Guild Wars 2

Aidan Savage.2078:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The game works perfectly well and nothing is “wasted” (as the poster above says, once you’ve done progressing in levels & masteries, you don’t need ‘experience’ points).

While they’re not needed, that doesn’t mean they’re not wasted. You perform an action, you get xp for it and… the xp disappears. In another post you offered a reason why luck couldn’t be auto-consumed. This is a case of xp being auto-consumed into a black hole. In a game about progression that seems a strange omission.

Think of it this way, if the mobs didnt generate experience for you, you’d not get loot drops off them either.

I don’t understand your reasoning there. Could the game not give loot without giving experience?

Khyan.7039:

What I see is, everyone said a such changement will not be noticeable. At least for those agree with the idea.

So, why Anet should bother with it, if it’s useless? There are others things better to change/do.

I think the cap is fine, really, for the same reasons mentionned by Illconceived Was Na. (yes, I don’t agree with you all that said it will not change (or barely) anything)

I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying.. but if you could do me a solid, please don’t use the “there are other things better to do” argument. It’s just pointless. Argue that it’s not a cost effective idea or that you personally don’t like it. Those are fine. But don’t argue priorities. We all have different ones and no matter what you think is important there’s going to be somebody else who thinks there are “other things better to do”. Do you see how meaningless that argument is? Anyway, my suggestion has derailed this post long enough. Back on topic.

Sorry to be pedantic, but you might want to change the title from “What is your fav ele class” to “What is your fav ele build?” since that’s what you’re asking.

TheSwede.9512:

Meta Achievement would be getting Gold on all Challenges and rewards the Player with a Specific Title and Special interactive node in their Home Instance from which they can take on any of these Adventurers, rather than have to run around and chase down each Adventure on their respective maps.

I like the idea of getting a node in my home instance to access an adventure – but having to get gold in all adventures to get it.. is probably too much. Maybe get access to any adventure from home once you get gold in that particular adventure?

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The game works perfectly well and nothing is “wasted” (as the poster above says, once you’ve done progressing in levels & masteries, you don’t need ‘experience’ points).

While they’re not needed, that doesn’t mean they’re not wasted. You perform an action, you get xp for it and… the xp disappears. In another post you offered a reason why luck couldn’t be auto-consumed. This is a case of xp being auto-consumed into a black hole. In a game about progression that seems a strange omission.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

HazyDaisy.4107:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Personally, I’d rather see a menu or bag menu option to “Auto consume all luck” while I’m working my way up to 300%.

Come on, anet. Do me a solid.

Are you referring to the luck stack right click “consume all” feature they added with HOT updates,

No, I use that all the time and it’s great but what I’d like even more is an option for the game to automatically consume any luck that comes out of bags. Just a little QoL feature that would make my day, but I know it’s a pipe dream.

The reason they don’t do that is that people stop noticing if they get insta-luck; people need to click something before they ‘remember’ that they are getting stuff. (Case-in-point: spirit shards — those go directly into the wallet now and people don’t even realize how many they get from champ bags and even foe kills.)

There’s a number of things we could debate in that premise, but the salient point is this: it hurts nobody to get an auto-consume option. I suspect you’re arguing that players need to see some reward for their actions to feel satisfaction from the game, which is true. Personally, I’d be more satisfied than I am already if the luck just consumed itself and reduced the number of clicks I have to do. If you want, it could even pop up that little indicator at the bottom right, as it currently does when you manually consume it, to let me know that some luck has been consumed. But again, it’s such a tiny QoL I don’t think it’ll ever get implemented.

Obtena.7952:

I’m not really willing to get into a pedantic argument here because I don’t see how that makes or breaks any of the discussion here but to give you my personal opinion:

Legendary gear is BiS, not only because it has the highest stats in game, tied with Ascended, but because (if I understand correctly) it will have the ability to swap stats on the fly as well. That added function does make it better than Ascended, even if that function has questionable usefulness. If it doesn’t have that ability, then I’m inclined to agree with you … seems like it’s just a skin, which is rather questionable as a reward from the hardest content in the game.

Even if a person doesn’t consider Legendary gear BiS … Anet STILL never said players wouldn’t have to raid to get BiS gear.

I’m not looking for an argument either but I think you’re using the BiS definition differently from anet and that’s where the confusion lies, and your use of double negatives compounds that confusion.

Obtena.7952:

I don’t get your point … Anet never said players wouldn’t have to raid to get BiS gear. Not all BiS gear is obtainable by just crafting; many of the mats you need come from raiding. There is no contradiction between things people invent in their heads that Anet said and how the game is realized.

The bottomline here is simple … If you want legendary armor that bad you do what EVERYONE else needs to do to get it. No special snowflakes here.

