Guild Wars 2

Depths.4051:

I love the idea, I’d love to use a set of these runes for bosses. Honestly just having these runes would make having a tank in dungeons more viable as you could keep aggro on yourself and away from squishies.

Taunt has nothing to do with aggro management, it doesn’t change who is on the top of the aggro list, once taunt is over the enemy will revert back to attacking whoever is on it’s most wanted list.

Don’t make the same mistake, read, process and understand before making assumptions that have no basis on current game mechanics.

Also, theses runes are a bad idea, there is already a trait that increases taunt duration on the professions that actually have access to it.

- Legend swapping feels delayed, maybe because of the overly cute animations, needs to be quite a bit more responsive.

- Full zerker build felt extremely weak, maybe because the DPS line and legend is still missing…..either way it needs a major buff.

- Legend swap animation above your head, can it be seen by enemy players ? if yes, please remove. it gives away part of strategy…

- Skill 5 on staff, if I have an enemy targeted it should go towards my target’s direction instead of the way I’m facing.

- Staff 4, should be a blast finisher.

- Forced engagement, needs a more visible tell other than pointing at target !

- Ventari’s tablet needs friendly AOE markers to identify area affected.

- Protective solace, should drain an additional chunk of energy for each projectile it destroys, on top of it’s upkeep cost.

- Right of the great dwarf, 5 second duration on an elite skill ?? I know it is powerful but man is it short.

This was a reason for me to not play revenant to much this weekend.
I’ve never had a precursor drop EVER and if it were to drop for me on a beta character from a mob kill or some other legitimate means other than the mystic toilet I would quit the game right at that moment !!!

also, thief has skills that grant him initiative besides the natural regen..

revenant doesn’t have these !

so yes, either remove energy cost from skills or introduce traits that grant energy back.

Dual sword wielding assassin power based DPS spec legend ?

Yes please !

Especially after playing revenant today, it felt so weak…..

My vote for Shiro.

sword/dagger NO !
sword/sword YES !

Every dungeon is easy once you learn the mechanics involved…..

Even in GW2, at launch so many people complained about:

- How hard dungeons were and how punishing the repair costs were…….
- It felt unrewarding to run dungeons when dying took away 50% of the reward at the end.

Not taking into consideration they didn’t know jack about builds and such yet, a.net caved, nerved dungeons and buffed rewards more than once to appease the masses….

The result, is what we have now:

- Easy boring dungeons in general…..
- Trivialized exotic gear….
- No fear of dying since there is no monetary punishment for dying again and again.

Moral of the story….

be careful what you ask for !

Dungeons were fine, people didn’t learn the game before asking for [censored] nerfs.

Now dungeons are ruined as an end game activity.

Both !

Though, I do agree that he went a bit crazy on some of those gambits….!

Seera.5916:

latinkuro.7304:

Farzo.8410:

Guild Wars 2 raiding should be like guild jumping puzzles but on steroids, and even more stuff, and new mechanics, and fights that require more than berserker – puzzle solving, coordination, and set rewards for that dungeon only that drops from chests or bosses themselves.

OMFG !!!

I hope you’re not serious about this [censored] idea !
Also, you people really do not read, see the part about requiring damage, control, support !!!

This generation is doomed if all you do is skip read !

And maybe he was offering a counter idea to yours? That instead of raids like you’re suggesting, ANet should do raids like he suggests.

I don’t see why ANet can’t do both types. Combat oriented raids and Guild Puzzle type raids.

I was talking about the ludicrous idea of raid style jumping puzzles !

Combat oriented raid guild puzzles is a good idea, that other thing not so much :S

Farzo.8410:

Guild Wars 2 raiding should be like guild jumping puzzles but on steroids, and even more stuff, and new mechanics, and fights that require more than berserker – puzzle solving, coordination, and set rewards for that dungeon only that drops from chests or bosses themselves.

OMFG !!!

