Guild Wars 2

I doubt they would add something like this, since it would make it faster/easier for botters and goldsellers.

Cameirus.8407:

No contradiction at all.

One is spontaneous grouping, no organisation involved.

One requires organisation, finding a group, and so on.

Anet i their manifesto said they wanted the first type of gameplay, but are increasingly delivering the second

Shall we take a look on the patches released since the game went live?
I can guarantee you that the vast majority of things that have been added/changed/whatever during all that time have been specifically to the first type of game-play mentioned.

Glaurung.1076:

Iam no marketing or economics expert but wouldnt it be better if you left those items on the shop permanently so people would have more options in the trading post? Also this limited time only trend has to stop. Its pretty stressful for people that collect stuff.

Actually it is smarter to have them labeled as limited, since that would mean people will rush to buy them while they are available.
People that want to get them will get them fast anyway.

So you want a reward that gives people that missed this arc of the living story a disadvantage? Putting real advantages onto limited time items is quite stupid.

So you basically want the living story to not be a living story but simply adding more and more and more and more and more stuff on top of each other?

morrolan.9608:

Well then there is going to be speculation.

Of course. Because people are silly.
Even if they told us exactly every single thing in detail people would still speculate.

morrolan.9608:

Well how about actually explaining the technical limitations, then people wouldn’t speculate.

Openly talking about technical infrastructure and such for a game is quite stupid

Around 468 mb in my case at least.

Vulpis.8063:

Still bugged—it doesn’t seem to downgrade to allow a single player to run it, instead it spawns enemies as if you had a 5-person Raid group no matter what. Considering the previous stage had no problem with balancing the instances properly, I consider this a bug for this one.

And yet it was made very clear quite long before the update even started that this would be a 5-man dungeon and not a solo-able instance (it is still solo-able though, if you are good enough)

Might I suggest you actually try to do it with a pug group? The instance itself is very pug-friendly and extremely well done.

So, just finished the Flame & Frost Story and decided to talk to the prisoners down in the stockade, and he (?) mentioned something about a “fast talking man from the city”.

Who do we think this guy is? Is it a hint for the future Living Story? Does the Consortium have something to do with it?

Josh.3759:

they lose more and more people every new pacth now they made wvw worst another pacth without any incentive for doing wvw dumb.

I would disagree, but since none of us actually have any proof to support our views it is pointless to discuss it.

Aneu.1748:

Arenanet really screwed up with this patch they are about to lose a huge amount of players.

You mean just like after every single patch they ever released in this game? (or GW1 for that matter)

GoldenKnightTim.4390:

Not enough gold.

Then get gold and accept that ArenaNet is a company and need to make money in order to survive.

Amaroth.8917:

I am a new player that started last week. I am very disappointed I won’t have the opportunity to participate in the new patch content.

Why not?
It is in the starter areas, and you are upscaled to level 80 in the dungeon.

GoldenKnightTim.4390:

I payed for the game. If they want more money, they should make an expansion, not sell a fun part of the game that they have held out from us with a subscription.

So, trade gold for gems? Problem solved.

About 468 mb for me.

GoldenKnightTim.4390:

How about glory points or regular in game currency?

Yeah, I am sure ArenaNet can live off virtual currency with no real value.

GoldenKnightTim.4390:

Well, if that turns out to be true, then I will have lost a lot of respect for the guild wars 2 team. I very much hope that you are wrong.

What else would it cost? Love and hugs?

zastari.1730:

You’re wrong here. Hitting guards and no gate does not contest the structure. Doing any damage to a gate or wall triggers it. I know this because I’ve contested lots of keeps by hitting the gate with one AoE or throwing a jar of bees at the wall (back when that worked).

Regarding these changes, it makes scouting useful, but it also makes dealing with golem orgies actually feasible. If someone calls it out when the golems hit a gate you have 30 seconds to get there and man the newly OP arrow carts.

I am fully aware that doing actual player damage to the wall/gate does trigger it, but I am quite certain that ONLY hitting it with ram doesn’t.

VOLKON.1290:

Pretty sure it does, can you verify that? We’ve peeled the guards off a gate without setting off the “X”, but the moment the ram starts hitting it swords go up.

It would be kind of silly that a thief can hit it with a butter knife and set off the “X” but a flame ram ripping through it can’t.

And you are absolutely sure no one used an AoE or a auto-attack and hit the gate? I have seen quite a few cases both when our server have breached the gates without x and also situations where the enemy have already been inside when the x turns up.

VOLKON.1290:

Actually, any damage to the gate triggers it from what I recall, rams included.

