Guild Wars 2

This actually looks a promotional picture for a new gemstore box.

’tis gon be gud!

Where are my “manifesto is a lie!!” “a.net lies again!” friends?

AndrewSX.3794:

Better RNG chance is still RNG.

So do you also complain about critchances unsteady weapon damage and proc chances?

skullmount.1758:

Neko.7548:

the picture url is “https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/30fff10-15_NextHero_EN.jpg”

maybe he is a new hero ? Like Ellen Kiel …
(oh, almost forget she… where is she now ?)

NextHero is their naming convention, they use that for each release page/preview picture. EN is the name of the actual release, but EN could stand for anything (usually the beginning letter of each word in the release title).

EN stands for the language

Ricky.4706:

overpopulated servers have nothing to do with grinding for pvp gear. you are mixing apples and horses.

W-what? I was quoting your on the subject of “statgrinding”

Ricky.4706:

almost makes you wonder about bait and switch and all the abuse people take on the forum trying to say pvp’rs shouldn’t have to grind for stats.

Hm you kept posting the manifesto trailer. Did you forgot about the Dev Blogpost about WvW were they said that people will have “unfair” advantages ?

Oh no the “the manifesto is a lie” ghouls spawned again!

This is a really good idea, imo.

a t s e.9614:

Ruby cuz its cheap and im cheap . But i remember getting kicked out of
Cof p1 for having ruby instead of scholarr . I guess scholar
Is better to look pro or something …

Elitism in CoF runs? Oh lord.

OJM.5103:

I’m sorry but these are horrible. Doesn’t even look good on a human and that’s the model they normal base their design structures on. However, anet are very clever in a sense.. people will be buying dem transmutation stones like there is no tomorrow!

I am not talking about the way it looks I am talking about that this helmet would never work on a charrs face because it would make him blind.

Astralporing.1957:

kokiman.2364:

Vayne.8563:

I seem to remember gauntlets and shoulders you can get from achievement points, gauntlets from flame and frost, shoulders from the Scarlet invasion, and armor in the cash shop.

So not zero.

phys.7689:

so we can say 0 sets from normal game play?

the point is really they have not expanded peoples visual appearance options much since launch, while armor does take longer, i think they should realease more than 0 new appearances.

Also i highly reccomend they make a visual appearance tab, where you can unlock armor and freely change appearance, they can tie it to transmutation stones, but the current system is very unwieldly, if you like two armor sets visually you have to carry around/store 6 pieces, and you cant choose you appearance even if you do, because each look will be tied to certain stats.

Have you not seen all the armors they added in the gemstore?

If we’re considering gemstore to be normal gameplay now, we’re on sad times indeed.

Are 23 Dungeonruns considered to be normal gameplay too? If so the game doesn’t have that many level 80 armor skins.

phys.7689:

Vayne.8563:

I seem to remember gauntlets and shoulders you can get from achievement points, gauntlets from flame and frost, shoulders from the Scarlet invasion, and armor in the cash shop.

So not zero.

so we can say 0 sets from normal game play?

the point is really they have not expanded peoples visual appearance options much since launch, while armor does take longer, i think they should realease more than 0 new appearances.

Also i highly reccomend they make a visual appearance tab, where you can unlock armor and freely change appearance, they can tie it to transmutation stones, but the current system is very unwieldly, if you like two armor sets visually you have to carry around/store 6 pieces, and you cant choose you appearance even if you do, because each look will be tied to certain stats.

Have you not seen all the armors they added in the gemstore?

xephire.8324:

kokiman.2364:

Look at the dungeon forum especially at the post from TheMaskedParadigm. They can pretty much post anything there, it won’t get deleted.

cause its an oblivion forum.

And this means that the users can post whatever they want?

Look at the dungeon forum especially at the post from TheMaskedParadigm. They can pretty much post anything there, it won’t get deleted.

Scoobaniec.9561:

nicknamenick.2437:

Have seen the heavy on Charr.. and its kitten ugly..

