Guild Wars 2

I love the feeling of seeing that 100% completion hanging above an area, and since they removed the wvw requirement it’s no longer even time gated by that, which removed the only complaint I ever had about it. I have no problem with it staying the way it is. That said, the new legendaries may not even require gifts of exploration, and I would be fine with that too. I’m all for alternatives for folks who want to earn rewards in different ways, but that doesn’t mean they have to be the SAME rewards. After all, the stats are going to be the same, so why not have some new legendaries that require the same kind of investment in a different area of the game, be that Kharma, laurels, WvW, or PvP. I honestly think something like that is the best solution, because you don’t devalue the efforts of people who didn’t like doing map completion, but did it anyway.

That was kind of a ramble, but what I mean is doing map completion to build a legendary doesn’t bother people like me who enjoy map completion, but lots of people who don’t enjoy it have already done it and giving people in the future a way to get the same reward without putting in that effort devalues the sacrifice those players already made. It would be better to offer comparable but different rewards through alternative means.

Mitch.4781:

And it’s STILL bewildering that you cannot save off builds with respective armour and weapon choices. WOW has had this feature for years.

What’s worse, GW1 let you save builds, and it was one of the most beloved changes they ever made to that game. Even that system, wich required you to manage gear manually, would be better than the nothing we currently have.

The baldness just looks very creepy on female characters.

NikeEU.7690:

Condi ranger is the second best condi build in PvE and has better sustained DPS than the berserker build, and much of it is burning. Not sure where the idea that it didn’t have good burning access is coming from.

I absolutely believe you when you say that, although I have no first hand experience, but they’ve been looked down on for so long that it probably doesn’t matter. Chances are you’ll still be kicked out of a group before you can even say “wait, I’m a torch ranger!”

Sifu.9745:

What about Mesmer?

Not enough burning. Same for Ranger and Necro. The only ones that are getting treated as pseudo meta are the ones that can throw down lots of stacks of burning, so Elementalist, Engineer, and Guardian. I’d personally love to see some of the other conditions pumped up to the same level of effectiveness, but it hasn’t happened yet and for all we know they may end up nerfing burning.

Tao.1234:

Lian Olsam.9541:

i know about rom, indeed i’ve done some modify for be more safe…
vpn isn to much safe too the system was already broken, but ofc it help, isnt not easy to use the tecnology w/o be spyed, but if they wanna know something about me, they should use a direct attack to me, i’m not a polititian, i’m not a terrorist or someone who have some kind of information, i’m just a normal man, so no one will attack me directly, and if they do, they will found gw2 and tv series

i just hate to make this normal for big company as default

come back in topic i like what dx12 does, but i dont like all this closed source, the big Brother is inside there, so i’d like to anet will develop the next engine with some open source or Linux/older window version friendly w/o loosing the chance to have better graphic and performance, so i suggest vulkan but everything else than DX 12 is fine too

this game with dx9 is the beautiest mmo, there is alot of dx11 mmo or game, with a worst graphic out there

They could use SDL libraries and whole game would be compatible with all OSes and platforms.

But who are we kidding anyway.
Despite the fact that it’s easier and better to use SDL, still every nab dev will go for MS and it’s o’kewl DX no?

In all fairness, it’s changing a little bit, and mostly as a result of Valve and their Steam OS, but only time will tell.

I’d much rather they spend their time improving multi threading performance than messing with a new API, and I say that as a fan of Directx 12. This game just isn’t GPU limited, so why bother? If they would/could get the client to a state where the GPU is the bottleneck then talking about a new API would make sense.

I remember when the game just came out, how disappointed I was when I bought the extra bag slot and realized it was for only one character. I never bought another one, and doubt I ever will.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

One of the long time (from Guild Wars 1) friends I know is ill now and hasn’t been able to play for a long time. Maybe she never will be able to play again. If she does get better and starts playing again, then what a blow to see her chars standing there nameless, just because someone else can’t take the time and effort needed to be a little creative.

