Guild Wars 2

For me, the strangest thing about it is the name. If they’d called it anything except “customer appreciation”, it wouldn’t have been so weird.
For example: “Quick Fix Box” or “Happy Haggis Day Commemorative Bundle” or just “One Day Fire Sale Pack”.
They could have used any of these and still put out a hasty, one day sale with lousy loot and no warning and it wouldn’t have raised an eyebrow.

But to do it like they did and call it “customer appreciation” seems an interesting decision, almost… like a double-meaning. It feels like the kind of thing somebody does for you when they don’t really care but they feel they need to go through the motion so they do the bare minimum. Maybe they gave the job to an intern and he threw this together in 5 mins and called it a day. I don’t know. It just seems odd. Whatever.

So, are they appreciating us for playing all these years… or just for logging in on a specific day?

It may be just me but…. it seems like this would totally invalidate various mechanics anet have intentionally put in, like the boiling water that’s supposed to keep you from exploring the unfinished underwater parts of Draconis Mons or the Bitterfrost potion that’s a daily, as well as putting all those rock throwing White Mantle Olympic medallists out of work.
I’d like another mastery to work on as much as the next guy but you may just be asking for the moon with this one.

Larathia.5284:

I’d love to see bouncing mushrooms pop up here and there on Core Tyria maps

They already have in the secret white mantle hideout in Brisbane in the One Path Ends story. That proves they’re capable of growing in the core maps so who knows? I too hope they’ll pop up again here and there.

n…o? Lose in what way? Did they fall in the lava at Chalice of Tears and not resurface?

There’s also the Ley Energy converter, which I use daily to get one of the keys for the HOT chests. But as you say, that’s a HOT converter.

It’ll never happen, but I’d love to catch… I mean, merge them all. (One converter to rule them all! Precious!) The existing singularity multi-converter could be changed to accept all the other converters – even the HOT ones if you have them. And renamed to something like the omniconverter, or multiconverter, or converter tome. Or maybe the Codex of Conversion™. I’m salivating just imagining this. I could put the omnicon in one of my shared slots. Mmmm.

VampyreSix.8316:

An option to turn off other people’s backpacks? Why dont we just have an option that makes everyone but you into a basic npc so you can feel like a real hero.

That options already exists in the Display Settings menu.

^ with an outfit that completely hides your armour, of course. ;D

So.. you order your minion to order your other minions to do something? Wouldn’t it just be easier to just order your minions yourself, cutting out the middle man? Or am I taking jobs away from middle-management phantasms?

I don’t mean to be harsh but I suspect you’re going to find this a fruitless thread because i) without technical details it’s going to be hard to determine anything objectively, and ii) you’re lumping many technical issues into one lump. The connectivity issue, for example, depends greatly on whether your router is sufficient for the number of devices in your household, not to mention your provider, network, and all the bits and pieces between you and the anet servers. Too many variables, unknowns and uncontrollables. By lumping it together and blaming the ‘client’ there’s just no objective discussion to be had. There’s nowhere to go with this.

Alin.2468:

I have nothing against wings. I don’t like them, but I don’t dislike them either.

However, as a player I do notice a huge lack of imagination. I want to fly on a firefly, or glide with a helicopter, or glide behind a thermonuclear rocket that explodes on impact , or a paper plane like the one I created in childhood, or be carried in claws of a pigeon like a paper message. There is not enough diversity in gliding, but this is just my humble opinion.

Unfortunately this discussion is opened too late. Heart of Thorns expansion (that introduced gliding) has reached an ending. I fail to see any good reason for gliding redesign now.

They’ve been adding weirder and weirder gliders, so maybe it wasn’t so much a lack of imagination at first as much as them not knowing what was possible, but experimenting with more and more varied glider designs as time goes on.
In any case, none of the ideas you’ve suggested above need a redesign of gliding. I think they’d all be feasible within the current design… except maybe the thermonuclear rocket. Lol. Making a big explosion every time you landed with the glider would probably start people asking for an option to turn off other people’s gliders. But I could see them doing the paper plane, the pigeon and the firefly. And there’s already a helicopter of sorts. So there you go. Keep wishing and you never know.

EDIT: I took your ideas to be glider suggestions, not wing suggestions because that’s how you described them later in that paragraph. Now back to your regular wings-related conversation.

^ They’ve been slowly adding options to turn off various flashy features. You never know.

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That doesn’t seem to work with Frozen Out. Each time you have to kill the svanir, twice, then the wolves, three times (or is it four?), then the spiders, three times. Just to go up against the big beast, get frozen and start all over again.

You don’t deserve the cub. He’s welcome to come to my instance. I’m happy to have two.

Solvar.7953:

One thing I’d like is that if you have something in a shared inventory slot and you get another, it merges with that instead of going into the normal inventory.

