Guild Wars 2

that’s funny because not Every game publisher gets returning customers….

ArenaNet screwed up huge this time, not because it was unforeseen
but simply because they didn’t care
their inability to create varied difficulties and award accordingly is simply appalling

voice of reason “hey, if we’re considerate toward our customers, then we can release content that everyone can appreciate”
Anet “No, Everyone is getting hard content this time and they’ll learn to like it. if they can’t adjust then they aren’t getting the mini”

wow, it took you two posts just to bash on people who are frustrated..
on a completely unrelated note, this game just keeps getting classier

please, tell me more of this mindless facerolling dedication you speak of

i even threw in some lore to be dorky..
there was actually more, but the game has become so abysmal lately..
the state of elem, the inconsiderate way living story was recently implemented..
such an unbalanced approach taken toward almost every aspect of this game has turned it into a mindless and almost physically sickening chore..

too long, didn’t read
but it’s painfully obvious at this point that they couldn’t care less about their customers
they want you to play the way they want you to play

log in, faceroll, grind, get shinies
attempt to deviate by enjoying the game for what it’s worth is asking to get spat upon

couldn’t get to your computer today?
well here’s a simple substitute for playing Liadri
hand cuff yourself and try to get out without breaking your hand
or simply break your hand to make it easier on yourself, same difference, just as fun
by the way, that’s sarcasm.. i certainly don’t condone anyone harming themselves

Shpongle.6025:

I also don’t feel like playing gw2 anymore because of this, at all.

this ^

someone told me it was voiced by tara strong and i was too busy having a miserable
oops i mean fun time at the gauntlet, just thought it sounds vaguely familiar
i did like the voice though.. makes sense cuz i’m a huge twilight sparkle fan

anyway! please go check out and support my suggestion for an announcer mini
i think it would cheer up a lot of players at this point

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/mini-compensation

insanemaniac.2456:

no
being rewarded for failure is unacceptable
try again when it comes back

seeing how the current living world has managed to upset thouasands of players, i’d say it’s an astounding failure
furthermore, the fact that ArenaNet is awarding a supposedly ‘won by skill’ challenge with a mini while offering absolutely no other outlet is simply appalling

last time i checked this wasn’t a carnival game
it’s absolutely absurd that they didn’t think of, or were too lazy , to provide an easier mode Liadri with a less exclusive mini

since the recent installment, gw2 has managed to upset a record number of players
statistically this will be argued against, everyone i know is in the gauntlet arena several times a day.. the thing is, very few of them have anything good to say about it

i can go on about how abysmal the current living world is, but in summation
it failed on lore, it failed on playability, and to an extent it is deflating the value of gold for average players

my conclusion is, to deter customers from flat out leaving the game, they should offer an arena announcer mini to the entire guildwars2 community

enjoy

got this down to about 20% on a —--ty condition staff elementalist
so, that’s pretty much an accomplishment in itself

i’m a staff elem, so i’m lucky i can subdue a sparkfly let alone liadri
i’ve gotten to the second phase and had her at 48%
sadly the more i do this the worse i get at it, i really just want the mini

i have no interest in the faceroll arena
but if anyone can tell me how often the 6 mini chests spawn
that’d be helpful

seriously? the balloon is what’s ruining gw2
not the horrid faceroll that is the queen’s gauntlet?

it’s non-permanent content, there’s only 2 in each map
it encourages veteran players to actually visit some maps they’ve been shrugging off
and at the very least it offers some semblance of storyline

i hope Kralkatorrik re-appears and chomps her

ironic, hm?

actually read through the posts now, some good points.. but again i think people are making things more complicated than it has to be
Arenanet’s inability to create varied difficulties and award accordingly is just appalling, if not laughable

they can’t build a mediocre arena, and a difficult arena
they can’t build a mini, and then build a rather similar mini
it’s a gold, silver, bronze mentality and it’s not entirely new or hard to grasp

if people collecting the minis look back at their collection “oh, i didn’t get that one because i didn’t have time or i couldn’t do hard mode, but i have the similar one” is much better than “nice empty slot there because Arenanet felt like punishing a huge chunk of the player base”
you can see where i’m going with this? i know it’s like rocket science, try to keep up
then there will be players who accomplished hard mode and will have the “high end” mini and maybe even both {along with all the bragging rights}