And if she, god forbid, doesn’t? If arena.net did take away names, imagine what a blow it would be to people like the above quoted to randomly run in to some 13 year old punk using a departed friend or loved ones name to spew obscenities in to map chat. I’ve been in guilds that lost members in the past irl, and I can imagine how upset a guild member would be in that scenario, much less a real life friend or family member. So, no, flip blind through a book and stab words at random, use a random name generator, and get over yourself.

Azure.8670:

Looks good except the wings. They make him look like he’s wearing a kids Halloween outfit

^so much this. Every time I see a character with wings in the game I wonder if that person knows how ridiculous they look.

I like hearts, but in some of the zones where there aren’t enough events or the events don’t trigger often enough they can be a bit tedious. I love when I jump into an event and finish a heart without even trying or almost so that I do the last few steps as a matter of course. I admit to feeling frustrated with some of them. Mainly, I don’t like the ones where combat seems to give very little progress, forcing you to the non combat methods if you want to do it in a timely manner, or the ones where combat works very well only there aren’t enough spawns.

We will have to agree to disagree, assuming by henchmen you mean heroes. I was there. I lived through the difference in the way the game was played after the release of heroes, and then after the release of custom heroes. You say they added a choice, and you are right, but that doesn’t take in to account the choice that the player base overwhelmingly made. I enjoyed the game before heroes, and I enjoyed it after heroes, but it was a radically different experience. Heroes basically made it in to first a two player game, and then a single player game with an always online requirement. The only place people were teaming up was pvp.

Honestly, heroes were convenient in GW1, and they completely ruined the social aspect of the game. I went from playing with my guild mates everyday, and teaming up with random PUGs to ignoring everyone and running with a group of perfectly designed robots, because every other player was running around with a team of perfectly designed robots, and you had no other option. I even get why it happened, compared to random players Heroes were reliable. Heroes didn’t use crap builds just because they thought they were fun. Heroes didn’t generally over pull and wipe parties. Heroes could be told to go somewhere, or use a specific skill and they did it with no complaining. Lots of good reasons, but the end result was still that people didn’t really play together anymore.

I feel sorry for anyone who didn’t get to play GW1 before they added heroes and ripped the soul out of the game in the name of convenience.

The lore and setting are the same as my favorite game ever, and lots of people still play this one.

Oooh! What if they made like, superior transmutation charges that let you ignore weight restrictions in the wardrobe? That doesn’t sound that impossible, and it would give them a new gem store item to sell.

I’ve been using it just fine, it’s faster than 8.1 although I do have to run in borderless fullscreen to be able to alt+tab easily. Honestly, I saw a performance increase as soon as I upgraded, and have no regrets. Plus, even though my card is getting older, it apparently supports directx 12.1 and that means due to the supposedly massive 60% performance increase over directx 11 I can hold off on replacing it for a good bit longer while still playing anything new coming out at pretty high settings.

The only situation in which I can imagine not taking advantage of the free upgrade are if you are running Windows 7 and getting such good performance that you see no point in improving it while at the same time not caring at all about playing any of the Directx 12 titles that will be arriving soon for the holiday season. So if you just built an expensive gaming rig running Windows 7 and don’t care about every playing anything but GW2 you might not want to upgrade. Otherwise, you’ll be upgrading. You might be waiting a little bit on the AMD driver situation but that’s about it.

Danikat.8537:

Also I’m sure when Prophecies first came out people would have said much the same about the charr (who were portrayed a lot more simply back then – there was none of this lore with warbands and legions and ancient roman themes, they were a lot like the grawl – tribes of monsters who worshipped whatever powerful and scary thing came along.)

In fairness, humans kind of did the same thing in GW1. So it wasn’t just Charr that got painted with the ignorant religious zealot brush.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Tried that for 2 years, didn’t work. Tried this for 1 week, worked perfectly.

#noregrets

Eh, more power to you I guess. I can’t act that way to people without feeling like a horrible person. Not even in a game.

starlinvf.1358:

But honestly, their WvW ranking and match making system needs some work. I think the top 3 tiers are tired to of seeing the same match ups for months on end.

