Guild Wars 2

uberkingkong.8041:

If you had some friends that quit the game, if you think of it like this you’ll know why.

you goto a restaurant and order food. Food hasn’t come out in over 1 hour, what do you do?

Now think of it like this, you buy a game and they promise something, but they kept you waiting for a whole year not telling you a thing, what do you do?

Depends on the food. I’ll wait 3 hours for something cooked by Gordon Ramsay.

Products always promise something, if you buy something for the “promise” you will always be disappointed.

Unpredictability.4086:

Honestly, I am most shocked by the shamelessness of it. No embarrassment? No shame!?

Most people don’t feel shame hiding behind the safety of their monitor screen. Raging is another story.

Personally as a thief as a main, I feel a bit ashamed if we don’t get dredge as that is the only one that I feel am being useful (gears, stealthing for destroying gate and tele to buckets). Feels a bit useless to be a thief in other fractals.

On the other hand most pug parties I been too have a personal dislike for dredge and avoid it like a plague. I rather take dredge than grawl any day tho (or seals unless it is a good group).

omfg, OP i feel your pain… LOTS of it.

Seriously tho, when I started fractals I went slowly from 1 level at a time and even if I know what to do I always pretend not to know or just observe. This gives me ideas on what will/will not work before I hit the 20s where the whole thing starts to actually get harder.

Once we had to 3-man the seals at 26 simply because the other 2 kitten killed the marked target and rage-quitted since they keep on running all over the place. It took us 15 mins to 3-man it compared to having a full party where we were stuck for almost an hour.

And another with a guardian who refused to use buffs or even put up a wall of reflect. He keep on hacking and slashing (probably a zerker build) and dying all the time… and getting mad when we don’t rez him. Eventually rage-quitted at fire shaman.

SafiMoyo.5130:

I was running with my friend the other day, and some pugs. They decided to kick him. Little did they know, he was the instance starter sweet, sweet vengeance when they found themselves booted from the dungeon. That’s what they get for being a jerk.

Oh yea that happened to a CoF group I ran a couple weeks back. Everyone pretty much ignored me and i just went ahead and started the dungeon. Final boss was almost down and I got kicked.

There should be checkpoint that should disable kicking. Really unfair to kick someone after working so hard in fractals and getting nothing.

Yargesh.4965:

Until they change the system this is the best solution.

Unfortunately, I have to agree.

The problem with the current party system is that it is pretty much open for abuse. Although most of my fractal runs have been decent, I have had the occasional leader who rage-quits or being kicked at Jade Maw to let friends/guildies get the rewards.

My guess is that they took it off to rework on the animation. I was expecting the animation along the lines of “hit the floor and make the tree explode”.

Mattargul.9235:

A job? A jumping puzzle is now a job?

It seems the trend these days, people complaining about the game and comparing it to real life work (grinding, dailies, RNG, etc).

Hylgeriak.8250:

ermmm…don’t use consumables at all, and I’m still winning all the time in PvE. What kind of sorcery is that?

little survey here:
[ ] Gasoline did unterstand what’s meant by “pay to win”
[x] Gasoline did NOT unterstand what’s meant by “pay to win”

[x] Gasoline is trying to inflate the price of food and sell his stacks.

No.

Please respect other people’s personal space and choice of underwear.

thefantasticg.3984:

Nope. Cussing someone out is extremely rude and much more offensive than just being kicked from a group for no reason.

I agree cussing is extremely rude and offensive, however wasting 2-3 hours of someone’s time, effort, food and gold with nothing in return as the rewards are at the end of the run (fractals) is just as bad.

In most cases, if the run will turn sour (due to lack of skill or lack of manners) you’ll find out in the first few minutes or somewhere before the middle of the run, not at the end of the dungeon.

Areann.1304:

That must be it then, I did transmute the Bifrost with my Lionguard staff for the sigil. I defininatly know that I had already seen it in the vendor list 50 times and always had to look out that I didn’t sell it.

If I remember correctly (i could be wrong), if you transmute an exotic with the bifrost it will be soulbound.

Please make it impossible to kick people at certain point of the dungeon or fractals. Today I spend almost 2 hours in this pug fractal group and on the last fractal just got kicked without any reason (probably to get a friend or guildie to do the jade maw).

I see no reason why kicking is allowed when you are halfway the dungeon/fractals so it should not be enabled unless the person is offline or leaves by themselves.

Shuguard.7125:

Yes, let’s start by murdering trahearne first.

