I think they use C++ to program the codes.
I think curiosa would add a lot more depth to the current story and also make players think in a lot more directions and not only on “the main” story.
Give hints and dialogues about other stuff in lore, like the dwarves, Glint, Crystal Desert and events from GW1 and events that happened now but in another zone that we can’t visit (yet).
Maybe a few words from Cantha or Elona, or some other place in Tyria? The story often feel linear, and I think adding curiosa to the story will make the universe of GW2 and our minds much more pleasant.
Thanks for the feedback, folks. I appreciate your comments and will say that consistent, complex, nuanced characters and storytelling are absolutely my goal as well. I’m soaking up all the existing story that I can, via gameplay, wikis, our novels, and lots and lots of conversations with my coworkers who have great insights (and opinions) on our expansive lore. I really love the game and am excited to be a part of it moving forward. Keep the comments coming!
Leah
(now with fancy, red ANet banner)
Let us fight some big kitten boss soon. I will adore you if you make it happen.
Quoting myself from a similar thread.
Please, no. Unless console players play with a mouse and a keyboard (which I doubt, because what’s the point playing a console then?) these players will become a liability in parties and group content. Better fix that Mac client many players are complaining about.
Console will have their own servers and the game console version will be optimized for console.
With more PC games releasing on console, I think GW2 would do very good on console. Look at Diablo 3 or Destiny. Those two games are so kitten good on console. Diablo 3 on PC was pretty boring, played Diablo 2 on PC years ago, but Diablo 3 on playstation is so kitten good. I’m sure GW2 would do magnificent on console.
With less focus on spending points in traits every level, they want you to focus on actually playing in the game world, exploring etc.
Please make a santa outfit for this christmas and reindeer miniature and a sledge.
So it’s pretty clear that ArenaNet underestimates the human race and think we are a bunch of babies that haven’t even learned how to walk on our feet.
Some of the new stuff in the update is good, like the rewards and the compass (when it works). Some of the stuff, like gaining utility skills very slow and stuff like that will just bore people to death. Same thing with traits.
Guild Wars 2 need to release for Playstation 4 and Xbox One. Sales will increase by 2000%.
The game is perfect for console, with some minor changes it will be one of the best games for console, on par with Diablo 3 or even better.
If you’re a veteran player you most likely have one of those leveling tomes which level your character to 20 instantly.
We should be able to have abillities from other classes, like a secondary class in GW1. Screw competitive PvP. Let’s have fun and let’s be unique!
There will be an expansion 2015. I know, because ArenaNet is working on something secret for 2 years now.
The game is pure sandbox with little themepark. All events are controlled by GMs and an event won’t be on a timer etc, they happen once and then they are done. The world is huge and there is open world PvP with castles sieges etc. Faction wars. Guild wars. There are ways to get cool extraordinary armor and weapons, they take time and you have to reveal most of the map to get them, and a lot of it plays out to be puzzles, secret areas, rare items, challenging enemies and bosses. There’s a few instances, for places like UW, FoW, Urgot’s etc. Those zones are huge and not small like in GW1. Combat is very action based like GW2 but without tab-targeting and there’s also second and maybe even third proffession like in GW1 and ArcheAge. You can destroy most things and you can also repair and build most things. There are mounts, racial mounts, legendary mounts etc.
This is not true at all. ArenaNet are a group of superhumans. They can deliver an expansion in 3 years after release, while releasing living world etc.
Is Glint’s offspring the key to slaying the elder dragons? Also I doubt Zhaitan died at the end of the personal story. None identified the corpse. I think Glint is going to be a big part of the story, also the Mursaat and White Mantle. Bloodshards? Yes, they will also be a big part of the story. What about the Dwarves? Maybe.
One more thing. If there’s going to be an expansion, they will most likely open up Crystal Desert.
Go play AA if you want that. You also need open world PvP for that and A.Net already said, this game was not designed for open world PvP and would never be in game. It would be used as a way to punish people and just be nasty.
You can already land in jail if you climb around the outside of Rata Sum.
It doesn’t need Open PvP. People can be kittens in PvE environment and WvW.
It is a system that can be too exploitable for words. In WvW, say another team gets sick of the Commander on one of the other team – zap into jail they go. No- just no.
It is not useful or wanted.
That is why the reports are being overlooked before. Read my whole post before you write.
I’ve never heard of anyone getting banned for using it…but I tried it and didn’t like it.
Well if you want to use a PS3 controller it’s needed to use it.