Quick question: from what I understand, legendary armour has the same stats as ascended armour, right? It’s only the legendary skin you get from raiding? It’s just confusing because you keep using BiS which really refers to stats not skin. Is there a stat combination that cannot be crafted without mats from raids? Just looking for a clarification.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Short of making a “mastery” that gives a tangible reward and recycles over and over, I doubt the current system would allow anything such as this, as post-80 it’s no longer a leveling system.

That’s actually one of the ideas that was circulated. It would be like the “Agent of Entropy” achievement.

It’s a neat idea. To play devil’s advocate, I imagine arguments against it might include the increased load of rendering the extra weapons and the ever-popular “clipping issues”.

As to the question of where the unused weapons go? Into hammerspace, of course, as does the rest of your inventory. That’s never bothered me – but personally, I’ve always wondered exactly how the used weapons stick to your back?! Is it magnets or magic? Or Velcro?

Anyway, one little thing that I’d love to see is that your weapons actually stay with you when you emote. A man can dream.

What I’m curious about is whether it takes an entire cutscene to reset the level to whatever state it needs to be in. I can’t see how it would, given that cutscenes are different lengths. (At least, they seem to be. Haven’t timed them.)

I’d be okay with a loading screen that lasts only as long as it needs to, rather than re-watching an over-long cutscene. Of course, there would be an option in the menu for this: “Show loading screen instead of cutscene on replay” or whatever.

Ideally, this could also be applied to all content that involves repeated unskippable cutscenes, like dungeons and fractals.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

It’s not like I ever suggested anyone give the mobs 3k-20k extra HP… ’cause I agree that just extra HP makes combat a slog.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

I said by adjusting your level, YOU’d have less. Doing less damage might mean mobs have a relatively higher HP, true

So combat is only a slog if mobs literally have a higher hp rather than only relatively? This part confused me. Can you clarify?

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Second, higher damage does make them more interesting.

I have to agree with maddoctor. Giving enemies greater damage doesn’t objectively make them interesting. It might to some, but it’s not a surefire win-win. The HOT modrem have higher damage than central tyrian critters but they’re such a bland, forgettable bunch. Just avoid orange circles, dodge if a target appears above your head, etc. I can’t say I even notice what attack they’re doing. Mostly they’re just speed bumps on the way to somewhere else. Except pocket raptors. They’re just so cute. And their damage isn’t as high as other jungle critters, so that’s something to consider in the damage = interesting argument.

I’d also like more challenge, but I have a different perspective on it. Rather than critter-challenge, I’d like more environmental challenge. Something like tombs or ziggurats or other structures filled with traps (and some critters) where creative thinking and some teamwork wins the day. Kind of like Tomb Raider but with other people. The traps and critters can be deadly (to satisfy your damage fetish) as long as they’re ingenious and hopefully fiendish. In HOT we have critters amped up to hard levels. Now we need something like Provernic Crypt amped up to hard.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Maybe we just need to agree to disagree?

Why? This discussion is interesting. Let’s keep going.

Adding my vote to this. There’s only so many times a person can attempt Seeds of Truth for the achievements and sit through the cutscenes without going as mad as… as… that mad asura in that fractal.

HazyDaisy.4107:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Personally, I’d rather see a menu or bag menu option to “Auto consume all luck” while I’m working my way up to 300%.

Come on, anet. Do me a solid.

Are you referring to the luck stack right click “consume all” feature they added with HOT updates,

No, I use that all the time and it’s great but what I’d like even more is an option for the game to automatically consume any luck that comes out of bags. Just a little QoL feature that would make my day, but I know it’s a pipe dream.

It would also help if mushrooms indicated which way they’re going to throw you. The wallows indicate which way they go, but with mushrooms it’s down to trial and memory. Sometimes I think it would be useful if mushrooms threw you in whichever direction you were facing, like the aetherblade gears do in NSS, but admittedly, that would also be somewhat confusing and potentially dangerous.

It’s been discussed time and again, with people suggesting all kinds of rewards for xp past level cap. I’d also like xp past level cap to be put to some use instead of going to waste. But anet, afaik, hasn’t said anything about it, so we wait.

Sazaraki.1970:

I would do anything to play as a Centaur. Anything… ._.

Anything, huh? Hmmm………well, as it happens, if you send me all your gold you will get good fortune and centaurs will become a playable race. Don’t hesitate. Send your gold now.

The Kodan merchant in LA is annoying enough with his “Life is a trial” and “Coda the judge, Coda the jury” and “I greet you like…yadda yadda”. I think I’d go mad if I was exploring with a Kodan toon and it kept spouting inane dialogue like that.

At least the Tengu are quiet.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

PvE is more than just dungeons!!!!!

It is also open world event trains. Solo and small group map exploration. World boss training. Even raids and fractals.