Nope, it doesn’t.

Milennin.4825:

OK, then where do all these Giganticus Lupicus’ keep coming from? I mean, I keep killing them, but they always come back! And there I thought they were extinct. Why do enemies respawn out of thin air on the world map? Where do all these Orichalcum mines come from every day? I keep mining the same area, but every day there’s more, surely this can’t be right… right?

The dungeons are actually locked in time I believe.
That would of course work with the Molten dungeon as well, IF everything else was still there. But since it don’t it will be a rather major issue to explain a dungeon where two complete strangers (that is not part of any of the Orders nor important to their race or the world at large) suddently wants your help do defeat an enemy that you had no clue existed.

VOLKON.1290:

So, how many of your hours of WvW time are you going to volunteer to sit in a tower? Or is it only ok when other people are tower-sitting for you? That’s what I’m getting at… right now you can respond to a tower reasonably quickly and, depending on the attacking force, even mount a defense. With 30 seconds to the warning that tower may be flipped before you even know it’s being hit. Unless you make someone give up their play time to sit there and baby sit the tower. And the camp. Oh yeah, need at least two or three in the keeps on the gates. Volunteers to sit there all night? Anyone?

I personally tend to spend quite some time checking on the towers (it is a rather good idea to actually stay in a tower until it is somewhat upgraded and sieged up).

It is already quite possible to take a tower more or less before the notification turns up, since it don’t turn up until it is actually attacked by a player. Using rams on a gate does NOT trigger it, which means that it is fully possible to breach the gate before the enemy even know the tower is under attack.

VOLKON.1290:

Um… no. This means people will have to spend their WvW time sitting in a tower instead of actually, you know, having fun. Think about this. To prevent something from getting zerg capped you’ll need at least one per tower, two to three per keep, all doing nothing but sitting there watching. Yeah, nice way to introduce fun to the game. Hell, you even will need to keep someone watching your camps otherwise they’ll flip and you’ll never have an indication it’s under attack.

All hail the almighty zerg.

Exactly, which means people will have to work together. On our server at least we already have people watching the towers/keeps to make sure a group don’t sneak up on it and take it before the main zerg can react.

Personally I would have loved to not have any notifications at all.

Milennin.4825:

How’s the world alive when the content disappears?
How about we just make every dungeon a one-time only experience to make the world feel more alive? Like, it’s breaking my precious immersion, being able to beat the same boss over again! Why do world bosses keep coming back even though they’ve been killed by players a million times now?

The dungeon is tied to the invasion from the Molten Alliance.
After we have defeated the Molten Alliance it would make little sense to still have it there (especially since everything else gets removed).

The world bosses are not the same. Several of them is not actually killed and those that are is actually dead, but another character like them takes its place. (The Shatterer is a rank after all, not a specific dragon).

VOLKON.1290:

The “under attack” notice at objectives now displays 30 seconds after it is first attacked. Does not affect waypoint usage.

Well, better place guards in all your towers and camps now, it’s become ridiculously easy for the zerg to flip areas and you never know it’s happening. So, designate people to go into WvW and sit there for who knows how long, watching all the gates, …

This was not well thought out.

And maybe that is just the whole point?
That people will actually have to work together in order to defend stuff?

And some more stuff further down:

World vs. World
Updated confusion and retaliation effects to do the same damage as they do in sPvP.
Added a buff to display time remaining before siege weapons are destroyed from inactivity.
Siege sites are now destroyed 2 minutes after being placed if they receive no supply.

Increased arrow-cart damage:
Increased Fire damage by 80%.
Increased Fire Crippling Arrows damage by 17%.
Increased Fire Barbed Arrows damage by 60% and increased the Bleed duration to 15^^seconds.

The “under attack” notice at objectives now displays 30 seconds after it is first attacked. Does not affect waypoint usage.
Siege weapon blueprints are now account-bound instead of soulbound.
Killing a supply dolyak now awards 3 points to the team that lands the deathblow.
Righteous Indignation now ignores damage from all sources.
Players can now deploy siege sites on enemy walls.
Siege weapons can no longer be built in no-siege areas.
Increased radius of cannon basic shot from 240 to 360.
Lotus Poison (thief minor trait, 15 in Deadly Arts) no longer applies to a trebuchet’s poison shot.
Frost Spirit (ranger utility skill) no longer applies 10% damage buff to siege weapons.
Increased boon resistance of siege golems so players can’t apply swiftness to them with increased boon duration.
Picking up supply while holding more than current capacity (due to a capacity buff going away) no longer reduces the supply down to current capacity.
WvW dialogue will now reopen to the last-viewed page.

