Guild Wars 2

Game needs more work, but WvW for my server is the opposite from empty. Zergs everywhere, extremely demotivating if you run into 100 people after you run 10 min to reach the commander. Running and hidding becomes kinda better with exercise, but still…

Demotivating the opponents is a tactic. Secondly, they can’t form a group to fight a small group like 20 people? There are side exits, why people dont know the map?

Finally, if you want to take a keep or tower close to the enemies spawn point then it is needed to have a small team slow down reinforcement.

Besides that, it is not against the rules and Anet made side exits & invisibility buffs knowing that this will happen and is allowed to happen.

Why would a trinity improve boring boss mechanics? A boring boss with a trinity is still a boring boss.

Bosses in the open world are easy because
1. there is no boss mechanic, no tric to do it and you don’t need to organize yourself to defeat it
2. the epic bosses, like the dragons are zerged now. There is no control mechanism preventing to many parties from joining. Why not make a dragons lair instance? Then also nobody has to sit and wait for 40+ minutes in order to not get overflow.

No Walking.6349:

Kaeden.6952:

There is a trinity,

It’s called:

Damage
Control
Support

ROFL, oh ok. So that must be why I can AFK any boss in the game outside of fractal lvl 30+ This includes all the world bosses and guild bounties.

No, we need a trinity.

Because they are not instances and so there is no limit to the amount of people. All bosses become a zerg fest

that and also boss mechanics still lacks. Its only based on dps ing

Rising Dusk.2408:

I would be happy to bring your entire guild and all of your friends in any combination of your choosing, with me being the fifth member, and I guarantee that you will not fail a single dungeon run of any dungeon in the game assuming you can and will listen to my advice.

Dungeon content may be harder than other content, but currently it is a breeze and, on the contrary to your point, there is no truly difficult content for people like me. I would be happy to show you if you don’t believe me or think I’m trolling you or something. Seriously, contact me.

Perhaps they are not hard, but most dungeons take +1h if not +2h. A dungeon can be hard and only take 30 minutes (once you learn the boss).

Think getting gear is rediculously easy, other than that I agree with you. Especially in the case of dungeons. Everyone is doing only CoF, the rest is probably too time consuming. Imo, AC Exp was too hard and I didnt try another dungeon to be honest (except GM & AC story). Why? Because every time I don’t feel like being stuck in a dungeon for hours. I don’t necessarly want easy, I want short. E.g., fractals take a lot of time. I like to do one fractal and watch TV or go out. But no, you have to sit and do 3, which is like 2hours or more.

Wartna.8671:

Siphaed.9235:

pownguin.9205:

Probably shouldn’t be posting pictures of player’s names on the forums.

Why not?

Because it’s against the rules, that’s why.

Yes because it is clearly against the rules. Placing siege weapons on vistas or spending all your gold on siege weapons just such that your server has a little extra chance to win, that is not against the rules.

Training is almost impossible, perhaps in Orr you can do it. Still there people do it because if you don’t run you can spend the whole day trying to reach arah.

if GW2 had sup then I would have stopped playing months ago, maybe I wouldnt even have started. The GW2 content is boring me a lot and I don’t know if I am interested in a paid expansion.

TexZero.7910:

They go to the only spot worth going to….

Dungeons / Fractals.

Even WvW is stupid in its current state and is nothing more than Zerging or PvDoor.

PvDoor if you are the strongest server, if you are the weakest of the 3 then u ll mostly get ganked by multiple zergs where ever you go. There seems to be 1 queue for all 3 servers while the weaker server should have priority. At times the strongest server has 3 zergs on our bl and still we get the queue.

Boss design is greatly lacking like Zeldain says, however in desolation you ll have to be there 40 minutes before because else you ll end up in overflow and then no dragon for you.

People are mostly in fractals & WvW. At least desolation its perma queue for WvW. Dunno, maybe you are also on a death server?

Vayne.8563:

Sovta.4719:

defrule.7236:

I’m divided on the removal of trinity. I liked it a bit but hated it as well.

I think Final Fantasy 13 had a very nice system, although it was a single player game. You still had roles like tank/heal/dps/debuffer/buffer etc… but the neat thing was that any character can fill these rolls. So throughout the battle you are constantly shifting roles to adapt to the situation for example:

Boss fight begins.
Everyone shifts to dps/debuff roles.
Boss starts doing some damage.
One person transforms to tank role.
Tank getting low on health.
Another person transforms to healer role.
Boss does a massive attack, full party left almost dead.
Everyone shifts to healer role to quickly recover.