At least they made holes for tail..But the sets itself aren’t great.. Have u seen asura? lol

Yeah and holes for the nose but they forgot that we need to see something in combat.

The book costs 2g and resets your traits too, right?

Devata.6589:

kokiman.2364:

Devata.6589:

Mif.3471:

Avatara.1042:

Ahahahahahahahahaha! Good one! Suggesting Anet will not milk everyone for gems? Comedy gold!

Yeah, what a bunch of scumbags. How dare they release an MMO without the usual $15 monthly fee and sell optional cosmetic items to pay their staff.

In stead of making money with expansion to pay there staff and have a good game.. Indeed.

Every 2 weeks ~5$ dollar for each player or every year 50$ for each player… Do the math.

It’s more like every month 50 dollar from a few players or every year / year and a half 50 dollar from almost all players.

The math is hard to do without the exact numbers but overall I think it will all be close. Biggest advantage of expansions generated income is that the game might have a longer time-spawn so it will generate money for a longer time and because ingame decisions are not based on the idea of getting people to buy gems the game itself can be better.

I can tell you for a fact that Every 2 weeks ~5$ dollar for each player is incorrect because I will not spend money on gems.. I will spend money on expansions.. IF!! they turn back to a focus on that in stead of on the gem-store.

And then you have the player that spends at 60$ to buy an unlimited pickaxe for all of his characters

The way they explained the removal of f/u sounds like scarlet is going to be in the game for a while.

Devata.6589:

Mif.3471:

Avatara.1042:

Ahahahahahahahahaha! Good one! Suggesting Anet will not milk everyone for gems? Comedy gold!

Yeah, what a bunch of scumbags. How dare they release an MMO without the usual $15 monthly fee and sell optional cosmetic items to pay their staff.

In stead of making money with expansion to pay there staff and have a good game.. Indeed.

Every 2 weeks ~5$ dollar for each player or every year 50$ for each player… Do the math.

charr get 3 hairstyles which will most likely be unisex.

I can kinda understand both sides but this is how I see it.

Updates to already existing content is crucial for examples the world bosses .. they made so many changes to the loot that they never had a the time to adjust those fights difficulty-wise

New features are always exciting but the story stuff.. meh.. Like many people I think the story is way too light-hearted especially in comparison to GW1. I basically can’t take it serious and after each story related update ( the last one was 1 month ago?) I don’t have this “and what happens next?” feeling I am more like “Oh hopefully we kill her in the next update so A.Net can introduce a new antagonist.”
Stuff like Tequatl Rising and SAB doesn’t even try to add to the Living Story and if we ask A.Net about it they’ll always respond with sentences like “Oh you will see how it all fits together! Just wait!”.

Sirendor.1394:

I don’t think that much work is involved:
1- Map: copy a pve map
2- Achievements: most of the people who GvG do it for the fun of it and take a record of their matches on sites outside of GW2.
3- Rewards: hardly necessary, since the guys who do GvG atm don’t get anything for it.

But imagine they have to release it and people ask it what’s it all about.

“Uhm yeah so this is an area you should all know and uhm.. yeah you meet in the middle of the map and kill each other, there is no objective, there aren’t any rewards”

Sizzle Hint.1820:

kokiman.2364:

Naz.2607:

… BUT, I do think that Anet should make a designated instance/map for it where all players can talk to each other in say chat while they gvg.
It is obviously something that a decent size of the game pop wants/enjoys.

Decent size.. what are we talking about here 1kish players? That wouldn’t be worth the development time.

Yet spvp gets dev time hmm…

Yeah because the frameworks are already there and it was in the game since launch. GvG players ask for a completely new gamemode which needs stuff like, achievements, rewards, a completely new arena, etc.

Naz.2607:

… BUT, I do think that Anet should make a designated instance/map for it where all players can talk to each other in say chat while they gvg.
It is obviously something that a decent size of the game pop wants/enjoys.

