Guild Wars 2

raptor.1064:

gw1 managed to release full expansions of real actual content with box sales alone, why can’t this game?

GW1 had an in-game store as well, and another thing to keep in mind is that all of those “expansion” (Only one real expansion) were behind a pay-wall.

There is also a massive difference between the teams working on the games in terms of sheer numbers, they currently have 300+ working on GW2 while back during GW1 they never had more than 100 as far as I remember.

The server structure of the two games are also completely different, and this one most likely requires quite a bit more money to keep running than GW1 ever did.

Obsidian Sanctum is unique and much harder than the others.

Emerald, Sapphire and Garnet Sanctum are all identical, but on different borders (Emerald in Green border, Sapphire in Blue and Garnet in Red).

haviz.1340:

Maybe because it is easier, they reduced scaling of mobs. Food for the thought.

I am not saying that it isn’t.
I am just wondering aloud if you would have admitted that it was actually harder if that had been the case

They are supposed to be rare, seeing as they want you to buy them in the store.
And there isn’t actually anything at all in the chests that you would need so I don’t really see a reason to increase the drop-rate.

I am aware of that.
But claiming that PvE have nothing to do in WvW is quite silly, seeing as there have been PvE as a part of WvW since release.

And people HAVE been shouting about getting access to living world stuff in WvW, so this simply shows that no matter what they do there will always be people that don’t like it.

Leeto.1570:

Armor skins isnt only thing on gem shop, provide more services. Ofcourse nothing will earn them as much as selling only reward there is in this game aka looks, but still.

No, they are not the only things in the gem-store. But based on the amount of them added I would say it is a safe bet that they make up a rather large amount of the sales.

We have gotten skins in the game (with most of the updates no less) as well, but people seems to overlook that.

Yes, it is so that they can add higher level Fractals in the future without having to remake the system.
There is after all a limited number of slots that could hold infusions, when those were filled it would be impossible to gain any more AR if they didn’t add a system like this with “limitless” AR infusions.

And how do you suggest they earn money if they are giving everything for free in the game?

Well there actually are NPCs in the game that DO refer to them as Mole-people IIRC. But I am assuming that is more to do with comical addition than actual serious lore.

Leeto.1570:

No their selling gem store gear in gem store ofcourse.

In your original post you said: “but seriously selling dungeon gear on gem store is lame.” which would imply that there are dungeon gear on the gem store, thus my question.

Inuriel.7643:

i dont like the changes either … i hate this exponential development … like they did with the magic find and especially now that it is “endless” … i mean to craft an +20 infusion you need at least 7000g, thats just crazy

And what would you need that +20 infusion for?
At this time the highest total AR you can benefit from is 55 I believe, which can be achieved quite easily without having a +20 infusion.

You do know that it is actually much EASIER to get Agony Resist now than it was before the update, right?

Are they selling dungeon gear in the store now?
Must have missed that. Feel free to link said dungeon armor being sold, otherwise people are just going to assume you are making stuff up.

zombyturtle.5980:

Well in my opinion the fractal is fine. Interesting mechanics decent boss fight and about the right length for a fractal. I actually really enjoyed it, dunno what most people are complaining about.

People will say that everything is bad just because it happens to have Scarlet in it.
No matter how much sense it makes.

I bet people will even complain about Scarlet being part of the final confrontation with Scarlet.

Ayarei.6912:

PvE event in wvw is fine, if they add WvW content into PvE as well
ex; Queendale was invaded by sever X !!
but that would never happen so no PvE in WvW pls

WvW however is part PvE.
Or are you suggesting that every single guard and lord is actually a real player?

I played GW1 and funnily enough one of the main builds for a monk in the meta was built around bindings, which usually required quite little active playing

Dante.1508:

I always thought the Thaumanova Reactor was a Second Rata Sum city destroyed by the Inquest some how.

Even the Asuran npcs around metrica kinda point everything into that direction.

My one question is why does it look completely different to the Metrica Province version and why are the inquest allowing normal Asurans to clean up their secrets, i came to one large conclusion.

The whole Thaumanova Meltdown Fractal was total hogwash.

Scarlet DID work with the Inquest during said situation, so technically it was destroyed by the Inquest and their experiments.

Hiroshima looked quite different after the nuclear explosion as well.
And the end of the Fractal looks quite much like a nuclear explosion.

Shockwave.1230:

I think we’re just talking semantics. To me, a player who used to play Guild Wars maining a Monk actively identifying and utilizing different skills ever couple seconds or less to prevent and recover from damage and debuffs, using a skill every 30 seconds is very passive.

But that is not the meaning of the word passive.
The word passive suggest NO active interaction at all.
Maintaining might stacks is a VERY active job (unless everyone is running Warriors with Forceful Greatsword and 75% crit chance)

No you weren’t.

Shockwave.1230:

In a lot of the popular builds you’ll see people use, it doesn’t really require much active thought if any to get might stacks and fury. *Just fire off the skill and forget about it and reuse once it’s recharged. * You’ll see some groups that might call out when a fire field is dropped at which point everyone uses their blast finisher, but that’s the extent of thinking required.

