Guild Wars 2

WingLegacy.7159:

I played Gw1 for 6yrs and yea build changing is awesome load any build anytime. I love to see that in Gw2 but thats not we have atm. But its still acceptable compared to other mmos that you need to buy and spend real money to reset.

I guess the problem is not the fee itself. Paying 3-4 silver to respec is almost nothing. But having to respec everything by hand everytime youre gonna do something that requires a different build (lets say you have a build for general PvE, a build for dungeons, a build for WvW, etc) is a pain. A template system like we had on GW1 would be great.

Vertical progression.

If you advertise your game as being based on an horizontal progression in which players wouldnt have to enter endless grinds for BiS gear, and only 3 months after release you add a new time-gated heavily grind-based gear tier, which completely ruins the initial gear acquisition system that perfectly fitted the “play the way you want” concept you so talked about, you cant seriously expect people to be happy about it.

phys.7689:

Elmo Benchwarmer.3025:

phys.7689:

No, sports aren’t supposed to be fair, they are competitive. That is two different things, sports rewards hard work, and natural inclination way more than wvw does.

Sports sets certqin rules, then asks the player if he’s willing to compete. That’s all.

Don’t let the IOC know that. You’ll get sued.

Fairness is one of the paradigms of sports. Just look at the uproar doping caused in the Tour de France. German TV channels stopped live transmissions alltogether. Even technology gets banned for giving unfair advantages.

“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_doping”

nothing fair about being born naturally with what others have to dope to obtain. Also people here are against the idea that people who play longer get better stats, the same is true in sports, those who have time to train increase strength, speed, etc.

I dont agree with doping, but to be honest its just a rule that we agree upon before the game. like i said, rules are set, and then you are allowed to do whatever within that rule set, based on your natural talents and training, but its not like sports makes sure everyone has the same statisitics, team make up, etc.

Seriously, what are you talking about?

fellyn.5083:

Squid.6903:

I believe that the way Ascended Gear is released goes against what made GW2 so fun in the past. It didn’t force you into doing stuff you didn’t want to do.

An Ascended weapon means I’ll be doing 10+% more damage than with my Exotic Weapon. That’s pretty huge in any kind of PvP.

So why aren’t there multiple pathways to getting these items? I mean from the start. From release. When Legendary/Ascended Weapons were released, there should have been a WvW method of getting them, or some sort of equivalent.

I don’t mean to say that it should be easy to get these items, but I find PvE boring—This is a game killer for me, and I know it is for some others, too.

Fix it, please.

Precursor weapons drop in wvw. I’m pretty sure you can get most of the other materials to make a legendary weapon in wvw too, except for the dungeon tokens.

Therefor Legendarys can be obtained in wvw. Same goes for all the materials required to make ascended weapons.

And complete ascended weapons have a chance to drop anywhere that ascended materials drop as well.

Are you really relying on RNG to acquire your ascended weapons on GW2? I mean, really? And what would you do with a Healing Power / Precision / Vitality weapon on a Condition Damage build?

Regarding the alt-unfriendliness of GW2, I would just like to add that the WvW xp only made things worst. It stimulates people to focus on 1 character to get all the bonuses from the WvW levelling system, instead of trying different classes.

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

ThiBash.5634:

As you can tell, I like the system as it is now…which is also why I still don’t get why Ascended gear had to be implemented.

Ascended Gear was implemented (if I am correct on this) for those of us without a spare 520 USD to drop on the Gem to Gold Conversion system so that we would have enough to buy a Legendary Weapon. They are essentially the Poor Man’s Legendary Weapons. They allow people to have the ability to compete on an even footing with those people who own Legendary Weapons in events such as World Vs. World, or High Level Fractals and Dungeons, without actually having to spend the massive amounts of money needed in order to buy a Legendary Weapon.

Unlike popular opinion, when compared to a person wielding a Legendary Weapon (especially in a WvW scenario) a simple Exotic Weapon is just not going to cut it.

