Guild Wars 2

matjazmuhic.1649:

Khisanth.2948:

matjazmuhic.1649:

I’m not big fan of jumping puzles but it’s kinda ok. On the other hand, I would rather see all this effort put into improving/enchancing/adding stuff to PvP.

This was probably mostly Josh Foreman’s doing and possibly some of the other map makers. Unless what you are looking for is just “piles of maps for PvP” then there isn’t much overlap. From one of his posts, it sounds like he wasn’t very good at the sPvP aspect of the game either.

A particular dev’s skills do not necessarily translate well to every single part of the game.

I would know that, I’m a developer myself. But still. Energy spent on this could be rather spent where it’s needed the most.

yeah, i complain about free content, too…

hope devs add more free monthly content? too mainstream

oh really?

Spvp sub-forum: why is this game so pve centric? dev are neglecting the pvp aspect of the game, kitten this game i quit

WvW sub-foum: why is this game so pve-centric? plenty of pve updates and events, where’s the love for wvw? this game sucks

PvE sub-forum: devs are neglecting pve.

“Outmanned bonus to increase World XP, receive no armor damage on death, and increase experience.”

sounds great.

so i was inspired by a post on Reddit ( made by a poster name Christalah, you guys can go to the reddit thread and read it yourself, here’s the link: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1ard20/flame_and_frost_page_updated_321/ ) and i decided to make one myself

R1: peasant/PVEer
R2: peasant with pitchfork
R3: Lion’s Arch WvW patriot
R3: Lion’s Arch WvW server and guild strength analyst
R4: Lion’s Arch WvW tactician and strategist
R5: WvW Forum Reader
R6: WvW Forum Warrior
R7: PvE commander
R8: Militia
R9: WvW spawn afker
R10: WvW citadel crater
R11: WvW Mesmer Port inquirer
R12: WvW Jumping puzzle passenger
R13: WvW jumping puzzle pilot
R14: WvW gatherer
R15: WvW ambient Killer
R16: WvW PvE mobs killer
R17: WvW map completion-er
R18: lvl 30 Militia with greens
R19: lvl 80 militia with rares
R20: lvl 80 militia with exotics
R21: lvl 80 militia with legendary
R22: WvW siege placer
R23: Supplies runner/ siege builder
R24: Militia with tons of gold
R25: Meat-shield for enemies zerg
R26: Siege tester
R27: Scout

lol wut, you spvp folks at least got 2 new maps and we wvw nerds have been playing the same map and enduring the same performance issues ( culling) for 8 months…

I don’t even get to see wvw devs doing the guru state of the game intervew…

stop hating

Lion’s arch in 8-bit

well at least the wvw leader-boards is coming…i guess fixing the culling issue really takes out a lot of their resources..

i do hope that if they are going to remove this ‘unintended feature’ of transmute stone, they should at least allow us to get different faction gears.

All the three factions are united under the Pact, if a vigil spell caster hates how skimpy vigil gear, it shouldn’t be a issue for her to purchase a more conservative looking Priory robe from the Priory.

Snow White.9680:

Why does no one do them? Temple of balth is ALWAYS contested.

Balth: Too easy to fail the escort part, even you have tons of people doing it, Pact Morale sometimes drops dramatically, and the prevents take too long to complete, plus it’s on Straits of Devastation, this place is basically a ghost town.

BTW, temple of Balthazar is currently bugged on Jade Quarry, FIX IT!!!!

Grenth: Surprisingly Grenth is actually very popular on Jade Quarry, we do fail the boss fighting part a lot though( noobs don’t know how to kill shades or try to dps Priest from the steps, lazy and dead players don’t want to waypoint and run back….) but people would keep pushing it most of the time.

Melandru: on Jade Quarry, it’s always open unless it’s bugged.

Dwayna: same as above

Lyssa: same as above, but i do hear that sometimes people choose not to do Lyssa so they can farm lodestones

Meanwhile

PvPers: why is this game so pve centric?
WvWers: At least we are getting our culling fixed…where’s your ladder pvp bro? lol

Here’s another great idea: great-sword dual wielding for warriors…i want to see my warrior doing double hundred-blades!

sad to see OP has decided to side with Anet on this issue, instead of us, the forever-casual players who stand in LA and waiting for those pink items to drop from the sky.

