Guild Wars 2

It never ceases to amuse me that Reza is an anagram of my name

Nausiation.1469:

lol k so OP wants a small group to retake an entire city. Thank god he isn’t a game developer.

8 players made Goddess out of a human. Surely 5 can retake a city, especially if I’m involved.

Actually, the Shining Blade are the protectors of Kryta’s royal family, not the Lionguard. The Lionguard are primarily focused on the city of Lion’s Arch and it’s interests, which are far beyond human interests and the human queen, Jenna, of Kryta. Lion’s Arch may be situated in Kryta, but it does not fall under Krytan jurisdiction.

King Doric is not of Orrian descent. King Doric’s burial place is not really known, nor are the circumstances of his death. It is speculated that he died when his blood was used to divide the magics of the world in the bloodstones (hence the name bloodstones). It makes sense, but it’s not certain.

I doubt Scarlet is after anything that has anything to do with GW1 or the elder dragons. It’s probably just some font of magical power that suddenly appeared out of nowhere and has nothing to do with the game’s lore.

Either way, I can’t wait for this Scarlet fiasco to die off.

As others have said, I’ll go ahead and share my motto/playstyle: If you can kill it fast enough, you don’t need to worry about toughness/vitality. Berserker for life until there comes a new stat set that does more damage.

In high level fractals, everything hits so hard that it doesn’t matter how much toughness/vitality to have, you will lose a lot, if not all, of your health.

Not that I’m saying we need a dedicated healing class (we most certainly DO NOT), but without such a role available, you improvise by doing more damage and killing things faster before it can kill you. You also have to buff your party with your own skills and help each other up as soon as they go down. 1 defeated player greatly reduces your overall damage, thereby increase the damage they take in return. So if you REALLY want to help your team: kill things as fast as you can, revive the downed ASAP, and provide whatever little boons/support you can so they can do more damage, too.

To make anything other than damage or damage/support hybrid builds viable in places like really high level fractals, you would need a dedicated healing class with skills like Protective Spirit from Guild Wars. It’s how lvl 20 players can take on level 30+ enemies and survive in GW1 (plus GW1 had a far superior health regeneration system). For a lvl 80 character to take on a level 85+, you pretty much need a dedicated healing class. The high level fractals are deliberately designed so that, eventually, you CANNOT progress to any higher levels no matter how high your AR is because everything kills you in one hit even with all your boons/toughness/vitality. Even at a low 40, some foes hit for 15-25k damage. Nothing survives more than one hit from that.

So yeah, kill it yesterday.

Wait, what? butt capes? O_o

So, if I understand this correctly, you want to be able to hide your character’s leggings like you can helms/shoulders/gloves. Is that correct?

MuxyKillin.7036:

you know what else would make you a sad panda? An ettin grabbign hte end of the cape and twirling you throug hthe air only to smash you on the ground or after jumping off a JP to get the cape snagged by a vicious and menacing pebble just waiting to kill you or harpies grabbing the cape and flying off with you to do gods know what kinds of horrible horrible things to your soft underbelly! as such, capes are no good. <nod>

Giving the AI way too much credibility here… the game is not real. The engine even lacks some basic physics. It even lacks momentum (getting crippled or chilled while you are mid-jump… yeah no sense of momentum).

I don’t have millions of dollars… yet. Thank you for the input

Look out, NCSoft, I will soon own a tiny percent of you! MUHAHAHAHA! :P

These are really just a questions for ArenaNet, so be advised that I more than likely will not reply to other players unless they have relevant information regarding my questions.

I’ve recently started investing, and I have some money I wish to invest in companies like NCSoft. I’d buy some of ArenaNet if it were a public company, but to my knowledge it’s still a private company that has not had an IPO.

My questions are: If I were to buy shares of NCSoft, would it negatively affect my GW2 account in some way? Would I be shunned away by the devs as a ‘biased’ player because I would legally own a portion of their publisher? I don’t want to buy shares and then suddenly have my account banned because of the shares I owned. I’ve learned that one should only invest in things they are interested in or actually care about. I care about Guild Wars, so I want to invest in NCSoft as a shareholder.

Are any of you shareholders of NCSoft, by chance? If so, how has investing in NCSoft worked out for you so far?

Source on what ArenaNet said regarding revisiting Cantha/Elona? I’ve not seen anything on it anywhere. It’s like Cantha and Elona do not exist outside of GW1.

