Guild Wars 2

Lightlord.4752:

Well here is the thing with Free 2 Play ^^

Buy 2 Play*

Soon you can collect all the skins in the wardrobe if you want

Ivalice.3174:

No tag: “Devs don’t even play this game and have no idea about balance or what players want.”

Tag on: This thread.

^this

95% of this section can be summarized by my signature.

All my Asura use the same last name: Lux (latin for light)

Ikaros.7812:

“I quit” topics are against the Code of Conduct and as such, you should lock this thread.

lol so much win.

Allie Murdock.8152:

I’m leaving ArenaNet, not quitting Guild Wars. Nice try though.

Nice save

Blame the Charr

Tuomir.1830:

How exactly would it defeat the purpose? It’s not away from the female characters if male characters can use it too, now is it?

The issue right now is that both male and female asura wear the same clothes. While there should be more gender diversity.

Sure anet can give males access to female clothing, but why would you want to?

The Source of Orr could be directly connected to the Lay line.
As I recall, that was the magical center of orr.

Miss Offmap*

Seabreeze.8437:

Can you please change the name of your topic title? It’s horribly misleading.

Agreed.

As a PvE only player, It’s so funny to see all these “omg condition is op threads”.
I don’t know how overpowered condition builds are in sPvP. But in PvE they suck and desperately need to be buffed.

Tuomir.1830:

Only if the male asura can wear those dresses and such too, the same version.

That kinda defeats the purpose..

Boneheart.3561:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Keep in mind that some people, like me, criticise the game because we care.
If I didn’t care about the game I would simply play something else.

More importantly, this thread didn’t ask for any of that.

Not sure what you are getting at.

But anyway, I was responding to this part in particular: was just curious if anyone besides me plays this game for any reason other than bashing it.

viralthefrog.6130:

Ironbars.4760:

viralthefrog.6130:

I hear that Asura smell like cabbage.
Cabbage smells bad.
Roll Charr instead. Not only do they not smell like cabbage, but they also do not eat cabbage.
Steak FTW.

I think you mean Sylvari

I was under the impression that Sylvari have a strong basil scent with a hint of rosehips.

Among other things.

Dustfinger.9510:

No, no. In the post you stated that the charr never won a major battle. Neither of us were talking about winning the major war.

What im referring to is what Zaxeres was responding to:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

The Charr actually never won a major battle against humanity.

-Ascalon:
They only laid waste to ascalon because the Titans gave them a magic nuke. All the Charr had to do was clean up the survivors that were left. And they couldn’t even do that because of the foefire.

It says the charr never won a major battle and cites the fact that they had titan help as a reason.

With major battle I actually meant an entire conflict (thus a war). Poor use of words on my part and I apologise for the confusion.

Dustfinger.9510:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Never said that.
All I said is that it’s only fair that humans call upon the Mursaat because the charr called upon the Titans.

Charr layed waste to Ascalon with the help of the Titans.
Humans layed waste to the charr invasion force with the help of the Mursaat.

Oh, definitely. I meant earlier when you said that the charr never won and then cited Ascalon as evidence because they had Titan help.

Not really sure what you are getting at.
The Charr never had a complete victory in Ascalon. (even with titan help).
Kryta never had a complete victory either (even with Mursaat help).
Both sides won a battle with aid, not the entire war.

I never stated that the charr had complete victory with titan aid that didn’t count and the humans had a complete victory with Mursaat help that did count.

All I said a few posts back is that the Charr never would have broken through Ascalons defenses without titan help, which is true. And the same counts for Kryta’s victory over the charr, which wouldn’t have been possible without help of the Mursaat. I never claimed otherwise.

Dustfinger.9510:

When charr win with aid it doesn’t count but when humans win with aid it does.

Never said that.
All I said is that it’s only fair that humans call upon the Mursaat because the charr called upon the Titans.

Charr layed waste to Ascalon with the help of the Titans.
Humans layed waste to the charr invasion force with the help of the Mursaat.

Just nerfing zerker is not enough. Other types of builds need to be buffed as well.
At least in PvE.

Panda Shepard.1248:

With the living story gone I’ve realized there’s nothing to do in guild wars. I log in, giggle at the Queensdale champ train drama and then log off and find something else to do.

What did you find you enjoy doing now, OP? I’m kinda lost myself now :/

You know, in most mmos people have to wait a 6 to 12 months between expansions.