Maybe they should use a wildcard option, something like the the third slot in each tier being randomized between the actual third and the next two lower servers. Wouldn’t have to be a huge chance, just high enough that occassionally you’d get a wildcard thrown in after a reset. It might shake things up a bit.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Just do what the rest of us already do

#norangers
#nonecros

Soon to be:
#norev
#noDH

The game is significantly more fun to play when you exclude those classes.

Or, maybe, players like you are the reason all the depressed rangers keep using LB #4 in PvE. No need to learn manners or make friends if everybody is going to be a jerk to you…

Upgrading to to windows 10, even with the newest Nvidia graphic drivers(installed from the site after windows update got done with it’s mandatory graphic driver install) completely kills DSR for some reason. Just an FYI for anyone who, like me, used it quite a bit. I can’t go higher than 1080P now, no options for DSR, and attempting to set a higher custom resolution doesn’t work either.

Edit: Solved, they just don’t enable DSR by default like the old drivers did, and you have to enable it on the 3d settings tab for some reason. If you go to the global 3d settings tab and enable every option(ie check all the boxes) under DSR-Factor you get all the DSR resolutions back.

The only way it could be any better is if my Asura could ride on it. Any attempts to resize my dragon will be met with armed resistance.

We were playing around with streaming games on my friends windows tablet using steam home streaming, and we got Guild Wars 1 and 2 to load up in it, both added as 3rd party games to steam. Wouldn’t be a solution for outside of the same network unfortunately, as the gaming PC was doing all the work and just streaming the output and controls across the network.

Thaddeus.4891:

Level 80, experienced is pretty common. Zerker you can see it on a regular basis. AP and ping gear is SUPER rare.

I’d just like to mention that although I agree with you those things are rare to see enumerated, what’s less rare is the people running those 80 exp groups who assume that “exp” automatically equals the zerker meta. There is a large portion of the community who genuinely seem to believe that it’s the only way to play, and that anyone “exp” is automatically going to be doing so. Not saying they’re right, or that they ask people to ping gear to prove it, but I would say it’s a fairly common assumption. Lots of those plain old 80 exp parties are also the ones where necros and rangers are likely to get kicked if they join, because after all, no “exp” player would try to take those classes in to a dungeon.

This isn’t an attack or argument, but I do think it’s necessary to clarify that these issues pop up in games that don’t have them as part of the description in LFG.

I wish they’d just left the old generic dailies alone. I liked the fact that if I could jump on for a few minutes I could grind out a daily if I was in a hurry, but I would just complete them organically if I played for a decent amount of time. Now it feels like something I always have to go out of my way to grind to completion. It’s not hard or anything, just inconvenient. I have to admit, I don’t complete them nearly as often as I used to as a result. It just feels like a chore now.

I personally have absolutely zero interest in player housing and think it is insane in any game where it doesn’t serve an actual purpose, and even in games where it serves a purpose I’d rather not. That said, if people are willing to make cash shop purchases of something so silly, I say Anet should jump at it and milk them for every cent they can, which they can then spend on say making season 1 living story replayable, or making WvW suck less.

I was hoping they’d go from the 20 levels of Guild Wars to no levels for the sequel, but they just weren’t brave enough to continue to innovate. They decided to cop out out on all their ideals and go for the money instead, and going for the money required making people familiar with mainstream(WoW) MMORPGs comfortable. As others have said, it’s too late to change now.

Anet has been ridiculously negligent about listening to the community when it comes to basic quality of life changes like this and many others. How about some communication Anet? We don’t expect you to agree with us about everything, but I sure wish you’d say no and explain why instead of just remaining silent on so many issues. But, like most QoL changes, better communication is just another request that Anet doesn’t address. I compare it to something like Digital Extremes and how well they communicate about Warframe, both road mapping where they are going and addressing player concerns, and it makes me feel sick to my stomach.

A tragic mistake.