I hope you’re not serious about this [censored] idea !
Also, you people really do not read, see the part about requiring damage, control, support !!!

This generation is doomed if all you do is skip read !

TheDaiBish.9735:

MashMash.1645:

Ewwww. No raids please. Hours and hours of grind, to maybe get a chance at a piece of loot, that takes years to get a full set. Yuck. Other games exist if you want that. I really hope they never, ever add raiding.

You seem to be confusing the content system with the reward system.

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I disagree with:

• Raid Shards – there’s already a death penalty system in place where someone who downs too often will end up dead. This coupled with a well-designed encounter mechanics negates the need to artificially limit rezzing.
• Raid attunement – I don’t see the harm in letting players switch characters. A well-designed encounter should be the obstacle, not an artificial barrier.

You make good points, let me explain my reasoning as to why these are needed.

• Raid shards: reviving someone over and over is not skillful play, in the current system even if someone is fully dead they can be revived by burst revival (many players at the same time) in a raid environment of say 150 players this is easily accomplished regardless or mechanics. raid shards would put an unbreakable barrier and would stress keeping yourself alive, promoting more skillful play and knowing the encounters better. The decision to revive someone would be an intense one, do I revive this mediocre player or do I save my last shard for someone that truly deserves it ?

• Raid attunement: This is to prevent what happens already in fractals where some of the mechanics at certain places are negated by simply swapping to the class that is better equipped to deal with whatever mechanic is in place, than swapping back to whatever you were playing. To me this is something that should be thought of before entering "hey we gonna need X class at X point to deal with X mechanic we better bring some of them along, instead of the usual " crap, X class would get us through here in seconds, ok let me swap to it brb"

MashMash.1645:

Ewwww. No raids please. Hours and hours of grind, to maybe get a chance at a piece of loot, that takes years to get a full set. Yuck. Other games exist if you want that. I really hope they never, ever add raiding.

Your notion of what Raiding is makes me sick !
Where did I write any of what you said ?

And if you haven’t noticed gw2 does have it’s own kind of raiding already, it just needs to be expanded, namely evolved wurm and teq 2.0 are raids get with the program !

look at my part about reward structure before answering and looking like a [censored]

I’m not good at detailing things meticulously so here it goes.

• Need to be map wide yet still instanced. (guild hall guild portal maybe)
• Need to keep the organizational aspect of it, just like evolved wurm.
• Kill coordination has to remain a thing, think about evolved wurm.
• Need to make sure all three major types of builds are required, damage, support, control.
  - Support attrition fights, where a certain amount of healing/condi cleanse spec players are needed.
  - Damage attrition fights, where a certain amount of both direct dmg and condi dmg is required.
  - Control attrition fights, where a certain amount of control spec players are needed to ensure success.

• Bosses need less one hit kill shots, faster attack speed at lower dmg levels.
• Bosses should never be alone, dangerous wave spawning should be a thing, to keep players from just blobbing onto the boss. Ignoring these waves should be lethal !
• Completion time for the whole raid from start to finish 2.5 hours, with phase reward point bosses at around every 30 minutes or so.
• Each phase is more difficult and challenging than the previous one.
• Proper death penalty should be a thing in raids.
• Reviving in Raids should be limited and require “raid shards” each player can only carry X amount of “raid shards” with him, once those are used up you cannot revive anyone.

EDIT: Thanks to Seera.5916

• Raid shards: Upon entering you receive X amount of raid shards, this is how many times you can be revived, once depleted you cannot be revived again, the only way for you to comeback to live would be a full wipe, but your shards would not be replenished, meaning if you die that is it till the next wipe.

EDIT2:

• Full wipes: Full wipe counter, you are permited X amount of full team wipes per raid session, after this limit is reached catastrophic failure occurs, all players die and are booted from the instance.

