Guild Wars 2

It was always a champ as far as I remember. It is easy to get past and once up on the second ramp you are out of range.

You never fail to surprise me killcannon.

killcannon.2576:

Sorry to say, someone is demonstrably wrong. I love how people have zero experience with MMO’s but feel free to comment on them like they have some sense of innate knowledge.

They loved a single player, sometimes cooperative RPG. They simply lack any kind of real experience for what makes an MMO an MMO. They want their co-op rpg experience back. Sorry to say, that genre died. No one wanted to play it. That’s why they didn’t make GW2 like GW1. If it was sooo popular and soooo great, why isn’t it still relevant? Because it wasn’t. It was niche. Niche can be great, and GW1 had a passionate following. But it’s time is gone. There is a reason those types of games aren’t being made by the dozens.

People can stoke that little flame of nostalgia as much as they want, they can pine away moaning that this game isn’t some mediocre co op rpg that belongs to an age long past, they can attempt to sound knowledgeable by spouting catch phrases and jingoism, but it doesn’t change anything.

This game isn’t and will never be GW 1.5

Be as bitter about it as you want. Try to tear it down, not because it’s a bad game or has flaws, but simply because it doesn’t live up to the precious ideal of a game that lived past it’s time. I’m glad GW2 didn’t follow the tired mechanics of the past. I’m glad it has become it’s own game.

Accept it or don’t. Try to blame others because you don’t enjoy it. Try to blame marketing for your own shortcomings. It’s an MMO, and it’s here to stay.

Bias is built in. The only way around it is to show that you can do it. With pugs you have no one around that saw you do it. If you run with friends guild mates and they still are biased find different friends guild mates (or admit you need to improve your skills ).

Zacchary.6183:

Yargesh.4965:

Zacchary.6183:

Both companies don’t know it yet, but NCsoft and ArenaNet are the downhill slopes of lost customer loyalty and negative word-of-mouth advertising.

Wow, but you know this. All they have is income reports detailing what people are spending money on. All they have is customer support records that tell what people are contacting the company directly about. All they have is facebook and twitter accounts that track real-time as well as forums. Shame they don’t know what direction the game is heading.

Paperwork does only so much. Word-of-mouth can be the poison or the divine elixir of any company. Unless a company acknowledges that this poison/elixir exists while addressing it at face-value, the company will end up tripping itself for the worse.

Bad products breed bad reviews. Bad reviews turn off potential customers, one of those things that keeps a company alive and well.

Fine, where are the bad reviews? Are they in a place that more than 5 people read? Are they done by someone who is just p.o.’d that the game was not what they dreamed of? Are they reasonable problems the company will change, or are they things that require a complete wipe of the current game? Are there any reviews that are positive and if so again are they in front of a wide audience or preaching to the choir?

TwoBit.5903:

When the game is bad, you blame the player. Everyone else is doing it!

When the game is bad I leave.

Zacchary.6183:

Both companies don’t know it yet, but NCsoft and ArenaNet are the downhill slopes of lost customer loyalty and negative word-of-mouth advertising.

Wow, but you know this. All they have is income reports detailing what people are spending money on. All they have is customer support records that tell what people are contacting the company directly about. All they have is facebook and twitter accounts that track real-time as well as forums. Shame they don’t know what direction the game is heading.

More info will come on Tuesday. Until then everything is just guesswork.

Go to claw of Jormag, there are 2 champs that spawn each phase change. 10 or so champs per event.

Vayne.8563:

Yargesh.4965:

Slightly off topic something got to me about giants. I was looking at norn cultural armour when I spoke with an Jotun NPC beside jormags claw/tooth hanging in the main hall. He was talking about how the Jotun and Norn are giants. So in theory every time you kill one of these (any jotun and sons of svarnir) you are in effect killing a giant as well.

Sure but each creature can only count in one time. Jotun have their own category as to Son’s of Svanir, the only norn you can kill. Orrian giants count as risen.

I think Anet is going to have to add a bunch of giants at some point or lower the requirement for the achievement.

I know, the risen thing has always been a pain when doing the different kills for daily. Would be interesting if they could be cross referenced.

CrossedHorse.4261:

Lol, well I look forward to my 60s in that case! Maybe by that time I’ll work it out …

You won’t have it figured out but it will not longer be a problem that you don’t have it figured out.

Slightly off topic something got to me about giants. I was looking at norn cultural armour when I spoke with an Jotun NPC beside jormags claw/tooth hanging in the main hall. He was talking about how the Jotun and Norn are giants. So in theory every time you kill one of these (any jotun and sons of svarnir) you are in effect killing a giant as well.

