Guild Wars 2

I like this idea for boosters and food and such. It could be useful without breaking the game if implemented correctly.

Hmm, then why not lock out everything else from exotic on down?

I was wondering, why did ArenaNet lock out deldrimor steel, elonian leather and damask components behind a 24 hour time?

I realize this may seem like an odd question considering that Ascended equipment has been out for a good while now, but I never thought to question it until now. I fail to understand the ‘why’ regarding this.

I’m not looking for a debate or anything, I’m just once again failing to see the supposed logic behind a feature’s design. If we have the materials on hand to make the component, why not let us make it? A month to craft a full set of armor even though you have the required materials on hand is quite ridiculous when you think about it. Why was this designed this way?

When Ascended first came out, I thought to myself “Oh, it’s just to make Ascended equipment feel more ‘special’ since it’s is ‘best in slot’.” The stat increase is so minimal, though, that it hardly feels special. It feels like going through the Tough Mudder obstacle course: 12 miles of a masochist’s dream for no significant gains once you are done. It’s like going through basic training in the Marine Corps only to be immediately involuntary discharged from military service upon graduation: went through all that effort and all you can really say is you went through the motions.

Again, I’m just trying to understand ‘why’ this was the intended design, because to me it feels about as sensible as going into Iraq right now while wearing nothing but an American flag and expect to not become the latest terrorist YouTube sensation. Please, ArenaNet, clearly your logic is superior to mine. Share it with me so that I may understand.

BlueBoy.1236:

Zera Allimatti.2541:

JusticarArkiel.1564:

Zera Allimatti.2541:

Branden Gee.2150:

I just wanted to let you know that your feedback on this is really appreciated. I understand how this immersion breaking bug is severely detracting from your enjoyment of Guild Wars 2. I assure you, Radiobiology, Bluefox. We have Top Men working on it right now. As always it will be fixed When It’s Ready™.

So let me get this straight: you would put Top Men to work on a minor issue like this (you could have just easily said it was a decorative jewel instead of a window), but wont put them to work to fix legitimate gameplay bugs that have been around since the alphas?

Walking down a slope and dying of falling damage for walking is detracting from my enjoyment of GW2 (which reminds me that it’s just a game after the immersion factor is destroyed).

Using warrior greatsword skill 5 “Rush” on a target and running THROUGH that target and hitting the air behind it is detracting from my enjoyment of GW2 (which reminds me that it’s just a game after the immersion factor is destroyed).

Using warrior rifle burst skill “Kill Shot” on a target fails half the time as the shot goes off in some random direction away from the selected target is detracting from my enjoyment of GW2 (which reminds me that it’s just a game after the immersion factor is destroyed).

Many of your players have connection errors and the only fix seems to be to open up ‘ports’ that will require the purchase of third party software as per the links you provide in your support section for common errors seen here:

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/38813526-Common-Error-Codes

Really, Branden?

uhm, mate? the entire thread, hate to break it to you, is one big joke. even the reply is meant as a joke.

Yes, I know, that’s why I included the Top Men in my ‘unsarcastic’ rant. I know it’s hard to detect, but the sarcasm is there, and THAT is the joke in my post: the joke that ArenaNet would get Top Men to work on issues. The joke is that ArenaNet would even consider to fix things that have been broken since the alphas. Take real in-game issues, and assign fictional teams to fix them. That was the joke.

are you done with your daily whining quest? Here’s 10ap for you.

Nope, I can do this all day.

JusticarArkiel.1564:

Zera Allimatti.2541:

Branden Gee.2150:

I just wanted to let you know that your feedback on this is really appreciated. I understand how this immersion breaking bug is severely detracting from your enjoyment of Guild Wars 2. I assure you, Radiobiology, Bluefox. We have Top Men working on it right now. As always it will be fixed When It’s Ready™.

So let me get this straight: you would put Top Men to work on a minor issue like this (you could have just easily said it was a decorative jewel instead of a window), but wont put them to work to fix legitimate gameplay bugs that have been around since the alphas?

Walking down a slope and dying of falling damage for walking is detracting from my enjoyment of GW2 (which reminds me that it’s just a game after the immersion factor is destroyed).

