Guild Wars 2

I’m sure he’ll enjoy his ban.

Honestly, I’m sad that crafting a legendary requires currency of any kind. A legendary weapon should require legendary tasks. Not to say there should be no materials, but it seems lazy to make part of the barrier gold. It’s a legendary weapon, not the Wall Street Saber of the Money Lord.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

One token to rule them all.
Any character to find them.
One vendor to bring them all,
And in the forge bind them.

The main problem we see with a universal token system, is that players will find the easiest dungeons they can do within the DR system’s influence range, and just do them over and over.
It would be like if people could use all their CoF tokens from the speed/exploit clears, and buy up Arah Dragon armor. Were that the case, the armor itself would have no real value behind it. When you look at a player and you see a full suit of dragon armor, you know that they did a certain thing to get that armor. With a universal token system, you lose that sense of knowledge of what another player has gone through to get what they have.

Honestly, I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to understand that.

One token to rule them all, Then many paths to find them,
One route to pug for all and in the blandness grind them

There needs to be a penalty for dying, otherwise death is just a slight annoyance.

I recommend to content designers that they implement more radical zone design in the future. I expect that there will be future level 80 only zones, but you need to think, why will players go there?

My thinking is that future level 80 zones should have events that literally change the map. Towns and cities should be built by pushing into the zone, taken over, and completely changed by enemy forces. There should be consistent large scale events with consequences across the zone. There need to be rewards, both monetary and otherwise, for the zone to be relevant.

Be creative. You could make a barren and rusted zone that has portals that seamlessly take you to a vibrant past version of that zone where the terrain is altered for puzzle solving, jumping puzzles, meta events, and the like.

He’s got the pumpkin head. Might seem kinda obsessive but I love the Headless Horseman’s voice. I wanna hear cool quotes like his from Thorn.

Prepare yourselves, the bells have tolled! Shelter your weak, your young and your old! Each of you shall pay the final sum! Cry for mercy; the reckoning has come!

Forums are filled with nasty comments because people who are content with the game don’t feel the need to express how content they are.

I never call McDonald’s to tell them how well they did, but sometimes I do to express how angry I am that they can’t even get an order of fries right. Same concept.

Don’t you sort of hope that the expansion material has nothing to do with Cantha or Elona? I don’t wanna see ritualists, paragons, dervishes, whatever. I wanna see something that is entirely new.

I think some elites need more oomph. I’d like to see Rampage for warriors shatter the warrior’s armor, beef them up, and turn their eyes red. Or even just change their armor to something more furious.

The only thing that bugs me about Orr is that every 5 seconds I hear, “Everyone, come!” and then I get hit and slow down and rage until they stop following me.

Just to let you know now, lore-wise, Kralkatorrik is the largest and Primordus is the smallest.

I agree. Though I still plan to save up for the set and transmute it over Berserker’s Draconic Armor.

Guild Wars 2 will probably outlast WoW at this point. In like 5 years, WoW will be pretty much as dead as Everquest.

CC Eva.6742:

Hi Zale.

Thanks for pointing that out (and the message is written in Spanish, by the way). Those language changes happen from time to time but after some minutes or just after refreshing the page come back to the English language again.

Okay, I feel dumb now. But thanks, Eva.

Playable Favorite – Charr
Playable Least Favorite – Norn, cause they’re just humans. Might as well have 4 races.

Non Playable Favorite – Kodan
Non Playable Least Favorite – Centaur, they’re just annoying.

It shows -

News and Info -
News and AnnouncementsWant all the latest official Guild Wars 2 news? You’ll find it right here!
Sigue al desarrollador¿De qué habla el equipo de ArenaNet?
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Just like that.

EDIT – It’s just sorta doing it at random now. Sometimes it’s in English, sometimes it isn’t.

Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion.

Nothing in the game should ever mix PvE objectives with PvP objectives. That is bad design and must be changed immediately. PvP and PvE should always remain absolutely separate.

PVE content should NEVER require PVP content and vice-versa.

PVE content should NEVER require PVP of any kind and vice-versa.