I tend to put keys in shared inventory slot (since I might have one of several different characters going to the map that uses them), and after doing events, I find more of that same key in normal inventory.

^^^ Same here!! I second this suggestion.

Maybe it should be awarded for rolling 100 sylvari toons

Nothing lasts forever. I say, bring on flying mounts. Let’s see what happens.

Come, come, Vayne. Settle. I’m sure anet can come up with an innovative way to incorporate flying mounts that doesn’t invalidate the open world.

How about a flying mount that flies so high you get a condition called “apoxia” where your supply of a resource called “oxygen” slowly drains until you get downed.

Also, the mount will take you anywhere, but it can’t land. You have to set your traits to reduce falling damage, jump off and hope for the best…. every time you want to harvest a plant or join in an event.

And the only way to get on the mount is to climb that jp in Siren’s landing.

Don’t worry. There will be flying mounts in the next expansion: “Avenue of Ice”

I’ve found the home instance gets more homely the more nodes and cats I’ve collected, so I’m happy if the least they do is creating more stuff to put in the home instance.

Even better would be if we could move the positions of some of the nodes.

And I don’t “leech” off my nodes. I maintain their well-being by selective daily pruning.

Only you can decide that. I’m going to get more because I want to reach a point where I can hop onto any of my nine class toons as I feel and do the same daily routine without worrying who’s carrying what. To that end, I’d prefer to keep all my keys in those slots, for home instance chests.

You might want to put in some headers (in bold even) to make it clearer what the separate sections of your suggestion are. Currently it’s a wall of text and I’m not sure what ideas are hiding in there.

Spurnshadow.3678:

Here’s another one: if you were going to make a clone centric build, why not increase the active number of clones to 5? I mean, if the F skills were to change from shatters to something else, why not?

I dream of being the kind of mesmer who can create dozens of clones. They don’t have to do any damage at all, just run around and shoot their weapons and creating chaos!

But it won’t happen. :/

Not sure what you’re actually suggesting. Can you summarise?

Ardid.7203:

Hyrai.8720:

in HoT it takes you 10min to figure out a way from the ground to a location 50m higher, in PoF it takes tyou 10min to run a (mostly) linear but longer way with just a few mount-jumps. I really don’t see the problem of less waypoints.

This is exactly the reason I don’t like PoF approach. It transforms a game that compels you to explore, to think and to try again into… pressing “forward” key 10 minutes (Or not even that, if you know where the autorun is)…

In fairness, you haven’t experienced the full PoF approach. You’ve seen one horizontal map, which explores the capabilities of the raptor. There are other mounts with other abilities and there will be terrain to match those abilities and test your creativity in using them to explore the map. Do you expect to just press forward or auto-run on the rabbit mount? What about the wolf that teleports and can turn mid-teleport? Does that sound like just pressing forward? This is a case of reading too much into a thing before you’ve seen the whole picture.

I like this. I’d also like it if you could pop up several mirrors and, for a period of 30 seconds or something, be able to pop through them as if they were portals. You wouldn’t be able to control which mirror you came out of, but it would allow you to take pot shots at your target and flee into a mirror.

I like these ideas.

I’d also like to get into the elite spec early on in the expansion, to enjoy new lands with a new perspective. The progression is in learning to master the new spec. That’s neither ‘sad’ nor ‘stupid’. @Sarie/Rong.

Frostball.9108:

nothelseth.4621:

To make it clear, frostballs current idea of mirage is the following

Krait runes for jaunt
ineptitude+blind on shatter
signet of midnight
axe

Jaunt on target, spam every single shatter, get the elite proc and get a massive condi spike. Playing this as a silly thief +1er

Cool in theory. In practice 1 well of eternity, 1 astral form, 1 leadership rune proc and all of your cds and burst is gone. Less effective than a thief by x100. Garbage in a teamfight. Inferior 1v1 to chrono, can’t hold a fight for its life, garbage 2v2, etc

Frostball has literally for years been the kid who always tries to refuse what everyone else does and do ‘’his own thing’’ and insist that it’s better. This is the person who plays the inspiration build with carrion and played bunker mesmer with the damage well.

Fantastic pvper, one of the best mesmers in the game by far but also someone who has historically ALWAYS been a contrarian who wants to be cool and stand out by never agreeing with what’s actually true.

Also, your build is bad lmao

I see you got sindys advice, although his guess on my build was wrong in some parts so such is yours. If you cant burst again within short periods of time with my build youre doing something mechanically wrong. All of your cds most definitely arent gone with one burst and the burst isnt gone with a simple thing like a leadership proc. You need heavy condi cleanse.

So… what… is… your… build?