What are you talking about? Before ascended crap, exotics had the same stats as legendary weapons,. so people already had the ability to compete on an even field against Legendary owners. The addition of ascended gear only raised the grind necessary to be competitive.

Yeah, GW2 world is really beautiful. Which is no surprise to me, since GW1 world was also astonishing. I remember going to some locations in GW1 just to admire the landscape after upgrading my PC so I could max everything, back in 2008.

doddbox.8153:

There are many more design barriers involved in introducing such a feat to the game other than the individuality of classes. I’ve read a few other similar topics (too dated to bring up) that bash the idea because it would make light/medium armor classes look stupid, which is absolutely obscene. We’ve all seen a Mesmer with an over-sized greatsword but we never question its compatibility with the nature of the game.

I dont know why they dont allow people to transmute armor pieces of different classes. I see tons of people complaining about the lack of diversity of armor skins, and that would just triple the number of armor pieces every character has access to. The skins are already modeled for every race…

lvis.3824:

I am stuck at 23/24 !!

I did every obilisc twice – following dulfy.net guide.
On every obilisk i get the message that i cannot gain any more energy from that obilisk !!!

wtf is this kitten ?

It’s a waste of time anyways – but this bug is makeing it even more stupid !!!
I want my achivment !

Perhaps you are missing this one at Mount Maelstrom (near Treacherous Depths): http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/gw2-toxic-krait-historian-achievement-guide-mount-maelstrom-4.jpg

Dulfy recently updated the guide, but before that the map only showed the other 3 shard locations, and I skipped this one. Idk if its your case, but..

The whole ascended tier introduction was a total fiasco. Ascended handling has been atrocious since November 2012.

Berelious.3290:

caiomacos.1694:

Exotics were supposed to be incredibly difficult to get? Really?

I think, as WP said, that ANet wasn’t expecting the amount of sheer determination of the players had when the game started. I heard one player actually got to level 80 in 3 days with the help of his guild and friends, which would have allowed him to make Exotics almost immediately. One of many miscalculations on their part, on their part, but still one that would have been impossible to see before hand.

I mean, the video kind of contradicts itself. At first it says GW2 (unlike most MMOs) is based on a cosmetic progression, instead of a stat-based progression. Then it says that the BiS gear was supposed to be incredibly hard to get. You cant have both ways. Either you have an horizontal / cosmetic progression, or you have a vertical one. To me, its pretty clear that exotics were never supposed to be extremely difficult to get. They were supposed to be just like golds on GW1. A BiS gear somewhat easy to get, and from there on there would be only cosmetic upgrades.

Exotics were supposed to be incredibly difficult to get? Really?

- What are the typical alt leveling methods and which one is more viable?
I basically level up by clearing 100% areas (hearts, PoI, vistas, wps) and doing the events I find on the journey. I usually dont do the personal story missions, because I prefer to do them all at one time. Its probably not the fastest way, but thats basically what I do.

- Are alts a good part of this game and do they make the game more fun for you?
Sure. In fact, thats one of the things I like most, having the opportunity to try different playstyles. Of course, we always have our favorite characters, but its always good to be able to change your gameplay from time to time.

- How do you go about leveling and gearing?
Already explained leveling. Regarding gearing, I just crafted most of the armor and weapons and, in some cases, got the gear via dungeon tokens.

- Would you say leveling alts is fun or boring?
I find it fun because, like I said, I breaks the boredom of using the same skills over and over again. So i Have no problem leveling alts to 80; and after reaching max level its good to have this new set of possibilites to try out.

- Did you use crafting to level alts? If yes, how many? Would you do it again?
I believe I only got some levels via crafting on 2 characters. But not many levels.

- Do you think leveling alts should be easier?
Im ok with it.

holodoc.5748:

If I have a somewhat older computer and require more time to load a specific map (sometimes the difference can go up to 20 seconds and more) I should not be punished because folks with better computers managed to reach and complete the event in the meantime (champ trains anyone?).