• Raid attunement, is instant upon reaching the entrance of the raid but…. only one of your characters can be attuned for a certain raid at a time, once attuned this ability has a 1 hour cooldown, this attunement is require to enter the raid instance, this prevents class and character swapping !

I cannot stress this point enough ! This is why dungeons are a joke now, no one monitors them.

• Raids need to be monitored constantly by a.net Raid team, if something is being cleared to easily or certain exploit style tactics are being used things need to be adjusted in order to keep it challenging.
• Phase reward structure similar to teq 2.0 tiers, you clear phase one you get phase one reward at the end. Not the actual rewards those suck big time.

I’m divided on the reward structure myself since I believe failure should NOT be rewarded.

Buzzing bees and karka mini’s all over the place wherever I go :S
These items may be expensive but man are they annoying !

I find myself muting the entire game because of these items/ mini pet sounds
preventing me from enjoying the beautiful soundtracks the game has to offer.

I would be eternally grateful if you provide me with a slider to mute those annoying mini pet sounds, specially the mini karka’s annoying chirping and grinding.

You did it for the musical instruments, and I have never been more grateful.
Now, please do it again for these annoying sounds please I beg of you.

EDIT:

put the fossilized queen bee annoying sounds into that slider as well, that one is even MORE annoying !

Basandra Skye.4031:

The only thing worth commenting at the moment is that no, you dont speak for the silent minority.

I agree with the above sentiment, and also………….

You speak of explore mode dungeons, teq and evolve wurm….

These are the only pieces of content besides fractals that actually require some measure of skill in the ENTIRE game….

How about you casually enjoy the other 98% of the game which is totally casual friendly, and leave these to those that want something a bit more difficult (for lack of a better word) since these are not considered challenging content whatsoever, just mildly more difficult.

You receive all digital items right away.

contact support.

nir.3706:

instead of adding character slot they should of added 800 gems to all editions…

Man you post this [censored] everywhere, you sound like a broken sad record !

Aidenwolf.5964:

latinkuro.7304:

Great post OP, also you didn’t mention…..

All the unobtainable skins, recipes and items that can no longer be acquired by new accounts is part of the privilege launch time veterans have, how awesome is it to equip an item you know is coveted by many but no matter what they do they will never ever be able to own it.

That right there is what you got plus all the free content updates and feature packs no one seems to remember when talking about value for your money…….

How convenient it is to have selective memory eh……

You conveniently left out that we paid for the game.

The B in B2P stands for Buy.

I paid, I received what I paid for.

Objection your honor, you paid for the base game, enjoyed it for 2000 hours, than got tons of updates and tons of content for FREE…….

Sustained !

Great post OP, also you didn’t mention…..

All the unobtainable skins, recipes and items that can no longer be acquired by new accounts is part of the privilege launch time veterans have, how awesome is it to equip an item you know is coveted by many but no matter what they do they will never ever be able to own it.

That right there is what you got plus all the free content updates and feature packs no one seems to remember when talking about value for your money…….

How convenient it is to have selective memory eh……

Khristophoros.7194:

A character slot should be included with HoT even if people buy it after it comes out.
The character slot is required to make HoT fully functional.

Oh my freaking God !!!

This community is going down the rabbit hole so fast……….

You don’t like it don’t prepurchase ! but you know you’re gonna prepurchase anyway, so you’re being sarcastic !!!!

I bought a new slot the moment HoT was announced and made a place holder character just to reserve the name for my revenant, it was my choice and mine alone…..

I will be getting the ultimate edition of HoT at the end of the week as well, I already have 9 slots, HoT will give me 2 more…..

You don’t hear me whining about having to many character slots !

Entitled much ?

Seriously now, you people just whine and whine and no matter what a.net does there is always some [censored] that feels what they did it’s not good enough.

Ugh, disgusting utterly disgusting.

/rant off.

Man, people will always find something to complain about………
SERIOUSLY !!!

xan.5472:

U can have : Stronghold, specialization, guilds halls, new WvW Map.

