Guild Wars 2

Erasculio.2914:

LFk.1408:

I can start out with some background:
- Thanks to the trading post function, you can sell from anywhere. You don’t have to be at a trading post merchant to post up your items.
- Person to person trading is non-existent, so there is no need of a major hub in the game. The trading post is nameless and faceless.
- The deposit all function performs the majority of the role of a bank, in an instant.
- There are portals and paths in the game that lead here and there, but waypoints lead anywhere and everywhere in the game in an instant. The only advantage of a portal is that it is free.

One more list of complains that can be summed up with, “I wish Guild Wars 2 was more like all the other MMOs out there, with the same inconveniences and time sinks in place to deceive people into thinking they are fun, while they are just tricks to keep people p(l)aying longer”.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Maybe you’re forgetting that people derive joy out of many different things. I agree with most of what the OP says; so many things in the game are just… useless, and don’t add anything. Compare Skyrim NPC’s to GW2’s. Yeah, completely different game, but still, the people in Skyrim are soooo much more useful and add a lot more to the game.

Well, you could always post the current results now, and keep it going.

Both hammers are pretty good, but for pure damage you’d better go for warrior. War hammer is a lot more smooth, and has a few nice conditions too. By comparison, guardian’s hammer is more support-ish kuje Tral said, with more control skills than actual damage (though skill#2 is beast). The autoattack with guardian hammer is really kitten annoying to use also, though it’s not horrible.

ProxyDamage.9826:

eye floater.7140:

No it isn’t…
I’m not saying zerker isn’t amazing, I’m saying that with a more balanced build you can kill a lot more monsters of higher difficulty. I don’t think that’s even something to contest. Of course if they’re all melee, well then most of the time you’re totally right; you just round ‘em up and squash. With a varied swarm of enemies though, you can’t do that. You’ll just take too must damage in the time you’re trying to herd, and either die or flee.

Shrugs. Think it’s a player issue mate. Never had issue killing waves of trash mobs without taking significant hits. Round them up and maim them.

The only things you’d want to tank you can’t anyways, like high level fractal mobs for example, so you rely on avoiding them, which you can do on full berserker just the same, except you also kill them faster.

Ugh….
As for “The only things you’d want to tank you can’t anyways”, well that depends on the player and what they want to tank. Maybe if you want to solo a certain champ you won’t go zerker. I remember one champ in Cursed, west of the north-most waypoint. It’s an ele, and while it’s easily soloable for me at least, it has a few high-hitting spells that might down a zerker build with a few casts. Not to mention there are a few other ele trash mobs nearby that blind you. Just try it with your zerk build and see how it goes.

I still don’t see how this is debatable, so I’ll stop trying.

ProxyDamage.9826:

eye floater.7140:

This isn’t exactly true. If you’re in full zerk mode and trying to kill say, 7 guys at once, some of them will likely be ranged. If they’re not in a nice ball for you to AoE, you’ll have to run around taking each one down individually and in the process take a good amount of damage. It’s not that difficult to figure out, but if you really want to solo 5-10 monsters at once, most of the time being pure zerk won’t be the best option. I don’t know how anyone could disagree.

5-10 what…? Champions….? Elites…? Veterans…? Maybe… Cause if you’re talking normal monsters, 10 “trash mobs” don’t even scratch the paint. Just herd them together and zerk them down.

PvE is the land of the berzerker. Until they significantly change the game design that’s how it goes, like it or not.

No it isn’t…
I’m not saying zerker isn’t amazing, I’m saying that with a more balanced build you can kill a lot more monsters of higher difficulty. I don’t think that’s even something to contest. Of course if they’re all melee, well then most of the time you’re totally right; you just round ‘em up and squash. With a varied swarm of enemies though, you can’t do that. You’ll just take too must damage in the time you’re trying to herd, and either die or flee.

RedCobra.7693:

eye floater.7140:

ProxyDamage.9826:

If you’re talking about PvP, it varies wildly and depends a lot on character and build.

If you’re talking about PvE: 0. Full berserkers. Always. PvE design flaw: The things you can tank you don’t need to, and the things you wanted to tank you can’t.