And I don’t blame NCSoft, but rather NCSoft’s largest shareholder, NEXON. NEXON is the father of free-to-play-pay-to-win. The largest shareholder in a company has the most say about where the money goes. If NEXON says “No expansions for GW2.”, ArenaNet has their hands tied and can’t do anything.

I’ve suggested once before that ArenaNet should be it’s own publisher, but I’m guessing that’s impossible.

My ‘cynical’ views are not unwarranted, though.

I’ve just about given up on Cantha, Elona, or anything beyond what we currently have in GW2. I’m convinced the elder dragons had Scarlet build them a space ship and they left to another universe (probably ESO or KUF2). I wouldn’t be surprised if ArenaNet/Scarlet randomly sent us the following in-game mail.

“Hello meddling child,

Just for the lulz, I invaded/destroyed Cantha and Elona. Palawa Joko is no more. Cantha is a crater. So yeah, me me me. <insert that annoying maniacal laugh here>.

Sincerely,
Scarlet "

It would be sad, but they do have every right to do that since it is their intellectual property. We are just the customer.

It’s a well known fact that Cantha and Elona are among the most requested, nay, demanded additions to the game. ArenaNet has supposedly stated before, more than once, that they have no intention or desire to bring back Cantha or Elona. I personally haven’t seen anything concrete regarding this, but I will believe it to be true because that’s just the way ArenaNet has been coming across for a while now: anti-canon

I think I even heard that the reason is because ‘Asian/African/Middle Eastern’ themes are offensive, and NCSoft wants no part of that. If that really is the case, then that’s just said. Political correctness has overtaken creative expression and sensible moral judgement.

I guess we’ll see within the next 5 years, assuming GW2 is still going at that time. Anything could happen, I suppose. It’s okay to hope, but I wouldn’t linger on it. For now, let’s just focus on destroying Scarlet (man she has it coming) so we can turn our attention to the next threat that is not an elder dragon. I bet it’s more karka.

I dunno…. I can one-shot players with my warrior….

Only if they don’t eat like sensible people; moderation.

Lion’s Arch definitely deserved better, that’s for sure. And you’d think Claw Island would have been outfitted with airships and all forms of AAA batteries (that’s anti-aircraft artillery for those who don’t know). The undead had some, why not Claw Island? Claw Island was completely ignored. They didn’t even light the watch towers.

Regarding what someone said earlier about how my/our standing as Commander of the Pact is irrelevant because each player’s personal story has nothing to do with another player’s (which is correct, of course), it’s worse than you think. You forget that ArenaNet could have easily made it so that the interaction dialogue with certain key NPCs would at least reflect it correctly. As I mentioned before in another post, interacting with Logan or Rytlock in past LS instances, the player was treated as a nobody. Given that the LS instances were tailored for the player, that disconnect is horrible from a story/writing standpoint. Surely the members of Destiny’s Edge would remember the hero who brought them all back together and fought along their side against Zhaitan. But no, both the NPC’s and the player’s dialogue play off as if nothing of the sort ever happened. THAT is the problem I was referring to about the whole ‘my/our standing as the Pact Commander’. The LS is not canon at all.

Wow, I didn’t think there would be much of a response. I apologize for the time of my response, I’m in a Japan time zone when most of you are asleep.

Anyway, there were several good points covered by you guys Have some more:

• Bonfazz Burnfur wasn’t shoved in our face for the majority of a year, unlike some psychopath I know who has a 20k Eviscerate with her name on it. In one year’s time, GW1 provided a fully fleshed story and an entire new continent with it’s own story. All we’ve gotten for the past year has been filler to detract away from the main plot.

• Scarlet being a dragon champion is a huge cop-out. Scarlet is a puppet, not a champion. It would have been so much better if Primordus or any one of the other elder dragons literally dropped in from the sky (or popped out from the ground in Primordus’ case) and wrecked mass destruction of LA. No Scarlet, no middle man; straight up “Yeah that’s right, we are still here. You think we’ll be as easy as Zhaitan?” Besides, Primorus is already awake. It awoke during the final events of GW1. Scarlet can’t ‘awaken’ Primordus.