GW2 system is more fun.
Boss fight begins.
Everyone stays in dps.
Boss dies.
Everyone teleports to another wp to camp another boss.
Oh, wait….

Except in dungeons and fractals where that’s not completely true. If you’re talking about open world bosses, well, that’s pretty much the same as open world bosses in every game I’ve encountered them in.

Yes, but many games have epic boss instances that you do as a guild or multi party group. Epic bosses here have no limitation on the number of parties doing the boss (and so all get zerged) and boss mechanics of the dragons is really uninteresting. It looks epic, but it doesn’t feel like you did anything special.

The game is too easy, the bosses are boring because they can be zerged all of them, the story is easy and misses depth. Personally I also believe that any MMO needs GvG, but I realize opinions can differ about that one.

- spvp is this arena you speak about, you never done spvp?
- anet wants no pk servers or systems because this takes out the worst in people. Not helpfullness, but bullying new players.
- GvG is fine by me, but only consent or instance based. Again, w/o that 1 guild will bully all other guilds slowly from the servers and 1 guild will remain…which is boring.

They gave you the access. Its entirely unethical, but I don’t think it is banable. Stealing is if you gain access to something of value without permission. However you have permission and thus it is not stealing. The gentleman thing to do however is to tell them they shouldnt allow everybody this kind of access and leave without taking anything. This game needs no wealth anyway, so easy it is

Only thing that annoys me that mobs quickly reset. I am ok with them resetting and I am also ok for them being invulnerable while they walk back. What annoys me is that they get full health when they reset. Some fish have (used to have) this system bugged and they would reset without you moving much.

The living story is just an excellent marketing term for “we add some NPCs and DEs” as opposed to we add to the personal story more content and cutscenes. The latter is expensive & takes artistic effort.

the ring to rule them all?

Kromica.2831:

holotype.1643:

One does not simply exit GW2.

Oh its very easy to do, just wish the survey worked.

You can check out, but you can never leave

Had the same thing, dunno AC was kinda hard. But people seem to disagree and they complain how easy it is. So.. yeah. Perhaps EXP mode is not for level 35s, EXP mode is for if you achieve 80 and you revisit.

Kaizer.7135:

maddoctor.2738:

Harriman.3675:

Well, I miss world pvp badly, lovely ganking and griefing, what can be better?

And that’s exactly the reason it will never, ever, be implemented.

Having guesting available, you are not required to go to an Open PvP server, so why can’t this be considered?

I seriously do not understand why a lot of players HATE the idea of dueling or open PvP, and don’t compare WvW to Open PvP because they are NOT the same.

1 guy speaks about how he loves to grief people and gank, and that is why people hate this. People hate it because its no PvP, its unequal cyber bullying and people are affraid you want to make servers into this awful system where you get received by an army of 80+ gankers when your just weak and new to the game.

surprising because GW2 is pretty big on grief avoiding, top of the market I say. Crazy people.

They have to find the middle ground. Make it more easy and it will become uninteresting to people who play every day a few hours. Within a month you ll have nothing to do.

So it depends also how you define casual? Is it someone who plays 1 time a week? If Anet caters people who play 1x a week and, e.g., make it possible to get legendary within a month then the game will be uninteresting for the people who keep the game world filled right now.

Player housing? Guild housing has been as standard as the general chat and we don’t have that.

I don’t believe it until the myth busters went through your data and perhaps blow up something.

LordByron.8369:

beren.6048:

Towndrunk.9562:

I’m a casual player. I have noticed that this game is evolving in a way that is making it harder for casuals to complete content. Too bad. Why is that?

Why you think? Fractals where problematic, but now you don’t even have to do fractals and you can just join in with all level fractals. Just spend a couple of hours doing a daily and your all splendid. A casual can easily reach top level with exotic gear. This game is the most casual friendly MMO I know of right now.

maybe not…
I played many mmorpg, current pattern is getting really near lineage 2 or granado espada or any korean mmorpg.

1 month to get 1 piece of ascended item?
Nice so you need 1,5 yeras to equip 1 character ._.

How much time was needed in korean mmorpgs?

oh and don t forget they already said they could raise level cap basically making all your equipment obsolete at once ..

Except legendary that are already way over korean mmorpg grinding unless you don t exploit system somehow (speculating TP, buing for real moneys etc etc etc…).

P.S. yet i hope they will change this….they seems to understand its quite a mistake….
As they did with rings in fotm that at least are easy to obtain.

People say GW2 is such a grind and then I think of L2 and its a bit silly. In L2 having the latest gear is a necessity, without it you can not win. You may have super human playing skill, one super gear character one shots you. Getting gear in L2 in 1 month? Ha! One year more likely and then the next gear comes and repeat. No wonder in these games everybody uses 3rd party.