And further to this, people have asked for a while that the one that’s only available to the player with the contract should only be visible to the player with the contract.

Or that the merchant at least make some sarcastic reply when you interact with him instead of just staring blankly.

“I don’t barter with shmucks. You look like a shmuck.”

Something like that.

That’s it? That’s the entire post? Was something deleted?

Tabootrinket.2631:

I’ve raised that point a while ago and people made an interesting remark about this.
Each specialization is tied to a new weapon for the profession. But there will be a time when professions will have access to every weapon types available. At this point Anet won’t be able to assign a new weapon to the next generation elit spec if those weapons become baseline [without developping entire new types of weapons which would amount to a kittenload of work].

By tying weapons to elite specs, they’ll be able to add new specialization which will use existing weaponsets in an entirely different manner. For example, there could be a new Thief elite specialization which would use range/magic staff, or with different dagger attacks, etc.

Hmm.. true. But wouldn’t that cause a kitten load of confusion? I don’t mean for players playing the spec and remembering which daggers variation they’re playing – that’ll come with practice. But for others seening a dagger theif.. they wouldn’t be able to tell which dagger specialisation he’s using. And does that even matter? (:o

Ariurotl.3718:

No, keep weapons tied to their respective specs. You have to make hard choices, that’s the point.

As AstralPoring, and others, have pointed out using incompatible weapons/traitlines would make for ineffective play – isn’t that a hard choice a player should be free to make?
Restricting this only makes for easier choices, not harder.

Sazukikrah.5036:

Please Please please! if you gonna have this weekend for beta can you at least allow rewards to be saved while we play the new elite specs?! please!? why is this not allowed?

Why is this even a question?!?

I’ve contemplated this dilemma (deeply) and I have a solution: separate map instances for pro/anti-mounters, dictated by a flag in the Options panel.

Those that wants mounts can tick the flag and get put in maps where they can see/ride mounts.

Those that leave it unticked get put into maps where the entire map is a non-mount zone.

I know, I know. It’s brilliant in it’s simplicity.

^ Just to check, are they adding them to the whole game or just PoF maps? Because if the latter, the OP’s argument stands. And given the furor over the Id system currently, it doesn’t seem like they’re going to implement it wholesale.

Then again.. it’s anet. Anything is possible.

+1

Incidentally, when Anet did that poll about the floating/clipping shield, most respondents preferred some level of clipping. I’m all for clipping. Bring on capes. Let armour skins transcend their weight class. Freedom for all to wear whatever and clip whatever they like.

#endmountdiscrimination

Flatley.1620:

If you dismount in mid air to glide, does your poor mount crash to earth? That’s cruelty that is. if so. It should be fixed so that your mount glides (visibly) with you. Also, you could have a remount from glide option.

Where does the mount go when you’re dismounting at ground level? Hammer space, of course. And that’s where it goes when you dismount in the air. Hammer space. It’s safer in there than you are.

And I agree on the glide→mount option. Way cool.

^ In that case, let us glide if the mount falls below the level of it’s jump starting point. That would make it no different than just jumping off that same spot on foot.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

That said, I wouldn’t mind seeing an instanced arena placed in one of the cities for duelling. Like an actual arena where it’s tiered and you can watch, like in the Black Citadel there is the one down the bottom iirc.

That’s not a bad idea. That place is actually suited for that kind of thing.

I’m all for mid-air dismount.

They seem a little small for Charrs. Are they minis? And how are you able to have three active at the same time?

^ Indeed. There’s nothing wrong with some ‘hard-mode’ cats, as long as there are still ‘casual’ cats.

Bron.9647:

My only suggestion is to add a hotkey for mounts so that you can just press a key to mount/dismount, instead of having to click the little icon in the bottom right.

Adding to this, I’m hoping there will be four hotkeys so we can quickly mount a specific mount.

And also that using these keys will allow us to switch between mounts without dismounting/remounting. Just hoping.

The mounts are very useful. Finally my toons can rest their tired feet.

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

they put this same thing in the new pack pof which is for me another turn off as I died fast as I hit the mud pit . and was forced yet again to way point back to life and forced to spend 1 sliver and 60 copper to come back to life .

That’s …. not a mud pool. It’s quicksand, as the signs around that pool state.

I think they should add Ratmander and Fleamander tags.

And, OP – you don’t have to follow one. It’s not compulsory.

Aomine.5012:

2. We should be able to open gliders at air during mount so it won’t lock down our option when we accidentally fall down from a cliff.

^ THIS so much! I fell off a big cliff and killed my poor raptor.

Aomine.5012:

Also don’t completely eliminate the emphasis of gliders just because of the introduction of mounts. Add in some updrifts and leyline energy for people who own HoT to enjoy gliding too!

Agree with this too.