It’s mostly passive, once around every 30 seconds that people use those support skills.

Which makes it an active skill rather than a passive.
But then again, why can’t Support be passive in some cases?
Just because you don’t think about using it doesn’t mean you don’t use it after all.

Passive would suggest that it gives you all those stacks of Might without any player interaction, which I am quite sure isn’t the case. And thus it is made by Support.

But how is it a problem?
Night for you is day for someone else.
There is no solution to this issue that won’t punish some people.

Then guest to other servers. It is free.

THe main issue with merging is the fact that they need to merge 3 servers at a time, due to WvW match-ups and such.

It is also rather unfair to suddenly give a server possibly massive queues in WvW due to merging all of a sudden.

Shockwave.1230:

It’s more about people dodging effectively when they use DPS builds actually. Party support hardly exists, and where it does, it’s largely passive.

Oh?
I was under the impression that most DPS builds focused around having high amounts of Might and long duration of Fury. Both of which are applied due to Support.

It is interesting that people usually talk about how DPS is the only viable role.
Funnily enough in order to maximize and make said role useful you have to utilize support, but for some reason people seems to completely ignore that.

The only issue with the “sixth elder dragon being out of place” is the fact that it is more or less confirmed in the game (and have been since release) that there is quite likely that more than those 5 exists.
Don’t really see how that is tied to “throwing away all the awesome lore that they developed in GW1” seeing as the only thing we saw about the Elder Dragons (and they were not even referred to those until after GW2 reveal) was Primordus.

Talissa Chan.7208:

Welcome to anothe anet fanboi krall posting. Logic: 0 Fanboyism:1000%.
We lost a 10 man havoc team who got jumped just as they cleared the toxic area in the ogres. Conditions and hallucinations gave the opposing team a hell of an edge. You shouldn’t have to walk dolyaks from your keep to the first tower in your borderlands when you own 90% of the map. If theres a yak sniper its usually sorted out fast and a guard added for a few walks, not 24/7 yak patrol.
Start playing the game lad rather than just using the forums to practise arguing with people.

Wait, so you have 10 people that decided to do the PvE stuff (which is in no way or form needed) and now you whine about there being PvE stuff in WvW because you got owned?
I am also rather sure that the conditions and hallucinations would also effect the opposing team, so that isn’t really a good reason either.

If you want to make sure your dollies are safe you have to escort them, simple as that.
I have personally spent HOURS walking dollies back and forth simply to get towers and keep upgraded. It is a part of the game, and now we are “forced” to defend them even without any enemies in sight.

Enjoyluck.2618:

THe new fractales ar enice but agony resistence is a pain to get.

Funnily enough it is MUCH easier to get agony resistance now than it was before the update.

Hyperion.9654:

The fractal was a joke. Super disappointed. The abaddon story would be ten times more interesting because how the hell would they include Scarlet and your doing a story about a God. Wtf are the writers and devs doing?

Making sense?

People seems to ignore facts in favor for their blind hatred of Scarlet.

MAGpie.7962:

@ lordkrall: Yeah… its a game, not war, for one. If the intent was to make it unbalanced, why not just limit blue to 10 players per map, red to 30 and green to 100. Done. war simulated. Nah, effort was taken to make is balanced… well, as balanced as possible. Again, I do not feel that it was so much a design intent as a design result.

Because in a war all sides are still “allowed” to field the exact same amount of troops. Making something mechanically unbalanced would be rather silly after all, and why would anyone on the unlucky “10 man server” even bother playing?
With the current system it still happens, but it is still POSSIBLE to get as much people as the other side on the field.

MAGpie.7962:

This always struck me as a bit of a flawed philosophy. I am sure it is “intended” to be fair and balanced, its just not practically achievable do to the current design.

No, they have basically said since before release that WvW is not aimed to be a fair or balanced game-type. It is supposed to simulate a war after all, and wars are seldom fair ^^

Seigfried.5938:

There are aspects which need to be balanced, and others which need not. Our skill shouldn’t have to make up for the inferior armor we wear.

So why isn’t there an issue with all the other gear tiers then? Where the difference is even larger?

And yet it is fully possible for a group running around in Rare or even Mastercrafted gear to defeat a group in exotic, where the gaps are even larger.
The situations where those tiny bit of extra stats would be the only thing that effected the outcome are so unlikely that we might never even see them during the lifetime of the game.

If two groups of EXACT equal skill would meet up gear MIGHT decide the outcome.
But there are several other things that might also decide the outcome such as Lag, Buffs, Foods, Professions, Gear used, Experience and so on.

It is extremely unlikely that two exactly equal groups would ever face off, and if they did there are way more stuff than those few extra stat-points that might effect the outcome.

Well it does make sense.
Currently there is little to no reason to guard the dollies unless the enemy have roamers on the map. With these kinds of updates (you are a month late to the party btw) they “force” you to actually bother with the dollies.

The Angle of Deth.2985:

To say that we bought gems not armor is semantics. Gems are the way to get real life money into the game. The ‘gem’ itself does nothing until it’s traded.