That would make you a good guy!

Chansuai.6254:

I just want something really fun I can stick to.

It depends on how you define fun, just pick one you like most.

Like bashing faces up close and personal? Warrior or Guardian.
Like being sneaky? Thief
Like long bows and pets? Rangers
Like having twins or triplets and teleport? Mesmer
Like being an air/wind/fire/water bender? Elementalist
Like being well… creepy? Necromancer

I once stole a tree from a ranger…

I would go for an incinerator but the stats just doesn’t suit my character. And since I am not interested in transmuting it just for the skin losing the potential future free upgrade I will most probably wait it out until the new ones comes out.

Luck is a “skill”. Some people have it and most people don’t.
This applies to ingame as well as real life.
Fact is that not everyone who works hard will get what they want.

TooBz.3065:

I also hate the RNG, I think everyone does.

I don’t hate it, but I do believe that the other stuff in the boxes should be at least somewhat useful.

Aisina.4963:

…players like myself who have 13 level 80s….

I wouldn’t say there would be lots of players with 13 level 80s… but wow, i have to say you got more than your money’s worth from this game.

We are talking about boss from different levels of the game. But i do agree some tweaking needs to be done as some boss are way too hard (Melandru with less than 10 people…. lol, he healed to full life over a dozen times yesterday) and some are way too easy (I soloed Mark 2 Golem a few weeks back).

They need to probably add a couple of different attack scenarios on how the boss attacks so that it doesn’t get boring after a while and keeps players changing their strategy.

Rama.6439:

This game is such a joke when it comes to difficulty, senior citizens and the mentally Ill could easily play this game and partake in meta events and run dungeons.

Excuse me? So you are saying that senior citizens (which is me) are mentally inferior because of our age?

Let me go get my cane and so that i can beat some sense into you…

The adjective pretty much describe what i think of Elitists.

e·lit·ism or é·lit·ism
(-ltzm, -l-)

n.
1. The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources.

2.
a. The sense of entitlement enjoyed by such a group or class.
b. Control, rule, or domination by such a group or class.

e·litist adj. & n.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

elitist

adjective
snobbish, exclusive, superior, arrogant, selective, pretentious, stuck-up (informal), patronizing, condescending, snooty (informal), uppity, high and mighty (informal), hoity-toity (informal), high-hat (informal, chiefly U.S.), uppish (Brit. informal) He described skiing as an elitist sport.

noun
snob, highbrow, prig, social climber He was an elitist who had no time for the masses.

Taxes. Same applies to Blizzard and other companies.

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

Zoldyck.6241:

I like it just because it promotes variety.

Now, I want to get that dragon shield. If i don’t get it, no problem. If I do get it I will have the satisfaction to know that it is a rare item.

Releasing content period promotes variety. Releasing it in the way ANet does it promotes exclusivity. There are people that can afford these things… And there are people who can’t. I can’t. Most people can’t and are turned off by it. It doesn’t endear anyone to ANet or to GW2.

I dread every content update for this reason, and a couple others. I’m at that point where I like the game enough to play it when I have nothing else to do.

I would agree and disagree on different levels.

On one hand, the people who can afford these items are mostly the ones complaining since they didn’t get it after spending huge amounts of money on gems or gold. Of course there will always be dissatisfaction for those who cannot get it but like everything else in life, we can’t have everything.

On the other hand, it is a major turn-off to be opening hundreds of boxes and getting only candies and fireworks (and if i see another Zhaitaffy, I will puke IRL). If there are something useful in those boxes…

I like it just because it promotes variety.

Now, I want to get that dragon shield. If i don’t get it, no problem. If I do get it I will have the satisfaction to know that it is a rare item.

If i remember correctly, there are some skins in the vendor where you use BoH in wvw.

The main point of RNG is to keep something rare (I won’t be surprised if it also have a limited number of x drops per day per server plugged into the programming however this is just speculation).

It sucks I know but that is the reality of it. If a certain item drops too much too often, it loses value as it becomes common. Rare items i believe should stay rare, eventually you’ll get something other people don’t have.

Suggestions to increase the drops will most probably be ignored.

MakeitNeil.4561:

I would like to see a number of new skills, traits, classes, races, runes, sigils, and weapons. I would also like to see a new map like Cantha. How about you?

Pretty much everything you said.

Also I want Ascended Armor and Weapons.

Khisanth.2948:

Zoldyck.6241:

I agree it never made sense which is why most people would rather camp the swamp than do the pre.