YuiRS.8129:

Dedlaw.9130:

They will need to add entire maps for the areas to add in the other dragons, so they will most likely only be added with expansions.

Jormag is further up in the Shiverpeaks
Primordus is underground
Kralka-whathisname is in the Crystal Desert
And “Bubbles” controls the oceans so he will most likely come with the Elona (or hopefully Cantha? Cmon devs, pretty please?) expansion.

There will be no expansions, which leads me to believe there will be no dragons.

True, I did not eat raspberries yesterday or today so I am stating that raspberries do not exist.

stof.9341:

No Walking.6349:

The only place in the ENTIRE GAME where we can have REAL gank PvP because all the QQers and carebears forced it out of this game…..and you want to change this too???? Go away and run dungeons.

The pinnacle of PvP is killing people in loading screens and spawn camping.

Apparently yes.

New tech usually isn’t incorporated into established games (or anything else for that matter) until it becomes old tech. I think they would like to but I doubt if it will officially be supported. There will be others out there that jimmy the new tech into the old techs shoes though.

Destai.9603:

Faerun.3091:

Let’s face it, with everything said, people want to play WoW(or any other MMO that hey liked) in new skin. People don’t want new experience because they are condition by their first MMO they loved. It’s only logical, and honestly it’s quite a shame people act like this. I feel sorry for Anet devs since they are really trying to cater to everyone while trying to bring new ideas and inovation into pretty stale genre. And this is what I hate the most, people say how they hate WoW, but every feature I see that people want is exactly like in WoW.

Just want to say, ANet I really hope you can pull of this idea, it’s really great concept, but you need to show them(players) that jan,feb,march,april, may updates were just testing phase.

You’re right. I want a game with an open world, where racial politics are at the forefront. I want a game where my class role matters. I want a game that has a large amount of content that I can come back to. I want a game a where I can play with more than 5 friends. I want a game where factions matter.

I’m tired of this game being in a testing phase. I want it to be an MMO and I’m tired of ArenaNet’s defiance towards the standards. They can do their own thing, they can create the living story. That’s fine. But make it worthwhile. I’m not playing a game to fix sign posts.

If you are so tired then maybe it is best to find a game that you like.

This was posted when it was possible to get unlimited points from dismantling items. There is now a limit to how much you can get, and those who got more then the limit had those points removed. This was all done several months ago and bringing this dead thread up is not useful in any way.

imaginary.6241:

Seriously 15k achievementpoints a few months ago?

*I’m bumping this up as the achieventpoints finally get put to use. *

2 achievment-points are given each 250 salvages, so removing the usual 4k achievementpoints from that time we’d be at around 11k you did trough a repeatable task. 11.000/2*250 = 1.375.000 Million items salvaged – really!?! Even using the lowest amount of 15 copper for each item that would cost around 2062,50 Gold.

Really?!?

We have so far seen a content delivery system being tested. If it works out the way the company hopes, always an if, then they will put big content mixed in with small transient content. If after they slide the first bit of big content in with the living story arc people can’t accept this as a good strategy (ie stop putting money into the game) then they will bundle the rest of the large content as an expansion.

I don’t really see the need for higher levels. I won’t get upset if they add them, just the way the game is set up adding new levels is kind of superfluous. My thinking is that with scaling you always have a reasonable ability to complete any content at 80. If they added a meta that needed to be completed to enter new areas it would do exactly the same thing as bumping 10 levels. Plus they would not need to go through the annoying re-balance of everything to take into account that increase in just about everything, this is the power creep that should be avoided.

Fox Reeveheart.1890:

Yargesh.4965:

I think Tengu as well. They where planned but pulled at the last minute for technical reasons, or so I understand anyway. If the technical reasons have been fixed they will be a playable class. If they can’t be fixed then the areas might open up as NPC only and the races we have available now need to go in and help/stop the tengu.

Tengu class? sounds interesting

time to roll an Asura tengu

Ah yes the wonders of changing terms.

housing in games always reminds me of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_QkGPCL18. Real life also reminds me of that but games even more so.

Mirta.5029:

Devata.6589:

Yeah true I read the translation but then again. Now with Wildstar (even that there housing is not that great) and Archeage around the corner they can not really stay behind. Might be the stuff that needs to be put in the first expansion.

