Guild Wars 2

lordhelmos.7623:

1.) It’s too kitten hard
If you want hard content, go play the raids or high level fractals.

No. I’ll answer you with the similar proposal: If you want easier content, go play in any other region. Finally player needs to pay attention and can’t faceroll everything. And this is coming from a casual player with limited time, you mentioned.

I would like Irenio to come here and state if there are plans for function gyro/elite spec mechanics rework. Not considerations, not possibility, not “nothing’s off the table”, I want him to confirm if he’s planning to work on it or is working on it or not. Please Irenio, be honest with us.

IMO Zhaitan looked much more threatening and epic. I know, this was only its avatar, but still – it looked like fat ugly dinosaur kid. The fight was great though.

This whole story felt much different than the original one. It was smaller scale, more personal. And the fight also. And that’s not a bad thing, just the idea of an army fighting a dragon feels much more epic to me than our hero battling an avatar of a dragon.

BarronTV.4632:

i don’t like how it floats around with me while being useless. I haven’t used it at all yet and having it on my shoulder is just starting to annoy me.

Maybe it’s a precursor for a real function gyro and we need to teach it first what it needs to do

• function gyro in open world pve doesn’t offer anything, it’s a cosmetic flair next to my main’s shoulder – definitely needs more functionality or reworking the elite spec

• gyros are still slow, IMO it would be better for them movement wise to be like inactive function gyro – a flair sticking close to the player, not using ai for movement

• also please make them either decay or have hp, not both, this makes them even more gimmicky

• hammer is great

• traits are fine

Thank you Gaile!

This is Face Off from Audiomachine.

Concerning copyright, I am careful with it, but I’ve learnt that because I don’t monetize my videos, those companies that own the rights, monetize my video for themselves and don’t mind it’s on youtube, hell, it brings them few bucks.

The thing is, I do videos as a hobby, not to earn money and I’m completely ok with that and glad that they’re not deleted but earn their music’s creators few more dollars. I started doing them because nobody bothered using such great music because they couldn’t make money of it.

I understand your concern though. I hope there was no trouble

EDIT: just checked youtube music library, it’s as I said: the music creator just monetizes my video

I was thinking about how could the Helloween story progress and I came upon the story of how Oswald Thorn killed his brother Ewan.

What if something would change Ewan in the Mists and brought him back from the dead? He would definitely seek revenge on Mad King. This could be very interesting plot. So I created a trailer for it

https://youtu.be/lOcRcpuRcJ0

Enjoy!

Irenio, first of all thank you very much for this post. I’m really curious about the changes to gyro survivability now.

Concerning no elite mechanic change, I understand that. The remaining time before the release will be focused on bugs and tweaks and that’s ok.

I would still like to ask you one thing: Could you please explain if you think that the changes to elite mechanic like for example the one that Chaith proposed, are realistic, or do you not find such big rework realistic to be done and there will be more like minor changes? Function gyro needs some functionality for PvE and I’m curious what you’ll do about it

Ah Irenio, I expected much better from you.

We will see the changes according to our feedback on 23rd? That’s it? Come on man, you can do better. All other classes had big lists of changes and tweaks. We can’t even provide feedback because Scrapper and Druid have to wait until 23rd. Why?

I guess I was naive, when I expected more than “bit more snappy gyros”. Scrapper still has an elite mechanic that’s almost useless in PVE. IMHO I wouldn’t even call one gimmicky skill the elite mechanic. Why even give the engi a new name when his playstyle is changed only with a weapon. It is a hammer engi, no need to call him scrapper.

The only thing that remains is the hope that the next spec will actually change our playstyle. But wait, I won’t be able to use the hammer with it because it’s bound to the Scrapper spec. Now I have an almost useless already account bound Juggernaut legendary in my bank. Yay.

This is a salty post, I admit it. Oh well.

lorddarkflare.9186:

If we are being honest, the entire fuel idea is a pretty kitten boring mechanic. Not just your implementation, most of the other we have seen as well.

At least flavor-wise.

I would prefer to see something much more outwardly spectacular.

