Guild Wars 2

8/10

my asura’s name is lags

You expect them to make five unique instance so players can play for a couple weeks before they take them out?

Be thankful that you get the level of free updates free of charge at this quality.

Any info regarding the new wintersday skins? Seriously I really want to know if there will be a hammer skin ….. I think hammer along with pistol are the only 2 weapons in game that doens’t have a holiday/event version :/….

I really want to use a good looking hammer on my war and guardian QQ

Without WoW, most of the mmos will go down the Lineage 1 and RO path.

-Items won’t be soul bound and equipments will all be resellable.

-“End game” won’t be grinding a dungeons for gears just so you are replaced with the new ones when a new patch hits.

Instead, it would be focus on collecting different items that has almost no stat difference and enchant them via scrolls and such.

- There would be no gear tiers.

- Contents would actually be difficult and hard to access which would keep you try to explore them for months and still won’t complete them.

- There will be NO instances

- There will be NO queues to get into instances which made people to just sit and town and wait for the queue to pop.

- People would actually be hunting in the open world for crafting mats because mat tiers aren’t divided by zones. Hell, there won’t even by mat tiers because there are no gear tiers.

Hell… if you actually look at the early RO and Lineage, you would find that a lot of their elements are what we are actually asking… or begging for in gw2 before it came out.

Without WoW, game producers will not be chasing that 10 millions of sub… Instead they would be content with 1 mil of active subs and stick to their game plan instead of copying wow because the demographic chart told them WoW is the thing.

Without WoW, mmos will not be as popular as right now, but the genre will be a better genre compare to today.

Columba.9730:

carson yuen.6739:

Kaizer.7135:

A new tier of gear that you have to grind for, who the hell wants to WORK in a GAME? They’re supposed to be fun, and Anet promised there’d be no grind, that everyone will be equal in gear & it would be easy to obtain max gear.

Sigh, if this gets any worse, I’m out. I really hope not though, since I spent $2000 bucks on a new PC to play this game since I LOVED GW1.

i dropped 2000 bucks on a new computer just for this game too…… then 200 bucks on the collector’s edition and 100 bucks during the halloween event…

then Anet pull this kitten on me… I was really hoping that this would be a different mmo from WoW, and that it would change the direction of the future mmos by showing people you DONT need to always increase the max item stats every 3 months…

then we have this…..

LOL. Sorry to hear that. I was planning to build a new pc for this game. thankfully, before I bought the components, I saw the announcement of this disaster. stopped me from wasting $1200.

well… i can still use my computer for other games…so it’s not a complete waste… althought the only games in the market that still holds my interests in the market right now are tf2 and lol since my investment in those 2 games won’t be diminish over time…

Heck.. I think my tf2 accounts has gears that could sell up to 500 bucks usd right now..

Gibbel.5734:

Think that after the rage thread they gonna make ascend gear easier to get just like excotics

“Ascended and infusion rewards will be available in both PvE and WvW over time, and be made available through all sorts of content around the world including existing content. "

Also think this is the NEW MAX gear cap ever.. atleast i hope so…. you would think after al the rage they learned there lesson.. I am guesing this is the only way to try and salavage it without making the Hamsters rage.

that wouldn’t help… the core problem isn’t that ascend gears is hard to get… it is that the ascends gears would make people’s effort on collecting their exotic set useless… They would have to abandon the things they work so hard for 3 months because the gears is mandatory in Fotm level 10 +

Believe me or not, A LOT of people came to gw2 because they don’t need to feel that their efforts in collecting the highest tier would be wasted when a new patch comes…and this is exactly what this patch did.

unless Infusion slot would be add to the current exotic gears, and that ascends gears would have hte same stat as extoics…. people will continue to complain and quit…

hell… if i want to abandon my gears every couple months in an mmo… I would do it in wow.

Kaizer.7135:

A new tier of gear that you have to grind for, who the hell wants to WORK in a GAME? They’re supposed to be fun, and Anet promised there’d be no grind, that everyone will be equal in gear & it would be easy to obtain max gear.