If anything, your system suggestion would only make things worse for people with bad computers / internet speed. If you already take longer to fast travel compared to people with better pcs, if you had to travel multiple times (multiple loading times) through different gates, by the time you reach your destination the event would have ended ages ago. Being able to travel to a place very near the event as fast as possible is actually a solution to that.

IndigoSundown.5419:

So, the existence of waypoints causes you to skip the intervening terrain. Is it that you don’t want to use them but do anyway because they’re there? You can’t just choose not to use them? Is it because you want to cross the intervening space but don’t want to travel at walking speed (hence mounts)? I’m trying to understand the thought process, because I totally have no problem ignoring waypoints to travel around on foot — when that’s what i want to do, and using waypoints when I want speed (e.g., for things like Guild Trek, because the time limits given don’t allow for taking the long route).

Pretty much this.

All the things listed by the OP could be avoided just by choosing not to do them. Like to experience the world, enjoy the scenery, feel the world? Just dont use the waypoints. Want to craft only in a crafting station and to be able to buy / sell only at BLTC at a major city? Well, do that.

I just dont see how the game forces you to do those things. You can actually make those choices yourself to make the game more fun to you.

PsyOnic.3108:

To not implement it at all.

^^

Ascended gear was the worst addition to the game. Even if I spend a whole day brainstorming of possible bad additions to GW2, I wouldnt come up with a worse one.

pixfan.2407:

Don’t even bother yourselves sending a ticket, you’ll get the same response we got.

Nah, if you are having terrible lag and havent opened a ticket yet, plz do it. Ive sent a ticket mentioning this topic and heres what they answered:

“Hello,

Thank you for contacting the Guild Wars 2 Support Team.

I have seen this forum post and am actively collecting information to pass off to the Network Engineering Team. That being said, I’ll need to request a couple of additional reports from you as the Network Diagnostic test unfortunately does not want to show me the traceroutes. In order for us to better assist you with this issue, please run our Game Advisor application. The Game Advisor will provide us with helpful information about your system and Internet connection.

If you are using a router, hub, or switch, please disconnect this device and connect directly to your modem before running this utility. You may have to reboot your modem and/or computer to reestablish your Internet connection. If this isn’t possible due to your network setup, please run Game Advisor with the router connected as the information will still be useful.

To run Game Advisor, please perform the following steps:

1. To download the Game Advisor, go here: http://us.ncsoft.com/gameadvisor

2. When prompted, save the file to your Windows “desktop” so that you can access it easily. Please save the file before running it – running from the website can cause file issues.

3. Double-click on the Game Advisor file and then click on the icon of the game you’re experiencing an issue with.

4. Click on the “Test Computer and Connection” button and please wait a few minutes while the process completes.

5. Once the process completes, a “Test Result” window will come up. This window will provide you with a link to update your ticket as well as tell you where the diagnostic report is saved. You can also view the report file.

Please update your ticket with this file. If you need assistance attaching a report to the ticket please follow the instructions in the following Knowledge Base article:

Title: Attaching a File
Answer Link: http://help.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/ncsoft.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=5887

Once we receive it, we’ll have a better idea of how to resolve your issue."

Its pretty clear they are aware of the problem and are looking at it. So, my advice is to open a ticket with the Diag Log and Game Advisor file attached. The more people opening tickets about this problem, more data they will be able to gather from us to figure out the source of the problem (whether it is from their side or from our ISP) and how to fix it.

Lots of lag these last days. Any form of PvP is simply unplayable.

“Will there be micro-transactions or things to buy which don’t come with the box, like character slots?

Yes. The game includes micro-transactions via the Gem Shop. Items that can be purchased via the gem shop are cosmetic, intended to provide a convenience or are account services, such as adding character & bag slots. Gem shop items will not offer any substantial gameplay advantage over those available through the investment of time. You will also be able to trade coin, earned in-game, for gems that other players spent cash to buy."