• It is a well known fact that the original ArenaNet is long gone. As before I’m simply pointing out that if this ArenaNet is deliberately trying to separate itself from it’s GW1 roots, as some have said, then it should do so by changing the name of this game. I’m not saying GW2 is a bad game (it’s a very good game), but it is a little bit of a stain on the name of GW.

• As much as I love GW1, I gave that gave more than 7 years of play (not consecutive, of course. I do sleep/eat/work/live) and I have no need to give it any more. I got my full of the game and am thoroughly satisfied with it; best game ever. At this rate I doubt I’ll be able to give GW2 even half of that amount of time; can’t fill GW1’s shoes.

• I’m all for a changing world, but they way they are going about it is off-putting. I would have accepted the destruction of things like the old ruins of LA or the original lighthouse if it was done by the game’s primary antagonists, not some puppet or a random piece of seafood pretending to be a primary antagonist.

You completely missed the point I was bringing up… I know they aren’t trying to make GW1 with revamped graphics. The issue I have is that there is very little left of the original game for continuity’s sake, and it seems that the game is no longer about the player on an individual level (the Pact is nowhere to be found during all of this, plus the player has become a complete unknown to Destiny’s Edge and the majority of the rest of Tyria).

All we are now is just another zergling in the massive player zergs that just overwhelm everything with large numbers. As I said, they should just change the game’s name and get it over with.

As the title says, most of the time the warrior’s rifle burst skill Kill Shot does absolutely nothing, even against stationary targets. It goes through the animation as if firing, but upon firing it does nothing except go on cooldown. It deals no damage, gives no indication of missed/blocked/dodged/obstructed. Fortunately it doesn’t waste the adrenaline, but the high failure rate is unacceptable. Every time I fire I have to expect it to fail, and it usually does. Anyone else experiencing this issue?

I can’t help but laugh at the original post…

I’m not sure this is the right section for this sort of post. Might I recommend the In-game events forum? The admins might move it automatically, though, so be advised.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/events

You have to keep in mind that Cantha is currently closed off from the world. The emperor closed off her borders to outsiders and has her people united under an iron fist. He destroyed the Luxons and Kurzicks. The way ArenaNet has it set up, there is no reason to go to Cantha. I personally hate that, but that is how they have it set up right now. The was emperor extremely xenophobic. He banished all non-human races from his empire, which is why the tengu are where they are now. I doubt his descendants would openly welcome Charr, Norn, Asura, Sylvari, or anyone non-human.

Besides, the way to Cantha is blocked by Bubbles. We’d have to destroy or go around Bubbles. Even if we succeeded in that, Cantha would probably repel us as invaders. I kind of do like the idea of invading Cantha and saving her from tyranny, but maybe the Canthans don’t feel like they are being ruled by tyranny. Maybe they have come to accept the way things are as their culture. We’d become the bad guys by going in there and trying to change their way of life.

The only way for us to get back Cantha the way we had it in GW1 would be to have the writers make it so that Cantha is trapped by Bubbles, where Bubbles’ minions are constantly assaulting Cantha. Then we would go to destroy Bubbles. Once we do, we will have saved Cantha and her emperor can welcome us to her shores, human and non-human alike.

Yes, this. The commander tags should not be the most prominent things on the map in PvE. When you zoom the world map out, the icon dwarfs everything else in the world. You can’t see waypoints or vistas, but ArenaNet makes sure that you can see that random nobody in the map with you. In W3 it’s fine. I like to see them so I know where not to go (or go if I’m feeling generous and helpful). In general PvE where commander tags might be useful for coordination and player count, the icons should only be visible to the squad members.

I do enjoy the game, but there are plenty of things about it that make me sad. In some cases it’s a slap in the face of this game’s origins. I doubt ArenaNet will read this because it’s just a reply and not it’s own thread, but here have at it. Below are the things that ‘bring me down’. I can go into details, but that would make my reply take up the entire thread.

Equipment skins: Look to GW1, ArenaNet.

Lack of nice guild capes, or any guild capes for that matter: Capes like the White Mantle from GW1 would be awesome.

Lack of skill variation: weapons skills 1-5 should be customizable

Limited time/temporary content and items: Just make the molten alliance pick and such a permanent addition to the game, already.

RNG: Luck is real, especially bad luck. RNG is cruel to the majority.