Sigh, if this gets any worse, I’m out. I really hope not though, since I spent $2000 bucks on a new PC to play this game since I LOVED GW1.

i dropped 2000 bucks on a new computer just for this game too…… then 200 bucks on the collector’s edition and 100 bucks during the halloween event…

then Anet pull this kitten on me… I was really hoping that this would be a different mmo from WoW, and that it would change the direction of the future mmos by showing people you DONT need to always increase the max item stats every 3 months…

then we have this…..

Eder.9120:

AndrewMcLeod.3857:

As for ascended gear, to reiterate what Chris has said (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/A-message-from-our-Studio-Design-Director-Chris-Whiteside), it’s not intended as a treadmill, but rather as a tier of rewards that can help bridge the gap between Exotics (a few hours of effort to acquire a piece) and Legendaries (hundreds of hours of effort to acquire one). They’re currently only available in the Fractals of the Mist Dungeon, but we’re going to be adding new ways to acquire them, both inside of WvW as well as elsewhere in PvE.

Emphasis mine.
There may have been a gap in time taken to acquire Legendaries, but there was no stat gap and thus no requirement to get Legendaries in the first place. Can you explain why that part was changed. I would have had no problems whatsoever if you had kept stats the same and just introduced a PvE specific Agony mechanic.

what’s kitten up about that statment too is that the new ascends gears would only make the gap larger between exotic and legendary since you have to waste 100s of hours to get those gears before you can start the legendary grind instead of doing it at this moment.

the game had changed from having 12 full servers at 3 am in the morning during weekday to 3 full servers at 11 pm on a tuesday night as we speak…. so ya…. pretty bad

Columba.9730:

flood all online buying sites with complaints and bad reviews. if they can’t sell anything over the holidays, someone will get fired and things will change.

too late… the damage has already been done unless they can completely remove the new gears…. but then that would piss off those people who spent time to get the backpacks and rings…

no matter what they do, they had already kitten up themselves….

just log in to check out the server population…

North America servers have 2 full servers now, and the rest are high…. this is a dramatic change… Heck i was arguing with someone on the forum 2 weeks ago that the popluation was fine because we had 12 freaking full servers at 2 am in the morning on a tuesday night…..

There are no more normal dungeons lfg now, only fotm lvl 10 lf3m in LA…..

I don’t think i will be touching a mmorpg again…. WoW had forever changed the mmo world from gathering gears that you can keep to gathering gear just so you can dump them when new shiny come out…

I will try it after xmas…. Going to need he golds for xmas skins first

Fry.2794:

Voqar.2349:

Why play MMORPGs if you don’t wnt to group? They are massively multiplayer for a reason. Tons of single player games out there for people who only want to solo – stop contributing to diluting MMORPGs if you don’t really want to play them.

I play for the story and the world. Your attitude towards players who play for a different reason than you is horrid. I would love to play this game with friends but they have no intrest in this game. If you think i should make new friends in game, then I ask, why would I want friends with an attitude like yours?

Correction: you play for the world and story in AN MMO. Thats means there will be multiplayer aspect in that game. If you wan to see the world and story in genre, respect the rules that come with it.

Its like complaining about how super mario doesnt have multiplYer, or how a racing game forces you to race.

If you dont want to group or party in games, dont touch a mmo. If you like he story, suck it up like a man instead of complaining why a mmorpg requires you to play with other people.

I am a guardian, and like all guardians, hammers are really good weapons….except that they are so freaking small even on a Charr or Norn.

Personally I think every hammer should at least have the size of the lighting hammer or the legendary hammer. At least the size of those hammer would make them noticable…

please Anet. Look at your greatswords, look at the amount of greatsword owners, and look at weapons like hammer or axe. For a game that is so focus on cosmetic items, hammer is just visually unappealing to make people use them constantly.

and while you are at it, please make a hammer skin for xmas… I was deeply disappointed that there is no hammer skin in halloween :C

Gauradan.8361:

Really? This is the best argument you could come up with? My having an obsession?