I don’t hate him, but he comes across kind of stilted and zombie like. He’s a firstborn, so his personality should be well developed and nuanced, he’s had 25 years of life experience as an adult, but he comes across as an acorn that just fell off the tree some times. I just think that he comes across as overly formal with the emotional range of a high functioning autistic. I mean, you have a wild hunt, get fired up!

emilymaine.1736:

I also would like that there would be “crosshair” and click on mouse combat instead pressing number 1 skill. Instead if you would add 1 extra ability to number 4 slot.

It would not take that much time to add this to the game and it would make the game more enjoyable to play. So I really wish developers would consider this and add it to this awesome game !

http://wesslen.org/ICM/
Immersive Combat Mode is a 3rd party mod that adds exactly that. I’d love to see the functionality added to the core game, but until that happens I sure don’t want to play without ICM.

Tao.1234:

Don’t compare it to Tera.
New Classes there can roll on Pad, but old ones will not.

To make Gw2 roll on Consoles, we would need a Crosshair and Crosshair mouse lock/unlock just like in The Secret World.

Then, GW2 would work with pads.

But one thing stands for sure.

MMOs on Consoles don’t perform well in matter of controling character.

In fairness, the immersive combat mode mod adds all that quite easily, and I for one wouldn’t want to go back to playing this game without it. If one guy can hack it together with a 3rd party tool, I doubt it would take much effort at all for Anet to add the features to the core game. Crosshair and Crosshair mouse lock are so very easily doable that they’ve already been done.

Just an FYI. I don’t really have an opinion one way or the other as far as the console thing goes, I haven’t owned one since the Sega Genesis and don’t see that changing anytime soon.

If they’d just get on making s1 living story replayable, this wouldn’t be an issue.

It’s a ranged attack counter. It’s making players pay attention and not ranged attack if they don’t want to kill themselves. It’s doing its job. Obviously, the more powerful the projectile the more powerful the skill is. Changing it would make the skill completely pointless in everything but PvE, and mostly useless there. Maybe this new AI they’re talking about for HoTs will make it’s way in to some of the core enemies, and they’ll get less stupid about hammering away on reflecting players.

I wouldn’t mind some greek, egyptian, and middle eastern inspired male fashion at all. Even a scottish kilt or two for the Norns would be pretty cool.

If they start releasing really out of place junk like swim suits, I sure hope they give us an option to opt out of ever seeing it. Just a little check mark in settings that disables anything that isn’t lore and setting friendly, and I’d say sell anything that people will buy. But without such a setting, I would really rather they not.

I hate the oversized weapons too. I never said I expected them or the unrealistic armor to go away. Just that I don’t like them.

You can cry fantasy, and say realism has no place because magic all you want, I don’t care. It’s not like I’m going to get my way, and I’m OK with that. I do retain the right to think it looks absolutely ridiculous, and the right to think anyone who likes it has poor taste. You are, of course, free to think whatever you want.

Substance E.4852:

Curae.1837:

So that’s 8 skins from the 61 we have in game, 10 if they have 30k AP and do pvp as well.

You’re standards are unreasonably high if that’s what you consider to be appropriate.

You seem to be throwing armor that has embellishments on the chest (and thus on the breasts) in with armor that has dysfunctional cleavage.

I mean, what, from a practical perspective, is the flaw of Flame Legion, Ascended, Primeval, Heavy Plate, Dark Templar, or Draconic armor? (there’s more but that’s 6 right there)

Flame Legion = Boob Plate
Ascended = Boob Plate
Primeval = fairly mild Boob Plate
Heavy Plate = Boob Plate
Dark Templar = Boob Plate
Draconic Armor = Boob Plate

Breasts molded on to armor create a channel that deflects blows towards areas you don’t want things deflected, as well as creating an actual weak point where weapons are more likely to directly breach the armor. Of all the ones you listed, only Primeval is kind of ok, and honestly that weird under boob shelf is still a death sentence waiting to happen.

But that’s just for those of us who know enough to find our suspension of disbelief thrown by badly designed(from a defensive standpoint) armor.