I don’t think that housing would fit in with GW2, because it would serve no purpose. I mean look at how Dragon’s Prophet did it – their PvP is for territories where players with their guilds can build houses and impose taxes upon each other. That makes everyone want to win and get territories for their guilds.
GW2 doesn’t have flying platforms that we could compete for (hell we don’t have anything to fly on, so flying territory to fight for is out of the question), the only open spaces on the Tyria map are probably zones already reserved for something so we couldn’t compete for those, that would mean that if GW2 did introduce player housing it would be an instanced place that only you and your friends could see (like Runescape), which is boring.

Ision.3207:

The Forum Warrior has the highest skill ceiling, with all the other classes not even close.

Forum Warrior’s have to delicately balance their trolling to perfection so as not to be perma-banned from the forums, while also maintaining a steady stream of posts that cause damage-over-time. Besides, no other class in the game faces the possibility of perma-death, so this alone makes the Forum Warrior the hardest class to play. So while it’s true that the Forum Warrior has the highest dps with his condition spamming dot spec, his dps requires a glass cannon build with very little room for error.

Very well done

Zoldyck.6241:

tolunart.2095:

kosmo.2437:

they chose a path by doing this living story thing, and in the next year we ll see where will that lead them to, i predict to a free to play model…

If they do that, I’m gonna cancel my subscription.

I think what he mean is that you don’t have to buy the main game, it can be downloaded for free (yea, wrong words used).

Since GW1 never went this route I seriously can not see GW2 ever being completely free. It is currently a workable model that ANET is using. Until sometime in the future someone gets a completely free downloadable game that has no gem shop to be profitable I can’t really see the need to change it.

The problem is that it is impossible to be unbiased. I personally have zero problem with hunter in PvE, have killed easier on it than just about any other class. The only classes I don’t have at 80 (have not started them) is warrior and engi. I have no desire to really try either until a new area opens up. Theif I do not enjoy, but I also do not enjoy guard that much. Love mesmer and ele is fun. Can I play perfectly on any of them? Not a chance, since I am not looking for perfection whatever that actually is.

bboyoni.9678:

Just wait for the July Preview Video. They released one around January that described what they wanted to do for the first 6 months. Guess whakittens……been 6 months. Colin said to wait for around Mid/End of July for that video. Maybe expansion news? raid news? we shall have to wait until that video. That or leaked images/videos of expansion/content.

We have already gotten a leak from a french fan site and will get leakier things in the future. People just don’t like to keep secrets and once on the web it is everywhere these days.

I think it is a good idea to keep the living story. They have posted that things are going to be added as permanent content (dungeons will be incorporated into fractals was the last I heard about it) and the arc of the story will continue.
I personally have liked and not liked various parts so far with the last my least favourite due mostly to the carpet bombing at the end of the current dungeon. That coupled with jumping puzzles being key to the achievements and I have done 2 of the achievements and will not do any more with this arc. Does that mean I hate the concept, not a all.

I think Tengu as well. They where planned but pulled at the last minute for technical reasons, or so I understand anyway. If the technical reasons have been fixed they will be a playable class. If they can’t be fixed then the areas might open up as NPC only and the races we have available now need to go in and help/stop the tengu.

Almost does not mean a year has past. They will not release it today, maybe tomorrow if you spin around three times clockwise.

TheKillerAngel.3596:

I have close to 1500 votes now, and will be posting the results in a new thread.

Why create a new thread?

lordkrall.7241:

Ah yes, selling something for 30s that costs 40s+ to make generate a massive profit.
Oh wait..

yes btw all the way!

This is a game but also a business. Since it is a business the definition of failure that matters is if it is profitable. When a game is released it has about 3 months to hit target numbers, these numbers would vary from game to game. GW2 hit those targets and exceeded them. At the next interval the game needs to increase revenue through whatever means, again GW2 made those targets.
This can be seen by first there where no layoffs or ‘re-organizations’ after 6 months. Second they are still looking for new staff. And more importantly since it is a public company their own published profit broken down by division. As long as the targets are met this game is a long way from a failure.
Since this is a game and sold purely on entertainment if people are not interested, not telling friends, and not buying things with outside money it will not meet its targets. If you want to be a doomsayer that is fine but realize you will be ignored by the company since the internet and specifically game forums are full of the same thing.

Hamfast.8719:

A “van kitten” beard. LOL! There’s a new conversation thread for you. Perfectly innocent things getting changed into Kitten by the censor.