Kyosai.6439:

My Charr goes RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH like he’s falling to his death every other time I jump. Has done it since launch lol.

I’m not sure if that’s the same bug, but it’s definitely just as annoying.

Zhaitan was a really sad fight. As cool as he looks, it wasn’t really a fight. I could’ve taped a mouse to the 2 button and my cat would whack it and defeat Zhaitan with the same proficiency. If you do Jormag, let us fight him on the backs of gryphons in midair, or let us fight Primordus in charr tanks underground. Look at the flame leviathan fight from Ulduar in World of Warcraft. But do not make it boring and cheaply easy. Make the main antagonist something we care about beating.

I would rather fight Zhaitan with a wet noodle than do the Magg path one more time.

They just need an in game SWAT team to rain hellfire on bots wherever they see them. It’d be gone in a week.

My charr is a warrior. Since the patch, whenever I jump, when I land I hear a clanging noise.

Robert, when are you going to address the fact that the bomb planting event is just a kiting/death zerg fest?

If they added raids, they would need to be substantially different from dungeons and not just dungeons with more players. They would also need a system to more easily group up with. I have some ideas, but they’re a secret. =P

They’ll give out candy but they’ll put DR on candy drops and ArenaNet will issue a statement that they never intended for candy to be enjoyed more than once every 30 minutes.

I bought the CE when it came out. It got boring real fast.

Shatterer-esque encounters in dungeons – Replace a typical boss mob with a glamorous mob with unique animations like the shatterer, claw of Jormag, etc. Give it special mechanics, scale it for a group of 5, and make it actually difficult.

Daily Dungeons – Remove DR and reward 20-40 tokens per run with some money, maybe 15 silver. Every day, a random path of a random dungeon rewards a special prize for that day. An example would be large chunk of XP, 50 silver, and an Idol of Balthazaar that you can exchange for 50-100 of any dungeon token. Of course this is a once a day thing.

Fascinating play on words, good sir.

InfiniteRetro.9865:

The sham that gw2 is compared to gw1 is unreal. i logged into gw1 today and im instantly wanting to play it. never had that feeling for gw2 because its a kittenised version of a whole bunch of other mmos.

the only reason gw2 exists is to try and get the mass appeal. however, by doing that, by talking mad kitten about other devs and their mmos, they’ve created a game far worse than anything the competition ever had.

see, gw1 story telling was 100% better. as to was the build creation, dual profession, 4 weapon swaps, heroes, henchmen, gear that really DIDNT matter, free ability to respec your attributes anytime, better designed zones, far better character npcs than the 1 dimensional imbiciles in gw2.

sorry, i dont know if its an entirely different team or not, but you dont kitten on your fanbase by going against what made gw1 so great. and now, as a result, your game is going to end up with less players than what gw1 had. why?

because GW1 did everything far better than gw2. at least to, waypoints and armour repairs didnt exist in gw1 and it was still a wildly popular game, but oh no, we have to copy every other mmo but claim innovation.

GW1 is the better of the two, the only people defending this notion are ‘other mmo’’ gamers who are so burned out on wow and its clones that they think they’ve traded up.

enjoy the Diminishing Returns, i mean, you cant get more north korea than that.

Cool story.

Zaalg.3217:

I know 7 people who think aliens will land on the planet by the end of the year. I’m going to make tacos for the aliens. No, you cannot have any.

But tacos are delicious!

No one is going to win this argument. It’s just going to be trolls trolling trolls.

Well, they’ll certainly add more legendary weapons either in expansions or content updates. Maybe they’ll add holiday themed legendaries or a sword carved from Jormag’s tooth.

Wouldn’t we all like to know.

To be fair…legendaries are for looks and prestige. If you don’t like the look of them, there’s no need to get one.

AndrewWaltfeld.4621:

Zale.9645:

TransparentlyOpaque.1824:

Seems that the majority of the negative posters have no solid proof for any claims of the game “dying”. Anecdotal evidence is meaningless.