The least amount of grind? What a joke. You need gold for travelling, you need gold for gathering, you need gold for repairs, you need gold for WvW. Oh, did I mention gold is a pain to get because the economy was destroyed by bots, which ArenaNet was too slow in taking action against?

I understand loving the game, but defending it just for the sake of it, when it’s obvious there are grinds in Guild Wars 2 just as much as in any other MMOs, is laughable. Sure, you’ll say: you don’t have to grind for gold nor for cosmetics. But if you don’t grind, what else is there to do? Sit in Lion’s Arch all day? The problem isn’t necessarily in the fact that there are grinds, but that there’s nothing else to do after you’ve done 100% map completion which doesn’t require grinding.

care to tell me how you need to grind for gold for:

1. traveling

2. gathering? gathering those 4s per 100 gathering tools?

3. repairing

4. wvw

all these things you list aren’t costy. For traveling, unless you are way point jumping like a mad man, you would able to easily cover the cost of gold from events and random drops. Repairing is the same thing. If you are dying so much that you actually need to grind to make the 5s from repairing, which btw, is like the gold reward of one big event in Orr, then you should rethink the way you play this game.

WvW could be costy if you want to upgrade, but if you have half a brain you should still be able to cover those costs without grind.

And gathering? Did you actually tell people that you need to grind for gold for gathering??

if you want to break down grinding the way you do, then EVERY games out there are grind. Why can’t the developer let you play the last level in those rpgs out there? why do you have to grind 100 different courses in super mario to beat the game? Why can’t you start as a level 99 in final fantasy?

everything in video games is about grind, the difference is whether you need to grind to function or not. Well judging from the list you listed… you shouldn’t even be playing a video game.

seriously? gathering is a gold grind?

Gauradan.8361:

Krustydog.1043:

Dis-illusionment has set in. This was not supposed to be WoW but it kind of is with a few added extra bugs for flavor. Rendering is an atrocity. You have OP classes, gear (karma) grinds, grinds for matts. I had hoped for WvW to be more epic. With mass transfers server pride is a joke. Realms go up and down so fast with mass transfers of guilds that there are very few grudge matches. Even if there were you have no idea who you are fighting because names are not displayed. And the bots. THE BOTS! I see more bots than I do actual players. Hacking. I honestly think if they are going to let bots and hackers run rampant I won’t be playing much longer. They destroy the game economy and allow cheaters to prosper. But hey, they are following in some giant sized footsteps left by WoW, Aion, Rift, SWtoR, etc. You think they would learn. Only game I have ever played with no hackers is World of Tanks. They are ruthless with bots and being as it is not a client side game there are no hackers. And in all reality I would rather play a lesser game with no bots and hackers than the best game in the world if it is over run with such.

This. The game is more WoW than Guild Wars, except instead of stat grinding you have grinding for cosmetics and for gold. Honestly, just because they said they would remove treadmill (which we have no way of knowing it’s true until the first expansion, when they will or won’t increase the level cap) doesn’t mean the grinding is gone. The grind is still very much there and even worse than in other games.

The grind cosmetics you can choose not to do, true enough, but the grind for gold is compulsory, given how much in this game costs gold. If Guild Wars did one thing right it was that you didn’t have to grind for gold. You could have 0 gold and you wouldn’t feel as if your character ruined, because there were no repair costs and travelling fees.

You’d think a sequel would be better than the original. I guess it was unrealistic to expect that from a game built with the cash shop in mind. What better way to encourage people to buy gems and trade them for gold other than keeping them poor?

and posting the same kitten over and over again is fun huh?

seriously you are abnormally obsessive about this grind issue that anything you reply, relate or unrelate to the grinding issue, would go back to how grindy gw2 is. Hell, people could ask how’s the weather outside right now, and you will manage to find a way to talk about the grind in gw2.

o yes, the game has probably the least amount of grind in mmorpgs I’ve seen. All the stuffs they made you grind for are cosmetic only, and you DONT have to grind in order to be function like other mmorpgs.

this kind of obsession is really unhealthy for you in both your game life and real life man.

you don’t buy them on purpose…. at least no one sane would do so…

you get them sort of as a bonus from opening BLC or from daily/map completion.