Anet must have somehow brainwashed or paid you to say these nice things about ascended gear.

Please reconsider your position, what Anet doing right now is that they want us to play the game if we want to have better rewards. This is totally unacceptable, and in violation of the sacred “I-am-a-Casual-i-don’t-do-X-but-i-want-the-reward-of-X” code.

i suggest OP to watch their manifesto YouTube clip for another 1000 times. Perhaps that will change your mind on this issue.

I am ok with WvW progression being player bound, because i played different role when i use different characters, for instance , when i play my ranger, my role is usually standing on the wall and snipe down those down enemies and use Longbow 5 on choke point; for my Guardian i usually stand behind the bulk of our troops and use support skill such as staff 4 and shout utilities.

Depend on how the system is implemented, i will love to progress my characters differently and gain the benefits that are suited to the specific roles i give them.

So yeah, i am ok with the idea of wvw progression being character bound, as long as the badges remain account bound, and i hope anet can make sieges account bound ,too!

Geotherma.2395:

Enjoying the variety, the costume brawl one yesterday was fun. I dropped an event box for my server so people could get it done. Its nice having different goals everyday, thanks anet for switching it up and giving us a choice of which to do.

critickitten.1498, he thinks you are wrong to believe that…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/One-core-flaw-in-my-opinion/first

it seems to me that the more people you have there, the more difficult the event gets…i was doing the same event on low pop server (3 people participating) and there was no champs…

lol imagine the QQ when they make chest loot account bound….“WHY CAN’T WE HAVE NICE THINGS?”. “OMG anet is anti fun”. People love farming for rewards as much as they can and as often as they can, can’t really blame Anet for catering the needs of the masses.

My server JQ is packed, and i solve this by doing world event on low-pop server. (HoD, and ET for instance).

They can probably disable guesting on high-pop sever, but hey, expecting the same QQ “my friends are on TC, why i am not allow play with them?”

The other options making the event an instance, or syncing overflows so when an event occurs on the normal server, it occurs on overflows, too. But these will take longer time.

the situation is the same as in Jade Quarry.

not only TC, on Jade quarry we have the same problem…the lags are unbearable ( FPS is fine, but there’s skill delay and intense culling). Anet do something about it!

and people: stop guesting on high pop server like TC and JQ !!!!

lol@ the people claiming the new daily force them to change their playing behavior.

“sure it’s optional, but you might regret it, and for reasons you can’t even know yet.”
what the hell is this? some kind of new age psychobabble? some people are trying to hard to find a flaw in the new system, so they BS anything….if you don’t want them simply don’t select them in your daily panel.

Why would i regret Not picking the daily do not want to do in the first place when i am already in the process completing the daily i want to do and receive my chest?

Wow…before the patch people complaining about how kittenty those world event rewards were, now some of you are complaining how good it has became?…

seriously?

1.a class that is played by an expert

2.a class that is played by a noob

3. WvW and sPvP. WvW’s could use more maps and more incentives apart from braggin right on the forum. sPvP needs more game types.

4.7 -not planning on getting a legendary, all i want is tier 3 culture armors, and i am slowly getting to that goal, already made enough money for one of my character, so no complaints here.

5. 3. much more smoother than let’s say 2 months ago. Even if i encounter some glitches, most of them are not game breaking.

6. sPvP: lack of different game types ( that failed game SWTOR handle its warzone better than GW2 imo)
PvE dungeon: apart from the Fractal, i just don’t find other dungeon appealing in terms of game mechanics.

7. on Tarnished Coast: 10.
on Jade quarry: about 5-6.

Has the new changes to Orr(for instance, adding champs to some events) produced any negative impact on the farming route you have described? just want to ask your professional opinion

OP, how much gold did Anet pay you to say anything nice about them on this forum?

or D)

smaller guilds join larger guilds. People can play still with the same friends while making new friends.

it’s all about perspective, folks.

chronus.1326:

loaded.1938:

forum users are about 5% of gw2 community and the other 95% are probably looking forward to the new patch as i am just saying

Every Lion’s Arch in every server is raging about this thing.