Still better than what we have now – a gimmicky skill that depends on bad AI

I agree that it’s too late for rework, but let’s discuss anyway.

How about a fuel bar that charges in combat. It would deplete partially on utility use and that utility would get a lower cooldown based on how much fuel you had. It would be divided in 3 parts: 1 part would mean 10% cd reduction, 2 – 20% and 3 – 35%. Using one utility would cost 50% of the whole bar and give that utility a lower cd based on how many fuel bars you had while activating it.

Let’s be realistic. It’s only 17 days until launch. No way will they create now a new viable mechanics so close to release. Ah well, fingers crossed for next spec… :/

How about that we would get a “gyroswap” as an elite mechanics? It would be accessible only with enough fuel that we would acquire by attacking. It would replace utilities with gyros for some time. Fuel would deplete in time and by using the gyros.

With the second beta weekend I just had to make another one. The map is just amazing.

https://youtu.be/olWIzFR9-AM

I hope you’ll like it

Such a beautiful map and yet it doesn’t have vistas. What a shame. Because of this I’ve decided to create my own vista video showcasing this wonderful map:

https://youtu.be/xzbvg3IJcgU

Enjoy!

There was a big discussion on reddit some time ago, where a dev responded. (don’t have link)

Basically, what he said was that new directx implementation wouldn’t help GW2 and the performance much. The game is based on a 10 year old engine. For the performance to be improved and newer directx to be effective, they would have to redo the engine in order to support 64bit and better performance in general.

When I see how busy they are with HoT content, I don’t see this coming with it. I wouldn’t get my hopes up. :/

I also agree that we need a new engine not for better graphics but for good performance. An engine that would support 64bit and better directx. Don’t get me wrong, I think that game looks gorgeous (and shader injectors make it look even better) however even the high end PCs aren’t able to run it at stable fps with high/ultra settings. Even the high end systems have problems with fps in wvw or while boss battles.

The thing is that this would require A LOT of work and I don’t think that Anet has the resources for it now. And that saddens me.

What happens when you put together OK Go and Guild Wars 2? A tribute to Orr!

https://youtu.be/nY0c5MvkTik

Enjoy!

I love the dwarfs but I have to admit that I don’t want them as a playable race in GW2. I like that GW2 doesn’t have the traditional fantasy races such as orcs, dwarfs (well, not anymore, except for Ogden) or Elves.

Just a question: Why do you rush?

Hey guys!

I’m sure that I’m not the only one that can’t wait for GTA V PC release. I love GW2, so I tried to merge these two games and so I present you: GTA V trailer remade with GW2 footage!

MashMash.1645:

GemFX ftw!

I agree, I use it, but it still has limits

Adrift.8596:

Time to acknowledge the problem which puts engineer class at the bottom of played classes and promise to fix it.

Actually Anet has acknowledged the problem 1,5 years ago. Gaile has promised us to update us when there will be something new few months ago. So either there is nothing new about it or they are keeping these news for the engi specialization blog (my wishful thinking)

Merging the previous thread with the existing one and not answering is also a response. Let’s wait until the engi specialization will be presented, this is the only real possibility for an answer now.

Merged with no response. :/ My only hope now is the engi specialization blogpost.

Brother Grimm.5176:

I seriously doubt Colin used the term “fixed” (quote and prove me wrong). Again, consistent exaggeration of facts and what this issue is really about does nothing but make the issue something to be joked about. I’ll leave you to your pitchforks and torches over this game breaking bug…..

ColinJohanson.2394:
„It’s something we’re absolutely aware of and want to address in the future, one of my main characters is an engineer so I feel ya on this one. My poor quaggan backpack is visible like 2% of the time I play as I kit swap, never mind my weapon skins…“

Is this enough for you? More than a year ago, he said that they want to address it. No it’s not “fixed”. Yes, it means the same. Synonyms, eh? If you want to play with words, than go to school. Also, noone claims it to be game breaking. Issue doesn’t have to be game breaking to be an issue. And again, the only one, who makes fun of it here, is you. Please, if you want to discuss, then discuss, don’t just make fun of us that are passionate about this issue. Or keep laughing and trolling, whatever makes you happy.