If you are not having fun, dont play the game.

Sovta.4719:

There are some FULL F2P that have bigger patches every month

Would you mind listing those F2P games that provided more content than we´ve had so far?

void.6705:

Why do people think achievement points are so important?? I myself dont put alot into how many I have or how many someone else has. Guess they are going to become another form of currency for the game…

I also dont see why we need achievement points rewards. If anything, there could be titles related to them, similar to Kind of a Big Deal / People Know Me / God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals titles. Something like:

5k Achievements points = title X
10k points = title Y
20k points = title Z
and so on…

Deified.7520:

Here are the leaked stuff. I just like building suspense (justkidding, i actually wasn’t sure if it was against the rules. Hopefully not)

Armor:
Helm: http://i.imgur.com/BKoLWLx.png
Helm #2: http://i.imgur.com/MpkmNSj.png
Full Armor Set : http://i.imgur.com/HobDEvY.png
Full Armor Set #2: http://i.imgur.com/gTFJsQc.png
Hairstyle: http://i.imgur.com/MwtRq6u.png

WvW map: http://i.imgur.com/qoKFvDt.jpg

This WvW map image is old as hell. I remember seeing it a long time ago. I dont know about those armors, though. But they just seem random 3d models. Where did you find it?

Yeah, the game lacks more hardcore PvE content. But, like others have stated, this is a double edged sword. If ANet makes anything harder, there will be the usual outcry on the forums. Remember Clock Tower? AC? Fire Ele?

Regarding dungeons, I can see a Hard Mode being added. So people will still be able to faceroll full dps CoF p1 under 6 min, while others can find more a more challenging content.

Chuo.4238:

TheOnlyOneNL.3821:

Almost everybody is in Southsun Cove participating in the last chapter of the Living Story.

If that’s ‘almost everybody’, then it’s also hardly anybody.

I logged on over the weekend to do the content, and had difficulty with getting events done because I only saw one or two other players. Group events were impossible. Map chat was dead and unresponsive.

And I’m on a supposedly high population server (SoR).

This doesn’t prove anything, but it sure suggests something…

You were on Southsun at SoR and could only find a player or two? Nah… You were probably sent to overflow and didnt notice.

Fernling.1729:

I play on arguably the most populated US server, and there is not an overflow for southsun.

I´ve been sent to overflow on Southsun plenty of times during the event. So either you are not on the most populated server or you are not playing on your server´s prime time.

Zimlobo.3962:

You all heard it here first! A new sandwichmancer class will be released in jan/feb/march! Quick, update the Intertnets with this exciting news!!!

I’m joking… LOL

Im pretty sure by jan/feb/march of 2014 we will have the “Where is the sandwichmancer profession Colin promissed us?” topics.

Maz.8604:

I will also not that in the launch of the eight year MMO, by this point after their launch they had released their second 40-man PvE experience as well as the revamps to two of their classes’ trait systems in a single major update. Whether that’s your cup of tea is not the point, the substantial development effort shown is. This is following the release of two dungeons, their first swing at a LFG system (with no successful model to follow in an MMO), first swing at PvP maps and rewards… That is all released post-launch.

You gotta be joking that you really think WoW added content 9 months post-launch is more then we got on GW2 so far…

While I do aggre that some events need better scaling, just stating that is useless. From personal experience, most events (not listed as group events, of course), are soloable. In fact, the biggest issue for me is that events does not scale well when a good number of players join in, and become too trivial (most world bosses, for example). So, it would probably be of great use to ANet if you could provide your feedback on what events you think need rebalance.

You can also play with your friends using the guesting feature. The only thing you cannot do with your friends through guesting is WvW.

Conncept.7638:

caiomacos.1694:

Conncept.7638:

The point is you are wrong, your claim that engineers do not have weapon swap because of toolbelt skills is false, as stated by the devs.