Decent size.. what are we talking about here 1kish players? That wouldn’t be worth the development time.

Marquie Thomas.1873:

…

Because it is not the GW1 style of GvG it is the DoAC style of GvG, if I understood it right, basically just a Deathmatch.

Joey.2769:

kokiman.2364:

Chiolas.1326:

Glad to see I made the right decision when I quit this game

Oh what you quit the game? I guess your signature wasn’t enough. At least you frequent the forums so we all know that you left the game!

But serious question what’s the problem with sPvP arenas?

Just go back to zerging your dragon, you clearly don’t understand what attracts people to open world PvP.

Open world PvP? A set number of players that meet at a predefined location attack at a predefined time each other without any interference. How is that open world pvp?

And please don’t try to create some kind of elitism around your coordinated groupfights.

xephire.8324:

Dev’s behaviour childish beyond imagination.The battles are not childish as the players are exercising what i believe playing how they want to play.

One of the first things that came out of the players mouth was “kitten” not sure how this is not a childish behavior.

Chiolas.1326:

Glad to see I made the right decision when I quit this game

Oh what you quit the game? I guess your signature wasn’t enough. At least you frequent the forums so we all know that you left the game!

But serious question what’s the problem with sPvP arenas?

Sirendor.1394:

Andddddd… we reached 1000 posts. Congratulations for anti-skill people, for reacting so long that the pro-skill people could fill in 500 posts in reply!

How does GvG require more skill than the regular WvW?

Hey let’s play WoW and complain that they have no dogde function and that they hate players for trying to dogde!

What is a “full zerk old school dps warriors” ?

Meglobob.8620:

Four of the main reasons Charr are unpopular have nothing to do with bugs:-

1. They are UGLY.
2. Moving around on all 4’s is rubbish and can drive you daft with how annoying it is.
3. Charr are the worst race to jump with, Charr can’t jump.
4. They are too tall/big, present too much of a target and take up too much of the screen area, no matter how much you zoom out.

My charr did all jps in the game.

No because it would be too human-centric and they don’t want that.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

kokiman.2364:

stof.9341:

Knote.2904:

I absolutely loath dailies in any game.

They really need to let you stack up to 7/7 dailies so you can skip some then knock them all out at once, Rift does that with most dailies and it’s fantastic, no pressure of “I NEED TO LOG IN BEFORE 5 PM kitten IT”.

GW1 did that up to 3 days. Obviously since GW1 was an epic fail (that’s what I get from some posters around), they couldn’t copy anything from that or it would taint GW2 :o

The GW1 “dailies” were specific tasks like “Do mission x” or “kill mob x”. You can’t compare those 2 systems.

And the GW2 dailies aren’t specific tasks? “Gather 20 times” “Kill 50 mobs” “Complete ‘x’ events in ‘x’ area” These things aren’t specific tasks?

The main difference I see between them is time involved. You can complete all 5 daily ‘tasks’ in GW2 in about the same time it would take you to complete some of the individual GW1 daily ‘tasks.’ We still had 3-4 tasks a day though….

I can kill those 50 mobs wherever I want, I don’t need to enter a specific map and go to a specific point to kill a specific mob. That’s the difference.

Astralporing.1957:

kokiman.2364:

Tachenon.5270:

Nebilim.5127:

I want the best loot and i want it now!

I agree. The game shouldn’t be about acquiring gear. It should be about what you’re going to do with that gear.

Sounds pretty much like one of those older FPS games, like CS or Quake.

RPGs are about evolving your character and part of that is improving your equipment.

Bad RPG’s do tend to concentrate on that part. That is usually because they have nothing else to offer.

Because this is what people want. They are not interessted in a character progression, they just want to see their gear getting better.

Meglobob.8620:

Seen WvW guilds recruiting as follows:-

Experienced WvW players only, must have full exotics, full ascended trinkets, must use teamspeak, ping gear…

Only a question of time before full ascended required…

Because gear matters in WvW, those +x points in vitality can make the difference between 10 people rallying or not.