The problem with precursor weapons is how fast they rise in price. The weapons are going up by 10 golds per day on tp…

Now expensive gears are ok. But I am afraid the gold sellers are controlling the market right now. The rate the precursor increase goes way beyond normal inflation now, and the owners are just flipping those weapons with each other to make goal… It’s sort of like the house market in Asia or USA a few years ago.

I think it would be nice to give the people who MF 4 exotic weapons a token if the precursor didn’t pop. And once they gather like 100 of those tokens, they can make the precursor they want.

With this system, it will still take 400 exotic weapons to make the precursor, but the rate the weapons inflate will stop because there is a max price for it. This will stop the inflation at certain point….

My 2 cents

wtf is with all these stupid “where did everyone go” threads suddenly?

there is like 3 or 4 topics like this created in the last few days already, and yet people are still creating the sme topic seeking attentions.

It has been three months since the game release, most people at in their high 60s to lvl 80s farming high level contents to make gold. There are tons of people farming Orr, doing wvw, spvp, dungeons, and the rest are spread out all across the lower level areas.

and to those reply trolls who troll about how players are leaving, or that the game is dying. There are TWELVE full North America servers at 12:14 am. No, the “full” tag represent the amount of players in a server right now. No, Anet didn’t change the cap of the server to make medium servers look like full. No, the game is NOT dying.

and of course, the trolls will just ignore this and continue to talk about how the game is dying if they don’t throw in gear progression, make legendary easier to make, more tokens in dungeons, or give them a free pony after reaching level 80.

Mere Image.8376:

ArenaNet plz address this issue. Been a huge fan since GW 1 and I would hate to see it die. I think a major reason people aren’t playing as much, or seem to be less active at the very least, is because content scaling. There are essentially 2 lvl 80 zones. That’s where the majority of players will spend half their time, until they have essentially burned themselves out. What this game needs is an expansion with nearly all level 80 content, but first they need to address the bugs in the current game. Don’t let gw2 die!

there are 11 full servers right now at nearlly 2 am in north america…

and here we are talking about saving GW2 from its death?

if you think your server is dead, transfer yourself to a higher pop server instead of asking for ridiculous things such as server merge or cut down the servers in half…

there are plenty of servers with decent population in gw2 right now. Hell, it’s 1:46 am pacific time right now and the game has 11, ELEVEN full servers and the rest of the servers are high (north america servers)

middle pve zones are dead tho because of the lack of event rewards for max level people and that they can’t farm valuable materials in those maps. Low level zones and higher level zones such as Orr still have tons of players doing events.

why would you want to stay at range when you can charge into a group of people and wtf pwn them and retreat safely?

The value of items in game is relative to how fast can people make money. Boosting the dragon de rewards will just make things more expensive.

This is call inflation…

No.

Add ons, such as wows, functions like hacks and cheats. They are nice in the begining, but sooner or later they will force players to use them.

Who raids in wow without a dps meter? Who can heal effevtively wirhout healing Addon in wow? How about powaaura that shows when your abilities are ready?

Addon changed the way blizzard design wow. They built their game around those addons because everyone is using them. Allow addons in gw2, and anet will be force to follow blizzards footstep.

Charr heavy’s t3 looks really good..

I mean come on, thats the set whoever that charr call in ac is using

There are tons of end game in gw2 such as dungeons, spvp, wvw, collecting skins, and anything you can think of that could interests you. New content with new de, jp and possibly dungeons and skins are coming out in two weeks.

To those who prefer wows end game…. I honestly dont get it… You are paying 15 bucks a month trying to repeat a raid once per week before it gets lock down. New raids would only take a day or two to finish due to the size of the raid… Then what? Wait for a week doing nothing? Old raids wont work because the gear are worse in terms of stats. With
Raid finder you can probably see all the raid co tents in easy mode within an hour or two….