Go play AA if you want that. You also need open world PvP for that and A.Net already said, this game was not designed for open world PvP and would never be in game. It would be used as a way to punish people and just be nasty.
You can already land in jail if you climb around the outside of Rata Sum.
It doesn’t need Open PvP. People can be kittens in PvE environment and WvW.
It makes the combat like a console game. Ok then I won’t use it, I don’t want to get banned.
I have an idea for a new feature. Probably exist in other games but I think this would fit GW2 really well.
The feature is called Jail and Trial. It’s supposed to make it hard for people who act in inappriopiate ways, like kicking for no reason, using harsh words, trolling, etc.
Once these people have gotten enough reports for abuse, they will be overlooked (To see if the reports are true or false) and later put in jail.
Once they are put in Jail, they can either wait till they get out or they can ask for a trial, like a trial for combat, a race or survival of some sort.
If they complete the trial they will be released from jail and if they fail the trial they will have to wait their time to get out. But you should be able to ask for a trial every X hours.
For each report you get jailed 30 minutes. So if you get reported often, then you will get a longer jailtime, plus the trials will also be harder.
This feature is to punish people who act in ways no one really appreciates.
Can i use the Action Combat mod or will I get banned if I use it?
Lets get rid of power , every build will deal dmg and there would be some place for other builds and it would be easier to balance some stats sets on pve,pvp (celestial eles on pvp rocks !! just kidding nerf it pls). Every class will have base power and it would be easier to control it with updates .
That could be another solution.
GW2 have very unique classes and it’s hard to see a new unique class that isn’t to similar to any of the existing classes. While there only is 2 heavy armor classes it’s still hard to imagine a new heavy armor class that is unique. If there is any i could imagine it would be some kind of naked class that uses dragon magic or any magic at all to infuse tougher skin, which makes it a heavy armor class.
Other than that, I doubt the secondary class feature from GW1 would come back.
I’m playing as a Berserker/Support Healer Guardian and it’s very good. Without my healing my team wouldn’t be able to survive many of the encounters. I’m still not sacrificing a lot of damage as I’m specced into Berserker stat and traits are mostly Berserker.
The problem with GW2 right now is PvE and how you have to sacrifice something for another thing and it turns out to be kitten. Like sacrificing most of your damage for being tanky, a healer or some kind of good support is not optimal, at least not for speed runs, which most people are doing anyway.
The stats that exist now are good for PvP. For PvE they are pretty much useless if everyone is speedrunning. My suggestion is to remove tanky and support stats from PvE and only focus on: Damage and Healing/Control.
Types of damage: Direct, DoT and Conditions.
Types of support: Healing, Control and Conditions.
The only thing you would do here is choose how you want to damage and how much support you want to bring with you. Stats are always the same, but abillities and traits are different.
Power will affect both damage and healing.
Crit will affect both damage and healing.
Precision will affect both damage and healing crit chance.
Etc.
Control will not be affected by stats, but rather traits.
Which would require new animations and new models.
I dont think so.
Not to mention, a halberd would serve little purpose for a Norn or Charr, since they have no mount size foes to face requiring a weapon such as the halberd. For an Asura maybe, but come on… A halberd for an Asura is like a bent toothpick for the other races. Its not a very fearsome weapon.
The halberd doesn’t have to be medieval type of halberd. It can be a fantasy halberd, with bigger axe head and blade/spear.
The chest is only daily now.
Maybe Brisban Wildlands is affected by the dragon’s corruption?
Elite Skill: Conjure a Halberd for yourself and an ally. The halberd will focus mostly on stacks of bleeding and vulnerability, while also doing good AoE damage.
Type: Conjuration
Active: 40 seconds
Cooldown: 120 seconds
If we get no new race in 2015 stuff will happen.
Well, can I put four ascended rings into the MF and get a new ascended ring?
They reached 5 million a while ago.
So what do I do with ascended items I don’t need? I can’t sell them, salvage them or turn them in for something at an NPC. Are there no plans to do anything about it?
Fractals of the mists feels pretty much like a waste if you can’t even get anything from the ascended gear. “Oopps i got the wrong stats, now I have to throw this weapon away I farmed for three months”.
It’s called Living World. It’s not supposed to be “wins” all the time. As the story can go on for many years they have to start somewhere and ArenaNet choosed to start the story with a loss, BUT the Living Story is a continuation of the Personal Story. What happened in the Personal Story? We won the fight against Zhaitan. So I’d say we won the first fight.