Zhaitan: I want to actually cut into an elder dragon. Look to the game play of Shadow of the Colossus for an example of what I mean. The turrets should have only been the first phase to shoot down Zhaitan. Phase two should have been “make kabobs out of it and end world hunger!”

Scarlet: Seriously. Just do yourself and the rest of us a favor and “Die die die, die die die, die die, die.”

No enemy/red dots on the mini map: I love that I can see my allies on the minimap in W3, but I hate that I can’t see my foes or a massive zerg on the minimap. Before you WoW players cry foul, it was a standard feature in GW1 (including PvP) that could not be turned off and it did not break the game. I want the OPTION.

The game engine: CPU bound is quite limiting. Utilize the GPU, too!

Falling damage while walking down a slope: I’m walking, I’m walking, and I’m dead.

No Move-to-Target It was a feature in the betas, and I know it is a feature in your in-house testing client. Bring it back, already. Again, before you WoW players cry foul, it was another standard feature in GW1 (and PvP) that could not be turned off and it did not break the game. I want the OPTION.

The bugs that still have not been fixed: I’m looking at you, greatsword skill 5 on the warrior, and Foulbear Chieftain event that is often bugged and will not progress.

How it’s too easy for gold sellers to use trial accounts to spam chat/mail I hope that future trial accounts are severely limited on the interactions they can do. If people want to play the game, then they can buy it like the rest of us.

Lack of actual health regereration like in GW1 as opposed to a heal over time like in this game and other MMOs. GW1’s mechanic of health regeneration/degeneration was a much more tangible mechanic and it worked so much better. Having 200 health tic each second is not the same as a health regeneration that heals you for 1 health 200 times a second. It’s much better.

Personal story taking a back seat: We never do hear back from the ones that recruited us into our respective orders.

Not being able to use the armors/weapons of the other orders even though we’re the commander of the pact: Seriously, players who chose to join the OoW should be allowed to use Priory/Vigil equipment after reaching a certain point in the personal story. We’re the commander of the entire pact, for goodness sake. I would even be okay with it being AFTER defeating Zhaitan. At least then we’d have a reason to go through that disappointment again.

I can go on, but I think this will do for now.

I dunno, probably not because of the exploit you were able to use with them.

Before I reply, be advised that I have a budget and the money I use to buy gems when I feel like it is accounted for in my budget, so none of you can say I am irresponsible with my money. It is money that I earned from my job and have every right to spend it as I please.

I estimate anywhere between $500-$1000+. I don’t keep track of the exact amount because it was money that I was prepared to throw away and do without. It’s money I do not care about because I have allocated it as such. It was worth it for me because I got myself some extra character slots, some bank slots, those nice infinite use gathering tools, inventory slots, a few skins here and there, some BL keys because I was curious, some makeover kits, and on occassion I make some gold exchanges.

Financial responsibility. Rock yeah.

I like the Arctodus farm in Frostgorge. They give bloods, claws, fangs, and hides. I used to do it for about an hour at a time and I would get like 10-20 of the tier 5 and a handful of the tier 6 mats I listed.

As long as that ‘someone’ is Scarlet who dies, I don’t care.

Sure…. it can be just like the judicial system in real life. We ‘sympathize’ with the villain and pretend everything is peachy just because the villain pleaded insanity. “Yes, it’s true that I killed my wife, but I wasn’t in my right mind, so I’m not a criminal and I deserve to go free.” NOT.

Scarlet must die, ArenaNet, and she must die by the player’s hand.

Scarlet must die, ArenaNet, and she must die by the player’s hand.

Scarlet must die, ArenaNet, and she must die by the player’s hand.

Scarlet must die, ArenaNet, and she must die by the player’s hand.

Scarlet must die, ArenaNet, and she must die by the player’s hand.

Also, must GW1 weapon and armor skins, please.

I’m not sure why you would WANT a grind… grinds are horrible. I’d rather have a lengthy scavenger hunt and additional unique objectives to achieve something. Doing the same thing over and over and over is stupid. There are better ways to make something worthwhile, and a grind is not one of them.

Hallmark must have offered ANET a pretty penny for ANET to push the Valentine’s theme this hard lol

Now about those GW1 weapon and armor skins… we’re still waiting on those.

That looks like a bad photoshop job, but it is still amusing :P

So long story short, Magic Find is a fake stat to give the less fortunate a sliver of hope. I have well over 100% MF and it does absolutely NOTHING. It’s all RNG, better known as luck. Even if you had 1000% MF, you still might NEVER get a precursor drop.