U can’t go in maguuma jungle, have elite specialization (1 new weapon for each profession) and play revenant if u don’t buy it.

- Guild halls are physically in the maguuma jungle, so you will need HoT to access them.
- Elite specializations also require HoT, core specs do not.

this is by far the most reasonable and level headed suggestion I’ve seen so far kudos to you sir.

I don’t need that extra slot but it would be nice indeed to have it, that way I can make 2 revenants one for pve and one for wvw

Also,

People forget you CAN just trade in gold for gems and get that so highly contested char slot……….!

my main account cannot press buy in the BLTC for xpack but……
my alt accounts can WTF a.net really ! come on now ! what gives…..

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.

this should probably be a sticky with a much fleshed out notification about what it is.
it would’ve saved you and the community a lot of grief.

lol keep dreaming !

you want it buy it for real cash and support the game !
ingame xpack buying ? please don’t make me laugh.

DarkReign.4503:

Lol surprised people just bend over and say charge me more cause you gave us free content for a B2P game. So you can charge us full price of a game for an expansion, this is why things get so expensive now for so little and DLC is running rampant.

tell that to blizzard where you pay a sub under the pretense of “it’s for future content”, yet whenever an xpack comes out you have to pay 60 or more for it.

that is deceitful, 50 dollars for a xpack to a b2p game that has given me 3 years of joy is nothing in my opinion.

All those crying and whining, go play wow or any other cash grab [censored] game out there and open your eyes.

Khristophoros.7194:

I am willing to pay $19.99 for an account upgrade that has the HoT content and includes a character slot. I am not interested in your products if you’re trying to scam me.

this is the kind of people that really makes me angry, blizzard has been robbing people for years…..

yet, you don’t wanna pay for a game that is b2p with NO sub !!!

Man, I hope the door hits you on your way out, really hard.

Celtic Lady.3729:

Most of the playerbase won’t pay for the game they already have a second time, so…

hahhahahahaha LOL

I have 3 copies of the game already…..

I just don’t wanna apply my HoT serial to a new account, that doesn’t mean I don’t want the new base game account LOL.

I want 2 serials one for the base game and one for the Xpack…..

I’m not whining about price, I’m not whining about anything else but the fact it is one single serial code…….

cheapskates stay out of here……

I don’t care about the price man, the price is right for a b2p mmo !
I’m asking about a legitimate concern for launch day game owners here, you cheapskates can yell all you want, but gw2 is not robbing you of your money that is Blizzard’s game !!!

It says expansion includes base game, I hope this means I get two separate serials since I already have the base game……

And would not want to be forced to register my HoT serial on a new core game.

EDIT 1:

I don’t care about the price man, the price is right for a b2p mmo !
I’m asking about a legitimate concern for launch day game owners here, you cheapskates can yell all you want, but gw2 is not robbing you of your money that is Blizzard’s game !!!

EDIT 2:

I just don’t wanna apply my HoT serial to a new account, that doesn’t mean I don’t want the new base game account LOL.
I want 2 serials one for the base game and one for the Xpack…..
I’m not whining about price, I’m not whining about anything else but the fact it is one single serial code…….
cheapskates stay out of here……

Clarification please.

Thank you.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Faux.1937:

Nope I dont think it is moving that way, GW2 ALWAYS had support builds/rolls.

The game getting harder (maybe) doesnt mean it is still needed, Aegis/blinds/walls for 90% all fights will still be used.

Blinds/Protection boon/Walls/Aegis/Time warp ARE the Support sets for PVE Wvw/pvp is a different monster, but for PvE in order to NOT be forced into a Holy Trinity anet will keep it about the same, better AI and Mechanics doesnt me Trinity.

Those aren’t builds or roles, what you described is utilities. Every full zerker DPS can use blinds/prot/walls/aegis/time warp, there is no build or role required. Those are full dps characters who have the right utilities.