Not completely off topic, but I would like the nights ingame to be dark :P

I use my mightstacking flamethrower engi build. Great survivability and damage.

I just made a blog post about this problem compiling a lot of suggestions together How can Anet remove engi hobosacks?

Brother Grimm.5176:

Ok….if you are going to start flinging around terms like “cosmetically handicapped…” you have no hope of anyone ever taking you seriously….some Dev just fell out of his chair laughing…..

I get wanting the ugly things changed, but making up PC terms and acting like it’s akin to beating kittens with a golf club is a bit much….

If you’d research a bit about this, you’d know that even Colin has agreed that this should be fixed and has promised a fix for this, he just didn’t give us ETA. And I don’t care if you take it or me seriously, you don’t take this whole thread seriously. I just don’t understand why you keep posting here. We get it, you don’t think that this is an issue. You can focus on another threads now.

OP: Why do you think that this will be the only design?

• Tail/Ear/Horn clipping fixes
• Hobosacks removed
• Buy/consume all

Edit: I’m not sure, if these things can be the “little things”

Brother Grimm.5176:

Use of the term, “fix” implies it’s broken…

It is an issue for engineer community that cosmetically handicaps the players that play engi. Hobosacks cover the backpacks and legendary auras. This may be taken as a cosmetic disadvantage for engis. And issues can be FIXED. So the term “fix” is still valid for this situation

Gaaroth.2567:

Holy skritt you were there and didnt ask! Shame on yoi!

I wanted to ask specifically Colin about this, but he wasn’t there, so I didn’t bother :/

OP you must be kidding…

Charr for kittenery and Asura for animations

Ugh, I am angry at myself for being at Rezzed and not asking Gaile about this :/

JediYoda.1275:

It was confirmed that expansion will not get any dx 10,11,12 update so no need to buy a new video card. Source: video from press even at Anet office within the past couple weeks . Of course things are always subject to change between now and then.

edit found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2dBqAw7C3U at 7min 25 sec

He just said that you don’t need to upgrade your HW, the dx10+ could still be possible

Please ask them about Directx11/12 in HoT and if the engineer hobosacs issue will be finally solved in HoT

Well, it’s not a dragon, it’s a wyvern

It seems to me like an interesting fight, but I agree that moving on the ground would make it much more dynamic. You know what? Let’s wait until the expansion releases and we’ll see if all fights are like that. This is supposed to be one of the easier fights anyway.

Removing them may be too much but I think that their relationship is pushed much more than desired into the story. Personally I am more interested in Mordremoth and saving Tyria than listening about their relationship. But that’s just me and I am sure that the devs will make a very interesting story for HoT

Nice video, good choice of music, however I think that this topic belongs to the Community Creations forum section, not here

Hey guys!
Some time ago, Bobby Stein suggested out of fun that I can use his band’s songs in my videos. He didn’t expect that I’ll actually take it seriously, it took me a lot of time to make it and now I can finally present you the music video for Boss Jim Gettys’ song With a Smile!

Here it is: http://youtu.be/4OKZlvuy6Z8

I hope that you’ll like it

Tenacious D have already created the perfect name for the new specialization: Master Exploder

I got this idea a long time ago since Rytlock’s disappearance into the Mists. I felt that the original trailer for the Dark Knight suits the situation our heroes are in. Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/tS98rvCnJmk

Lady Minuit.3186:

What’s the name you have for him?

Groot Bark

Well… nothing more needs to be said

If the hobosack won’t be “fixed” in HoT, it won’t make me leave. But it may make me play another class… I don’t want to do that but I have 3 engineers, I love this class, I just want to be able to see my back items and legendaries all the time.

It would be nice to get an update on this and if it will be “fixed” in HoT. Gaile, Colin, anyone?

I would actually like it if they would give us separate options for choosing scars and eyes (eye types, not color or squint), make the eye type not bound to one face, as it is now. Maybe also some subtle beards for Asura?This would bring a lot of new customization.