Is THAT why all the filthy slackers are always hanging out there and never lifting a finger …
One time I actually had to do all 3 of the pre events. There was a large group waiting at the spawn point. In the time it took me to run to each of the events nobody there bothered doing anything.

I’ve never had a problem getting back to SB but I use my elementalist for that event.

Exactly. If it were nearer I am sure everyone will help out. But to run that far or have to wp back…. most of them would rather /dance, /sleep or /complainwhysbislateagain

I agree it never made sense which is why most people would rather camp the swamp than do the pre.

You do the pre-event then wp to him. You’ll be directly under sb by the time he starts to spawn. If you run then i see how you might miss him.

I think the Discussion section should be more heavily moderated but not moved. New players normally come here first to learn about the game and community only to see the same topics in several threads (not the mention the insulting and name-calling). This hurts the game as it turns away new players which in turn hurts the players.

Make no mistake I am not against complaints and suggestions, but they should be more constructive and less bashing. Perhaps if some suspension and bans are initiated there will most probably be less trolls and unnecessary drama in the forums.

And I have been reading these forums for several weeks now and Vayne btw, is not “white knighting”, “an employee of ArenaNet”, etc. In my opinion, he is a person who cares about the game and have lived through life experiencing many things giving him a kind of perspective which you can only acquire through time and experience.

Good idea.

I also hope they add more variations of t3 armor skins and some t3 weapon skins.

Zepidel.5349:

What you aren’t understanding is that dailies SHOULD NOT be the outlet for BiS gear.

Why not?

Zepidel.5349:

Anyone can do dailies.

And I don’t find this a problem. Is there something someone cannot do or get (other than rng skins)?

Zepidel.5349:

There is 0 challenge in doing them, there’s no kind of sense of accomplishment.

You can say the same for everything else in this game, run them a couple of times and tell me what kind of sense of accomplishment a person gets. I have the same opinion of dungeons and fractals after the 3rd run it might as well be a chore than an adventure.

Zepidel.5349:

Plain and simple dailies are a CHORE nothing else.

Fine, then don’t do them. This is not a customized game that aims to please the minority.

Zepidel.5349:

Legenadaries are another matter, honestly I don’t care they provide no stat bonus over something I can farm in 2 hours. I’m not autistic enough to spend hundreds of hours for a skin. And I’m fine with that, but dailies on the other hand you HAVE to do to be competitive. That’s the problem.

Competitive? One amulet which barely makes any difference in stats?

By the time you typed in all your replies, I would already finished my dailies. :-)

RoterFuchs.9216:

Dailies should be easy and fun. They shouldn’t require you to read a guide so you can effeciently grind them each and every day, because they’re the only means of getting BiS gear. It’s a flawed system that forces you to go out of your way to complete it, every day. Again and again.

Dailies are work you have to do to get something in return (in this case laurels). Fun is subjective… what is fun for you might not be fun for me and vice versa. Either you work for it if you want BiS gear or you don’t it is still your choice. You don’t lose anything for not doing it but you don’t gain anything either.

It is like legendaries, getting the mats are far from fun (farming, rolling in the mystic toilet, etc) but people still do it because they want it bad enough. Same with dailies if you want the BiS Amulets then you better be ready to work for it.

I mean that in a way that we are playing against other people and we are all here to have fun. They are not enemies and most people don’t mean any ill will, they are people we play with and acting part of the game as it is intended.

If we play with other people we should always practice a little bit of restraint (especially on the net where you cannot see other people or understand if it offensive to their culture) that it doesn’t go to the point of needlessly offending someone for no valid reason.

I come from a generation before mmo and we play with other kids on the street, we don’t have the luxury of sitting behind the safety of computer screen throwing insults to random people.

I don’t /laugh after killing someone. It is plain rude and immature.

Deified.7520:

I know its not a lot at anet. Rumors (so who know how true they are) have said that Anet is actually understaffed and paid under the industry standard, which could explain why they might be having trouble hiring people. NCsoft needs to pay them more imo. They made a killing off this game and they could probably still make a killing.

Salary ranges:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/ArenaNet-Salaries-E255820.htm

Do they look underpaid in the video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eTwqhZag0g

DiogoSilva.7089:

Also, dailies are very restricting and punishing to players who can’t log in everyday. There should exist some sort of system that allows you to finish the dailies from the last 1-2 days. That’s because sometimes, depending on each player’s mood and time, there are days where they might not feel playing GW2 much (or just doing pvp or a dungeon or something), and there are days where those same players spend hours in the game. Dailies currently treat those players unfairly: they should get the same amount of laurels for having the same dedication to the game, but they don’t, because the current daily system has a very strict schedule.