A healing rev will have to spec for healing and wear healing power gear in order to do enough healing for the entire party, that is a role. Currently nothing like that exists, everyone can run full zerker gear and still provide the exact same utility as someone in full nomads gear.

Hopefully we’ll see a similar role develop for tanks where they get a build that gives them tons of taunt and prot and they will benefit from full soliders or nomads gear.

what you described is also WRONG !

those are the traditional style trinity roles which are tied to stats and all that.
utilities ARE part of your build in gw2 it is THE reason zerkers can bring meaningful support…..

This also points to yet another thing trinity lovers do that ticks me off !
trying to implement those trinity style ideas to a game that is vastly different.
if you don’t like how a.net implemented support and you wanna play a trinity style role system go play a trinity based game there problem solved.

I for one like the ideas implemented though they are not perfect they are to me far better than the yee old stuffy trinity roles of getting stuck on one role you either do dps, tank or heal. what a boring crap.

Faux.1937:

Nope I dont think it is moving that way, GW2 ALWAYS had support builds/rolls.

The game getting harder (maybe) doesnt mean it is still needed, Aegis/blinds/walls for 90% all fights will still be used.

Blinds/Protection boon/Walls/Aegis/Time warp ARE the Support sets for PVE Wvw/pvp is a different monster, but for PvE in order to NOT be forced into a Holy Trinity anet will keep it about the same, better AI and Mechanics doesnt me Trinity.

I wish more people would understand this ^^ and stop asking for holy trinity, but that would require them to be open minded and forward thinking towards the future instead of being stuck in the past. But, noooooo that would make to much sense for them I guess.

it has been stated so many times in the past 3 years…..

gw2 does have support roles and really good ones, just NOT the kind the trinity loving crowd wants and those just would ruin the game, so stop asking for them, please for the love of Tyria……

In my opinion what would make healers desirable but not mandatory would be something very simple like this:

• Out of combat health regeneration only starts after X minutes in open world PVE.
• Out of combat health regeneration doesn’t exist inside instances and dungeons at all.

These small changes would in my opinion promote healing while not specifically making it mandatory.

Just my 2 cents on the issue.

hobotnicax.7918:

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind it. Now all we need is content where it will be required to use one (except WvW to an extent), maybe the AI rework will change things in dungeons and events so a healer will be important. We’ll see.

They need to be careful not to turn gw2 into the old curse other games have, the yee old dreaded "LF healer & LF tank posts in LFG systems.

It should be viable but not required !

Man, the people screaming for trinity to be implemented are gonna ruin this [censored] awesome game.

If you miss the [censored] trinity so much, go play one of the million and one other pieces of [censored] mmorpg’s out there that have it.

I’m tired of saying this over the years !!!

ZudetGambeous.9573:

They are essentially starting to add the trinity. You have a Ventari healing spec, a Jalis tank spec, and the other 8 professions for DPS.

Hopefully they tailor the other professions to more trinity roles with future specializations so every group isn’t forced to have two revenants.

They need to be careful how they add trinity style mechanics without introducing a full blown mandatory tank/healer/dps style of gameplay.

if that happens I would be sadly saying goodbye to gw2 as will many many others that enjoy the current systems.

Valdur.3607:

Automaton.4926:

Haha are you people actually having a cry over a test? Apparently nothing to good enough for you people! If you hate the way Anet runs their game kittening leave. just go. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. I find it crazy that idiots get worked up over something so trivial.

Indeed,quite a drama over such little things

Imho,

It is not the individual little things that get to people as they are easily dismissed or overlooked.

The real problem is the accumulation of a lot of little things which add up to a rather larger more concerning issue.

Think about water droplets individually they do nothing but let them drop inside a glass for some time and they quickly accumulate and cause a spill, leave it still going and at some point you will have a flood problem.

Ephemiel.5694:

“Dyeing” weapons would really make no sense.