Do yourself a favor and pretend Magic Find doesn’t exist (because it doesn’t). Just play the game and keep hating the lucky ones and the ones who implemented this travesty against humanity that is RNG.

So, this issue has been brought up before, and has been supposedly fixed multiple times, but the functionality of the skill ‘Rush’ on the greatsword for warrior is STILL having the same targeting issues it has had since the betas. The skill STILL causes the player to run in place when targeting inanimate objects like gates/dredge towers/siege weapons or large foes like risen giants, oakhearts, and enlarged versions of normal foes.

Also, often times when the player has a foe targeted that doesn’t cause the player to run in place, sometimes the player character runs past the target, stops, and ‘hits’ air. The skill only functions correctly a fraction of the time. It’s more efficient as a pure movement skill, and that is not good.

Also to note, I do not have melee assist on when I play. I know what melee assist is for, but the skill should function as advertised regardless of what features I choose to have enabled/disabled.

They already destroyed the original lighthouse in LA like it was nothing (I’m still very upset about that, ANET. You are horrible people for doing that. It’s not even that you destroyed it, it’s how you destroyed it), so they will probably destroy what little is left of GW1’s LA like it means nothing.

GW2 is starting to look more and more like GW1’s different-hair-colored-step-child rather than an actual successor. It’s like ANET wants less and less to do with GW1 anymore, even though GW1 is the reason ANET still existed long before GW2 was even thought up, and that is a shame.

Story arc wise and for the sake of continuity, by doing Arah story mode, it is automatically understood by default that the player has done the story modes for all the previous dungeons by working with DE. This is whether they actually did it or not (which I did on my main character).

ANET just chose not to force players to do the story mode of dungeons prior to doing Arah story mode because not everyone likes doing dungeons. To cater for the player base as a whole, Arah story mode automatically assumes the player went through all the story mode dungeons. For continuity’s sake, the player befriends DE. However, this living story completely broke any continuity the player had with DE. THAT is the problem. Why establish the continuity at all in the first place if they’re going to do that? Why bother with the elder dragons, then? Why make GW2, then?

As I said before, it’s like the fight with Zhaitan never took place, DE is still disbanded, and Logan and Rytlock still hate each other (actually now it’s like they don’t know each other at all).

Also, more GW1 weapon and armor skins, please.

Oh no you dont… don’t even try to undermine the player like that.

The fact remains that Destiny’s Edge would not have gotten back together without the player. The player is the Commander of the forces that invaded Orr. You can’t say that the player is ‘just another face’ in the fight against the Orrians. Human, Charr, Sylvari, Asura, or Norn, it doesn’t matter; the player is the central part to everything. For the writers to completely write off the player makes writers look bad and it is just blatant disrespect to the players, especially when you consider that one of GW2’s selling points whats the personalized story and how it was all about the player.

I like this game as much as anyone else, but this sort of thing is not good for the game. You can do better, ArenaNet.

And more GW1 weapon and armor skins, please.

I apologize in advance for the tardiness of this post, but it MUST be said. I don’t get on the forums very often.

Regarding the previous living story update, the origins of madness, would someone please tell me why Rytlock and Logan had no idea who I was when I interacted with them in the instance in Lion’s Arch? The instance where Kasmeer tells us about her teddy bear and how Brahm is babysitting Taimi and how Rox is THIS CLOSE to joining the Stone warband, is the instance I’m referring to.

I get that not all of the player’s characters have finished personal story (which I did on that specific character), and I get that you guys are trying to tell a story that doesn’t really involve Destiny’s Edge, but if you’re going to involve the player and members of Destiny’s Edge, at least take the time to give them proper dialogue.

Rytlock, Logan and I, among others, destroyed Zhaitan (in a very lackluster final fight, I might add, but still!) and the interaction text was something along the lines of “Aren’t you Rytlock Brimstone?> Yeah, who the skritt are you?”

Very nice of you to completely detach the player from Destiny’s Edge and the destruction of Zhaitan. We all know that Zhaitan was a massive disappointment, but come on, own up to it! Don’t sweep it under the rug!