I WANT THE ARMOR I BOUGHT. PERIOD. No substitutes, nor re-working.

No it is not semantics.
It makes a MASSIVE difference when it comes to legal issues and such.
In a situation where people had bought this item directly with money ArenaNet could get in major legal trouble for suddenly taking it away.
That is not the case here, since you never spent a single $ on the skin, but rather on the gems, and after you bought the gems their value no longer exists.

Ascended gear will not make you win a fight unless you were good enough to win it anyway.
The extra stats (5% or something like that) won’t really make much of a difference.

Another thing to keep in mind is that WvW was never meant to be fair or balanced.

But technically they are still reskins.
They use the same engine (although heavily modified) for both games.
They have the standard art and so on.

Sure it might take some work, but it still takes way less than making a completely new skin.

Tsath.4527:

What servers are you guys from, and do you think you have the problem? I’m from Gandara and we definitely do have the problem.

That is actually quite ironic if we look at the last match-up between our two servers..

I find it quite funny how people shout about how bad and lazy the devs are releasing reskins of armors, but at the same time seem to be fully okay with reskins, if they are from GW1.
They are still reskins people.

TheDaiBish.9735:

In which case, you create the maps so the owner has a slight advantage. If each map owner has a slight advantage on their own borderlands, then who has the advantage overall?

Kind of like how the Borderlands’ Citadel is close to 6 points, whereas the 7 points in the Southern part of the map are divided between the 2 borderlands. Divide that up to left and right, and it’s 3 each side, and whoever gets the most Southern point first.

Assuming equal players, equal skills, equal organisation on each side, the owner is more likely to be able to take most of the points closest to them before the two other servers can get North.

Obviously it doesn’t work like that, since there isn’t always the same number of players, same skill level, same level of organisation ect.

These discrepancies also mean, however, that the borderland owner could be at a disadvantage, despite having the advantage in terms of owning the map.

If each map owner has a slight advantage on their own borderlands, then who has the advantage overall?

As for the Eternal Battlegrounds, that should be a non-issue, since no-one owns that (from the get-go at least).

But unless all maps are identical there will always be one map where the advantage is bigger than on the others, thus it would be unfair to the other two servers that didn’t get said home-map for that week.

The main issue with this is balance.
If the maps are different there will ALWAYS be one map that does have unfair advantages for the owner. Which I would assume is the main reason why the borderlands are identical.

ChaosWithin.6214:

problem is we don’t know what she “became” scarlet. it could have been before or after the reactor disaster but the reason i came to the conclusion is from the dialogue, to me it sounded like she was in control of her mind, but still didn’t now the answers that she found in the machine. we also don’t know exactly when the reactor blew up.

The fact that she is called Scarlet and behaves like Scarlet in the Reactor does make it quite clear that she became Scarlet prior to said situation.
Just because one is insane doesn’t mean they can’t be in control of their mind.
I would say that Scarlet shows rather good control of her mind most times we meet up with her.

I don’t really think she found many answers in the Machine at all. Rather more questions that she is now trying to answer and experiment around. If she had all the answers, why bother with everything she is doing now instead of just going straight to her goal?

No, we don’t know exactly when it blows up.
But we do know that there is still a clean-up operation taking place in the GW2 Time-line, which would suggest that it is quite recently.

ChaosWithin.6214:

SCARLET and the reactor doesn’t fit, Ceara and the reactor fits, for t to make sense it would have to be before she got into the machine that turned her into scarlet. as she supposedly found the answers to everything and went bat crap crazy, so she must have ad this knowledge before hand, its a shame this is not represented.

It is quite likely that Cera became Scarlet long before the time-line of GW2 release started.
The Reactor takes place quite shorty (seems to be a few weeks at most) before release Time-line, and thus it is very likely that she was already Scarlet back then.

It does seem, based on her dialogue in the Fractal, that she is actually using the Reactor to find answers to what she saw in the Machine.

The tower is group-content however, so of course it is going to be scale around groups.

Not all areas are supposed to be doable solo without thinking.

The main issue here is that people somehow feel that they MUST do every single thing released.
Is that the fault of the game? Might be.
But mostly it lies with the player.
If you don’t feel like you can handle it, simply don’t do it. You won’t be locked out from the game for not having done certain events and so on after all.

Moshari.8570:

They wouldn’t dare reset WvW levels because they care about that player base. Every day there are Dev posts in the WvW forums…that is one of their babies.

Oh thats quite funny.
Because over there people are always complaining about the lack of Dev posts.

And you won’t be defeated by Agony unless you go into lvl 15+ without any form of resistance.
And by then you would most likely have gotten at least one ring and enough relics to buy a basic infusion.

Hsin.5294:

i like the story in fractals but i do not like agony. make me feels stupid and feel like a stupid farmer.

So don’t do lvl 10+ Fractals?
Problem solved. You get to enjoy the story of the Fractals, and you don’t get any Agony. Win-win.

Does indeed sound like a bug then. I suggest reporting it.