just as much as i think the character scaling feature works and players shouldn’t just show up today and expect story completion tomorrow, i also believe Arenanet was simply lazy and decided to somewhat exclude new players in the current living world content

and lastly, “what about my high risk high reward” policy
remember, being a chest thumping nine year old is its own reward
ask arenanet to put a little badge somewhere for you
for your ultra difficult content completion

you can’t even step into the basket
yeah, disappointing.. i was thinking there would be a tyrian balloon ride
then i thought, that’d take too much data.. some of you are thinking way too much

a simple cut scene would have been nice.. anything would be better than that piece of —-- Marjory Delaqua Diary.. worse video game cinematic Ever!
anyway, a simple screen of concept art would have sufficed

ironically i went to look up what the basket was called, it’s mostly referred to as a basket.. and on an air balloon website there’s a nice screenshot of air balloons! is that so hard arenanet

there, fixed..

ahh ok, there’s 1 for today
makes sense i only need 1 more
here’s a screenshot of the difference

just read the opening post so far, totally agree
i was thinking to myself, how are newer players even suppose to get to the balloons in the non-starter areas.. anyway, i just did all the balloon achievements.. now for the gauntlet achievements. from what i hear, it’s not going to be much fun.. going into the “crown pavilion” i had high hopes.. but the arena seems to be an amalgamation of garbage
really, i’ve only done about 3 ‘gambits’ so far but i can imagine it takes not only trait changes but possibly buying high end gear for some players..
content for farm, zerg, high end gear, i want it difficult with a big reward and if i don’t have the talent i’ll borrow a build and pay for boosters players
i’m not saying content can’t be difficult, but we’re getting to the 1 year mark for gw2 and this event just seems like they’re showing us all what a bad place the game is in

this is just my opinion, but i think the world of tyria got sidetracked for real world issues
gw2 seems like a half hearted experiment that isn’t really headed anywhere good

uhh, i think it’s on a loop..
champs, emissaries, pirate attack

yeh, i deleted a stack of support tokens
the thought crossed my mind they might do what they did
z_z whatever though

is this a daily in my daily category that has something to do with queen’s jubilee
cuz there aren’t any today and i don’t remember getting any recently

thnx ._. i did not know that

i noticed this after doing about 15 balloons >_> so yeah
also, for explorer achievements… i guess i’m supposed to remember all 164/167 areas of maguuma i did months ago >_> oh, and i also did every single jumping goggle dives in the game, except 1 glitched out and i have no idea which one it was.. so, now i have to do most of them if not all of them over again

also, Champion of " " with ?/100 amount of aetherblade kills
it doesn’t matter how many you kill, each emissary escort counts as 10 kills
so you have to do that —-- 10 —-—— times

Great Achievement System!

anyone fight the pinipals yet? i didn’t notice them until recently in the game
i think they are much more interesting than quaggans, they would make a great mini
for the balloon event, they fall in from the sky.. i was like whauut
someone typed in that they were flying seals :p

some of the dolyaks helped me defeat a vet aetherblade.. good stuff
i was in brisban today and one of the emissaries is a backpacking skritt
whether you have a human character or not i think we all noticed the collapsed sewer in divinity’s reach.. i had high hopes for the gauntlet side of this living story, but i really think it fell short

it’s a bit time constraining just doing the balloon event, though i think you can get around it by representing in the queen’s jubilee and then going off to kill aetherblades? not sure, i may be looking at the achievements in a wrong way.. also, many people are having trouble with the gauntlet.. in any case, this entire thread is highly inconsiderate                       the chest thumping nine year olds are somewhat humorous though

the champs are diff characters.. you might be doing the same “type”

i’m all like fighting eatherblades in wayfar foothills and they’re roughing up the baby dolyaks

guys, they’re thieves, they don’t know any better
nice keyspamming and use of boosters..

ahah opening post has quite an imagination
it’s probably more like
developer #1: when’s our next paycheck
developer#2: end of the week, i hope the pvp tourn is making us extra money
developer#1: whatever, i had to put time in this week. make the ‘living world’ stuff harder
developer#3:pve is a trainwreck, lets give them a mini. everyone will sink their time into it
developer#4:speaking of trainwreck, have you seen wvw lately
developer#2:what’s wvw
{big laughs all around}

anyway, i’ve only done 3 ‘gambits’.. they don’t take too long to figure out
hoping they aren’t too much of a headache later on

binidj.5734:

cheshirefox.7026:

if gw2 was a more captivating and lore filled game then i might actually know what Abaddon is