It’s like I’ve mentioned before in other places, It’s as if the elder dragons don’t even exist! Dragon Bash passed them off as a joke, and we haven’t done a single thing against the elder dragons since Zhaitan. Jormag keeps regrowing his claws every 3 hours, Tequatl is indestructible compared to Zhaitan, and Kralkatorrik keeps coughing in Ascalon’s general direction after the Shatterer explodes in the sky, but Kralkatorrik NEVER flies back up from the Crystal Desert saying “Forget this, I’ll deal with you myself.”

PLEASE, for the love of Melandru, let us put Scarlet (and ourselves) out of her misery by hitting her with my 20k eviscerates so we can ‘wake up’ a few days after destroying Zhaitan and remember “Oh yeah, Jormag/Kralkatorrik/Primordus/Mordremoth/Bubbles are still mad at us. I must destroy them next”.

Also, don’t you even dare do a cop out by having Scarlet killed/destroyed/taken-to-another-dimension-from-which-she-can-never-return by anything other than the player. Also, don’t make her suddenly become ‘one of the good guys’.

No more Scarlet, no more Aetherblades, no more Molten/Toxic alliances. Just. Elder. Dragons. Maybe a brief detour between each dragon so you guys don’t run out of content to give us, but not a distraction that is over a year in length. Most of these distractions weren’t even permanent content

Oh, and more GW1 weapon and armor skins, please.

… it looks great! The artist doesn’t play GW2, so he didn’t understand that Sylvari have plant skin as opposed to human skin, but it looks great anyway! I myself am working on drawing up my own characters, but I’m still not coming up with anything I like. Having a Cintiq has helped me, but I still have a lot more practicing to do before I feel like I can share. In the meantime, this will work as further inspiration

I just wanted to share this with the forum and if anyone would like details to commission the artist, I’ll be happy to point in his direction.

I recommend having only one weapon-swap/on crit sigil equipped. I use intelligence/force/bloodlust. Anything else just messes things up.

Anyway, I recall making multiple posts about issues like this numerous times since launch. They were detailed, researched, and well written. I never got any solid feedback. I guess next time I’ll keep my posts to 5 words or so. Maybe then I’ll get an actual response from people. TL;DR is a real shame… lazies :P

I love the effort you put into this, it’s neat to speculate.

Too bad ArenaNet already said they have no plans to return to Cantha or Elona or to make an actual expansion… I want the original GW1 devs back (not that I want GW2’s devs fired or anything, but their absence is very visible in the game. I mean come on, you guys destroyed the original Lighthouse in Lion’s Arch like it was nothing!). Those guys made such a great game. It’s a shame they’re not with ArenaNet anymore.

I hate to say it, but the majority of the player base is still male. As time goes on and the gender ratio balances itself out (it will, ladies, I promise. These things take time). They put more effort into the female characters over the males for that reason. Your target audience and customer is all considered for the profitability of your product.

I personally don’t care either way, but I do support the addition of more options for male character creation if it is truly lacking in options. I haven’t checked because, again, I don’t care.

Not to sound like a smart-kitten , but perhaps you can develop your own game opposite to Scarlet Blade (that one MMO where there are NO male characters to play as, which is an insulting game for both men and women). I doubt it would sell well, but it would be a start in the direction you seek. If you build it, they will come… eventually.

Oh look, it’s this thread again. So aside from the ego stroking that the duelists want and the eye rolling of those who couldn’t care less about dueling, what else is new? * reads *

I see: nothing new. It just goes back and forth perpetually. It’s always these internet tough guys that want to obnoxiously duel in the open world for everyone else to see, whether they like it or not, and then the winner of the duel can whip out his digital junk for all to see, expecting admiration as if they are actually somehow better than the other player. It’s like ‘commanders’ in W3 that think they actually have authority over other players.

I wonder if these people will ever understand that in the grand scheme of things, no one cares about their little duels except them. Private arenas already exist, ’nuff said.

If ArenaNet makes an open world dueling system like in other MMOs, some will be happy and some will not. If they don’t implement it, some will be happy and some will not. It’s one of those ‘kitten ed if you do kitten ed if you dont’ situations. I say ArenaNet should just leave it as it is and wipe their hands of it.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.

Doing so would cause your screen to freeze as is for a few seconds while the game loads all the necessary data when you instant travel to different areas. The load screen is just something to look at while the game loads, unless you’d rather have your screen freeze for a few seconds each time you would normally see a load screen.