This is a lame argument either way when the game itself acts like a big forum.

and your proof is? from my experience on SoS most of the response i got was “WTH with all the rages?”, " oh well the forum QQ about anything" or " Have they fixed Plinx yet? "

Amulrei.4973:

hplee.2839:

yep and this new changes will make me want to play the game again because i already feel bored after i had acquired all the exotic weapons and armors i want and i do not want to farm Plinx on Orr like the Risens for some useless “legendary skin.”

I would point out that gear “progression” is just as cosmetic as the “legendary skins” you farm but going by your posts on the matter, you seem too conditioned already to see why.

so you are ok with people farming 2 same event on Orr again and again like a zombie just for legendary skin but not ok with people grinding dungeon if they want some useful, practical stats progression..

lol hypocrite

nah most of them just have a metaphysical hatred against gear progression, or, they just hate WoW.

Valhallen.1693:

bamono.7098:

Ok, not trying to have a fight about whether they should or not, I just don’t get why people are raging. It sounds like they’re keeping the top tier items top tier according to her own post. Why does everyone keep saying it won’t be?

The screen shot in the article shows that Ascended gear will have slightly better stats than exotics with gems already built in, plus a new slot for infusions. This obviously makes current exotics they will replace completely obsolete.

yep and this new changes will make me want to play the game again because i already feel bored after i had acquired all the exotic weapons and armors i want and i do not want to farm Plinx on Orr like the Risens for some useless “legendary skin.”

Transit.4158:

Myrrdhinn.5627:

I usually respect everyone’s opinion and don’t involve myself into such argument, but I hate to see this..

Stop whining.. seriously!
You don’t have to get the Ascended armor set unless you want to play the new dungeon. It’ll basically gives better protection against the new game mechanic.
It ‘ll slightly powerful than exotic yes, but guess what, I don’t have full exotic set and I don’t have a single problem with dungeons, WvW whatsoever.

So.. you making yourselves the problem. If you don’t want it you don’t get it. It’s that simple. If you don’t like the new dungeon, you don’t go in there. You won’t miss on anything.

So.. you making yourselves the problem. If you don’t want it you don’t get it. It’s that simple. If you don’t like the new dungeon, you don’t go in there. You won’t miss on anything.Duh…

So locking people who don’t want to grind out of content is now a good thing?

so preventing people who want to have some sort of progression or motivation to play the game after they have full exotics and do not want to grind like a zombie for legendary weapon skin(lol “mere skin”) is now a good thing?

Daphius.4580:

We came here not to have another endless grind. We don’t want the game to be destroyed by whiners. Please, think again Anet. Thank you.

endless grind? ever heard about a thing called Legendary weapon? that thing is already in game yoy

yurtshone.7325:

Jrunyon.3012:

Alexander Dragonfang.1759:

Jrunyon.3012:

YEAAAAH! LETS DISCOURAGE ALL NEW IDEAS! NO NEW CONTENT SHOULD BE ADDED EVER!

WoW player detected.

Adding numbers and stats is not adding content.
We have nothing against the new dungeon itself (maybe something about the new agony condition) nor against new maps, new puzzles, new enemies, new bosses, new game mechanics, new cool looking armor sets, etc. Cause thats content and everyone loves new and more things to do.

Adding more stats to a diferent coloured piece of equipment is not content.

Ive never played WoW in my life actually, besides a few hours on a private server.

So do you really think that a couple of added points to precision and vitality is really that big of a deal? From what im reading, the armor sets arent even going to be useful outside of the dungeons because the infusions are made to progress further in the dungeon. I dont see a problem here, maybe you can enlighten me about the problems you see in the patch without assuming my gaming background.

You just do not get it!
The infusions wont be of any use outside of the dungeon. But the stats will! In 3W this will make a massive difference when you factor in that ALL slots will have this new teir eventually. ATM they have only released info on two items add all of it up, what, 13 slots inc the weapon. Some guys on the threadnought have done some basic maths and worked out it is a 26% or 28% increase in stats. This is the single worst thing Anet could have done.