In guild wars 2 people are bored when there hasn’t been new content for a few weeks…

I totally agree that the Charr would never have taken Ascalon without the help of the Titans’ magic (the Searing). The Great Wall was simply too much of a defensive obstacle to overcome, and the Charr didn’t have the siege artillery technology to take it down.
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Indeed

The Charr who remained in Ascalon were probably just a few small divisions, deemed sufficient to mop up any survivors. Of course, they underestimated the resolve of the Ascalonians (and the effort of the GW1 PCs), and with the complete decimation of the Charr army at Orr and the defeat in Kryta, they didn’t really have time to recover and rebuild their numbers to really conquer Ascalon, giving the Ascalonians a fighting chance.
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So basically, it was human actions that kept the full bulk of the Charr army from descending down upon Ascalon. (Khilbron initiating the Cataclysm and Saul D’Alessio getting help from the Mursaat)

If I recall correctly, Ebonhawke was founded not long before Adelbern used the Foefire. The Charr would therefore have been quite distracted by the new undying ghostly threat in their lands. By the time they reorganized and started devoting more attention to Ebonhawke, they were already well dug in and had an Asuran gate to keep providing them with supplies and reinforcements.
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Once again, it was human actions that kept it standing. Creating the ghost threat and keeping the fortress supplied kept it from being destroyed.

I have no doubts that Ebonhawke would have fallen without outside aid from Kryta and, more specifically, the Ascalon Settlement.
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But that’s just it. It didn’t fall. Because Ebonhawke did get aid. “what could have happened if..” Isn’t really relevant.

The Krytans were on the verge of defeat before Saul D’Alessio and his White Mantle, secretly empowered by the Mursaat, drove them back. In the Bonus Mission Pack, we even see that Saul’s desperate assault on the Charr general Rox Ashreign only succeeded because the Mursaat intervened personally and helped them slay all of the Charr war leaders in a single precise attack.
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The charr called upon godly beings (titans) when they could not win on their own. It only makes sense Kryta does the same to even the score.

You gave some very good reasons as to why the Charr never actually won a major battle against humanity. But the fact that they never did stays the same. In the end it was human actions that kept them from ever having a total victory. Thanks for reinforcing my argument

Keep in mind that some people, like me, criticise the game because we care.
If I didn’t care about the game I would simply play something else.

Tom Gore.4035:

If you think the whining for the current method is bad, just remember how it was for Liandri (i.e. really difficult content).

Well to be fair, that was something you actually had to work for.
Instead of gamble for.

I was really hoping for Guild Halls. But it was not meant to be..

Well guys you have to admit. It’s a lot better than those instant lvl 80 suggestions you often see.

Ajaxx.3157:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

My guild organised an Iron Man Challenge once. So it has been done before.
But I didn’t attent myself.

Do you know what rule they used if any

Not sure. only that it had to be a new character.
Don’t know what the other rules were.

My guild organised an Iron Man Challenge once. So it has been done before.
But I didn’t attent myself.

Tarreth.8914:

Got a problem? Say it to my face, midget!

Now seriously. Give me one reason, that asuras are cool.

Cool is a subjective term. I can give you my reasons, but they are most definitely not your own. Especially since you are extremely pro charr, given your comment history.

It’s Living Story that needs to be removed. Not Personal Story.
Almost 2 years in, we really need more personal story.

If you remove personal story, new players wouldn’t have any story at all.

Well we know the feature is already in-game, but locked under developer options.
All they need to do is unlock it for everyone else

Also, pretty late response Dehvi ^^

I stand corrected then

Tarreth.8914:

Do you know, what retcon is?

All too well. That’s what happened to the Charr and Human race in this game.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

They earned their fall.

That’s like saying america deserves to fall because they took North America from the indians. And the indians were, just like the charr back then, tribals living in tents. It wasn’t even a nation back then.

Tarreth.8914:

This kind person just won this website. Hail to the Legions!

Someone mistakes an Asura for a Sylvari and you think that makes him the winner of this site?

I guess that’s the kind of intelect we can expect from a Charr

ZudetGambeous.9573:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-megaserver-system/

You don’t do server mergers on a growing game.

Circumstantial evidence. Other mmos who are not dying are using this system as well, heck even wow uses it.

Here’s a hint. Take a look at what server names you see mentioned here on the forums. I suspect the only names you can know off the top of your head are as follows:

BG,TC,JQ,Deso, SoR, SoS, and maybe Piken Square due to the RP thread.

And most players on these forums don’t say what server they’re from. This doesn’t mean anything. Not to mention many people probably don’t even use this forum at all. If from 100 people on this forum, only 5 say they are from deso and the other 95 don’t say where they’re from, that doesn’t mean there are only people from deso on this forum.

Now take a look at how many servers GW2 actually has open right now: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World

That’s right there are 51 English speaking servers… you know why no one mentions them on the forums… because there is no one on most of them.

Just because they are not mentioned on the forums doesn’t mean they are empty, you are drawing conclusions too quickly.

over a dozen of the American servers don’t even know what an overflow is because even if you put every active player in one map it still wouldn’t make an overflow on their servers.