Using warrior greatsword skill 5 “Rush” on a target and running THROUGH that target and hitting the air behind it is detracting from my enjoyment of GW2 (which reminds me that it’s just a game after the immersion factor is destroyed).

Using warrior rifle burst skill “Kill Shot” on a target fails half the time as the shot goes off in some random direction away from the selected target is detracting from my enjoyment of GW2 (which reminds me that it’s just a game after the immersion factor is destroyed).

Many of your players have connection errors and the only fix seems to be to open up ‘ports’ that will require the purchase of third party software as per the links you provide in your support section for common errors seen here:

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/38813526-Common-Error-Codes

Really, Branden?

uhm, mate? the entire thread, hate to break it to you, is one big joke. even the reply is meant as a joke.

Yes, I know, that’s why I included the Top Men in my ‘unsarcastic’ rant. I know it’s hard to detect, but the sarcasm is there, and THAT is the joke in my post: the joke that ArenaNet would get Top Men to work on issues. The joke is that ArenaNet would even consider to fix things that have been broken since the alphas. Take real in-game issues, and assign fictional teams to fix them. That was the joke.

Branden Gee.2150:

I just wanted to let you know that your feedback on this is really appreciated. I understand how this immersion breaking bug is severely detracting from your enjoyment of Guild Wars 2. I assure you, Radiobiology, Bluefox. We have Top Men working on it right now. As always it will be fixed When It’s Ready™.

So let me get this straight: you would put Top Men to work on a minor issue like this (you could have just easily said it was a decorative jewel instead of a window), but wont put them to work to fix legitimate gameplay bugs that have been around since the alphas?

Walking down a slope and dying of falling damage for walking is detracting from my enjoyment of GW2 (which reminds me that it’s just a game after the immersion factor is destroyed).

Using warrior greatsword skill 5 “Rush” on a target and running THROUGH that target and hitting the air behind it is detracting from my enjoyment of GW2 (which reminds me that it’s just a game after the immersion factor is destroyed).

Using warrior rifle burst skill “Kill Shot” on a target fails half the time as the shot goes off in some random direction away from the selected target is detracting from my enjoyment of GW2 (which reminds me that it’s just a game after the immersion factor is destroyed).

Many of your players have connection errors and the only fix seems to be to open up ‘ports’ that will require the purchase of third party software as per the links you provide in your support section for common errors seen here:

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/38813526-Common-Error-Codes

Really, Branden?

I just like to one-shot them with Eviscerate. Problem solved!

Oh I know, it doesn’t change the fact that the issue has been around since long before release.

Yep, I posted about Rush’s issues numerous times. It has been an issues since the alphas and will likely never be fixed.

Groonz.7825:

This thread looks very familiar, pretty sure someone already posted about this exact same thing (maybe on reddit, since I rarely check here.)

Maybe so, but this is MY thread so it’s much better

Mufasa.8415:

This thread is for discussing class’s not for critiquing if I’m mad. Forum administrators say the same spiel so please keep your thoughts on point. Thanks.

Critiquing IS discussing. It’s not like I’m calling for the OP to kill himself or anything. I’m just pointing out the obvious that this thread is reborn on a near daily basis and injecting my own humor into it. You can’t expect people to create post and never have any form of disagreement or the pointing out of the obvious. I’m all for new playable classes, but these threads just keep being recreated, so I respond accordingly.

Mufasa.8415:

Not sure how discussing new class ideas constitutes being a new player but your attitude for sure isn’t new please find a cave to troll in somewhere.

I think I hit a nerve with that one. Someone thinks being a new player is a bad thing. You should show me your cave sometime. I’ll even help decorate.

It doesn’t change the fact that people love to beat those dead horses. I can’t say I blame them though, it’s just too hard to actually come up new, original ideas.

I’ve made this post several times already. It has been an issues since the alphas. They will never fix it. It is best to use rush as a movement skill instead of for attacking purposes. Same thing with kill shot straight up failing half the time and sending the projectile in some random direction away from the active target.

Oh look, it’s this thread again. Well, on the bright side we know that GW2 keeps getting new players since the same threads keep popping up. We should make specific dev posts required reading before getting access to the forums (you know, the posts about all these dead horses being beat).

Legitimate bug fixes are what get me hot in all the right places.

Ah, the joys of temporary content. /sarcasm

I think OP wants the crafted equipment to not be account bound.