The poster Dusk makes some viable counter points, with evidence that can easily be reproduced by anyone that logs into the game, and what are the responses? Nasty personal attacks is the best rebuttal? Attempting to cyber bully is inappropriate, and it really shows your ages.

Too bad you cannot enjoy the game, thank you for supporting it with your purchase, and have fun playing pandas, or whatever you think is a game that is “living”… lol.

Dude, it’s hilarious how they respond too. If you ask them to provide ANY factual information at all, they just call you names and ignore you. But when Dusk gives factual information to the contrary, they vanish.

Or they argue with you and put themselves into a corner with their own words.

The thing is, I don’t even try to push a point. I stay neutral. But apparently asking for any evidence makes me a fanboy and a troll. Desperate much?

TransparentlyOpaque.1824:

Seems that the majority of the negative posters have no solid proof for any claims of the game “dying”. Anecdotal evidence is meaningless.

The poster Dusk makes some viable counter points, with evidence that can easily be reproduced by anyone that logs into the game, and what are the responses? Nasty personal attacks is the best rebuttal? Attempting to cyber bully is inappropriate, and it really shows your ages.

Too bad you cannot enjoy the game, thank you for supporting it with your purchase, and have fun playing pandas, or whatever you think is a game that is “living”… lol.

Dude, it’s hilarious how they respond too. If you ask them to provide ANY factual information at all, they just call you names and ignore you. But when Dusk gives factual information to the contrary, they vanish.

DusK.3849:

I can’t believe nobody addressed this.

Soulwatcher.2604:

It goes both ways! Show me the zones are packed thread and a net announcing selling 3~4million copies and all of the new servers they added.

GW2 sold 1 million before launch and had over 400k concurrent users. ANet added 3 European worlds and 3 US worlds to compensate (check the pre-release server list and compare it with the server list in-game). They broke 2 million sales earlier this month. By comparison, Mists of Pandaria has yet to break 1 million post launch, and there is no word anywhere about what its pre-order numbers look like, so it’s very likely that it undersold compared to GW2.

But none of this info really says anything about what the population is right now. What does, though, are the still-sky-high WvW queue times and LA overflows.

But what about the population drop? Here’s some more cool news. According to those Xfire graphs we’re all linking, WoW’s post-MoP’s population numbers are seeing a sharper decline than GW2’s. Twice as fast, actually (4% for GW2 compared to WoW’s 8%) and their peak for Xfire users was also smaller than GW2’s by nearly 30,000.

Anyone consider RIFT dead? Because according to those lovely Xfire graphs, GW2 even at its lowest point has over 20 times the population of RIFT.

The moral of this post? If you’re going to use Xfire graphs to attempt to make some point that “GW2’s dying,” don’t hold a double-standard; because according to that logic, RIFT’s dead and WoW’s dying faster.

You’re so cool, Dusk. You know he won’t accept it though.

Zoridium JackL.7463:

^ that’s not dying, that’s the population stabilizing after release.

Psst…Ask him to prove it.

Soulwatcher.2604:

Zale your a obvious troll trying to rile people up I am done talking to you until you come on here with some kind of proof that you play the game. Its people like you that try and ruin fun for everyone!

Now you hurt my feelings. All I wanted was proof to back up what you had been saying this whole time. It would help get your point across really well.

Baked Goods.9428:

nerds arguing over nothing.

move along folks nothing to see here

Dude, I have Gangnam style on repeat.

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Zale.9645:

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Zale.9645:

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Zale.9645:

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DusK.3849:

@Dusk did you play at GW2 launch? Zones were packed to the max people were everywhere. Fast forward to today and your lucky to get a hand full of people to show up to events in the 1 to 70 zones.

I played from headstart. Zones were packed because everyone was just starting the game. These people eventually spread out. If you really think that you were going to constantly get stuck in overflows forever and seeing countless super-zergs per event forever, you’re daft.

The game isn’t empty. I see other players constantly. Every event I’ve done, every single one, at least one person has been there with me. Just because you want to believe so badly that the game is bad and dead because of it simply because you don’t like it doesn’t make it so. You’re deluding yourself. People are in the game right now, in the tens of thousands, possibly over 100k, enjoying the game. Deal with it.