This isn’t exactly true. If you’re in full zerk mode and trying to kill say, 7 guys at once, some of them will likely be ranged. If they’re not in a nice ball for you to AoE, you’ll have to run around taking each one down individually and in the process take a good amount of damage. It’s not that difficult to figure out, but if you really want to solo 5-10 monsters at once, most of the time being pure zerk won’t be the best option. I don’t know how anyone could disagree.

have a guess what im gonna do :P Disagree xD

Mesmer FTW!

Noooooooo.

ProxyDamage.9826:

If you’re talking about PvP, it varies wildly and depends a lot on character and build.

If you’re talking about PvE: 0. Full berserkers. Always. PvE design flaw: The things you can tank you don’t need to, and the things you wanted to tank you can’t.

This isn’t exactly true. If you’re in full zerk mode and trying to kill say, 7 guys at once, some of them will likely be ranged. If they’re not in a nice ball for you to AoE, you’ll have to run around taking each one down individually and in the process take a good amount of damage. It’s not that difficult to figure out, but if you really want to solo 5-10 monsters at once, most of the time being pure zerk won’t be the best option. I don’t know how anyone could disagree.

8/10. Aria is female, Kenneth is male, so it’s interesting.
My male guard is Foldit
Female mes is Full Spectrum
Female necro is Superwhale

Male -human -Guardian
Female- Norn -Warrior
Male -human -Ranger
Female- human- Necro
Male -Asura- Ele
Male- human- Engy
Female- human – mesmer

Oh yeah…. Eblade 100%. And storm bow. And chaos axe.
kitten just give us dye-able weapons.

nope, just crash fixes. kittenmit.

maybe this update will fix it >>

The portals. They cover the entire floor. If you try to dodge, you will roll into another portal and wipe. My server got him down to 75% hp somehow. Seriously though, the ENTIRE floor is filled with 1-hit portals. How are you supposed to dodge this?

So, I was in WVW just now, and I’m about to stomp a guy, when 5 of his friends come to stop me. So, being low on health, I pop Shelter. wait, no what the kitten hell it’s not working, now I’m spamming it and it STILL isn’t working. I’m not stunned, or dazed, or knocked down, but I still can’t activate it.
This has happened multiple times to me today, and other people have said it happens to them sometimes too. why won’t it work?!

TokenTrevor.2563:

eye floater.7140:

GuardianOMS.8067:

eye floater.7140:

GuardianOMS.8067:

Yak’s have numbers, but no clue how to use it. It’s the same as ever, except it’s equal numbers now. IoJ is a unicorn, they simply just don’t exist. It feels like no one is trying, I honestly don’t blame you. But when Maguuma fought outnumbered, we bared our teeth, and played it smart. These guys… meh

Would people please stop acting like there’s actually that much strategy in WVW?
“We bared our teeth and played it smart”. Really? Wtf does that even mean? How exactly did you “bare your teeth”, because there is no exhaustion in virtual worlds, so that phrase really doesn’t mean anything. The most it could mean is you didn’t retreat.

Wow, did you really just make the mistake of taking those cheesy lines seriously? And more importantly, you didn’t even understand them? Woah.

But you’re right, there is no strategy to WvW. Just bang your faces against a gate and see how far that gets you. It worked for many servers, I’m sure it’ll work for you too (it wont). But seriously, as long as you’re having fun, that’s all that matters. I honestly just wish you guys played smarter, not harder. In the long run, it’ll work to your advantage.

I wasn’t supposed to take that paragraph seriously… Have you ever noticed how hard it is to detect sarcasm through text sometimes? And what I meant by attacking that idiom, is that you can’t DO anything differently in WVW if you hunker down and get angry. Do your skills do more damage when you’re kitten off? No. Do your arrows shoot farther? No. Are your shouts louder? No. “Baring your teeth” in a game means nothing else besides hostility, and that cannot translate into any enhanced state of physical aggression, because it’s a virtual world.
When you said “we bared our teeth, and played it smart”, it just sounds a little pretentious. What exactly did you do after you got more aggressive? Run at the Yaks zerg more? Press your 1 button harder?
As for the lack of strategy, I said there isn’t MUCH strategy. People always exaggerate when trying to make a point, so I did, and others did when they quoted me as saying there is none. Yes, there is some, but not a lot. Spreading out catas isn’t that hard to figure out. There could be a lot of strategy if everyone communicated perfectly, and if anything other than a zerg could counter a zerg, but there’s not.
And you know, saying things like “I honestly just wish you guys played smarter” make you sound like a kitten. Even if it were true, and say we did have a mindless zerg going everywhere, it makes you sound extremely pretentious to tell us to play smarter. Sometimes playing smart is incredibly kittening boring- i.e. running yaks or babying towers- so people don’t do it.