See, that makes more sense; AI limitations.

Dissuade players from skipping content… yeah people will do that no matter what, combat run be kitten ed. That’s like hoping to end gun violence by making it illegal to own a firearm: you only negatively impact the law abiding citizen. The criminals will still get guns (just like people still get drugs even though they are illegal).

If this is the only reason to have this feature, then maybe it SHOULD be removed.

Something I never understood at all: why is it that when you enter combat, your running speed is reduced by like 50% (or whatever the actual reduction is)? What is the purpose of slowing down a player’s movement in combat? Combat mechanics already have things like cripple and chill for movement impeding purposes, why further reduce it passively? It just seems like a very unnecessary and awkward game mechanic to me.

Would someone please explain the logic behind this? It just doesn’t make sense to me. Please note I’m not asking for it’s removal or anything (I don’t want this thread to become a Q_Q storm from the PvP community or whatever, and I know ArenaNet would never make such complicated change), I’m just hoping to understand why this feature exists at all.

Guardian is easy mode, everything else is fun mode.

What would be great is if the pointer was a little bit bigger and inverted the color of every pixel the mouse covered. It would be easier to see that way, I’d think.

It’s funny how ArenaNet makes it so you can’t FGS anymore and instead give that ability to the teragriffs. Run in place, some 15 packets of damage per second, yeah…. nice way to stick it to the players lol. This is what we call irony :P

Holy crap I can’t believe I actually read most of that and skimmed only some…. does that make me a bad person? O_o

Good read, to say the least. Maybe one day I wont be so lazy and make my posts like this.

Devata.6589:

Zera Allimatti.2541:

Wolfey.3407:

At the end of the day, what matters is that NCSOFT is happy.
So far, they seem to be happy since they are not actively firing/ transferring
people from ANET to other projects. In fact, Anet is hiring more people than the other development teams under NCSOFT. So, they have to be doing something right to keep NCSOFT happy.

By they, you mean we. We keep spending money on gems.

Please speak for yourself. I never spend a single dime on gems and will never spend a single dime on gems. I won’t support something that is bad for the game.

For every one of you that doesn’t, enough do to keep it going.

The (you know which company that starts with an ‘n’ has an ‘x’ somewhere in the middle I’m talking about but won’t name because then this post will be deleted) shareholder
Weapons: RNG, micro-transactions, RNG within micro-transactions
Ranged weapon: same as above
Ascended armour: Wolf skin clothing made from wolves of Wall St.
Traits: Influence to affect what get’s made in NCSoft games

Not sure if this was mentioned yet or not (I assume not), but the vast majority of the GW1 developers left ArenaNet long before GW2’s release. GW2 was made by mostly different people. It is ArenaNet only in name. How else would you explain the significant changes. Mike O’Brien marketed this game as ‘Taking everything you love about GW1 and putting it in a persistent world." Obviously this was largely untrue, but that does not make GW2 a bad game, at least. It just makes it very different from (and in some cases inferior to) it’s predecessor.

Take it for what it is: not the Guild Wars game you were hoping for, but it’s the best this new ArenaNet could do in the wake of the departure of many. I’m just glad they at least stayed true to some of the lore (though I wish they didn’t discard Cantha and Elona).

What the hell is a meta? Seriously, what is it, and why are people so worked up about it? Why should I, or any of you for that matter, care what it is? reads some stuff

Really…. really? THIS is what people are getting worked up about? Not the bugs or various other issues that actually affect playability and enjoyment? This ‘meta’ issue is so easily circumvented that it’s not even funny.

What’s next, complaining that level 80 is too low a level? That the game needs a dedicated healing class? That the Asura should make a portal to Azeroth and Telara? That we need quick-sniping? Oh, I know! How about a game based on a movie based on a game based on a movie about how much Skritt love shinies (directed by Uwe Boll)?

This post makes no sense, and it still makes more sense than why people get worked up over this ‘meta’ bullkitten.

I understand the concept of RNG perfectly: some will never win, and others will win numerous times. It’s all luck, and luck sucks.

Since Lady Luck and the Sisters of Fate are far more cruel than Karma in this sense, a circumvention of RNG would be a godsend. Take the mostly dead idea of a precursor scavenger hunt, for example. It was a great idea, but for some reason it does not appear to be something that will happen. I’m guessing the coding is too difficult or something.