Dusk puff your chest out and beat the war drums its not going to change anything. The game has peaked and people are leaving. And its a very serious problem that all zones are not packed 5 weeks after release.

I played FFXI from 2004~2010 which was one of the most successful mmorpg’s in history. And from 2004 to 2007 every zone I ever visited was packed to the max 24/7. Often players were forced to camp on top of each other.

All you’re doing is saying it peaked. You seem pretty convinced, but have no proof at all.

It goes both ways! Show me the zones are packed thread and a net announcing selling 3~4million copies and all of the new servers they added.

I would have had to claim anything first.

There is nothing to claim my 4 year old nice can tell you that there are less players in the 1 to 70 zones then when I first started. That sad fact as many people on this forum have said many of the lower level zones are a ghost town. If this game was gaining and not losing players there would be people playing in those zones.

That’s a pretty cool story. Still waiting on that proof.

If you want proof log in and look around instead of trolling the forums.

Supporting your claims seems really hard. And here I thought you were certain. By all means, go ad hominem on me.

Zale I get it trolling the forums is way more fun then playing the game or you would be playing your self. All I am asking is 5 minutes of your time and about 50 silver to have a look around. (that is if your 80?)

I see plenty of people, but I can’t possibly judge the rise or decline of the game based on who I happen to see at the time. Clearly you can though. You are the great truth bringer. You know, besides that whole proof thing. I’m sure you got that covered.

Zale is this your first MMO? This game is 5 weeks old and all of the zones should be packed with major zergs going on for the next 2 to 3 years. Games don’t need millions of players to be successful. What it needs is a constant influx of new players and people making alts to make the game fun for everyone at all levels!

A good example is FFXI the game peaked at 500k players. How ever every single zone I visited from 2004~2007 was packed to the max with people. People were coming and going in that game 24/7. The fact that that’s not happening here presents a real problem!

Riveting tale, old chap. Still waiting on proof. Preferably of the actual variety. Also nice assumptions about me.

Zale you must love trolling all I keep reading is blah blah blah proof or it didn’t happen! I have 315 played hours in the game I know what I am talking about. I know this might come off as a new concept to you. But i do a little something called play the game. I also have 415k karma I run events all the time. How much have you played?

Yeah, it’s funny how I expect proof for claims people make. I should just accept everything people tell me.

Nice appeal to authority by the way.

GenericBox.1923:

Zale.9645:

GenericBox.1923:

Zale, I won’t assume what experience with MMO’s that you have – not that it matters (nor do I care), but please take off the rose-coloured glasses you are wearing or you will be still standing on the deck of the ship at the bottom of the ocean.

My /age shows that I have now played for 327 hours in 33 days. Do the math, I play this game for 10 hours a day (roughly), for all intents and purposes, I spend more of my time in Tyria than I do in the real world [with sleep]. (Sad, yes)

By all means I have recieved my money’s worth from this game, but I have also watched the server population rapidly (if not exponentially) decline in the last weeks.

You cannot judge the population by what you see during your peak hours – but I feel I can judge my server’s population (Sea of Sorrows), over an entire day.

You cannot get a dungeon group, you are doing dynamic events alone, and literally you are the only player on an entire map.

The game is in decline, because knowing that at least among the “hardcore” community, Sea of Sorrows was the unofficial Oceanic server – and has been full or close to it since launch.

If this is a full server at near desertion – I shudder to think what playing on a lower population server must be like.

Even when I log on to help a guildie run a dungeon (SE for example) – we have to wait for literally 30 minutes to find just 1 more player.. just 1.

Sure, everyone may be 80 and unwilling to go back to lower level dungeons – but this is the point, a “growing” game would not have a problem with lower-level areas — new players would be coming through. It wouldn’t be a problem if the game was enjoyable to level again, because alts would be flooding the zones.

Instead, it’s deserted, even the nearest main city Hoelbrok.