Abaddon has only historical relevance to GW2 but was central to the story of the GW1 “Nightfall” expansion, and I think his lore probably featured in other parts of GW1 too. He is only mentioned in a very few places in GW2’s Tyria, the most obvious place that springs to mind is the tapestry at the top of the Vizier’s Tower in Orr. If you aren’t interested in listening to dialogue or reading in-game text though (ie. if you’re not really bothered about the lore to start with) then you wouldn’t have come across Abaddon in GW2.

For context he was the human god who first made primal magic (which was later split into different parts by the other gods following much wailing and destruction) available to “mortal” races, and who was killed in a battle with the rest of the human pantheon which resulted in the Crystal Sea being turned into the Crystal Desert. He’s a pretty huge deal but for the current game, only in terms of putting things into context … or joining a few dots here and there

o0o0o0o thanks for clearing that up.. Vizier’s Tower was actually one of the very few things i enjoyed about this game between levels 1 and 80.. not noticing the bridge at first z_z then getting up there and just having some game artifacts to read..

again, i couldn’t care less who won this little in game election.. the fractals is just a series of mini dungeons and as much as i’d like to learn a bit more of tyria past, present, and future by playing GW2.. i’d still pick the thaumanova reactor

all these gnashblade whiners need to chill out.. just because you didn’t get your fractal between now and xmas doesn’t mean Abaddon storyline won’t be uncovered later.. especially if it has to do with Crystal Desert, which is a Huge Uncovered portion of gw2 map.. not to mention, that snaff killing jerk Kralkatorrik is out there..

i can’t say whether or not ArenaNet will go bankrupt with the way they run things >_> but if they don’t then you’re probably looking at all of these things in future GuildWars installments

also, if you voted for discounts.. i’m sure you’ll see that in the next few months
if you voted for the NPC’s character.. again, chill out.. like we haven’t seen an anoying gw2 character before

i for one am rather interested in why a huge chunk of Maguuma is blown apart
in the present time frame!
i have nothing against lore, maybe since Evon lost he can sadly get drunk down at the dead end tavern every saturday and tell us some backstories..

as long as it isn’t as bad as the Marjory Delaqua diary
imho that was possibly the worse cinematic in computer game history

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Timothy.7204:

I know they would deny it, but I would bet heavily that this whole election thing was fixed in the first place. Due to the fact they have to plan what they are doing in this next patch, and they can’t have a person win and change everything at the last minute.

We mentioned that we will build the fractal the winner supports and will put it into the game towards the end of the year, not the next update.

i don’t trust a thing Anet tells us, nor do i care who ‘won’ the election
if i wasn’t working on achievement tokens lately, this would have been a Beyond useless living story

kny.3789:

i have a feeling that all the super toxic people on this thread are the same ones that would be complaining about how the abbadon fractal didnt live up to super hyped expectations, or how it devalued perfectly good lore that should have been left alone, if evon had won.

+1 thumbs up
i can’t even express the hilarity of this thread
i actually Somewhat like this game, i can’t relate at all though to the people whining over this

if gw2 was a more captivating and lore filled game then i might actually know what Abaddon is

does anyone want my extra support tickets z_z

i bet if he wins, there will be a party at the Biergarten

let’s face it, does anyone trust a charr or a human to do the job?
we should all vote Whitebear and be done with it.. and if he’s busy
almost any wolfborn will do, really

Sisyphus
cuz constantly maxing out new builds and getting mediocre results is starting to feel like this

had a horrible time with it
then just kinda alternated between all the skills
the norn guy finally went down really fast
not even sure if it was luck or balancing health with recast

just something to shake my head at later, i guess

i thought i would haveto play this at zephyr whatever.. with the frog guy
but then i get this mail telling me to hop all over tyria.. %&^#&^$

i basically had this drinking game in one of my storylines.. i guess it was ok, because it was character story.. but this, is just incorrigible
it’s prolly what ArenaNet executives do with their lives. . . .

and no there’s no skill.. you win it the same way as everything else in this game..
spam the skill that works