Right now, with the Living Story and the luminescent armor pieces, people are having to farm 4000 crests to get the items they need. It’s a tedious process that can be very daunting, but at least it is possible and guaranteed. If it wasn’t for that, many would never ever get the items they need, because RNG does exactly that. 100+ chests and 0 armor pieces yielded… That is RNG, and that is why these sought after items need a guaranteed way of acquisition.

So, make every item in the game available for acquisition via in-game progress of some sort. Obviously ArenaNet will make it as tedious as possible, to maximize the amount of effort a player has to put forth to be rewarded, but as long as it’s guaranteed and RNG is completely removed from the equation (as in nothing that has a ‘rare chance to drop’ and instead be an item you can acquire by participating in the game) then it will be grand.

How about… oh I don’t know, a vendor that uses multiple forms of in-game currency? Like, for the really sought after items, a vendor that sells the items for in exchange for karma, laurels, dungeon tokens, crafting materials, mystic forge gifts, coin, guild commendations, fractal relics, badges of honor, crests or whatever other guaranteed items the game already has a lot of. All of the items listed here can be obtained through just playing the game and it’s many aspects. Nothing will get more people to spread out and play all the aspects of this game than that kind of incentive.

Is that not what you want, ArenaNet? For people to keep playing your game and buying your gems? Oh wait, nothing I mentioned has any use for the gem store. Nevermind, nothing I mentioned here will be considered for that reason.

This is why RNG exists: so that those who are hated by luck MUST buy gems to exchange for gold to get the items they need. The less fortunate are how profit is made in this case. A brilliant business strategy, but hardly an enjoyable gaming experience for many players.

Wolfey.3407:

At the end of the day, what matters is that NCSOFT is happy.
So far, they seem to be happy since they are not actively firing/ transferring
people from ANET to other projects. In fact, Anet is hiring more people than the other development teams under NCSOFT. So, they have to be doing something right to keep NCSOFT happy.

By they, you mean we. We keep spending money on gems.

Did the repair, same thing. And this isn’t the issue. The issue is that I shouldn’t have to rely on some third party software to run the game properly, especially since these issues were non-existent for me until a recent patch.

You know it’s going to be on the gem store for several hundred gems and for a limited time only so you will HAVE to spend real money… or worse: behind BL Chest RNG wall so you will have to spend MORE real money and probably never get it.

So, for the past few weeks, since the release of Tangled Paths update, the game client has been having “log-in server” issues (Code=42:0:9001:4409:101). I can log in and play the game, but while logged in, all kinds of things repeatedly cease to work properly. This error message pops up every 15 minutes or so. Before that update, my client was running fine (as fine as it could with the rest of your game’s issues, at least). Below is a list of the various issues occurring because of this.

• my guild is constantly unifying chapters, showing myself and all other guild members as offline.

• guild chat and private messaging do not work half the time. It does not show any replies I send and I am unable to verify if my messages are being sent

• while in a party, the client gives the message that the entire party has disbanded every few minutes even though the party has not actually disbanded

• the LFG tool is constantly auto-refreshing several times a second, making it nearly impossible to use. When I do get into a group, it is often the wrong group. Naturally, I leave the unintended party, but with the LFG group repeatedly putting me in the wrong group, I have to leave them and get locked out of the LFG tool because of the cooldown.

• The BLTC window often shows nothing, not even the ‘loading’ circle thingy.

It feels like I’m a ‘ghost’: kind of online and kind of offline. It’s like the game has developed a short term memory and frequently forgets that I am online. I keep having to say “Hi, I’m here.” and reintroduce myself to it. How am I supposed to wine and dine your game like this? :P

Also, I wanted to ask: what the heck is this “CoherentUI_Host.exe *32” process I’m seeing in my task manager? The description reads “Coherent UI – A modern user interface library for games.” Ending this process freezes the GW2 client. Why does your game require this separate background process in addition to the game client itself? All these issues I’m having have to deal with the user interface in game, so maybe there is something up with this separate process of yours? I’m no coder, but something is definitely wrong with the client at the moment.

I hope your coders are able to find a solution soon. While the game is not unplayable, it is certainly not enjoyable.