Tachenon.5270:

Nebilim.5127:

I want the best loot and i want it now!

I agree. The game shouldn’t be about acquiring gear. It should be about what you’re going to do with that gear.

Sounds pretty much like one of those older FPS games, like CS or Quake.

RPGs are about evolving your character and part of that is improving your equipment.

Nuka Cola.8520:

kokiman.2364:

Nuka Cola.8520:

kokiman.2364:

Nuka Cola.8520:

kokiman.2364:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Guilds 2? More like Party Chat 2 because that’s all guilds serve you for.

Like in every other MMO?

Like in Farmville.

Never played that, kinda weird that you play it though since you are always complaining about boring grind.

i play farmville 25/24. its my 2nd favorite game after angry birds.

So why do you keep complaining about the “grind” in GW2?

Because i like to complain. I bet that’s exactly what you wanted to hear, didn’t you?

No I just want an honest answer

Nuka Cola.8520:

kokiman.2364:

Nuka Cola.8520:

kokiman.2364:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Guilds 2? More like Party Chat 2 because that’s all guilds serve you for.

Like in every other MMO?

Like in Farmville.

Never played that, kinda weird that you play it though since you are always complaining about boring grind.

i play farmville 25/24. its my 2nd favorite game after angry birds.

So why do you keep complaining about the “grind” in GW2?

Nuka Cola.8520:

kokiman.2364:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Guilds 2? More like Party Chat 2 because that’s all guilds serve you for.

Like in every other MMO?

Like in Farmville.

Never played that, kinda weird that you play it though since you are always complaining about boring grind.

stof.9341:

Knote.2904:

I absolutely loath dailies in any game.

They really need to let you stack up to 7/7 dailies so you can skip some then knock them all out at once, Rift does that with most dailies and it’s fantastic, no pressure of “I NEED TO LOG IN BEFORE 5 PM kitten IT”.

GW1 did that up to 3 days. Obviously since GW1 was an epic fail (that’s what I get from some posters around), they couldn’t copy anything from that or it would taint GW2 :o

The GW1 “dailies” were specific tasks like “Do mission x” or “kill mob x”. You can’t compare those 2 systems.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Guilds 2? More like Party Chat 2 because that’s all guilds serve you for.

Like in every other MMO?

No Walking.6349:

They don’t require ascended accessories now, they won’t require ascended weapons later. So chill.

But people are trying to build up some kind of elitism around clearing dungeons as fast as possible and I am not talking about those coordinated groups that put some time into min-maxing I am talking about people who are playing with pugs.

1.Start the game
2.Play for a while
3.Check daily achievements 4/5
4.Focus on doing the last one

Galtrix.7369:

That’s pretty misleading to a person wanting to buy the game, don’t you think? Logic would say that there must be guild wars in a game called Guild Wars 2.

Half Life – You start with full health MISLEADING
Halo – Your character has no halo MISLEADING
Call of Duty – Everyone insults each other and behaves like a dork MISLEADING

spoj.9672:

Sherlock Holmes is here!

Huh? So is he some kind of class clown?

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Arah path 1 and 4, HotW path 2 and 3, SE path 2, Dredge Fractal.

Those are the longest dungeons in the game.

obal.3218:

Crossplay.2067:

Thank God I had a ridiculous healing spec for my guardian.
- The next 20 minutes has the leader and I taking care of all the dogs, mostly because we have nothing better to do than twiddle our thumbs.

Crossplay.2067:

I have a heal-spec guardian because I want a heal-spec guardian.

http://youtu.be/-sRyEteX1Ag

colesy.8490:

obal, if you read the last paragraph of his latest post you’d see that he’s not interested in playing a good build, he is choosing of his own accord to use bad gear.

And then complaining about his party for being bad.

Mine as well try

No combatlog = useless.

Good idea, I support that!

- dungeons
- getting titles
- getting good looking skins
- helping people
- WvWvW

Throwing 4 Items into the MF is crafting now?