I really don’t mind it on my 80s, but I still think they screwed up bad by not downleveling gear on a slot by slot basis. As has been mentioned in many of these threads, actual leveling characters get screwed real bad as they level in areas unless they are constantly buying new gear at the TP to match their current level, as all the gear you are wearing gets downgraded by the same stupid ratio as soon as the downleveling kicks in. If you are un-twinked and wearing only found gear that varies widely in level, you end up being much, much less effective than a non downscaled player or a level 80 player for that matter.

I don’t think my necro finds this idea very amusing.

Don’t get me wrong! I like most of the armor as art. There’s just a part of me that cringes inside whenever I try to think about it actually stopping any kind of dangerous weapon. In my younger days, me and my brother got pretty heavy into blacksmithing and making period reproduction pieces, and I guess I just internalized enough of it that I can’t turn it off. I see things as simple as spiky shoulder pauldrons and immediately picture long axes catching and shearing into them instead of deflecting off and around like they should. I see breasts molded into a breast plate and immediately think of all the lances that would get caught on those curves and punch straight through instead of being smoothly deflected off to the sides.

So, some of them are beautiful art, it’s just hard to view them as any real kind of protection. Yes, I know, it’s a fantasy game with fireballs and giant horned cats, but everybody has something that bothers them even if they know it’s absurd.

panzer.6034:

Ringsound.7806:

imsoenthused.1634:

Chainmail Bikini Syndrome has been a plague on the fantasy community for so many years that it isn’t going away anytime soon. Love it or hate it it’s just the way it is. GW2 isn’t nearly as bad as most games in the genre. I would love to see more FULL coverage female heavy armors though, and fewer(none) exposed skin death traps, but I can accept that lots of people don’t agree.

we are on the same boat
i would love to have more full coverage armor
an i wouldnt mind, even appreciate no korean type eposed heavy armor
sexy dont have to be showing skin, a good fit full coverage showing the perfect bodyline is way sexier than bikini

You should be happy with the status quo then since a majority of the existing heavy female armors are practically puritan in their sensibilities.

Not me, I want armor to look like armor. I personally just despise badly designed armor, regardless of which stupid fallacy they pick, be it chainmail bikini or skin tight metal catsuit.

It’s fine though, I’m used to most fantasy armor being ridiculous looking trash covered in cleave points, with zero thought given to it’s ability to actually function as armor. And that applies to most of the men’s armor as well.

Chainmail Bikini Syndrome has been a plague on the fantasy community for so many years that it isn’t going away anytime soon. Love it or hate it it’s just the way it is. GW2 isn’t nearly as bad as most games in the genre. I would love to see more FULL coverage female heavy armors though, and fewer(none) exposed skin death traps, but I can accept that lots of people don’t agree.

I agree it looks strange, but not so strange that I expect them to prioritize fixing it.

Unneeded, unwanted. They would just turns in to more silly gem store junk that doesn’t fit the setting in the long run.

GW2 is cleary burgeoning early industrial bordering on steam punk technology level, which means simple pistols and rifles are perfectly acceptably, as opposed to GW1’s pre-industrial setting. Anyone who says guns can’t be in fantasy doesn’t really understand what fantasy is.

my sole factor on judging female armor is, does the armor have breasts? If yes, it is crap design, begging for an axe or sword to bight in and cleave the unfortunate victim in half. If no, good design, and max respect.

Vayne.8563:

I forgot about Guild Wars 1. Completely different than Guild Wars 2, mind you, but far more fun for me than any of the other MMOs out there.

I suspect OP has a personal problem with the company, reading between the lines of his posts, which would make that not an option.

Glad I haven’t bought it yet, and will continue to remain glad until they release a full list of how much content they’re actually selling. Also, downscaling wrecked leveling characters via map completion, and needs fixed badly. I’ve heard lots of complaints about how it screws 80s, but it’s nothing compared to what it does to say a level 48 wearing found and quest reward gear(ie non twinked).

They ought to just cull names like so many other games do. Once a year you just sent out a warning that any characters that haven’t been logged in to within a couple weeks will lose their names, then mass rename them all with _1 appended to the end, to open up names from accounts that have been abandoned.