Yes, to each their own. You stick to your lore-spawn names, they’ll stick to their puns, and I’ll stick to the only name that matters: Zera.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

only 1 red colored reply after 2 months.

this is extremely disappointing.

I dont get on the forums much, and I only just now caught wind of this personal story line change. It blew my mind that they did this. I literally scrolled through this entire thread to see what else the devs have said about this. Indeed, only one dev reply on this thread.

Next they’ll probably remove “VIctory or Death” all together and just give us a cutscene of Zhaitan being shot by airship cannons while we the players just stand on the ground and watch.

On my ranger, I named my pet jaguar X K Eight.

Or so I’d be saying if I had one. With all these NPC commanders flying around in their own airships, is it safe to assume that in some upcoming chapter, the players are going to get their own airship to ride around in and blow stuff up with? We are the commander of the Pact, after all. Call it wishful thinking, but I hope we get our own airship at some point. I think that would be grand.

Then maybe after that we can go back in time with said airship and defend Lion’s Arch from that psychopath plant that destroyed it?

I do hope that if they made it a fractal, it would use all of the facets, culminating in a fight with Glint herself (egg stealing time!)

I know many people have already said this, but I’m making my own thread because it is worth saying, and because I’m Zera.

First, I wish to thank you from the bottom of my GW heart for this latest LS update. The first half, with the stuff in Silverwastes is hardly noteworthy for me, but it is still enjoyable. However, that is not why I am posting here. What I am thanking you for is the second half.

The priory’s library is the best thing that happened to this game, lore wise. With mentions of Vekk, Althea, Doric, Barradin, Stormcaller, the statue of Abaddon and the specific mention of my Sylvari character’s opening personal instance with the “Shadow of the Dragon”, were all great. I thoroughly enjoyed reading all the books in there. More, please.

What really made me fall in love all over again, though, was when you finally let me return to Glint’s Lair. That was my favorite part of ALL of GW1, and I just really, truly, wish to thank you for letting me return. The amount of nostalgia literally had me in tears (the music was the breaking point for me. I had genuine tears start to flow.) When I saw that my health was ticking away, just like it did in GW1’s Glint’s Lair mission, I was crying tears of joy as my health ticked down. It sounds masochistic, I know, but that nostalgia was perfect. I don’t think you realize yet what a great thing you have in the GW1 lore.

Please, I beg of you, give me more. More like this. THIS is what made GW1 a superior game to GW2. Bring it all back.

Also, thank you for not making the KasMar dialog overbearing in that instance. I really appreciate it. It would have ruined the entire experience and I would not have had any tears flowing if their dialog was as intrusive as it has been in the past.

Whoever among you in ArenaNet who finally got wise and decided to use this much of the lore, I’d double your pay on the spot if I were Mike O’ Brien (or whoever dictates your pay).

Again, in all seriousness, thank you so kittening much. I needed this. Excuse me, I need a tissue.

A game that barely holds a candle to it’s predecessor, Guild Wars 1. It did a lot of things right with MMO combat mechanics and skill use, but tries too hard to please everyone. It had a lot of temporary content come and go (the vast majority of which has never and probably will never return).

It has a brutal RNG system in place for the most sought-after items. Chances are you will never get that item you really want as a drop, you’ll have to save a lot of currency to buy it from another player and reward them for your hard work.

The game does not seem to have any clear antagonists, either. There was this giant crustacean that attacked a major city about 2 years ago, and then there were all these wannabe villains that ended up being mere puppets to a psychpath, who in turn was also merely puppet for something else.

There are these rumored elder dragons that woke up over the course of the past 250 years (in-game) but they don’t actually do anything. They stay underground, on top of a mountain, underwater, in a desert, and supposedly another one woke up. You get to fight one of them, and by fight I mean you interact with a turret and press one button until it does. You never actually get to use your character’s equipment against it.

New players will be happy to know that the developers think that all new players are infants who can’t think for themselves and have to have a tutorial on everything from pressing the spacebar to jump to pressing another button to dodge. It will take at least 40 levels to be able to use all of your skills. For the first level, you literally have only one skill on your skill bar, but don’t worry you can’t die in the starting instance either. You can literally just stand there and dance and things will eventually die.