Fix those issues, and dailies will truly feel what they were intended to be: a reward add-on for doing normal stuff, instead of something that forces you to do side-stuff and takes away from your precious time.

Just to make it clear, dailies are not meant as an “add-on reward”, they are meant to force people to log in everyday and develop the habit of doing so (for psychology majors you know what i mean). This is good for the game as makes people come regularly (rather than have people come once every 2-3 days) and increases the population of active players. I can guarantee you this will never change.

Yes, it takes precious time but it is work. Dailies and Monthlies are a system designed to reward participation, it is not a reward for being present.

I didn’t find out about dailies until after a month when I started and already got 25 when I noticed.

Anyway, plainly put dailies is work. You have to put in the work to get something in return (Laurels). If you don’t want to work for it you are not entitled to me. That is life.

Zenith.7301:

they’re a cheap class that exploits a broken mechanic (stealth),

We won’t be stealthing if we don’t have the durability of a wet tissue.

I would say it depends on the people but yea, it is more noticeable to see impolite people in cof.

Last night I joined a party and they were totally ignoring me in party chat (for being a thief i guess and they are all warriors) and since they are busy server hopping to find an uncontested dungeon, I went ahead without saying more and started the dungeon.

After going through the dungeon flawlessly (no deaths, fast run, took gate down in 7 secs, etc) on the last boss with the boss down to almost a sliver of life left I got kicked. One one hand I feel offended for such a poor attempt but on the other hand I can’t help but laugh.

Needless to say the next time i join a pug party full of warriors I probably would look for another team or start the dungeon myself.

Arenanet is a business and like all business are there to make money. Salaries cost money, server costs money, electricity cost money, etc. You are not exactly playing a stand-alone single player game every single second the game is online it costs them money.

Just be thankful that it is not sub based and there are people willing to support your hobbies by buying from the gemstore.

And it is a skin, so what? They put out new skins every month that even if you are bound to get a rare skin just from normal play even if you don’t spend gold to gems. Try some games where you need to spend thousands of dollars to upgrade a weapon (cough… flyff… cough) and come back then complain about rng skins.

Personally I like the RNG concept for skins, it keeps things rare. Imagine if everyone and their grandma is running around with all the same things you got, kinda kills the mood.

So these past few days people are complaining that I am “offline” in a party (which I am not). I tried toggling the status around to see if it fixes itself but no dice.

This causes some problems when I start a dungeon (people not being able to come into the same instance) so can’t start one myself.

Would appreciate if someone can look into this? Thanks.

After 4 pages all i can say is that…

For those who feel that there is a “requirement” to join your party based on gear alone, I hope that someday you will be discriminated for something in real life to understand the other side’s point of view and hopefully learn from it.

Why do people feel the need to see everything?

I have no good words for those who require “berserker/exotic/ascended ping gear” when doing runs. It is a game not some kitten heart surgery where you need everything and everyone perfect.

MF gets better loot, not more loot.

It’s Marketing. I work with the Marketing department in our company and they need to hype things up to generate sales. Most times they are pretty clueless on other aspects.

I don’t get it… why do you even need multiple types of infusions?

You will need one for WvW and another for PVE (that is if you plan to use MF gear… lol). For AR just ascend whatever you have (as we are talking about AR you are most likely already farming fractals) and you’re good to go.

In most cases people only need 1 set and it should be good for everything.

(This is not directed to any person in particular)

You know, I wish people who don’t like the game just… leave.

No dramatics, no complaining, just close the door and walk out.

These kinds of threads discourages new players from trying the game (and in the end, hurting the game itself) and what delayed me from trying it out myself for several months. I suggest mods to start locking/deleting these kinds of threads since it isn’t productive, useful and just bring about useless arguments/debate.

The game is not perfect, not everything will appeal for everyone but it does not mean it is bad. For example, I don’t like jumping puzzles so I rather not do them but I don’t consider the game bad for having it (and I thank all the mes who give me ports so I don’t have to do them).

I think what this game has is a little of everything for everyone. Personally, I think the community in general and as a whole, are awesome especially compared to other MMO I have played before (and I have played a lot since the first MMO… senior moment). And yes, the community and the game CAN be better but I believe it is on the right track.