Guild Wars 2

Red Falcon.8257:

Thief by far.
I can solo 100 mobs. Seriously.

Anyone still claiming thief is not OP?
I’ve actually seen a thief do that. Not 100 mobs but a heck of a lot more than my ranger could handle.
I’ll grant that it’s not just thief OPness that makes it possible, it does require player skill.

kKagari.6804:

Rangers because all the bots do it.

Only because bots are stupid and ranger is pretty easy.
Then again almost any class is easy enough for bots in a group of 4 or 5. Many bots are guardian or warrior.

You probably won’t see many mesmer bots, but mesmer might work well for DE farming because it has instant cast aoe. Not a whole lot of damage (though decent) but sure to tag the mobs before they die.

Methesda.5198:

because of the very low Point Of View angle in this game. Instead of a standard 90-100 degrees, you are currently restricted to 65.

You mean Field Of View. In GW2 it’s 75, same as Half-Life and many other games, some go as low as 60. A difference is that in many other games FOV can be adjusted/tweaked, and people who do that typically increase FOV to about 90 or 100, maybe as much as 120 for competitive FPS gaming.

The issue with looking at the floor in GW2 is caused by the low position of the camera and the fact that the cam is aimed at the chest of the character, so that if you look up the cam slides over the ground closer to your char, which then blocks most of your view. The game sure does not encourage the player to look upwards.
Most other 3rd person games have the cam aimed at the head or slightly above it, or have the point that it aims at dependent on the distance of the cam from the character.

I’m getting pretty sick of the bots to.

Kopipoki.3542:

In GW2 however the gathering nodes are based off the individual player.

Other MMOs do it wrong because the more players there are, the more mats are needed.

This in turn has caused the Devs to implement mechanics such as Diminishing Returns.

The reason for DR is anti-farming. Anet wants players to move around in a zone.

Yes it is worth the money i payed, even though frustration due to numerous bugs has turned down my enjoyment a couple of notches.

What’s the point of being rich with toy money – other than spending it on gear and stuff?

I don’t have a lot of gold in GW2, but neither am i short on gear.

“This is a typical example of “Overhyping” a game. You expect more than Arenanet could offer you.”

Except that it is Anet who did the hyping and thus created expectations that it fell short of on release.

Skar Hand.5037:

I made a post about this during the Betas on this forum.

Has Anet ever acknowledged the issue, or even responded to reports about it?

Having to spend time to organize a party is one of the things Anet tried (and partially succeeded) to solve by DEs and Hearts instead of traditional questing.
I certainly hope having to organize a party to do DE’s won’t become the norm.

Hellmood.2097:

You’re all like “man, I got the high ground, gonna rain death on that charlie”. But Arenanet doesn’t seem to like people using the terrain to their advantage.

Point is it also happens a lot when not using a terrain advantage.

“It’s a fact that you can’t make 100% of the playerbase happy.”

Question is, would PvP-ers be unhappy if PvE-ers would also be able to get legendaries?

Or alternatively: do PvP-ers PvP because of the fun they have PvP-ing, or for the legendary rewards?

“The higher levels give higher rewards”

The higher levels have higher cost and face tougher mobs, so relatively it’s the same.

The only real differences between low level an high level is that low level can not do high level content, and high level has more skills to choose from.

“I’ve met countless people who refused to play GW1 because it only had 20 levels.”

Perhaps it would help if Anet would go all the way with their design philosophy and ditch levels all together. At least then it would be obvious to everyone that it’s fundamentally different than traditional computer mmorpgs.

Though there probably should be a few tiers: something like (optional) tutorial with skill progression, casual/normal, casual/hard, hardcore.

Having no levels sure would make level downscaling and upscaling a lot simpler…

yes, to many visual effects.

wookie slayer.4259:

Right now lots of people are still happy with the game but the ones who “rushed” through it feel like there is nothing to do. I’m worried for the games numbers when the majority hit that “what now stage?”

Which is another way of saying that for many people, Anet’s idea of endgame is not working.

@Edge
“…any character can effectively level in any zone that is around their level or lower. You can be level 50 and thinking “I’m tired of Shiverpeak snow-themed zones”, and go play in Queensdale instead.”