Makes total sense especially since it was possible in the 1st game.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Dye

gw2 is a lot more cosmetic based than gw1 was so it makes total sense to allow weapon dyeing.

Devildoc.6721:

Before people farm for hours and hours on end for portals, you should have told people the test was going to be a grand total of 6 hours, split into 2 hour blocks.

People would have had a lot less frustration in farming had they known it really wasn’t going to be worth the effort.

I agree, had I known this I wouldn’t have spent countless hours farming a whole week for something that ultimately didn’t drop and made me hate gw2 RNG based loot system quite a bit more than the usual, oh X item didn’t drop oh well move on.

Before this portal fiasco I used to hate RNG moderately, now I hate it’s guts with a passion.

khani.4786:

You can get Onyx lodestones from Earth Elementals, Dust Mites (who also drop charged lodestones) and I’ve never had a problem getting them. Dust Mites seem to drop onyx more often than charged (which is what I want).

Farm Dry Top or the Silverwastes and you’ll have no issues getting lodestones and/or cores to upgrade to lodestones.

This method is completely reliant of [censored] RNG.

I would rather see lodestones added to something along the lines of the map rewards they talked about for T6 material acquisition.

Yeah, I hate[ censored] RNG, that probably should be part of my signature !

Bristingr.5034:

Jeezus. $50 USD!? Is this a stand-alone game or an expansion??? I was expecting $30, 40 tops…

I would buy it even if it was $60 or even more !

Here you are flabbergasting about the price of an expansion for a mmo game that has NO SUB when the unnamed devil of mmo’s charges you $60 plus THE SUB and no one ever complains !!!

That to me is more outrageous than any price a.net could place on their expansion.

It will be an interview with the designers of New LA.
Everyone hoping for some HoT juice will be sorely disappointed.

This is a.net we talking about here, don’t forget that.

I sincerely hope NOT
Keep the UI clean, beautiful and unified a.net.

By the same measure of statistics you claim the system is working as intended.
It is also showing that it is NOT and something is off.

You are just content ignoring what is staring you in the face.

Ok, so it is working as intended right ! [it’s not but let’s assume it is]

Let’s swap beta portal for the word precursor and now tell me the RNG system is working as intended !!!

I’m not here saying I want my beta portal or precursor, I farmed for it and didn’t drop that’s fine.

My point is:

If I was a DEV and one of my most precious items with some of the lowest drop rates in the game was being dropped to the same players 8 times. I would revisit my code cause there is most likely an elephant size bug hiding inside it.

Would I tell the player base ? prob not !
damage control right there just by saying nothing.

lordkrall.7241:

In fact this was probably the safest way to do it, because coding something that shuts off the drop after you got it the first time could lead to very dangerous bugs.

oh you mean like what is happening now with people getting as many as 8 portals ! (sarcasm)

Sure, some may say it doesn’t affect anyone else, (sarcasm they prob already have their portal)

But all this [censored] aside my point is this:

A very minuscule percentage of people getting 8 copies of an item so many are after with such a low probability of dropping seems to indicate a very LARGE issue with a.net RNG systems.

Now come and tell me it is working as intended !!!

Just playing devil’s advocate here, but what if they DID make a boo boo with the code that suppose to make sure people only got 1 portal, and instead what the code does is keep giving them portal after portal ?

what I don’t like is that they look exactly the same.
Hope it is placeholder art, since it would be impossible to know at a glance which class is using tether between revenant and dragon hunter.

yes, i know i could look at the condition being applied on target to identify it, but i believe they should be unique enough to identify them just by looking at them.

I think you mean digital pre-purchase though.
pre-ordering is for subscription games.

And rest assured there will be a pre-purchase for HoT since there was one for the launch of the game itself.

if you fully died while in a big fight, you should WP and run back.
if you’re down you can and should be rezzed.

this let’s change blah blah mentality is just you being lazy !
get off your behind and WP already !