To add to that, it’s also jumping puzzles and collections and mini-games you make up with friends and crafting and gliding and lore. It’s meeting other people on a jumping puzzle and using your portal to help them up, or using the portal of someone else kind enough to help. It’s coming across a downed player and ressing them so they can finish the fight. It’s sitting on a beach at Orr and watching the sun glisten on the oily sand. It’s sitting on the broken wall with a friend from another country and chatting for hours while you admire the stars. It’s a million little stories and interactions you have with people when you’re not trying to kill each other.

OP – If you haven’t yet experienced these things, then you haven’t really experienced the PvE community.

DGraves.3720:

This doesn’t surprise me. People play PvP and PvE with different mindsets. PvP is something you do that is more or less fun and PvE is the grind that people do for funds. Esp. true of dungeons and fractals; impatience is mandatory.

Are you trying to beat the OP for sweeping nonsensical generalisations?

It’s tedious enough having to keep spares of all three tools. I’m not keen on the idea of yet another harvesting tool. If anything, I’d prefer a multi-tool (is there one?) and would keep multiples of that. Then you could add skinning, tanning, churning, cherry-picking or whatever to it.

Personally, I’d rather see a menu or bag menu option to “Auto consume all luck” while I’m working my way up to 300%.

Come on, anet. Do me a solid.

Elric Of Melnibone.4781:

be sure to have an experience booster handy to pop before opening the final map reward chest when you kill the dragon.

Is that how it works? We only need the xp booster before opening the chest? I had assumed we needed it before killing the dragon, just like you have to have it on before you kill any other critter.

XxSnytchellxX.2319:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

A childhood themed event and no mention of the bogey man that lives under your bed….?

mhehehe yeah, well, wouldn’t it make a bit more sense if the bogey man were the DRAGONS IN THE SKY?

Not really, at least not the sky part. The monster under the bed is a crucial part of childhood tradition. There has to be a bed; that’s essential. The type of monster under it is a little more flexible – although a dragon probably won’t fit.

It looks awkward either way really. But with the spikes up you’re more likely to stab yourself than your opponent. But, yeah, no horse for me either.

Kentaine.4692:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

It’s the old story of supply and demand. Dry Top is the butt end of Tyria. It lacks the infrastructure of Camp Resolve. It’s hard to get the goods out there but the merchants do because they know people will buy them and they have to charge more to cover their costs.

It is okay to be OOC on the forums, y’know. Player applied economics aside, it is a bad design and they should both be the same copper price (please don’t up SWs to 10S +change… no point in buying them if you could save half the silver and just buy greens from the TP).

OOC? Out of combat? I didn’t realise we were in combat! I was just making a joke!!

A childhood themed event and no mention of the bogey man that lives under your bed….?

Which adventure?

True. The one in your screenshot looks decent with the reverse curve. But the primordious sword looks better the other way, as the OP said.

Can you fix the title? It’s “Ode”. The current spelling you have there is just … odd(e).

Whoah. You don’t have to be that sword collector guy on youtube who does all those videos reviewing fantasy swords for feasibility to see that the upside-down sword is just unwieldy. The bottom screenshot definitely looks bad-kitten .. and by that I mean awesome in case bad kitten is censored.

Here’s hoping we hear something about it in the next AMA.

Astralporing.1957:

That could actually be a nice upgrade to Guildhall arena. Perhaps with added option of guildmembers being able to “capture” monster species to populate it.

YES! I’d definitely be (one of) my guild’s monster hunters if this were possible.

IndigoNeko.1802:

It’s very weird to kill a hundred animals and only find 3 scrapped hide.

Well… given the way I kill them, you’re lucky to get even 3 scrapped hides. Usually all that’s left is a pile of dust.

Just my personal interests:

1. Making some use of the experience gained after completing masteries.

2. The progress on making the visual nerfs optional and bringing back the original visuals, as promised by Colin.

moony.5780:

• Collector/Farmer:
  - increase the chance of rare material u get from a nod.
  - increase the chance to get 1 extra material from a nod.
  - u r able to plant ur own plants and trees. (ur own farm..and harvest the things u plant)
  - chance to find a rich ore while mining in a cave, or in an area with much rocks.
  - (i think this masterie dont need to be careful about a loot nerf like the monster hunter or others..bcs while running around finding the chests u sometimes dont kill efficiantly monsters..so there is also enough moneyloss)

I’ve seen this idea raised before but with some different skills (which I’d personally find very useful) to add to the list: being able to see nodes at a greater distance/on the map/or on the map after discovering them.

moony.5780:

• Mini Master:
  maybe sounds a bit strange..but i guess it should be nice for fashion and shiny hunter.
  - let ur mini grow a bit bigger.
  - let ur mini get an aura
  - be able to have 2 minis.

I’m not much into minis but I can see the satisfaction a person might have in having two or even three little critters following them. But considering how often minis are hidden in events for performance reasons, multiplying the number of minis each player can have seem an unlikely proposition.