For high level characters the xp they get from low level DE’s and Hearts is very small relative to the amount of xp needed to gain a level. Yes a high level char can level up in low level areas, but it takes for ever.

kaesebrezen.3104:

Do you know how many (new) people enter the zone each day and ask “any events?” on which nobody answers?

Events need wider (zone-wide) automated announcement. Stuff might be going on while many players don’t know about it. Having to ask is primitive, and is often not answered.

Most bots operate in groups so they can survive pulling multiple mobs.
They don’t repair probably because they are there to maximize profit, so they spent as little as possible. The ones that are naked probably don’t have any armor to begin with, again to save money.

Imo Anet’s most peculiar argument against increased FOV is that it would make positional awareness less important.
The way i see it a larger FOV only makes it less necessary to pan the view a lot in order to obtain positional awareness. It does not make it less important.

Poor man’s solution for legal increased FOV: in GW2 graphics options select windowed mode then decrease vertical size of the window as you see fit. Vertical FOV stays the same, horizontal FOV increases.

My problem with the default FOV is that it often feels cramped, and makes it harder to maintain situational awareness.

Yukishiro.8792:

There’s nothing hard about Orr. It is just mind-numbingly boring having to constantly clear mobs that serve no purpose but to delay you.

In other words, getting from A to B in Orr is much more labor intensive (aka “harder”) than in the lower level zones.

Buy low sell high in TP only works if you monopolize the market, otherwise people will buy low just as you did instead of buying high from you. Such a monopoly is the bane of the real world economy: the so-called futures market.

Most if not all 1h longswords clip with the ground when carried at the hip. Solution: make 1h swords a bit smaller.

Essentially all weapons carried at the hip clip with (most) skirts. Probably not much that can be done about it.

At the very least adjust drops for downscaled players in low level zones so that it offsets their high cost of repairs and waypointing.

Tarkaroshe.8370:

Ari Kagura.9182:

They have been rebooting weekly on a Monday night or Tuesday morning, but having it reboot more often might be a simple band-aid fix for some of the bugged events and skill points until something more reliable can be put into place.

Ari, if they ARE rebooting them on a weekly basis it isn’t actually having any effect on the “bugged” state of certain DE’s and skill points.

Problem is that insofar that it has an effect on bugged content, it bugs out again very soon (within one or two days) after. That’s why some people say daily resets are in order as a temporary workaround until the actual bugs are fixed.

“Porting is a major gold sink for the game, without the porting fee, the GW2 economy will become inflated.”

It’s sad that even in a game, so many people consider “the economy” to be more important than people’s well-being.

JonPeters: “…positional awareness becomes less necessary in a game where combat is greatly designed around positioning.” https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Camera-and-FOV-field-of-view/first

Larger FoV foes not make positional awareness less necessary, it makes it easier to have positional awareness because the player does not need pan the view so much in order to achieve positional awareness.

Swagman.9013:

a roman soldier would not be happily using a gladuis in a war, it was all about the spear.

He might not be happy, but he’d still use his gladius in close combat.
He certainly would not be happier if the sword would be larger.

mak.9027:

pay attention using Camera Tool, it’s not allowed, so you may be banned (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Is-this-camera-mod-legal/first#post281974)

" CC Eva: “I would like you to check this thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Our-Policy-on-Third-Party-Programs/first#post269692
written by Gaile Gray concerning our policy on third-party programs. For the moment, that mod is not allowed.” "

The one post by GaileGray in that thread does not actually say the FOV mod is not allowed, it says it is under discussion.

So what gives? Why would changing something in GW2 that’s configurable in many other multiplayer games be cause for a ban?

Is larger FOV considered to be a cheat? If so, does that not mean a multi-monitor setup that enlarges FOV is also a cheat?

“Buy 40,000 gems at $50 which will yeild around 12.5 gold.”

So the value of a full set of cultural armor amounts to 400 real-world Dollars.

To me as a player that’s a strong disincentive to ever buy cultural armor. I hardly spend that much money per year on real clothing.