Is that model really better than wvw, or dungeons? Raiding the same raid one to two dAys a week is more fun than gw2 to you guys???

The op really want to get rid of the best feature in any mmos in history?
Even with the down level system, you should still be able to faceroll lower level contents unless you are clueless on how to play your character.

Also, think of the other mmos you played. When was the last time u would go back to the low levels and stay there for fun after you max your character? How many people actually stoll visit goldshire in wow?

Facerolling low level contents is fun for maybe 15 mins. Then most people would get bored by it because there is no challenge … Of course… Unless you are one of those Eric Cartman gangs.

^ pretty much that

You can still. Get exotics from the lowest level zone, but its highly unlikely due to its low drop rate even in level 80 areas. But there are reports where people got precusor weapons in the tutorial area…

I thin exotic would drop from low level meta event chests too.

LameFox.6349:

Why would ‘cultural’ armour be ‘elite’ to begin with?

Cars don’t function identically. If Ferrari changed their lineup to the current bodies with the innards of a Toyota Corolla, people wouldn’t be using Ferrari as any kind of status symbol for long.

Lets use the handbag as an example… What exactly is the difference between a lv and zara handbag? More pockets?

Culture t3 is elite because anet wants them to be, and the price they set shows it. If you think its not worth the money you can skip it with nothin to lose. But if you want it, you will have to pay the price that the offical sets… Pretty much like everything else in life.

Not much difference on my character thb.. I still got tons of masterwork and fine gears from des in orr dispite having zero mf gears.

I also hate using two sets of armors in mmo….. Thats why even if mf can help, i wont bother to collect a set just for farming

^ if you dislike grinds, you should go play a single player game where gears would be handed right into your mouth.

Mmo, like it or not, is always about grinding for gears and gold. Anet never, let me repeat, never said gw2 wont have any grinding in it. They just told you you dont hae to grind to have the best stats.

The game was built around grinding for rare skins. You are asking them to take that out because you want a rare skin. You know what is funny? If t3 becomes cheap and everyone would be able to buy it, you will probably whine about the next rare skin because t3 is too common now.

T3 looks the best.

T2 looks kinda cool especially if u are holding a greatsaw.

got a madking’s overcoat, 2 keys (which turned out to be a couple of tonics), and tons of lvl 78 exotics in 2 days of extreme farming. I was hoping for one of those craft weapons, but it was still fun.

I did however got the greatsaw, grining shield, and scythe from BLC and tp

they didn’t make you or anyone gamble. They gave you opinionS to get those skins via:

1. chest

2. Trading post

3. Mad king’s Realm chest, two of them every day

4. Mad king’s dungeons

5. Mystic forge

It seems like you aren’t complaining about the gambling, you are just whining you can’t get those skins from all those options.

You can buy them with gems, but you claim it’s overpriced.

You can buy them with gold, but again, it seems like you dont want to save money for it.

and no, anet made it possible to sell the skins on TP. If they want to force you to use the chest, they will make the skins soulbound.

the post is about whether the skins are only aviable this year, NOT how anet shouldn’t make it gambling.

Onshidesigns.1069:

Areananet, encouraging your customers gamble real money for skins is wrong and illegal in many places this game is played.

Everything of value in BLC should be available individually in the gem shop.

every single skin in BLC is selling in the trading post since the begining of the event. You can buy gems and trade for gold and buy then if you actually want to use gems to buy the skin.

and how does this relate to the original topic?

I think anet had imply craftsble wepons will be back next year. No idea about chest weapons

No… The zoom distance takes away a lot of the gaming element in the game that its barely a 3d game.

It becomes more like diablo 3 with wasd….

You cant even see the cue from monsters and players’ skills with that distance, and it also kills the details of the modeling because of the distance.

I understand its great to be able to play this game on top view like lol or d3, but long term wise it will kill the gameplay and immersion.

normal tonics won’t let you perma swiftness because they won’t last forever.

