Guild Wars 2

Unique should be enough. I am totally okay with it that the game forces players to read.

I am so sad, that I accidentially deleted all my pictures. Welp, I still have some videos !

Did you also create topics like “halloween jp ISNT fun” or the successful follow up “wintersday jp ISNT fun”

I mean to criticizing something is cool and stuff but what you are doing right now is only saying that is bad.

pullnointer.1476:

Phira.3970:

^ Actually GW2 is more balanced than in GW1. But that shows you that balancing isn’t everything if the basic combat mechanics are boring.

you had more build variety in gw1 tbh…

No

bri.2359:

Southsum is so dead it is not even worth mentioning … If this what we get for end-game, this game is in worse shape than I thought. The only reason to go there was for the rich ori and that is long gone …

What? It is the best place to farm t6 scales and blood.

Vayne.8563:

Fenrir.3609:

Kichwas.7152:

Miss Pink Floyd.9730:

They seem to do the exact opposite of what the players want.

I’ve been reaching the opposite conclusion from you. IMO they are doing what players I know want.

Whack in temporary content and break Orr. Not sure many players would have had that top of their wanted list in all honesty..

Each pillar of the game has major, major fundamental issues at the moment. ANET is doing little to nothing to address these and is instead papering over the cracks with temporary content and shinies. Which in fairness seems to be distracting a few players.

I don’t think Orr was “broken” unintetionally. I think Orr was broken as it was, because people just stayed there all the time and did nothing else. That wasn’t good for the game anyway. It certainly ruined Orr for me when I first got there. I don’t want to be in a mob of a zillion people trying to tag as many things as I can to get event credit. It’s not my scene. And it’s very likely not the scene Anet envisioned.

Anet is making changes to get less people to do these events. If that’s working, Anet has been successful in that attempt.

Orr shouldn’t be the only part of this game people do. By taking away its profitability, Anet is making a positive change in the game over all…even if some people are unhappy with it, and even if some people leave over it.

Yeah you are right, but they still seem to do nothing about the CoF problem :/

Flissy.4093:

Nothing, titles are meaningless.

I used to think DM was a good title, and then they nerfed Simin making any noob able to get it.

Don’t they remind you of the times when you ran through all those dungeons – the sense of accomplishment?! Do you only wear titles to impress?

Theftwind.8976:

You can farm Tier 6 mats from various “heavy Bags” in different maps.

Sell those bags, transform laurels into T6 sell those T6 mats.

Reikou.7068:

The very best definition I’ve come across is

“Casual” is when you’re in for the journey.
“Hardcore” is when you’re in for the destination.

And you could easily change casual with GW2 and Hardcore with generic MMO#12.
(don’t get me wrong I don’t think GW2 is a casual-only game at all)
I love traveling through all the maps again with new characters, not caring about the level or the money I accuire, just enjoying the beautiful enviroment, the spontaneous events and those pretty cool jumping puzzles you stumble upon once in a while.

Wat

Miss Pink Floyd.9730:

Just another example of them ruining their own game. In Shelter/Penitent there are now Champion Wraths that one shot you from across the map. This game used to be fun to play, I find myself playing less and less all the time. They seem to do the exact opposite of what the players want.

Players want to farm Pent/Shelt 24/7? Players want DEs that never fail? Huh? Guess I am not a player ;_;

For me it is : Not playing on a regular basis.

For most of the “casuals” posting here it is : I want everything to be easier and tbh I actually just don’t want to do anything at all but since I paid full price I should have access to everything.

Sonny.1708:

i understand your point, these achievement has been around for a while. The thing i don’t get is why they are not extending Lost and Found like Secret Contact when clearly there was bugs with that achievement. I was guesting on other servers just to try to find those items and still no luck(demoralized at this point). I felt people shouldn’t go through those extreme measures just to get an achievement. There are a few that manage to finish, but not most.

How likely is it that people will do the achievements now if they haven’t done them already?

Sonny.1708:

His post was a great example of sarcasm at play. i might be wrong, but thats how i perceived it.

They should give us the remaining time to finish the Lost and Found achievement too, now that the time is shorter then expected. Sadly i will be ignored, just like most of the people that post on this forum.

For how long has the majority of those achievements been around?

Wethospu.6437:

Combat Healer or Master Carver.

That is a very good explanation.

I use “Flameseeker” on my charr most of the time because he weilds “The Flameseeker Prophecies”.

I refuse to use titles like “God Mere Amongst Mortals” because they don’t fit to my characters

Funset.7893:

With or without mana – it is the same. Resource system like the one thieves have? Maybe a good idea, so every class has its own. But mana, like AION or WoW? Whats the difference with or without? Oh, no, I am out of mana, I need to refile…And? What new to the game does it bring?

Well GW1 handled it pretty well.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

a 1hour buff is the reward for doing all those achievements? O_o

No the 1hour buff is the reward for visiting LA and clicking on a bonfire.

pullnointer.1476:

will a mana system ever be introduced? I feel cooldowns only are inadequate

No, at some point it was in the game but they scraped the idea.