28% stats boost? wow great news!!! finally something meaningful to strive for, thanks Arenanet for giving me the motivation and goal to play the game again.. to be honest grinding dungeons so i can play Barbie doll with my character gets old really fast…

HellsMachine.4083:

Khemizt.5104:

nofo.8469:

Khemizt.5104:

Bearhugger.4326:

Khemizt.5104:

There is no other way to make a MMO other than using the treadmill. Theres no progression without a treadmill… How do you guys not see that, how can sitting in the same gear since you turned level 80, and downing bosses that don’t vary in toughness be fun!?

Not really. Over 7 years, Guild Wars 1 had zero power creep.

And thats why the game was only popular for a few months, they are trying to stop that from happening to this game.

Your posts make my head hurt.

I know it’s been a hard concept to grasp for this community so let me explain, without the use of treadmills your game will continue to die at it’s current pace, Anets marketing team see’s this change and is doing something to fix it and a team of people, much smarter than you, decided this was the best way of making the game more appealing to other players, and to keep it’s current player base relatively stable.

Please stop posting, you’re just making yourself look worse with every post.

very effective counter argument

camoflaugz.5031:

I seriously wanna know what people are doing in pve right now? Your not running dungeons for gear? your not doing dungeons or orr for karma to get gear? C’mon you gotta be grinding something at this point.

nah, it is OK to farm 2 events over and over again on Orr just to get enough stuffs for Legendary skin, but it is not OK to grind the new dungeon to get a new tier of gear that provide you with minor stats boost…

get that?

GW purists: how dare you support this evil choice…

Valhallen.1693:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/linsey-murdock-unveils-new-high-end-ascended-gear/

I can’t believe it. The years of anticipation, building a new gaming PC, weeks and months of theorycrafting professions, wasted gems on account stuff like character slots, hundreds of hours of emotional investment in the game…all for nothing. With one bad decision Anet has managed to undo all the hard work put into creating what could have been an amazing MMO for years to come.

Exotics were supposed to be THE end game gear that would last until the next expansion or major game overhaul, not an upgrade that lasts barely 2 months before being replaced. Even legendaries have the same stats as exotics, proof that they were designed to be long term best in slot items.

Guild Wars 2 was supposed to be about fun. Seeing content, having epic experiences, and improving your character aesthetically were the rewards, not grinding for upgrades. Gear was not supposed to be the motivating factor for playing, hence the multiple paths for obtaining the same thing (crafting, trading post, karma, dungeons, etc) But now we’re supposed to throw away our “best in slot items” for even better “best in slot items”, not even 3 months after the game was launched…Even World of Warcraft doesn’t pimp its gear treadmill that fast…

Shame on you Anet.

lol keep dreaming…seeing content? why should i see the same vista for over and over again? also what endgame do we have right now? you mean like when you reach lvl 80 and you spent most of your in-game time staying at Orr farming karma and gold just so you can get a legendary weapon skin that is not actually better in any practical or useful way ? or doing 3 same paths of dungeon over and over again so you can play Barbie doll with your character?

Apparently the system we have right now is working as intended and and all the people complaining about lack of goal and motivations and dwindling server population are just WoW fanboys…

meanwhile in Lion Arch on SoS server: " lol who reads forum? only whiners do"

Yes to the new tier of gear…

the tier of tears

Wasselin.1235:

I feel like they didn’t even really try. All they had to do was release Lost Shores without the ascended gear and see what would happen. Did their halloween event not draw in a big enough crowd?

Wasn’t the concept that you make fun content and people will play without needing a carrot? Did ArenaNet come to doubt their ability to make content fun?

nah, the biggest mistake ArenaNet ever made was having a forum. With QQ threads demanding more carrots (“I have full exotics already, now what?” “why should i grind 500 hours just for a skin?”), i am not surprise they decide to add some “meaningful progression” after all…

There you go…“Where’s-the-end-game?” crowds 1, Guild War purists 0

yeah great update, now there’s something to strive for again

Starfleck.8392:

Just read the post by Linsey, and am completely baffled by this. It just doesn’t make any sense.