There is too much going on at one time in an MMO such as this for instant loading to be possible with current infrastructure. You, ArenaNet, your internet service provider, and all the data hubs between you and the game’s central data point would all have to have super computers that are the size of a house, and you’d have to be the only person connected to the game client.

All that just so instant travel would really be instant travel. Maybe the computers don’t have to be the size of a house, but you would need so massive processing power and data transfer rates.

It’s a know fact that the game has musically inclined players. The bells and such that have a nice range of notes are a fun addition to the game. Do you think there is a way to add sharps, flats, and octaves for the notes of these musical instruments?

Here’s just a thought I had on how it could possibly work: You could add key bindings to each individual note in the options tab that would only take effect while you have the instrument equipped. . You could then use whatever keys you wanted on your keyboard to hit the entire range of notes. Perhaps you could also include a key binding option to raise/lower the notes an octave.

Or another example could be where the ‘A’ key is the first note. ‘Q’ could be the sharp version of the note if it has one, and ‘Z’ could be the flat version if it has one (not all notes have sharps or flats, technically speaking.) Then just follow suit so on and so forth for with S, D, F, J, K, L, and ;

I know this could be a pain to code into the game, but if you guys can pull it off it would be pretty darn cool. Then you could add a variety of different instruments to the gem store for DIRECT GEM PURCHASE (hint hint profit for ArenaNet) AND NOT BLACK LION CHEST RNG CRAP. Then people can make whole bands if they want and put on concerts.

Just a thought. Oh, and more GW1 weapon and armor skins available for direct gem purchase and not BL chest RNG.

Ever since I can remember, using any of the turrets at Lowland Burns where you fight the Shatterer kicks the player off the turret. As soon as the round is fired, the character breaks interaction, thus rendering the shot fired useless. If you break interaction before the shot does it’s damage, it does no damage at all. They are completely useless. It happens on all of the turrets there. It doesn’t matter if the event is active or not.

I’ve had this issue come up as well. I used Hunter’s Shot on my ranger while I was in Twilight Arbor and the foes kept on going as if nothing happened. Something is definitely up.

Tman.6349:

Dear Anet,

I chose to run a maximum damage build with none of the utilities many others use to balance out their builds in order to be more viable. I did this with the sole purpose of being able to roll over every bit of content in your game with little to no challange. My world has been recently torn apart when I came across a counter to my build and this has really upset me. Usually, i just like to run wrecklessly head first into any battle
and to decimate anything in my path b/c i like to see big white numbers and dead bodies. After running into this counter to my build, it turns out that steamrolling every mob i come across isn’t always possible. This is just unacceptable as i refuse to change any of my tactics nor do i appreciate a challenge. You have made a completely broken mechanic that is now forcing me to use evades, condition cleanses and situational awareness in order to be effective. This has got to come to an end as i can’t fathom changing my ways in order to play through the content that you have provided me for free for well over a year. I’m positive that every other player in the game feels the same way as I do as I have confirmed with the community that my build should have no weaknesses ( ) and while there are plenty of skills at everyone’s disposal to counter this broken mechanic, all have agreed that I should not be subject to it as the rest of the community is. So right now i’m at a crossroads of whether i should just quit the game altogether. I truly hope you will take time out of running your massive company to adress this issue I consider very unfair, so that i might be able to dominate every aspect of your lovely game with little challenge or effort. Thank you for your consideration and I diligently await your reply to adress this issue.
Yours Truly,
Brutus the Self Absorbed

P.S. I would also very much appreciate it if in the next patch you could buff the base damage of all warrior skills by 50%. Thanx in advance!

Lol, that Brutus guy sure needs to learn about dodging and utility skills. If he does quit the game then hey, to each his own. If he thinks warriors need a base damage increase of 50% then he’s not doing it right. Warriors do well enough damage as they are, but that weakness sure is brutal. He must have worse luck with weakness RNG than I. Don’t worry Tman, I feel your pain!

Oh and yeah, give us more GW1 weapon and armor skins.

That’s the thing, I do run around with cleanses, they’re not very useful when the conditions are constantly being reapplied. I remember blinding surge, too. It was definitely effective against anyone that wasn’t a spell caster.