My favorite actor, Kitten Van Kitten would be appalled! (He played Rob Petrie on the Kitten Van Kitten Show, where he was married to Mary Tyler Moore in her TV debut…)

Context is everything which is something programmes currently can’t do well. There are a lot of short-form for Richard in the world that would like nothing better than comment about women in comfortable shoes.

penatbater.4710:

Darwinius.4195:

My friend who I got this game for his birthday barely plays and then he went back to WoW. After me forcing him to play he finally made his way to level 80 and he has gotten 6 exotics, 2 of them being precursors and he hasn’t even reached 150 hours. Worse I need Dawn for Sunrise and when he got it he started laughing at me and sold it. I have 700 hours and I have never gotten an exotic and only get rares from the bonus chest. I have thrown in about 1,500 greatswords into the toilet and still have gotten nothing.

Your friend is a kitten :P

Gotta agree with penatbater

Nick.6972:

Why do people think that raiding equals gear grind?
That wasn’t how GW1 worked.

But then again, obviously, GW2 is not trying to be what GW1 was, it’s trying to appeal all the other generic mmo payer needs, not their original fans.

And you really believe that only catering to the original GW1 fanbase is the best thing? Sorry, yes you do.

Krosslite.1950:

Most likely not.

But I would suggest adding that person to your block list so you know to never group with them again

Until they change the system this is the best solution.

The dye system is great, the system for what you can wear is not. I really liked LOTROs system of having 3 (plus unlockable slots if you wanted) outfit styles to choose from, and being able to use anything dropped in game or bought in the store as you outfit.

Still it would be a good idea to contact support.
If you intend to delete the hunter do so, it is not a long way to 80. It is good in my opinion to take the longer way though since you get a better feel of what your character(s) can and can’t do in various situations. If you are exclusively running WvW and never plan on PvE keep it.

CharrGirl.7896:

Ok thanks got it working

Glad that it is working for you.

Raids have been mentioned on Massively have not heard about housing.

The default is to leave it bound to F but this leads to a problem. If there is something to loot nearby it will only loot that not the entire area. It is best to bind to another key, works amazingly well.

Karizee.8076:

Yargesh.4965:

Karizee.8076:

Mad Rasputin.7809:

When’s the last time you saw one of these live casts from the Devs with one of them running an Engineer?

A little over a week ago

As Karizee posted the run through of the new dungeon was done on a engineer.

The link I posted was the sPvP exhibition match to launch Mist League with 5 ArenaNet devs going against 5 members of Mist League

Ok, but the dev that showed the dungeon also ran as a engineer, did not click the vid.

Karizee.8076:

Mad Rasputin.7809:

When’s the last time you saw one of these live casts from the Devs with one of them running an Engineer?

A little over a week ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL8TlSMvEiE

As Karizee posted the run through of the new dungeon was done on a engineer.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Yargesh.4965:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

they want you to buy and use transmutation crystals !!!

go, go, buy some !!!

MOAR gem store sales !!!!

If you can afford 120g in game for an outfit you can afford 10g in game for the stones. They make nothing from gold to gem in game.

Somebody bought the gems to exchange for gold.

Yes, it is a business. It does not mean you have to, though it would be nice for the game to continue if you did.

You got very lucky.

They want to focus on their game on their forums. You don’t think it is fair, fine. You knew it coming in (terms of service) and you can contact support directly for a clarification.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

they want you to buy and use transmutation crystals !!!

go, go, buy some !!!

MOAR gem store sales !!!!

If you can afford 120g in game for an outfit you can afford 10g in game for the stones. They make nothing from gold to gem in game.

It makes 2 cakes, but when I looked today at the price of 50 saffron it was 90s. Even if it comes down in price it will not really be worth it to make them, personal use or selling.

Kraggy.4169:

Conncept.7638:

I swear 99% of thieves wear the exact same armor.

Most of whom will at this very moment be re-dying that armour with the new black.

The colours are what separate nice armour for me. I have some transformed low level armour because I like the look and how it can be dyed. A lot of people think everything looks good in either black or white. Sorry to say this but those are incredibly boring colour combinations to me.

I was a very nice gesture yes.

I also think that it is amazing, thanks. Just a little counter-intuitive if you leave it bound to F.

Im Mudbone.1437:

Yargesh.4965:

Kryptonite.9376:

Wtf is a “toon”

Short for cartoon, which is what it looks like.

You hit the proverbial nail on the head. When I hear someone cal their character a toon I instantly think they been playing “Toontown” or “WoW” since they are cartoonish. I have always called my character just that a character and I have been gaming since the 70s.

I have been playing a long time as well and always used to call them my avatar but people didn’t understand, so I use toon or character.