I guess there will be the usual Dragon mobs, some other local mobs and maybe inquest?
So you want to be able to whisper and harrass another player for kicking you from a party? Yeah no…the party isn’t obligated to inform you of their reasons for kicking, and most of the time, if leaders kick, another will simply click yes, just because it’s there without knowing why either. Yeah, making a way to harass other players is not ok, and can and will get people banned, or suspended. Just no.
Mostly I want to report them for abusing the lfg tool and using me to give their guildies free reward. I was at end of boss battle and then I got kicked. This is a problem, and that mentality is the doom of a good game.
I guess the ones I were playing with invited one of their guildies to get the reward at the end. GW2 sucks when there’s people with a kittened up mentality playing the game.
Why is the party chat deleted when you leave or get kicked from a party. I was in fractal lvl9 and out of random the party kicks me or the leader leaves. Then I can’t tak to anyone in the party and ask what happens? That’s not alright.
I could think of one reason you want party chat deleted. People raging in whisper. Well, if the party kicks you for no reason then they should be okay to take some rage in whisper.
I think all legendaries in one style, let’s say Incinerator is a style, should be across all weapon types. So there should be a mace, sword, focus etc with the same effects as Incinerator. Same with Twilight, there should be other weapon types with the same effects as that Twilight.
This will improve a lot and more people will work toward a legendary and really think it’s worth to get one.
Example: There’s a longbow that shoots rainbow unicorns.
Idea: Make a hammer with the same effect and style. Instead of a small rainbow unicorns appearing flying across the map, there will be a glimmer of a rainbow and unicorn appearing.
Yes, over the entire Season 2. Not on the first day. I don’t think I am overoptimistic. I think I am right on the spot. If ArenaNet don’t deliver, they will have problems. They said Season 2 will have mostly permanent content and they will focus more on content people want. Season 1 was a lot of testing what people wanted and what worked. Season 2 will be more of a complete thing and not a testing ground.
It would be funny if ArenaNet could say if I am overoptimistic or not.
Expect more BL chests with overpriced bkittene skins for S2 so stack those keys through the roof cuz this game has nothing going for it so far. I doubt S2 will be any better
ArenaNet themselves said Season 2 will be much better in form of quality and quantity . Season 1 was a lot of testing, what works and what not.
I’m pretty sure we will get 3-4 new zones in Season 2. Magus Falls seem to be the place where a dragon sleeps and awakens. If you look at other zones and split Magus Falls into the same size it pretty much splits into 4 zones. Some people have said Maguuma Wastes, but it makes more sense for Magus Falls imo, if they want us to fight a dragon in Season 2. If they make the dragon fight a cliffhanger into Season 3, then I would say Maguuma Wastes is a possibility.
I’m not sure if we will get a new race, but it is possible. Maybe new weapon sets for each class, as the latest GW2 video on twitch was about “Video Description
Josh, Karl and Jon discuss the Guild Wars 2 balance team’s balance philosophy for each profession”. They would have to balance a lot when introducing new weapon sets.
What do you guys think?
Stupid elitist people who think they are the best actually suck. They want to speedrun a dungeon in 10 minutes instead of 11. They are saving 1 minute. Which are making them look like giant kitten kittens.
I haven’t done dungeons for a few weeks but I just noticed chests are removed after the first run of a dungeon path. I remembered when dungeon running gave you loads in beta and early launch, but now dungeons are like a kittening garbage dump.
Anyone agree on this?
If you wear gear with healing power, vitality and toughness you obviously are a support tank. If you wear power, precision and ferocity you clearly are made for doing a lot of damage. Armor stats do affect your play style and it defines what role you are.
Why can’t we use titles we gain in the story?
I still don’t understand why we don’t got titles for the steps we completed in the story. Like when you join any of the orders you are referred as something and you gain a title, but that title is not available to be used in the title window.
I’m a Charr, why can’t I be adressed as a Charr would?
This is something that have bothered me as well. I’m a certain race and races have certain titles they are given, either at birth or what type of citizen you are etc. If I’m a Charr which has a lot of reputation and a leader of a squad, then I would like to be able to use the title Legionnaire, for example.
This would improve on the role-playing and also make more sense when you play through the story, and also the race you’re playing.
500k in China sounds like pebble.
If they are adding GW1 dungeons like FoW and UW they need to make them a lot more explorable than the current dungeons. They have to be an whole zone of content.
GW2 launches in China sometime in May, so we will see the next update sometime in May.