Anet’s reaction on this

I don’t really hate him, but he is annoying at times. That monotone voice of his… everytime his mouth opens he just sucks all the atmosphere out of the room.

(sorry couldn’t resist)

It’s always funny to see someone going through incredible mental gymnastics in an effort to present his/her opinion as fact, trying to invalidate everyone else’s views in the process.

The Master.2893:

moonstarmac.4603:

“Livestream:

If you’re unable to attend in person, never fear! We’ll be streaming the presentation on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel. Tune in at 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) for a preshow featuring community members"

I’ve never gone to these events, however, I know many companies do not do this part at all.

You cannot “LiveStream the beer”.

Watch the stream while drinking beer?

What?

This thread is hilarious, I’m actually starting to hope it’s neither staff nor rifle, just to see the backlash

I like how for the first 14 hours no one seemed to show interest in this thread, then a Red replies and everyone is interested :P

Aphrael.2478:

So I might as well just take a break til HoT hits if I want to get anything from it…

If filling your XP bar is the only thing you play for, then yes.

butch.8136:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

butch.8136:

Hylgeriak.8250:

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Most interesting to me:
“From there, they will land in Verdant Brink, the first map of the expansion, where about 25 percent of the total playable space of that first map will be available to play.”

First map? Is that a hint finally that Verdant Brink isn’t the only map being added with HoT?

Was thinking the same first. But then it could also mean “This is our first map that will be implemented with HoT, we will continue to add further maps such as DT & SW with forthcoming updates”. Which I wouldn’t mind, cuz VB is as large as 3 regular maps with all those different layers etc…but the outer view would be pretty meh if game magazines would report “just one map with the start of the new GW2 addon HoT”. So still hoping for more maps from the beginning.

More than one map is confirmed since HoT’s announcement.

They never specifically stated there would be more than one map. It’s just assumed as that’s usually the case with MMO expansions. All they said was that the Heart of Maguuma, the upcoming region, would have multiple layers (the Core, the Roots and the Canopy).

I’m glad we have a confirmation now though, sort of.

But there’s a couple of cases where they talk about mapS…..

Source?
Also, was this at the announcement? or later on?

butch.8136:

Hylgeriak.8250:

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Most interesting to me:
“From there, they will land in Verdant Brink, the first map of the expansion, where about 25 percent of the total playable space of that first map will be available to play.”

First map? Is that a hint finally that Verdant Brink isn’t the only map being added with HoT?

Was thinking the same first. But then it could also mean “This is our first map that will be implemented with HoT, we will continue to add further maps such as DT & SW with forthcoming updates”. Which I wouldn’t mind, cuz VB is as large as 3 regular maps with all those different layers etc…but the outer view would be pretty meh if game magazines would report “just one map with the start of the new GW2 addon HoT”. So still hoping for more maps from the beginning.

More than one map is confirmed since HoT’s announcement.

They never specifically stated there would be more than one map. It’s just assumed as that’s usually the case with MMO expansions. All they said was that the Heart of Maguuma, the upcoming region, would have multiple layers (the Core, the Roots and the Canopy).

I’m glad we have a confirmation now though, sort of.

Stop making such a huge deal out of the whole DirectX thing.
Yes a newer DirectX for gw2 would be nice but it’s not like the game is a completely unplayable lag fest or looks horrid right now.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I hope we get to see some specializations

They said the 4 currently revealed ones would be available for testing.

Awesome!

I hope we get to see some specializations

Considering how many people completely freak out over same sex marriage, imagine the reaction on something like this if it were a real thing

No one knows who originally built it. The Norn discovered it but stayed clear, it was later used by the Ebon Vanguard as a base, it now lies abandoned.

The Eye of the North is a tower in the Far Shiverpeaks. The structure is not of Dwarven, Asuran, or human in construction, although it resembles the architecture of Arah and other godly sites. The Norn who settled the Far Shiverpeaks were the first to “discover” the Eye; they sensed something unnatural about its construction, and assiduously avoided it.

Or he just bought a copy of Eir’s bow on the trade post, like us players :P