The crafting in the game is at least very easy. You can make some pretty nice stuff. You must craft if you want the best equipment, because the game’s brutal RNG will make it so you will probably never get the highest quality equipment.

The game’s visuals are nice. The music isn’t bad, either. You can even replace the in-game music with your own personal playlist (or you can just mute the game’s music and press play on your Winamp/iTunes/WMP).

It doesn’t have a monthly subscription, which is great. The in-game store sometimes has some really neat stuff to buy. It’s entirely optional to buy stuff, but some of the stuff you will really want to buy, then freak out when you realize how expensive it is and how long it will take you to get enough in-game currency to buy gems to buy the thing you want. Make sure you have a good sense of self-control with your credit card.

I hate Quaggans almost as much as I hate Dredge. They should be extinct.

Here is the breakdown of the stat difference for ascended berserker armor. Please do not reply to the thread because it is like 10 months old and we’re not supposed to comment on VERY old threads. Just read it for informational purposes only.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ascended-armor-cost-benefit/first#post3352661

The increase is minimal. The difference in berserker stats between a full set of exotic armor and a full set of ascended armor is less than one ruby orb. That’s right, one ruby orb has more of a stat increase than an entire set of ascended armor.

If you have a full set of exotic armor and you put one ruby orb in one of the six pieces, you will have more of a stat increase than you would from a full set of ascended armor with no runes/orbs in it.

The fight with the bloody prince is the dungeon. Doing it counts for the dungeon daily.

Heh, are you TRYING to get ArenaNet sued? :P

Please, Lion’s Arch deserved a better villain.

True. Regardless, something like this would be WAY more interesting than that mess that was Scarlet.

If I were to name a deep sea dragon with the name starting with the letter ‘S’, I’d name it Scylla.

Wooden Potatoes brought up some very interesting points in his recent video about Abaddon. There is a link below to the video for those who have not seen it and are interested.

While the speculation brought on is really mind blowing and incredible, I don’t think ArenaNet is capable of making such a great use of the GW1 lore. I really don’t think ArenaNet can do the amazing ‘full circle’ that this speculation is insinuating. To think that Abaddon might be this unsung hero, that the events of Nightfall occurred literally right before the awakening of Primordus (and that I killed Abaddon, ascending Kormir to godhood and did the bidding of the other gods because they didn’t know better than Abaddon), is incredible and extremely unlikely to me. There is no way this current ArenaNet would make such good use of the GW1 lore. They’ve been largely ignoring it all these years.

I really don’t mean to be insulting, ArenaNet, but I really don’t think you have it in you to pull off such an amazing use of GW1 lore.

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I really really really (times a googolplex) hope I’m wrong and ArenaNet can pull it off.

PROVE ME WRONG, ARENANET, I GOOGOLPLEX DARE YOU!

Oh snap, I actually got a response from ArenaNet, particularly the famed Gaile Gray! Hi Gaile! We used to chat in GW1 with your froggy friend, back in the good old days. I doubt you remember me, since there were usually hundreds of other players spamming the chat, but we had our moments that I remember

Anyway, I do have my reasons for disliking Quaggans. Mainly it’s because they have not provided any real benefit to the game that I am aware of. All I have seen them provide is the cult following they have wrought (aka the people in this thread that love quaggans and say that people need a quaggan hug).

I get it, some of you guy think they are cute or whatever (I disagree, and think Skritt are much more adorable), but their slowed speech, their lack of any real combat prowess, the tones of their voices, and the fact that they rely on others to elevate them (I’m looking at you Suwash! You bring great discredit to that kid in Elona that I ‘rescued’, only to find that he joined the corsairs by choice). “Please beat up those pirates so that quaggan can be pirate.” They’re a parasite, is what they are. I, the player, should have become the leader of those pirates, not you! I did all the work! You just stood there all pathetic like QQ-ing about how ‘mean’ they were to you.

Then, when they get sick and I try to help them by defending the priests trying to cure them, they turn hostile and attack me and kill the priests. Bite the hand that feeds you, and you get a 20k eviscerate to the face!

Seriously, to hell with quaggans. Skritt at least have funny dialog and can actually grow in intelligence. Quaggans just never get better (unless they get buffed by Jormag’s corruption, then they actually do damage).

I take great pleasure in every quaggan I kill.