GW2 is not like that, first of all I never even needed any of this ascend stuff. And legendary is only a nice skin.

Towndrunk.9562:

I’m a casual player. I have noticed that this game is evolving in a way that is making it harder for casuals to complete content. Too bad. Why is that?

Why you think? Fractals where problematic, but now you don’t even have to do fractals and you can just join in with all level fractals. Just spend a couple of hours doing a daily and your all splendid. A casual can easily reach top level with exotic gear. This game is the most casual friendly MMO I know of right now.

Nemisis.4690:

for making me feel all warm and fuzzy inside about the loot fix!

Which fixes? Where is the source of what you talk about.

Recycle.5493:

In the past month of dungeon runs for armors for several of my characters, I have noticed that a lot players, not just newly joined players, but also experienced ones, don’t know what these are or don’t pay attention to them.

What what are?

Recycle.5493:

These passive buffs on champs should not be overlooked. With good coordination and communication. Parties can use CC skills to interrupt a lot of boss attacks to either stop a deadly blow or making the kill faster.

So why aren’t people paying attention to them? Is it because it’s not explained in the game? Or do people simply choose to ignore them?

For one I don’t know what you mean with CC skills. If you tell people “Use CC Skills!!!” perhaps they don’t know what you talk about.

I didnt like the asian style areas of GW1.

Lysico.4906:

Who uses their primary email for gaming? If you do, you need to stop that.

So who cares if someone sees your gaming email.

This e-mail is your username, knowing this is 1 step a hacker need to take.

Lysico.4906:

why would it matter if they see an email?

Because it is private, spammers can start spamming you, it is your login name and they ll know which e-mail to hack in order to get around the e-mail authentication. Also many people use the same password. Guess the e-mail password and you ll have full access to someones account. If this is shown it is a security disaster waiting to happen. Also, they can also try all other MMOs with the same e-mail & password.

This information should not be communicated, only upon login. Imagine a client hack that retrieves all e-mails from the guild panel.

Leap of faith can nicely be combined with the revive daily. On a serious note though, the possibility for guild activities are lacking. However, soon they ll add stuff to do as a guild. How about the first to reach the enemies home waypoint in the borderland, the funniest final moments. You can do TP competition. Everyone puts 50 silver and trades it. The person doubling this silver the most gets all the other profit minus guild cut.

All in all though, people will see all this as not real things to do in the game, but only things to compensate for the lack of guild activities/quests

I play different. I used to play 1 MMO and pay subscription. Nowadays the hardcore loyalty to any game is gone. With all the f2p games out there you can approach MMOs more like you do with solo games. Play it, reach the end and play it again when they have more content. Like halo1, halo2 etc.

Also, honestly PvE end game is kinda hard. PvE is content that just ends. It has no end-game, only new story / content. PvP is a never ending struggle.

Had multiple crashes and huge lag problems. Probably this is the same issue. Perhaps try to play around with the graphics settings. Maybe one of the special settings is bugged.

Many issues are the same thing I think. All huge lag that gets worse after you logged in and multiple crash after that. Some memory leak maybe. Seems the test team forgot to test scalability for this patch, I wonder how much problems the small servers have.

BobbyStein.2315:

Thanks for the feedback on the Living Story portion of Flame and Frost: Prelude. Here’s some context on how it works:

• The Flame and Frost story content progresses over time. You will not see everything today, tomorrow, or even the next day.
• Expect subtle changes at first. Maybe you’ll encounter some familiar characters. Perhaps you’ll be introduced to some new ones. You might see a new structure where there wasn’t one before.
• The Living Story content is initially about the thrill of discovery. We’ll put some markers on your map, maybe send you a letter, or parcel out details through certain characters, but the rest is up to you.
• As the weeks progress, you’ll notice bigger changes in the world. New events may appear. Plots will advance and characters will develop.

As always, we welcome your opinions. This is a new thing we’re trying so we appreciate your patience and input.

Make it to subtle and 80% of the server will never see your work. My feedback is that, clear indicators where to find new NPCs.

Gaile Gray.6028:

I want to clarify my earlier statement, in case what I said was confusing. Here’s are the facts: When you get an error code, it’s usually, but not always, a Technical Support issue. There are codes related to account issues — like Error 45 — but Error 7 is an issue related to connectivity, which is reviewed by our Technical Support Team. So please continue to post Error 7 issues in this thread, where they will be reviewed by our TS Team.