Endless tonic in its current form will grant player uneven advantage over other players especially in wvw, and this would change especially when you proudly announce its effect in the forum.

it’s as simple as that.

radekas.6521:

I don’t really see any reason to change that. It’s not game breaking or anything. I think normal tonics have this effect too, but with EHT you can use it as your permament swiftness generator. Changing it would suck.

Err… Unlimited swiftness without traiting for it, and you think they dont have a reason to change that?

1. it’s not difficult to follow some high levels in those areas to speak to the ghosts. Hell, if the strangers are so cold, join a guild and ask for guildies help. It’s a mmo afterall, try to social with other players.

2. the rest of the high level events will boost your level to 80. You can fight the mad king and his champions as a lvl 1 with max level stat. And here, you are asking for.. what was that word… equality?

Almost every single part of the event will let you experience as a low level characater, name me one mmo that would let you do that. In WoW you can’t even queue for dungeon for horseman unless you are lvl 90.

As title

just wondering what’s anet’s take on those skins? are they the one time thing or they will make a return every year?

thanks

you get literally get keys and the craftable halloween items from there… and you get to try it every 5-10 mins..

and you are complaining about the rewards???

this generation’s gamers are just ridiculous… no wonder other companies keep making those kitteny games to cater those kind of gamers.

Please?

As Gw2 progress, there will be more and more rare skins to collect. With the current transmute system, it is freaking hard to manage our rare skins without accidentally delete them.

Rare skins aren’t protected atm. They are sellable, they are destroyable. They could be overwrite in the transmute progress if you aren’t careful.

Personally, i have to look at my transmute like 10 times before i click the button because i am afraid i would make a mistake in choosing the wrong skin. I don’t carry my rare backup weapons like the halloween staff, and shield because i would afraid i will accidentally sell or destroy them when i sell my junks.

Did i mention i have to keep track with a couple sets of exotic skins?

it’s freaking compressing to manage the skins!

Any word from anet that we will have a skin system like that? let us save our skin, and use the transmutation stone to transmute a skin from our skin back to our gear!

please?@@

gs’s rotation feels pretty chunky atm. We have to rely on auto attack for a while after buring all our cds, and that kinda suck the fun out of the greatsword game play.

unlike hammer, there is no purpose in GS’s auto attack other than watching your sword swing. what is worse is that even with 2 hand mastery, it takes about 1.5 cycle of auto attack before your earliest skill refresh (ww)….

speaking of ww, under the current change, it is very difficult to combo SoW and WW after the initial opener because WW has a faster cd than SoW.

our leap of faith has a 12 sec cd after 2 hand mastery…

what people really want isn’t more damage in the tree. We dont really care about maxing out our damage because there is no dps meter in gw2. What we want, is to make GS exciting to play by having a smoother skill rotations and comboing.

At the current stat hammer is superior than Greatsword in both pvp pve AND WvW, not because it deals more damage (it does), but because its rotation feels smooth, in control, and fun.

I won’t even bother with greatsword right now if it’s not the freaking awesome halloween greatsword…but i really want to swing my big kitten chainsword in style without aimlessly autoattack for 1.5 cycle before my next ability is ready.

am i the only werido who think the curent FoV is better?@@

i don’t mind the clocktower jp tbh… but that cutscene was the only annoying part……

but ya, i am all for more contents like this.

lvl 80 max size guardian charr.. took like 4-5 hours…. Taking a hot bath really works.

but then there are so many people trying to put the blame on me when they fail … that i am blocking their view…

the funny thing is i made it again in like 2 trys after finishing the tower… once you beat it, it will be a hell lot easier for some reason :/

and the freaking invisible walls on surfaces that is suppose to be smooth…

jesus christ

jesus christ why does thee hve to be a cut scene everytime you fail??

can’t we make the jp instanced so we can start immediately after we fail??? this is SERIOUSLY breaking the momentum to do the jp …

great job SBI! nice come back~

it seems that most of the people in JQ are either transfered or give up on wvw this week… we dont even have queues in wvw today :/

no matter who wins, this is one of the most exciting week in wvw t1 so far.