Doctor! Get this guy a chill pill, STAT!

It’s ok, my rage has subsided for now; I had a ginger ale.

GuardianOMS.8067:

eye floater.7140:

GuardianOMS.8067:

Yak’s have numbers, but no clue how to use it. It’s the same as ever, except it’s equal numbers now. IoJ is a unicorn, they simply just don’t exist. It feels like no one is trying, I honestly don’t blame you. But when Maguuma fought outnumbered, we bared our teeth, and played it smart. These guys… meh

Would people please stop acting like there’s actually that much strategy in WVW?
“We bared our teeth and played it smart”. Really? Wtf does that even mean? How exactly did you “bare your teeth”, because there is no exhaustion in virtual worlds, so that phrase really doesn’t mean anything. The most it could mean is you didn’t retreat.

Wow, did you really just make the mistake of taking those cheesy lines seriously? And more importantly, you didn’t even understand them? Woah.

But you’re right, there is no strategy to WvW. Just bang your faces against a gate and see how far that gets you. It worked for many servers, I’m sure it’ll work for you too (it wont). But seriously, as long as you’re having fun, that’s all that matters. I honestly just wish you guys played smarter, not harder. In the long run, it’ll work to your advantage.

I wasn’t supposed to take that paragraph seriously… Have you ever noticed how hard it is to detect sarcasm through text sometimes? And what I meant by attacking that idiom, is that you can’t DO anything differently in WVW if you hunker down and get angry. Do your skills do more damage when you’re kitten off? No. Do your arrows shoot farther? No. Are your shouts louder? No. “Baring your teeth” in a game means nothing else besides hostility, and that cannot translate into any enhanced state of physical aggression, because it’s a virtual world.
When you said “we bared our teeth, and played it smart”, it just sounds a little pretentious. What exactly did you do after you got more aggressive? Run at the Yaks zerg more? Press your 1 button harder?
As for the lack of strategy, I said there isn’t MUCH strategy. People always exaggerate when trying to make a point, so I did, and others did when they quoted me as saying there is none. Yes, there is some, but not a lot. Spreading out catas isn’t that hard to figure out. There could be a lot of strategy if everyone communicated perfectly, and if anything other than a zerg could counter a zerg, but there’s not.
And you know, saying things like “I honestly just wish you guys played smarter” make you sound like a kitten. Even if it were true, and say we did have a mindless zerg going everywhere, it makes you sound extremely pretentious to tell us to play smarter. Sometimes playing smart is incredibly kittening boring- i.e. running yaks or babying towers- so people don’t do it.

GuardianOMS.8067:

Yak’s have numbers, but no clue how to use it. It’s the same as ever, except it’s equal numbers now. IoJ is a unicorn, they simply just don’t exist. It feels like no one is trying, I honestly don’t blame you. But when Maguuma fought outnumbered, we bared our teeth, and played it smart. These guys… meh

Would people please stop acting like there’s actually that much strategy in WVW?
“We bared our teeth and played it smart”. Really? Wtf does that even mean? How exactly did you “bare your teeth”, because there is no exhaustion in virtual worlds, so that phrase really doesn’t mean anything. The most it could mean is you didn’t retreat.

really? kittenmit! this match is worse than last weeks; IoJ is AWOL, and Mag is…. better than last time. Or Yaks is worse. Blah, no fun.

and IoJ is being pretty neutral in EB

QUICK QUESTION: Are there any plans to make more PVE titles? There really aren’t many.

zastari.1730:

Hi all,

With free transfers closing soon it’s time for you to find your permanent home! In your quest for the perfect server, I’m sure you’ve heard about Maguuma’s excellent voice comms, impeccable response times, maze of mesmers in enemy keeps, and awesome spirit that never quits. However, this was mostly formed from Day 1 players and a few small guild transfers that really understood what we’re about with a nice mix of players that were strategically hardened by loss after loss after loss to servers with much more coverage.