So keep up the fanboy act if you like, I’ve given this game my life for the last month – without pretending like its a good game (it really isn’t a good “game” – you’re not ‘playing’ anything if you have to stand around for 30 minutes trying to find other players for content) and try not to drown in tears when the game finally goes under.

Appeal to authority

Ad hominem

Please continue.

You do realise you are the one making the claim – you say this game is “not” declining. The burdon of proof (and argument) is on you.

Argumentum ad ignorantiam. At least learn how to troll properly if you are going to do it.

Noone here has to provide evidence the game is dying, nor can anyone outside ArenaNet provide server numbers, so all we can do is provide anecdotal evidence of our own experiences.

Again, you made the claim this game isn’t dying, so please provide your evidence for this and stop trying to hide from your attempt to call out logical fallacies when you are using the most arrogant and literally ignorant one of them all.

Argumentum ad ignorantiam – Implying that I said it wasn’t declining.

Ad Hominem – Implying I am a troll.

Soulwatcher.2604:

Zale.9645:

Soulwatcher.2604:

Zale.9645:

Soulwatcher.2604:

Zale.9645:

Soulwatcher.2604:

Zale.9645:

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Soulwatcher.2604:

DusK.3849:

@Dusk did you play at GW2 launch? Zones were packed to the max people were everywhere. Fast forward to today and your lucky to get a hand full of people to show up to events in the 1 to 70 zones.

I played from headstart. Zones were packed because everyone was just starting the game. These people eventually spread out. If you really think that you were going to constantly get stuck in overflows forever and seeing countless super-zergs per event forever, you’re daft.

The game isn’t empty. I see other players constantly. Every event I’ve done, every single one, at least one person has been there with me. Just because you want to believe so badly that the game is bad and dead because of it simply because you don’t like it doesn’t make it so. You’re deluding yourself. People are in the game right now, in the tens of thousands, possibly over 100k, enjoying the game. Deal with it.

Dusk puff your chest out and beat the war drums its not going to change anything. The game has peaked and people are leaving. And its a very serious problem that all zones are not packed 5 weeks after release.

I played FFXI from 2004~2010 which was one of the most successful mmorpg’s in history. And from 2004 to 2007 every zone I ever visited was packed to the max 24/7. Often players were forced to camp on top of each other.

All you’re doing is saying it peaked. You seem pretty convinced, but have no proof at all.

It goes both ways! Show me the zones are packed thread and a net announcing selling 3~4million copies and all of the new servers they added.

I would have had to claim anything first.

There is nothing to claim my 4 year old nice can tell you that there are less players in the 1 to 70 zones then when I first started. That sad fact as many people on this forum have said many of the lower level zones are a ghost town. If this game was gaining and not losing players there would be people playing in those zones.

That’s a pretty cool story. Still waiting on that proof.

If you want proof log in and look around instead of trolling the forums.

Supporting your claims seems really hard. And here I thought you were certain. By all means, go ad hominem on me.

Zale I get it trolling the forums is way more fun then playing the game or you would be playing your self. All I am asking is 5 minutes of your time and about 50 silver to have a look around. (that is if your 80?)

I see plenty of people, but I can’t possibly judge the rise or decline of the game based on who I happen to see at the time. Clearly you can though. You are the great truth bringer. You know, besides that whole proof thing. I’m sure you got that covered.

Zale is this your first MMO? This game is 5 weeks old and all of the zones should be packed with major zergs going on for the next 2 to 3 years. Games don’t need millions of players to be successful. What it needs is a constant influx of new players and people making alts to make the game fun for everyone at all levels!

A good example is FFXI the game peaked at 500k players. How ever every single zone I visited from 2004~2007 was packed to the max with people. People were coming and going in that game 24/7. The fact that that’s not happening here presents a real problem!

Riveting tale, old chap. Still waiting on proof. Preferably of the actual variety. Also nice assumptions about me.

GenericBox.1923:

Zale, I won’t assume what experience with MMO’s that you have – not that it matters (nor do I care), but please take off the rose-coloured glasses you are wearing or you will be still standing on the deck of the ship at the bottom of the ocean.