Posting it in the discussion subforum, I guess?

This should be in “Players Helping Players”

First of all what’s the point in leveling fast? Why skipping all the content just to see Orr, Frostgorge and Fireheart Rise over and over again?

The fastest way to level up if you have enough materials would be crafting.

I think casualplayers should learn how to post in the right subforum.

So who is it? Was he mentioned somewhere?

Grounder.7381:

i have bad experiences with korean mmo before..
now that i know gw2 is handled by koreans..
i hope it won’t go the road other korean mmo has gone..
“pay to win”.. getting every new content in to the cash shop and rng gambling..

The funny thing is all the changes in the gemstore came after they hired a non korean woman from nexon.

Huck.1405:

Neural.1824:

Arenanet is going to nerf/restrict this game into the ground. It’s like they don’t want people sending mail at all.

It’s like they don’t want us to do anything except buy their junk at the gem store.

But the problem originates from the community. If people wouldn’t be so careless about their accounts we wouldn’t have so many goldsellers. Without goldsellers we wouldn’t have those mailrestrictions.

Angelus.1042:

kokiman.2364:

Angelus.1042:

Creeper.9360:

there are raids in GW2, just not instanced raids

and they are a joke….

Tons of people mindlessly hitting an HP sponge boss that does 2 or 3 things and dont stand in the red….yet large groups of random people cant even get that right.

Reminds me of WoW raids

This is true….WoW has LFR (Looking for raid) nwhich has turned most raids into casual raiding for people to pretty much pull a “GW2” on the raid bosses…. they dont need to pay attention to mechanincs cause in LFR they dont exist (mostly)…much like GW2 “World Raid” bosses.

However normal mode and heroic mode are still challenging and require a major ammount of communication and coordination…for current content.

So in response to your comment yes it reminds me to of a WOW LFR Casual raid…. but not normal or heroic.

Well I did ICC and up until LK itself it was pretty much a simple “dance” (not talking about HC though)

And what should we discuss now?

Angelus.1042:

Creeper.9360:

there are raids in GW2, just not instanced raids

and they are a joke….

Tons of people mindlessly hitting an HP sponge boss that does 2 or 3 things and dont stand in the red….yet large groups of random people cant even get that right.

Reminds me of WoW raids

John Kemp.2736:

. In GW1 by now id be in top tier gear and Id be playing all end game junk while acquiring skins or actually outfitting alts.

With Pugs? Naw. Why do people make things up just to make a point? This is a complete lie. If you wanted to play with Pugs in GW1 you had to have stuff like max lightbringer or max sunspear or max slayer title. To get this you had to go through an extremely boring grind and those titles didn’t just upgrade your skills you also had to have those titles at a specific rank to be able to buy new armor skins. In GW2 you can do anything with exotic armor even with Pugs

Villious.8530:

I was laying in bed reading this on my iPad. I LOL’d and woke my wife up. It’s your fault!

This was too funny….good one!

PS – Farming…..working as intended :-)

You mean your iPad™ from Apple© ?

learn your cooldowns so you can focus on watching the animations of the boss
learn to post in the right subforum

I am at work right now

Vayne.8563:

kokiman.2364:

Pelagato.6092:

Ascended gear feels like WoW releasing more gear with each expansion and making the old one obsolete…

Where is the GW1 feeling…? Is this game going to take the WoW way and not the GW way

Yeah where is the GW1 feelings? Grinding up titles so your skills become stronger I really miss that!

I remember grinding out luxon points in Guild Wars 1 so I could actually make “Save Yourselves!” useful as a paragon. And grinding Asuran points for technobabble and pain inverter. And grinding sunspear points for necrosis.

Then there were people who with RNG farmed voltaic spears and frog scepters and all sorts of stuff.

How fast people forget.

The necessarity for grind in GW1 was a little bit more subtle I guess. Especially when you look back to prophecies and pvp. Sure you could make yourself a premade with max armor etc but you were still lacking certain stat-combinations like +10 armor vs dmg x, those turned out to be pretty important and the only way you could obtain them was by pure luck.

Pelagato.6092:

Ascended gear feels like WoW releasing more gear with each expansion and making the old one obsolete…

Where is the GW1 feeling…? Is this game going to take the WoW way and not the GW way

Yeah where is the GW1 feelings? Grinding up titles so your skills become stronger I really miss that!

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

Personally I think the problem isn’t RNG but the way RNG is implemented. You feel no progression here in GW2.

example: the item you want (e.g. jetpack) doesn’t drop. You have no idea how long it would take to get the item. No arc of suspense here.
possible alternative: you find random spawning pieces of that item (e.g pieces of the jetpack). Now you see the progression: I have found 6/12 pieces of this item. I can do it!! Only 6 pieces left.

It’s still RNG, but now you have an idea how long it would take you. You get exited with each piece you find.

Yeah, and they should involve crafting into that more.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Well, assuming your statement is true, I’d be more curious as to why other games don’t also ban this.

one player = one set of inputs = one concurrent character.