But think about what you’re saying with blindness making all things miss for the duration. Blindness affects ALL attacks, including spells. What you’re proposing would affect everything’s ability to do damage. At that point it would be a race to see who applies blind to who first, then everyone would just spam blind. Next you’ll be wanting them to add a dedicated healing class and a monthly subscription fee for good measure.

If you were to suggest that they make blind work like it did in GW1, then they would have to make daze work like it did in GW1, where EVERY attack would interrupt a spell while also doubling it’s cast time and lasting a lot longer than 1 or 2 seconds.

But anyway, the whole point of the zerker builds is to kill your targets fast, because doing so not only gets the job done, it also rallies downed allies. Killing the target is much faster than stopping to revive. The trade off, of course, is less defense and being ‘squishy’. When one condition nearly shuts down a build, that’s not good. I mean not only is the damage output greatly reduced, you’re still ‘squishy’. That’s why a crit build’s damage is important.

I just don’t see why critical hits themselves have to be subject to weakness like normal attacks in PvE. I’d be more in favor of weakness working inversely like fury, where it cuts a player’s crit chance by 20% or something like that, as opposed to make all attacks have a 50% chance to be glancing. It reduces a crit build’s damage output by well over 50%. And it’s not like warriors are the only ones that run crit focused builds. Crits also don’t occur 100% of the time, even with high crit chance and fury. Even with fury and a high crit chance, sometimes skills like Hundred Blades will go without a single critical hit. That’s RNG for you. The RNG for crit, like all attacks, is rolled for each individual hit: sometimes it will not work, and if you’re as unlucky as I, it most often wont work. RNG already screws me over with magic find, I don’t need it messing up my ability to kill a creature and mitigate my ability help my fellow players out.

And why should I be forced to run a condition build? While condition builds are definitely useful, no one should be forced to play a certain way. Again, I completely understand the rework to weakness from a PvP standpoint, I’m crazy powerful. But in PvE we’re fighting creatures, monsters, and NPCs, not other players. Unless the AI decided to cry to ArenaNet for me hitting too hard… then that means the age of humanity is over and technology has become self aware. IF that’s the case then ArenaNet needs to give me back my crits so that I can stop the onslaught, because condition damage only goes so far.

Dear ArenaNet,

I know you guys love keeping a good balance in PvP, and I can totally understand why you would want weakness to render full on berserker crit warriors nearly useless with weakness. Let’s face it, eating a 15k eviscerate is a bit harsh, but it’s the way of the game sometimes.

HOWEVER! In PvE, this weakness/50% of everything is glancing is no fun at all. When ALL TEN of my strikes with Hundred Blades is a glancing blow, thus rendering my berserker warrior build completely null and void even though I have over 80% crit chance with one measly condition… that’s just broken.

I hereby request that you make it so that weakness is only a 50% glancing blows on ALL attacks in PvP, but back to how it was previously for PvE… or at the very least, make it so that critical hits have a reduced chance to be glancing. When one simple condition drops a character’s damage by over 50%, and that same condition has a very long duration and is easily stacked because most creatures in the game can apply it… you have a big problem.

Again, I can totally understand it’s effectiveness and reasoning in PvP: people don’t like eating my 15k Eviscerates, but give us some slack in PvE. I want to go back to being pure destruction in PvE. I bravely charge into combat to wreck destruction on my PvE foes because it’s fun to see big numbers pop up, but when most of the creatures in that gaggle apply lengthy weakness… it completely takes all the fun away. Every time my Hundred Blades crits for less than 15k, I want to cry. When all of my attacks with Hundred Blades are glancing, giving me a heart-attack inducing 5k Hundred Blades when I have a full on berserker build in PvE makes me want to punt all of the kittens for a 1000 yard field goal.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF MELANDRU, REDUCE THE CHANCE THAT CRITICAL HITS ARE GLANCING WHILE UNDER THE EFFECTS OF WEAKNESS. It says 50%, but it’s actually more than that. There’s this thing called luck and RNG, and both hate me, because way too often do all of my attacks end up as glancing blows when even 3 seconds of weakness is applied.

I hope you take this into consideration for your next balance update.

Love,
Zera

PS: Give us more GW1 weapon and armor skins.

And lets not forget, it’s going to take you 25 days to craft all the necessary bolts of Damask for your insignias and components (can only make one per day), unless you buy them, of course. But that will cost you over 500g right now.