It’s the old story of supply and demand. Dry Top is the butt end of Tyria. It lacks the infrastructure of Camp Resolve. It’s hard to get the goods out there but the merchants do because they know people will buy them and they have to charge more to cover their costs.

I think when he says “little things” he means pocket raptors. He enjoys pocket raptors.

It sounds like it’s bugged. :/ Maybe do it with somebody else and have them be the instance owner? I’m trying to get the achievements and mastery points in that episode too. You’re welcome to contact me in game and we could attempt it together.

Aidan Savage.2078:

They should have an npc in LA that you can talk to to “complete” a pseudo-mission to let you remove those things off the screen.

Hehe… there should also be an npc in LA that I can talk to to “remove” some of the other npcs around the bank…

sofaphobic.6304:

My hero panel says that I need Mastery points to continue. My experience bar says that I have 3,175,000 experience points out of 3,175,000. I have zero unspent mastery points.
The last bit unlocked was Supply Line Management. Do I have to craft all the pact recipe items to continue?

Uhm no. You need to do more activities that reward you with mastery points. It sounds like you’ve done some in central tyria already. If it’s central tyria masteries you’re working on you’ll need to do things like Triple Wurm or LS2. Just look for those little red icons in your achievements panel and do the activities they’re on.

Roundabout.1752:

I usually play with my inventory open to show the bag I keep stuff I use often available, it fits perfectly in that corner

That’s a bit tangential to the topic but hey, that’s a clever idea.

Obtena.7952:

Phy.2913:

Throw spells and hit stuff while running from dead person to dead person. Getting participation credit takes minimal effort, you would need to actively ignore the event to not get credit.

Not only that, but actively ignore it for quite a few minutes as well.

Sorry OP, it’s not that HoT discourages you from helping others, it’s that HoT encourages you to be active with the event.

Got it. Thx.

Aerinndis.2730:

Have you tried going into the In-Game Options -> Sound Options and turning down the Environmental Sounds? I just checked to see what that did and it got rid of the steam pipe sound by dragging the bar to the left.

That may work but it’s a kludge and doesn’t address the core issue that frequently used areas should NOT have repetitive violets… I mean, sounds. It’s not right that we have to adjust our interface to the game because life is a trial—I mean, because anet refuses to address the issue that mordemoth can attack the pale tree in the grove..uh, the issue that repetitive sound effects near frequently used facilities can drive a person to establish their prominence.. darn it. I mean, I saw your face in a dream. No, I mean they can drive mordremoth to attack anywhere! AAAAARRRGGHH!!!

(User has been migrated to server [Lunatic Asylum] and is currently babbling that ideas are like cream, whatever that means.)

Aerinndis.2730:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

-Snip-

• Crafting gliders – like the crafting backpieces, gliders added to each crafting progression that is themed to the craft (probably just 1 per craft, not one per crafting tier per craft). For example, the CoF glider could be a glider made of fire, while HotW could be using the kodan-designs metal and ice (not realistic but hey neither are animal wings on plant people)
  -Snip-

I like the idea of being able to craft gliders especially ones themed to crafting professions. Somehow I see the chef one made of cooking utensils strung together or chef hats and aprons. For a jeweler a glider strung together with jewels or crystals – it could be a great way of using up the copper, silver, gold etc. for a really flashy or color coordinated glider. It would be also kind of neat to be able to customize – have several parts so you can mix and match your glider within that profession.

That would be amazing. A lot of work for the devs probably but kitten ’em – what have done for us lately?
Yeah, being able to craft your own glider would be sweet.

I like it.

There’s also a small arena like that in Ascalon somewhere. The precedent is there. Just need a larger arena.

bloodletting wolf.2837:

There is absolutely no reason to change MF.

Rytlock wants it changed. I think that’s reason enough.

Arden.7480:

Please say to me who are Mursaat? What wrong with them?

Why do you assume there’s something wrong with them if you don’t even know them? Sheesh. Don’t be so judgemental. At least get to know a race of evil magic wielders before you judge them.

Hirosama Nadasaki.6792:

Sold Out.7625:

Hirosama Nadasaki.6792:

Just pointing out my discomfort at the lack of visual change reversals in the march 8 update. I really hope they uphold Colin’s words.

I’m a small hint worried that it will be forgotten with Colin’s leave but I think we’ll be fine.

The promise was that the news of it will show up on the april update, so it might not even be introduced on april yet.

I don’t know jack kitten about developing/coding but that seems line an unnecessarily long time…

It’s not even about coding. It seems an unnecessarily long time to wait for news – or a confirmation that despite Colin’s leaving it will be upheld.

Aha! Wise words. Thank you all. I shall continue to cause grievous bodily harm to the green-folk (as Mordrem like to call themselves) while I bring succour to the injured. Fear not! Your medical bills shall be paid for with the suffering of Mordremoth’s minions.