Have you sacrificed your entire set of armor to portalbomb down enemy siege over and over when you were outnumbered 10:1? Have you pioneered a stacking tactic that made other servers complain so hard that the mechanic got nerfed? Have you kept logging back into WvW day after day when that 1st place zergball had 3 times everyone else’s points combined? Of course not, that’s why you want to transfer in the first place!

So if you’re looking for the right server to get married to, we don’t want you. T5/T4 is the perfect size for us; we don’t want culling wars; we don’t want zergballs; we don’t want commanders that graciously allow our cavalry a “leave of absence” to quit playing the game. In fact, if you transferred over here after you saw how good we were doing last matchup, well, there’s still time to leave! You should consider Sea of Sorrows, they’re recruiting!

Are you serious? It’s a game, man. Not everyone cares about WVW, and not everyone gives a kitten about your servers stats. This is such a pretentious post, it’s disgusting.

Kaminari.4018:

eye floater.7140:

eye floater.7140:

Hey DB in Eternal, see Ehmry? See all of those towers and camps you could camp? Now look at Yaks. See anything we own? Yeah, I know, we have no one on right now, so why not go take some of EB’s kitten? It has to be more fun than spawn camping Yaks, right?

why bother, we’ll just take them back tonight!

Itl give us time while we are on yaks and ebay bl.

because a 30k lead isn’t enough, ^

eye floater.7140:

Hey DB in Eternal, see Ehmry? See all of those towers and camps you could camp? Now look at Yaks. See anything we own? Yeah, I know, we have no one on right now, so why not go take some of EB’s kitten? It has to be more fun than spawn camping Yaks, right?

why bother, we’ll just take them back tonight!

Hey DB in Eternal, see Ehmry? See all of those towers and camps you could camp? Now look at Yaks. See anything we own? Yeah, I know, we have no one on right now, so why not go take some of EB’s kitten? It has to be more fun than spawn camping Yaks, right?

Fyrebrand.4859:

I’d love to see some more titles as well. The scarcity of titles so far is kind of strange, especially when you think about the three factions and how they keep “promoting” you to these various ranks that have no manifestation in the game whatsoever. Would it kill ANet to make those ranks actual titles?

Sure, adding more titles with for minor achievements makes each of them less “special” in a way, but who cares? Titles are superfluous anyway, and they’d still be fun to collect and swap around once in a while.

If I can offer a suggestion from other games: how about each title offering minor stat boosts or other effects? Maybe some titles could give you a few more points of Power or Precision. “Combat Healer” could give you a small boost to healing power. Scoring 100% world completion might give you a title that grants a steady 1% Magic Find while active, or slightly increased movement speed, or something.

yeah, that would be awesome. they did that for eotn titles, and it as really useful. also, skills associated with titles might be fun too.

some do, but I find it boring because they never drop anything good for me. what’s the point of fighting one for 5-10 minutes if you get a green?

i’ll bet it was an ascended back brace.

RedSpectrum.1975:

In Divinty;s Reach hearing that female : “uh uhuhuh uh uh”

I laugh so kittening hard when I hear that. Or, “BY THE BEAR, THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT GAME”

the one that annoys me most is near the TP in LA… “So if this farmer sells me rotten vegetables one more time”

GW1 had some fun, unique titles. For example, for spamming a lot of sweets you got Connoisseur of Confectioneries.
For luck/unlucky titles you had Wicked/Golden, for opening chests you had the Treasure Hunter titles, and many, many more.
What I’m trying to say, is that GW1 titles had a lot more imaginative names, even if you had to spam ale or fireworks to get them.
There are barely ANY PVE titles in GW2, and I just cannot figure out why.
For PVP/WVW, there are a lot, though WVW title names are SO BORING.
Common Anet, putting “Ultimate” as a prefix for every WVW title does not make it interesting! I have no desire to get a title with a name as generic as that.
I’m just curious why these titles have such boring names when GW1 titles had some awesome ones. Is it that hard to rename some of them?
Second, WHY ARE THERE SO FEW PVE TITLES?
I have no idea how difficult it is to implement them, but why not put some more in?
Even stuff like the Weapon Master achievements, how about a title for getting 20 or 50k kills with a longbow?
How about a title for completing all the events?
Upping all the slayer achievements to like 10k or something, and creating a cool name for killing said amount of trolls or Svanir or undead?
I’m really hoping to get a dev comment on this, because it’s something that I’ve been very curious about.
If someone has already asked this question, or the info is available somewhere else, let me know!