My /age shows that I have now played for 327 hours in 33 days. Do the math, I play this game for 10 hours a day (roughly), for all intents and purposes, I spend more of my time in Tyria than I do in the real world [with sleep]. (Sad, yes)

By all means I have recieved my money’s worth from this game, but I have also watched the server population rapidly (if not exponentially) decline in the last weeks.

You cannot judge the population by what you see during your peak hours – but I feel I can judge my server’s population (Sea of Sorrows), over an entire day.

You cannot get a dungeon group, you are doing dynamic events alone, and literally you are the only player on an entire map.

The game is in decline, because knowing that at least among the “hardcore” community, Sea of Sorrows was the unofficial Oceanic server – and has been full or close to it since launch.

If this is a full server at near desertion – I shudder to think what playing on a lower population server must be like.

Even when I log on to help a guildie run a dungeon (SE for example) – we have to wait for literally 30 minutes to find just 1 more player.. just 1.

Sure, everyone may be 80 and unwilling to go back to lower level dungeons – but this is the point, a “growing” game would not have a problem with lower-level areas — new players would be coming through. It wouldn’t be a problem if the game was enjoyable to level again, because alts would be flooding the zones.

Instead, it’s deserted, even the nearest main city Hoelbrok.

So keep up the fanboy act if you like, I’ve given this game my life for the last month – without pretending like its a good game (it really isn’t a good “game” – you’re not ‘playing’ anything if you have to stand around for 30 minutes trying to find other players for content) and try not to drown in tears when the game finally goes under.

Appeal to authority

Ad hominem

Please continue.

Soulwatcher.2604:

Zale.9645:

Soulwatcher.2604:

Zale.9645:

Soulwatcher.2604:

Zale.9645:

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Zale.9645:

Soulwatcher.2604:

DusK.3849:

@Dusk did you play at GW2 launch? Zones were packed to the max people were everywhere. Fast forward to today and your lucky to get a hand full of people to show up to events in the 1 to 70 zones.

I played from headstart. Zones were packed because everyone was just starting the game. These people eventually spread out. If you really think that you were going to constantly get stuck in overflows forever and seeing countless super-zergs per event forever, you’re daft.

The game isn’t empty. I see other players constantly. Every event I’ve done, every single one, at least one person has been there with me. Just because you want to believe so badly that the game is bad and dead because of it simply because you don’t like it doesn’t make it so. You’re deluding yourself. People are in the game right now, in the tens of thousands, possibly over 100k, enjoying the game. Deal with it.

Dusk puff your chest out and beat the war drums its not going to change anything. The game has peaked and people are leaving. And its a very serious problem that all zones are not packed 5 weeks after release.

I played FFXI from 2004~2010 which was one of the most successful mmorpg’s in history. And from 2004 to 2007 every zone I ever visited was packed to the max 24/7. Often players were forced to camp on top of each other.

All you’re doing is saying it peaked. You seem pretty convinced, but have no proof at all.

It goes both ways! Show me the zones are packed thread and a net announcing selling 3~4million copies and all of the new servers they added.

I would have had to claim anything first.

There is nothing to claim my 4 year old nice can tell you that there are less players in the 1 to 70 zones then when I first started. That sad fact as many people on this forum have said many of the lower level zones are a ghost town. If this game was gaining and not losing players there would be people playing in those zones.

That’s a pretty cool story. Still waiting on that proof.

If you want proof log in and look around instead of trolling the forums.

Supporting your claims seems really hard. And here I thought you were certain. By all means, go ad hominem on me.

Zale I get it trolling the forums is way more fun then playing the game or you would be playing your self. All I am asking is 5 minutes of your time and about 50 silver to have a look around. (that is if your 80?)

I see plenty of people, but I can’t possibly judge the rise or decline of the game based on who I happen to see at the time. Clearly you can though. You are the great truth bringer. You know, besides that whole proof thing. I’m sure you got that covered.