Why? oh. why? …after all the promises

because you have people QQ about that “now I have full set of exotics, what should i do now? where’s the progression? i don’t have goal to log in now” on the forum…

or something like “why should i grind 400 hours on Legendary? they are just skin anyway”

Evee.2714:

hplee.2839:

right….“millions of people on your side”

The grind-for-stats World of Warcraft still has more people playing than this so-called “grind-for-appearance” game.

that is the inconvenient truth fanboys don’t want to see. lol

then they can go play WoW, this is a different game

they advertised it differently than WoW

If you want WoW go play WoW or one of it’s clones, leave this game alone

yep, a lot of people have already left…so that’s why you have people complaining about their server is dead.

No progression = No desire to log = No players

well, the same forum that QQ about the lack of stuffs to do at lvl 80 now QQ about Anet adding more stuffs to do at lvl 80. The same forum also QQ about the lack of " PROGRESSION" now QQ about Anet adding progression.

I think the introduction of the new armor type is good .This will make “I-got-exotics-already-now-i-have-no-goal-or-motivation-to-play” people stays longer.

New goal and New motivation, I like the sound of it.

1) A jumping puzzle that makes baddies QQ on the forum.
2) A chest or Cash shop item that contains Event-themed items.
3) People QQ about spending tons of gold on the item but not getting anything.
4) A new dungeon with good chance of getting a LOTS of exotics at the beginning of the event.
5) drop-rate nerf of (4)
6) More people QQing on the forum about not having to chance to farm those exotics
7) A one-time-only cut scene that makes people QQ
8) random guys in game and forum : " what is the point of this event? why do you spent time on doing event instead of fixing xyz?"
so yeah, I expect that this event is going to generate lot of QQs on the forum, just like the Halloween.

Post edited to remove a violation of the code of conduct.

Sweetevil.9208:

Im not wah wah I think it’s hilarious. Doesn’t bother me. It’s one week. It’s not going to ruin my life. Sorry to disappoint you.
I actually find it quite entertaining.

i find the imaginary alliance between SoS and SoR hilarious. Make sure you check the current situation on SoS BL before yelling your delusion on the forum. It makes your server look bad.

Tyaen.5148:

There is just so much awesomeness here. GL IoJ.

OK, now SoR folks you have just earned my respect.

" We beat you guys last week and we can do it again"

From now on i won’t jump on SoR dead bodies anymore!

It lacks giving 1000g, 500 karma jugs, and a free precursor to all players when they reach lvl 80, it also lacks gear-stats grind, the so-called " MEANINGFUL GOAL AND PROGRESSION".

That’s why a lot of people quit, seriously.

Blake.3609:

im not complaining about the game being boring just that i am. i have a lvl 80 ranger n 47 warrior i do pvp wvw hearts dungeons and so on. nothing really seems to be fun maybe once arena net puts in like a group finder or something it might be better but atm i just seem to be spending 90% of my time trying to find groups and failing to find anyone and just logging off

can i has your stuffs?

LOL

this revolutionary game design seems to be working as intended, most of lvling zone are empty and 70 % of population now farm 2 events at Cursed Shore…

Ptaki.3715:

I’m on Yaks Bend. No matter when I play or which zone I’m in I always see people. I honestly think the people yelling there is nobody or game dieing are in two groups.

1) Want like 20 or more people around them no matter where they are at all times.

2) Shills for another game to hurt this game. Read up on it. A quick google search will find some interesting stuff. Do you know like 33 percent of reviews are intentionally bad made by the competition? You can’t believe everything you read on the internet.

The young think everything they read on the internet is gospel.

Another fun fact. Do you know it’s possible that wikipedia is inaccurate sometimes? It’s not always right.

By what I see game is fine.

not sure if you are trolling but if you are not, the fanboyism is strong in this one

1) since most the server is listed as High or Full for ALL THE TIME, of course people are expect to see more than 20 people around them most of the time, we are playing a MMO for Melandru’s sake.

2) right, every legit concerns are intentionally made by evil competitors, are you wearing a tin foil hat?

here’s my experience, even on full server like Tarnished Coast or SoS, you still wont get to see a lot of people outside LA or WvW, you will see some people maybe, but just not enough for me to call it a “full server”

I stopped doing map-pve content in this game long ago, especially those non-human lvling zones, as most of them are epmty. Right now i spent most of my time in WvW, it makes me feel like i am still playing a MMO.

game population is “healthy and growing”? don’t kid your self lol