IonusX.7905:

eye floater.7140:

IonusX.7905:

eye floater.7140:

IonusX.7905:

i see yaks has resorted to cheat and use exploits to take SM i saw the portals and the wall glitch u guys dont need to lie or cover up even tho you have to cheat we can still beat you so this quite sad that u have to act and play like scum to try and win

lol, what the hell? don’t get so angry over this, wow…
first off, it’s a game, and calling anyone in it “scum” just makes you look like a complete fool.
second, if you didn’t find the mesmer, it’s your kitten fault for not sweeping correctly.
third, if the mesmer WAS hiding in a false wall, you can’t say you wouldn’t do the same.
anyway, DB is winning by 25k+ points, there’s no reason to be so upset.
there’s been some talk of DB teaming up with EB too, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that were true.

well you see here is that its an exploit and if you had gonna and read my then next post you might have not need to say anything also referring to scum is decent word even if we are winning we took SM fair and square and when your mezmers have the kitten to use an exploit IE cheating i would call that lower than scum shows your character that you shouldn’t be on this tier or any tier for that matter if you want to play unfair as well the dev is also to blame that is why i have alrdy contact Anet about it and have receive a response on it. also he here is a coupe, pic on the area on which the mezmer used the exploit to by pass the walls

if english isn’t your first language then i might understand your lack of punctuation, but if it is, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE SOME. I have a very hard time understanding you. also, you absolutely CANNOT generalize certain servers as cheaters. last night me and my guild mates saw a DB guy OBVIOUSLY speedhacking. People on every server hack and exploit, including DB, and don’t you dare deny it.

yes english is not my first language i live in NA but i am not from here now i do not deny each server has their share of players using a exploit or even a hack and yes i am srry if does seem i am generlizing a full sever that is a fualt on my behalf and will fix my error but the fact is still their on this occurence on what happened either way anet has been notifiyed and lets all hope they fix the issue i only want a fair game played cause ill be honest when we all play fair the game feels 100% better would you not agree?

That, I can drink to.

also, what’s the difference between using the culling issue to your advantage and hiding in fake walls? both need to be fixed, and Anet obviously knows about them, but you don’t get banned for using cloak skills, do you?

What are those winged creatures that live deep in the sea? The one’s who help you. I have a feeling it could be a playable race in the future.

WannabeHero.5489:

I could see this being difficult if you don’t have jump bound to any key on your keyboard.

made me laugh ^

wildcode.5403:

You will be glad to know, I finally made it … and NEVER doing it again … it is enough to put you off jumping puzzles.

If your computer lags you, it’s not the difficulty of the puzzle that’s the problem…

I’m sorry, but if you can’t finish this puzzle after 4 hours… I don’t know. It really isn’t hard. Try a different route. probably like, 1/10th the difficulty of the clock tower.

evolverzilla.2359:

It´s because pure healer role in a party is more about macros than real playerskill. When someone don´t know how to play but want to be welcome in everyparty just play a healer. Everything works as a charm. Start your macros and be happy being a dead bag in a party.

The kitten generic mmo games mechanics created this lousy players. And don´t even try to tell me that I´m wrong. Good players know that more than be a healer in GW2 they can be a support for their party (removing conditions, creating combo fields, using combo finishers, shouts, buffs…) and even have one or two skills to help the DPS amount.

But it cannot be achieved with macros because macros and addons don´t think.

A real good player in GW2 is the one that real work in a group and do multitask role, but the laziness of some players is really annoynig me.

Being a healer is not being lazy, not at all. I never used macros in gw1, by the way, and lots of other people didn’t either.