Otoh it is a strong incentive to try and convert game gold to real money.

Algreg.3629:

or rather make the greatswords smaller as they are ridiculously “anime” while the rest of weapons are more or less realistic – I mean, look at the NPC Charr Vigil, those Greatswords are plain silly.

Agreed. The average dagger in GW2 is the size of a standard issue Roman soldier’s sword. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladius

A bit of exaggeration is fine in a fantasy game, but in GW2 there’s definitely a mismatch between the size of swords and the size of most other weapons.

A bunch of people doing the same (non-soloable) event at the same time, assisting one another as needed (more or less), is that not a group, are they not “playing together” – even though they are not grouped up?

@Hellhound “Duh, but I am responding to his notion that all software bugs should be tested and removed prior to release. This is not possible!”

I for one am not demanding a bug free game, just a lot less bugs.
We’re a month after release and still a large amount of core content (DE’s, skillpoints) is bugged.

Craven.5468:

helladoom.4317:

HellHound.5480:

You have never done Software Development, have you

Development has to be done before release.
Don’t need to be a software developer to know that.

No, but you do need to be aware that very often projects must be released to the public before they are completed due to financial reasons, lack of resources, or due to poor management.

I am aware of that.
But it does not make it right to release a product that’s not ready.
Should i complain to the shareholders instead of to Anet?
I don’t even know the shareholders, but Anet does, and i’m a customer of Anet.

DE’s as such are not a first (see Rift), but GW2 expands on it with chain events and more variety.

The big difference with both heart quests and dynamic events, versus traditional questing, is that players can join in half-way without any hassle whatsoever. In most other mmorpgs one can not join half-way (see GW1 instanced questing).

In addition the downscaling means level requirement for quests are greatly reduced.

Compared to most other mmorpgs these ‘innovations’ greatly promote the multiplayer aspect of “massively multiplayer online”, which for most players is the reason to play such games.

Eveningstar.6940:

‘Getting the gear to play the game’ is the mindset I was unfortunately under while raiding in WoW. I didn’t feel all that accomplished picking up a Tier X weapon, because I knew it wouldn’t last; I was just using it so I could gear up in Tier X so I could get past the gearcheck that let me move on to the content that gave me Tier X+1…

I use the term “gear” to refer to its primary importance: the stats.

Few people put on gear with poor stats just because it looks better, but instead (certainly at lower levels) settle for gear that does not necessarily look the way they want but has the stats they need.

By “getting the gear to play the game” i mean that the player is content when he has the gear that he needs (stat-wise) even when playing the game is then no longer rewarded with gear that has yet better stats. Imo getting gear for the looks of it is another matter.

I share your sentiments regarding the gear treadmill, but i’d call that “playing the game to get the gear (because of the stats)”.

I can already perform well in every level of PVE content, so now I’m free to do what I want. Collecting rare weapon/armor skins is just part of that.

Looks like what you want is play PvE content for token rewards; gear for the looks of it, not for yet better stats.

Because the game is not dependent on gear

It is gear dependent insofar that certain content is practically undoable without gear with good stats; on-level gear, preferably green or better, regardless of the looks.

In order to “perform well in every level of PVE content” you need gear with good stats, which you have acquired.
To me that is ‘you got the gear that you need so that you can do what you want’ or “getting the gear (stat-wise) to play the game” (which, in case it matters to you, is perfectly fine with me).

HellHound.5480:

You have never done Software Development, have you

Development has to be done before release.
Don’t need to be a software developer to know that.

HellHound.5480:

Same reason I cant ‘demand’ from my car dealership that they sell me that car for 20% of the price.

But you can demand that the wheels don’t fall off.
And if the wheels do fall off then it’s not special if the dealership fixes it. There’s actually law (in most civilized countries) that says a product must do what it can reasonably expected to do.

Craven.5468:

verify they are bots visually (it is obvious)

I does not take much to make it less obvious to the point where false positives become a possibility: better char names, don’t cluster, don’t stand in one place for long. Though it might be that those would require more human intervention than the bot houses can afford.

The one thing that is unmistakably obvious is gold spammers, but i understand Anet is rather slow in responding to reports on those.