“We point it out to you that engineers do not have weapon swap because they have access to weapon kits instead.”

Uhuh…

caiomacos.1694:

Ya, because tool bets doesnt exist in this game and are not an ever present influence to engineers gameplay like every other class mechanic…

That’s you, in case you didn’t notice, stating that engineers do not have weapon swap because of tool belt skills, which is what I was responding to in the first place. It was your first post in this thread.

That was an answer to your claim that engineers dont have a class mechanic. In fact, they do: the toolbelt skills, like I have pointed out for you. Which have nothing to do with weapon swap or kits.

Mystic.5934:

how do you survive the fall? is it possible to do a normal jump into the water? I considered using a teleport gun to get far enough, but that can’t be the answer. only tried to give portal rides once, and went splat instead. there was land under that water X(

Probably using the trait that reduces fall damage.

Conncept.7638:

caiomacos.1694:

Seriously, what is your point?

You create a topic complaining about engineers not having weapon swap. We point it out to you that engineers do not have weapon swap because they have access to weapon kits instead. You then complain that engineers are denied a class mechanic, and we point it out that engineers have the tool belt skills as a class mechanic. Now you are going back to engineers not having weapon swap…

If the problem is balance and you think tool belt skills are weak or useless, just be clear about it and stop walking in circles.

The point is you are wrong, your claim that engineers do not have weapon swap because of toolbelt skills is false, as stated by the devs.

“We point it out to you that engineers do not have weapon swap because they have access to weapon kits instead.”

Elodie.3850:

Yea, but there’s a few other ones associated with crab battles that’ll take more time to get. :o I’m not at my home pc so I can’t login and check exact numbers on them or details >:

But I’m like 99.999999%-100% sure that EACH of the 11 sample locations have their OWN achievements, as well as the one for 10/10 for the flower backpiece. So the people who said there’s no achievement for it were wrong. :x That’s all!

Each sample has its own achievement, but it rewards 0 points. And this one sample isnt absolutely needed for the Southsun Volunteer Fieldwork (since you only need 10 of the 11 samples) nor is it required for Stalwart (since you only need to complete 25 out of 35+ achievements).

Neurochazm.5370:

Elodie.3850:

It’s been said a couple of times in this thread that there isn’t an achievement point associated with this sample – the Islet sample – but.. there is? o_o There’s a point for all of them .. right? Or was I seeing things last night? Dulfy’s guide even says to get it for a point towards the 25 ..

“There are 11 samples but you only need to to scan 10 samples for the Southsun Volunteer Fieldwork achievement (however, get all 11 if you want the Southsun Stalwart achievement).”

Finally someone has seen the reason for my original post, thank you.

All the people shouting “You don’t need it, you only need 10 for the achievement”, obviously failed to realise that ALL 11 are needed for the Meta achievement “Southsun Stalwart”.

No, they arent needed.

Conncept.7638:

caiomacos.1694:

Ya, because tool bets doesnt exist in this game and are not an ever present influence to engineers gameplay like every other class mechanic…

As stated by the devs before the game was even released, engineers do not have weapon swap because of kit skills. How would that even make any sense anyway? Mesmers have four class mechanic skills as well, each one superior to any toolbelt skill. Why don’t they have weapon swap removed? And most toolbelt skills are a quarter of a utility at best, any one of them would be a laughable option for a utility slot.

Seriously, what is your point?

You create a topic complaining about engineers not having weapon swap. We point it out to you that engineers do not have weapon swap because they have access to weapon kits instead. You then complain that engineers are denied a class mechanic, and we point it out that engineers have the tool belt skills as a class mechanic. Now you are going back to engineers not having weapon swap…

If the problem is balance and you think tool belt skills are weak or useless, just be clear about it and stop walking in circles.