Erasculio.2914:

This is simply a bad idea, trying to implement a mechanic that is not needed nor benefic to the game. Healers have been replaced by the supporting role, which requires significantly more skill.

It’s trickier to dodge and spam skills, but is it more fun? I was really disappointed at the lack of any kind of healer in this game, cause it was so much fun in gw1. As some other user said, the dungeon combat in this game is akin to any other mmo when they’ve lost their healer or tank; you just run around, deal damage, and try not to get hit.
I don’t like it much.
Part of the reason I played gw1 for so long was because I kept making new characters to do sc’s with; there were so many builds for all professions I always had something to work towards. Now, it doesn’t really matter what class you play with(which is really nice in a way,) but dungeons get old really fast because it’s the same thing each time; you can’t switch from tank to healer to dps, you’re ALWAYS every one of those at the same time. I don’t exactly want a healing-specific class, but maybe some way for one or two players to become healers somehow….
That’s what I think.

I play 5x signets with berserkers armor in every dungeon, and I usually die less than everyone else.. Yeah, it’s a really simple build that everyone uses. Why? Because it does an amazing amount of damage, especially with axe/shield. Don’t get pissed at someone for using an incredibly popular build just because it’s incredibly popular.

nachtnebel.9168:

eye floater.7140:

I think one change that would make dungeons dramatically more fun is if the silver-ringed enemies were substituted out for like, pve veterans or something. Even that would make such a big difference, and make it an kitten more fun than killing the current mobs.

Replacing the dungeon vets with regular open world vets would be a big mistake since it would make trash way too easy. Yes, it’s trash, but it still should fight back and not just sit there and and get slaughtered.

-and like, double the amount of mobs there are. something like that, just so there are more, less powerful mobs, but it still retains the same difficulty. forgot to mention that.

I think one change that would make dungeons dramatically more fun is if the silver-ringed enemies were substituted out for like, pve veterans or something. Even that would make such a big difference, and make it an kitten more fun than killing the current mobs.

Spotting a clone is not hard. As everyone said above, they’re pretty easy to see unless the real one acts like a clone. The thing that annoys the kitten out of me, is their ability to cloak constantly, and ATTACK WHILE INVISIBLE. As a guard in spvp and WvW, I win 1v1’s upwards of 90% of the time. Even fricken 2v1s are easier than fighting some mesmers. Why so much fricken cloak?! It’s complete bullkitten, and I lose almost every 1v1 mesmer fight. Just make the target STAY after they reappear from cloak, and tah-dah! Otherwise, it just isn’t a fair fight.

Nayru.3947:

eye floater.7140:

The clocktower actually takes skill, and some people hours and hours to complete, yet there is no title. The pumpkin carving just requires you to run around mindlessly pressing F near pumpkins, and req’s absolutely NO SKILL. Why would someone want a title that shows off nothing?

No titles I have seen in GW2 require skill. What’s your point? Also I facepalmed when I read this thread.

This is one title that does. Anyways, why are you so hostile? Whenever someone brings up a topic there are always a few people that have the complete opposite view, and are complete kitten about it. Why? Why did you “facepalm” when you read it? More importantly, why would you even mention the fact that you did if you weren’t trying to be a jerk?
The world is already muddied up with attitudes like yours; adding yourself to the muck and detritus does not help it in any way.
Grow up and show a little kindness.

Zeivu.3615:

Why would anyone want a title for being a drunkard or a diabetic? It adds things to do.

I go for titles that have at least a bit of skill involved in acquiring them, and I think most people do? Unless the title itself is linguistically interesting, I don’t see why people would go for it otherwise. Anyways, that’s not the point. The clocktower is really hard for a lot of people, so I’m just curious why they wouldn’t make a title for completing it.

The clocktower actually takes skill, and some people hours and hours to complete, yet there is no title. The pumpkin carving just requires you to run around mindlessly pressing F near pumpkins, and req’s absolutely NO SKILL. Why would someone want a title that shows off nothing?

Human Guardian, completed 20-ish times.
Human Warrior, few times.
Asura Ele, 10% boost, few times.

its ~714mb. i’m at 100%