A partial solution against botting might be to introduce a small pay-as-you play fee, but that seems to be against Anet’s free-to-play philosophy.

wookie slayer.4259:

Gear is a tool and a token of prestige for besting a challenge

How does that work out once you have the best possible gear?
What does it mean not to be able to get more tokens of reward for besting a challenge?

Raven Paradox.1860:

Can’t please everyone.

And shareholders must be pleased first.

“This is one of the few times in an MMO I’ve actually felt “done.””

Do you mean that literally, as in “finished the game”?
To put it differently: do you play the game to get the gear, or do you get the gear to play the game?

I find that not every time but sometimes i’m downscaled to a level below the local mobs, but usually above. I usually feel slightly overpowered compared to on-level players, sometimes it seems i’m weaker.

“The thing to remember is to not send the exact same message three times in a row. "

It’s just that Anet’s definition of “in a row” seems a bit off. Seriously, getting blocked for saying “ty” three times in an hour? It’s probably not by design and needs to get fixed soon.

Pandemoniac.4739:

Other folks have suggested that travel to the main cities be free.

Especially since it’s already free when using the Heart of the Mist route. Not having to use that trick would merely be more convenient.

But really, for a lvl80 just waypointing to various zones in order to find one that’s populated, quickly becomes prohibitively expensive.

“the one thing i probally dislike most about mmos is trying to find groups. sitting around trying to find a group to do some hard area waiting and asking for a group then just giving up because im not the certain type of character or have the right gear to join a group.”

Interestingly GW2 solved that problem for the most part by downscaling, removing the trinity, dynamic events, trait selection, and map design/mob placement, etc. You can go pretty much anywhere and find multiplayer PvE action.

Unfortunately it kind of falls apart with lvl 80 PvE content. Dungeons require sitting around trying to find a group. Orr is tedious and apparently not intended to be explored solo (not much exploring when essentially running for your life almost all the time).

ulukaiulukai.2584:

Why isn’t there a dev responding? This needs to be implemented ASAP and shouldn’t even be too hard.

Probably because it takes them more than 4 hours to read, digest and discuss the proposals – which btw i support wholeheartedly.

Ansultares.1567:

Who cares if the endgame model is fine, when the endgame zones suck donkey kitten.

Actually Anet intends the whole GW2 world to be endgame zones, and most of the lower level zones are fine. It’s just that currently the downscaling and loot drops don’t fit that intention.

DusK.3849:

Why are so many people still using this stupid “endgame” phrase?

Anet uses the term.
Endgame is whatever there is to do at max level, it does not have to be terrible.

Traditional endgame is terrible, and I’m glad GW2 does away with it.

GW2 does not do away with it entirely (see dungeon grinding), but worse: it does not put much in place of traditional endgame.

bwillb.2165:

alfista.6094:

bwillb.2165:

End game is 20 minutes of spamming “2” in a turret Most exciting boss fight ever.

End game is what you make of it. If you want to spam “2”, great.

Sadly, it’s not. The final boss you literally have only one way to hit him and that’s to use a turret that only has three abilities: move left, fire, and move right. And the boss never moves so you only use fire. repeatedly. For 20 minutes.

That’s the end of the personal story line (i agree that it’s very sad), – it’s not what is meant by “endgame”.

Attila.6348:

I love how people brought GW 2 for PvE reasons.

Yeah it’s only got much more PvE content then you need to level from 1 to 80. Imagine the resources it cost to create all that. Clearly not a PvE game…

I agree with the OP for the most part, especially about Orr being so different than the rest of the game – in a negative way.
It is as though Orr was designed so that just traveling/exploring/finding DE action is much harder than in the rest of the game, thus reintroducing hindrances to PvE multiplayer that the rest of the game has resolved. Forcing people to look for others to team up with doesn’t work, having people run into each other out in the world (as it happens at lower levels) does work.

Interestingly, it seems that most other weapons such as staffs, rifles, focus and even most shields are not over sized.

I think they overdid “bigger is better” with the swords, seeing that the tip of a 1h clips in the ground when worn at the hip.