I doubt it, it happens every where after the patch. Before that I was ok. Support says that all the time, its not us its you and then moments later they patch it. Perhaps your servers have a connectivity problem.

Desolation is also extremely laggy. I haven’t been able to complete the new achievements. I played until my character stopped moving completely. After a lag of 5 minutes, and my character getting killed by mobs, I stopped the game again. I really hope I ll get the chance to play today.

I have the feeling the lag gets worse with time or with the achievements. In the beginning I was ok, but as I play it gets worse and worse and unplayable.

Test servers are too expensive for an subscription free game. Also, you describe problems where you don’t like what you get. Imo, test servers should be for bugs like the disconnect issue, the none progressing achievements and especially scaling issues.

These seem to be very hard to detect for developers themselves. Imagine you write an essay. You can read it 10 times and still you friend will see errors that you just read over it.

Same here, disconnect every couple of minutes. Achievement gets partially resetted. I see a load screen of frostgorge but I am in bloodtide coast. Don’t like to say this lightly, but this was unplayable. Stopped trying after DC number 10.

Ansultares.1567:

FacesOfMu.3561:

The problems people see seem to blind them from the strengths the game has.

That goes both ways. It’s really easy to lose objectivity regarding something you’ve created. You may not even be aware that it’s flawed without the opinion of an outside observer to provide some perspective.

Not only the developers loose objectivity. Both the rage side and the unconditional fan have lost objectivity.

The moderators are perfectly able to moderate people who are rude. Never seen an issue with that. Personally I had to stop playing yesterday because the patch makes me DC. But ok, even that is not a reason to be rude. Though I believe many people start posting when something like that happens. They should calm down first and then post.

Looked on youtube, it didnt seem to have any effect. So, now I understand why everyone wants the greatswords

Thanks for the tip. But I ll wait until they fix this bug. If nothing happens then maybe I ll check out firmware etc etc so many times I went to all the trouble to check out everything on my side and after a while the MMO is updated and problem fixed.

I play a couple of MMOs and I don’t have this problem for any other game. My internet indicator is stable and never disconnects.

After 10 DCs in 15 min I went to do something else and I hope it will fix itself later. The first DC was after about an hour of playing. I did my first event daily, dc, login, dc, login dc, see that the achievement is reset, dc again.

Gorwe.9672:

Hoping that that they won’t nerf anything(nerfs=anti-fun)

Hoping that they’ll buff Rangers/Engis/Necros(buffs=pro-fun)

Aoe nerf means ranger nerf. I would hold your breath for that one.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

“When it’s done.”

:D

I imagine shrek and donkey. We are donkey asking “Are we here yet?”

Making click sounds

Tom Gore.4035:

beren.6048:

Tom Gore.4035:

…Lately I’ve also been playing a lot of EVE online, but the lack of any (meaningful) avatar gameplay and consent-only PvP areas keep me from enjoying it fully…

So you like ganking in specific. This is so far from the GW concept, that it will not happen.

“Allowing players to share experiences in an open world where other players are seen as helpful, rather than competition, is a huge component of what makes our game what it is. Open world online games are always strongest when players are encouraged and rewarded to interact as a community, to support other each other…..” – https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-on-guild-wars-2-in-the-months-ahead/

I’m not sure how you twisted my wish for consent-only PvP areas for EVE (and for GW2) to “you like ganking”. Care to elaborate? Or maybe you need a new dictionary?

“consent-only PvP areas keep me from enjoying it fully”, but I guess you mean this also lacks in eve. Never played that game. Guild wars are often without the consent of the individual player. I never seen an MMO where you needed to flag a player to start killing a war tag.

Doesn’t matter really, more importantly read what Colin says (in specific the text in Bold). Killing war tags while doing a raid is not helpful at all, it is competitive.

Tom Gore.4035:

…Lately I’ve also been playing a lot of EVE online, but the lack of any (meaningful) avatar gameplay and consent-only PvP areas keep me from enjoying it fully…

So you like ganking in specific. This is so far from the GW concept, that it will not happen.

“Allowing players to share experiences in an open world where other players are seen as helpful, rather than competition, is a huge component of what makes our game what it is. Open world online games are always strongest when players are encouraged and rewarded to interact as a community, to support other each other…..” – https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-on-guild-wars-2-in-the-months-ahead/

The server is the problem. In these posts people never tell the server they play on, dunno why.

I am lucky to play on desolation. WvW has queues until late at night & LA always has overflow. It is just that because they are going to make transfers paid most guild are moving to the servers with the highest population possible. This is clear, since we see strong changes in server strength for T1 WvW.