Did you talk to many people in all those servers? Do you have screenshots of those conversations? Did you meassure the amount of people on those servers? Did you really investigate this claim or did you just assume this?

Not saying you are wrong though, you may very well be right. But we need some hard evidence first. Like for example actual (and accurate) population graphs.

Dean Calaway.9718:

Azure Prower.8701:

So in other words. It’s put in place to fix the low population problem.

You know. Kind of like how they do with server merges.

Where do you see low population problems? Specific servers at specific times? How come everyone complains about overflows so much if the population is that low? How come I never landed on my main server during the LA event regardless of the day time I was playing?

Where exactly are you getting that idea?

I’ve seen many people complaining about their server always being unpopulated.
I wouldn’t know, I’m always in desolation

Tarreth.8914:

“your” land?

Yes our land. This whole “the humans were actually the badguys” thing was just shoehorned in by the developers to make the races more equal. Nothing more.

pho.9412:

Wukunlin.8461:

you really raging over a trailer? also the chinese voice acting is terrible.

^ and i think the vid is a remake of -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1bMmT2pKvA but just in chinese voice

Well I’ll be kitten ed, so there is an english version after all. Didn’t even know that one existed.

It’s a really weird system. I remember this farming event in Orr that involved killing Embers.

Sometimes I hit an ember that was already almost death (and was being attacked by an entire zerg) only 2 or 3 times and got loot. Other embers I hit dozens of times from the beginning and get nothing.

It seems entirely random.

Kurrilino.2706:

I can’t follow the people who are amazed by this patch….

People where screaming for content and a more interesting fighting style away from zergs in general.

Delivered are more colors and a wardrobe.
How this is satisfying someone is way beyond me.

If this points on something bigger i am more concerned than amazed

A feature patch is not the same as a content patch.
I’m not amazed by this patch, but it has some really interesting changes imo.

One of the funniest things on this forum:

1. Someone creates a thread on a subject that already has several threads (no matter how old):
omg there are already threads discussing this, do you even know what a search
function is?
2. Someone actually uses an existing thread:
omg y u necro this thread

Razaele.3109:

anzenketh.3759:

A lot of players just dedicate individual characters to specific disciplines then switch to them to craft what is needed put it in the bank then switch back.

Yes, if people can avoid this “goldsink” with ease, is it really serving its purpose? (if that was the intention, which isn’t too clear)

But by avoiding it, it serves another purpose.
An incentive to make alts.

Or, you know, just be able to have all crafting disciplines at once.

Whats the point of only having 2 active crafting disciplines when you can learn and switch between all crafting disciplines anyway.

You know whats funny? The Charr actually never won a major conflict (war) against humanity.

-Ascalon:
They only laid waste to ascalon because the Titans gave them a magic nuke. All the Charr had to do was clean up the survivors that were left. And they couldn’t even do that because of the foefire.

-Orr:
We blew it up before they could take it, and took their entire army with us.

-Ebonhawke:
Even with all their military might, they couldn’t take a small fortress for at least 200 years.

(edited for wrong use of words)

You can still waypoint across the continent, just not to waypoints that have the possibility of being contested (because they will now always show up as contested outside the map).

I actually like it. But I’ve heard more people complaining about it. Mostly because it cannot be dyed without a hair kit.

MauricioCezar.2673:

If you Want a legendary, you pretty much need to play every aspect of the game.

If that was true, PvP would be part of map completion as well.

Lightyears.8624:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Lightyears.8624:

Pretty sure the pants are from a Gem Store set. Not at my home PC right now to check.

It’s vigil medium, I have those pants myself

Totally meant boots, not pants. I have those pants on all 3 medium classes.

In that case, the boots are not from the gemstore either. They are from Caudacus’s Manor

Lightyears.8624:

Pretty sure the pants are from a Gem Store set. Not at my home PC right now to check.

It’s vigil medium, I have those pants myself

The pants is Vigil medium. The coat is dungeon armor from Honor of the Waves
The shoes are from Caudacus’s Manor.

I really like to know, why are some people so against joining big and organised guilds?

There are so many benefits, from my perspective anyway. Why I like being in a large guild:
-Biweekly guild missions, very high success rate (except when a GM is bugged).
-Many other events we organise (such as guild quiz and guild lottery)
-Doing many things with your guildies, in an organised way (like wvw or dungeons)
-Access to a guild forum, facebook group and voice chat (in this case mumble).
-It’s very social, met many people there whom I now consider my friends
-Guild passive bonusses
-Now world events are added to the list

Why are people so resistant to having this?
This is a serious question btw, I’m really curious about this.