1 Account = 13$ each month 4 Accounts = 52$ each month

That’s why

RPGs especially MMORPGS can’t exist without RNG it already starts with your weapons DMG – DMG+30 or 15% Critchance etc.

Farzo.8410:

PearlGore.7419:

We had capes in DAoC and it looked great for It’s time and caused no real lag. We have much better CPU’S these days.

Not sure why not besides clipping which already happens, so what?

Just because we already have some clipping issue it doesn’t mean we should add more.

The problem with capes is the Charr. They run on all four, which apparently created huge amount of clipping, and it didn’t look good (according to ArenaNet)

I think the only way to add capes to the game is to set a race limit on them, leaving the Charr out. I don’t know if Charr players would like this.

I, as a charr player, wouldn’t mind. Capes are stupid I am not a superhero I am a warbeast.

Pifil.5193:

Brave Sir Ryan.1240:

I apologize if I missed it; will players be up-leveled for this new content? I’m getting questions already, so thought I’d pass them on to see if we could get an official answer (or a link to one).

Thanks!

It up-levelled everyone during “The Lost Shores” event so I would guess they would do it for this one too. No doubt they will remove the up-levelling again after the event ends.

Yeah because of the free weekend.

There are so many people complaining about it I bet if you all unite in 1 large group you can get any point on any WvW map.

So what should we discuss now?

sword/shield + longbow + undead runes is kinda awesome

I finished my legendary yesterday, I wouldn’t say that there was much grind involved in it just 1 or 2 smart investments.

I make 5000g with crafting and “playing” the tp, do I fit in yet?

stof.9341:

Mestinon.9825:

Israel.7056:

I personally recommend submitting a ticket. The support staff helped me out when I did the same thing.

I did and they said they’re unable to refund any in-game transactions :/

People got replacement items already. Ask again. If enough people waste their customer support time with that stupid feature, maybe they’ll learn and remove the useless Unique thing.

I’d rather see the playerbase working on a patch that improves their reading comprehension.

Mestinon.9825:

So I’ve been saving up guild accommodations to buy my second piece of ascended gear for my guardian. Being a hardcore bunker, I naturally wanted an ascended accessory that was the same stats as the one I already had (defensive PVT). After double clicking the item to equip it, it swapped with the one I already had and realized only one could be equipped at a time. I then proceeded to flip my keyboard off of my desk. 12 guild accommodations and 5 gold (not to mention the time spent to acquire these) thrown out the window… kitten?!

After researching I found out that this is what a “unique” item means. I unfortunately didn’t know what that meant as I’m sure many other players don’t. This is a horrible design break IMO. There should be a sort of short-term sell-back option or something to avoid this, or at least make it more well-known what a “unique” item is.

For the first time, I’m very disappointed in Guild Wars 2

You didn’t know what the word “unique” means?

emikochan.8504:

Because anet hate elementalists.

And casuallssss

Vayne.8563:

kokiman.2364:

nekitten234:

kokiman.2364:

Vayne.8563:

kokiman.2364:

Vayne.8563:

You realize you can set any skill to auto-attack right?

But you are wrong.

Maybe…this is from the wiki…

There are no default attacks in Guild Wars 2. A player can choose to set any skill along the skill bar as the auto-attacking skill (this includes weapon skills, healing skills, utility skills and elite skills), but the player can do so only with one skill at a time. To do this, hold ctrl + right-click on the skill of your choice. This does not work for any attack skills associated with a chain skill.

Still wrong

Umm, no (to the point).

Try setting any aoe attack to auto attack, it won’t work.

Okay. Then I’m partially right too. lol

You said “any” which is wrong. And I think OP is referring to the grenade kit autoattacks which in fact are all aoe attacks.

nekitten234:

kokiman.2364:

Vayne.8563:

kokiman.2364:

Vayne.8563:

You realize you can set any skill to auto-attack right?

But you are wrong.

Maybe…this is from the wiki…

There are no default attacks in Guild Wars 2. A player can choose to set any skill along the skill bar as the auto-attacking skill (this includes weapon skills, healing skills, utility skills and elite skills), but the player can do so only with one skill at a time. To do this, hold ctrl + right-click on the skill of your choice. This does not work for any attack skills associated with a chain skill.

Still wrong

Umm, no (to the point).

Try setting any aoe attack to auto attack, it won’t work.

Vayne.8563:

kokiman.2364:

Vayne.8563:

You realize you can set any skill to auto-attack right?

But you are wrong.

Maybe…this is from the wiki…

There are no default attacks in Guild Wars 2. A player can choose to set any skill along the skill bar as the auto-attacking skill (this includes weapon skills, healing skills, utility skills and elite skills), but the player can do so only with one skill at a time. To do this, hold ctrl + right-click on the skill of your choice. This does not work for any attack skills associated with a chain skill.

Still wrong

Yeah and I think A.Net should give players, who can prove that they are casual, max pvp rank because otherwise they will never reach it even though they paid the full prize for the game (so they should have access to everything in the game)