Ya, because tool bets doesnt exist in this game and are not an ever present influence to engineers gameplay like every other class mechanic…

Penguin.5197:

Flissy.4093:

The difference is Engineer’s kits count as other weapon abilities. Similar to Elementalist and attunement, they unlock whole new weapon abilities.

If anything, both Elementalists & Engineers get 4 (or 5 including med kit) weapons, so if anything all other professions should be able to cycle through 4 sets.

Why do these professions get 20 weapon skills to play around with but others only get 10?

If anything, eles and engies got the short end of the stick here (mostly engies). Their class mechanics just ended up being slightly more skills or skill swapping, but to get that they lost the ability to weapon swap.
Other professions got true class mechanics where they didnt have to sacrifice jack for theirs. Whats the differnce between a guardian and an engie? an engie got one more skill slot at the cost of weapon swapping.

Edit: Im only talking about class mechanics here, you know those skills that you always take no matter what build you have, not about kits, who already have damage tax to pay for instant swapping.

Like I said, every class has its drawback. As a Mesmer I can only have access to 2 weapon skills sets, while Eles have access to 4, and Engies up to 6. If you prefer a less diverse skill set but with access to weapon swap, you should be picking another class instead of Eles and Engies. It seems to me that you want to play as an Engineer while you prefer another class mechanic.

Ok, what about ANet add the weapon swap and remove the weapon kits for Engies? Would that be good?

Every class has its advantages and drawbacks. Engineers have the ability to use kits that substitute their weapon skills (making it the class that has the potential of bringing the greatest number of skills to the battlefield: 5 weapon skills + 5×5 skills if you use kits on every utility / healing / elite slot + the f1-f4 skills) but don´t have access to the weapon swap (like the Elementalist). Saying you would prefer to have access to the weapon swap because you don´t wanna use kits on utility slots is the same thing as an Ele saying he would prefer to have the weapon swap instead of the attunement swap because he doesnt use the different attunements and would prefer to swap between d/d and staff. Well, Eles dont have that option either.

So you gotta pick your class based on the pros and cons of each one of them. If you can´t live without weapon swap, well, Eles and Engies are not for you. On the other side, if you wanna be able to use the greatest number of skills at any given time, those are the top 2 classes.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/If-guildwars-2-had-monthly-fee/first

Cosmetics, and they are acquirable via in-game cash. I see no problem at all.

As real as the “trial account got 2 precursors on the karka event chest” rumor.

From the list of 13 items on the link you provided, there are only 2 that seems to be RNG.

Sure.

I dont mind paying the 3-4 silver to respec my traits, but it would be awesome to be able to save different builds like in GW1 and change them as we wish, without having to respec everything all the time.

That is one of the major things I miss about GW1.

For Gods sake, no increase on the level cap. But after ascended gear were added, nothing could really surprise me anymore. If the devs think that adding treadmill will get GW2 more WoW (and WoW clones) players, they will do it.

Take your 35 Guardian to Orr to see if he handles risen as well as your 80 Warrior. There goes your sense of being more powerful.

the moidart.3612:

The irony is theres almost no real support in the game. Other then water staff ele and to some extent staff/wells necro, most classes ability to support others is quite limited.

I disagree. There´s plenty of support to all professions. From Mesmer portals / invisibility, to Guardian´s shouts and aegis / reflections, there are various ways of providing support to a party. Unfortunately, general PvE content content is just too easy, so most people can just faceroll full zerk dps everything.

I bet it is the Mini Karka.

They are also working on permanent content, not only temporary. For example, last patch we had the WvW updates and guild missions; in this new one we are gonna get custom arenas and spectator mode (which are a need for sPvP). So its not like the game isnt evolving.

You should really check whats wrong with the Maw world event. It became usual to get disconnect at the event. It doesnt happen at Tequatl, it doesnt happen at Shatterer, it doesnt happen at Fire Ele… but every Maw event you pray you dont get DC and lose it.