Khyber.2693:

What most people dont understand is that everything has a counter. Sure it is balanced around team play, but each profession is supposed to be able to self sustain and there are no real roles. It really would be a matter of skill.

Those threads should just be deleted on sight. People need to learn how to counter their enemy, everyone has a weakness. Not everything that beats you deserves a nerf.

You are missing the point however.
It is not necessarily a matter of lack of skill in this case, since some professions simply don’t have the means to defeat others if equally skilled. This is simply because of the fact that the game was never supposed to be 1v1. Which is also the reason everything group-related in the game is 5-man.

Because that would mean these forums would be filled with whines about profession X being OP because it keeps beating profession Y.
The game is balanced around 5v5 so it will never be a completely balance between profession X and Y, which people won’t accept.

GreenNekoHaunt.8527:

Funny how the devs say they do not plan on it yet:
- test weapons from 81-100.
- make obvious places to for level 90 and level 100 vendors for pvp.

Test weapons are just that, test weapons. There are quite a few thing that are/have been in the .dat-file that does not appear in the game itself.

PvP ranks does not have to be the same number as levels.

Sovta.4719:

If Arenanet (company that made this game) stated that, it must be true!

It is at least way more likely that their numbers are true than that the number from some random sites from the internet with no kind of actual information what so ever, are.

So these sites have some magical numbers that no one else have?
I can make a site aswell and tell everyone that GW2 have 1 billion active players and gets 10 million new players each month. That does not make it true.
The only ones that actually have any kind of real numbers are ArenaNet and they have stated that the number of players are INCREASING.

Aye, our main issue is that people simply give up when we lose a match or two, so we it is more or less only us “hard-core” WvW:ers that still play, which means we do have some problems getting enough people for useful stuff.

r z.7261:

Apparently, someone did not like my post. So I’ll repost it.

All you people defending this game need to open your eyes. The OP is 100% correct in every point he makes is a valid one.

And if any of you want to come back at me with some overly-used internet meme’s — don’t waste your time. Instead, provide some intelligent reasons why the OP is wrong.

And all you people attacking the game need to open your eyes and understand that there are other games out there and you can simply leave this game and play one of those instead of fill the forums about baseless posts and try to influence people to hate the game.

When it is ready.

Usually it tends to arrive sometime during the evening for us.

Badmethod.4762:

Please don’t get me wrong as I am not trying to say that the sky is falling or anything but I couldn’t find anyone but that one guy. I went all over the place from the start areas to the high lvl ones and nothing…. Why is the server load listed as very high if there’s nobody there?

Because they are there. Did you play on the server-prime time? Or in the middle of the night (for the server) or in the middle of a work-day?

Keep in mind that she quite clearly says “As far as I know”.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Massively has a rather nice track record of posting incorrect information at times, so I would wait until we actually see the patch before complaining.

Did you play at the servers prime-time? And did you check many areas or just the one you were currently in?

The game is far from dead.

There have never been any confirmation about a possible level cap increase at all, though it have been hinted at.

Thread number 95 about this video….

Eldiora.5836:

I predict same as most other patches. Around 02:00 (UTC+1) (should be 01:00 British Standard Time) on the 01st May for us euros.

Actually “most other patches” have been released during the evening here in Europe, not in the middle of the night.

I love people whining about a patch that is not even out yet, nor are there any patch-notes.

Gilburt.9146:

That makes absolutely no sense. There are plenty of games that don’t make you pay “respawn fees” that still give rewards.

And I am sure that the economy in those games are awesome unless they have other big money-sinks.

Or perhaps you prefer a COORPG more than a MMO?
Comparing two completely different types of games and basing the “failure factor” on that is quite silly and incorrect.

The main issue is that they can’t really keep stuff that don’t make sense to keep.

Gilburt.9146:

When I die after defending a tower for 10 minutes and end up losing more than I earned it’s frustrating.

Then you are doing something wrong.
For 10 minutes defending you get more than enough silver to pay for one piece of damaged gear.

Vargs.6234:

It remains to be seen whether they will take advantage of the split or will continue to stubbornly crowbar PvP changes into PvE. I’m pretty skeptical based on past events.

As for the question, PvP balance is undoubtedly holding PvE back. It’s one of the biggest issues this game faces. Along with temporary content, it is far and away the main source of animosity among my member capped guild.

Well going by GW1 they did manage to do it quite well after the split.

Same issue here.

Server – Underworld
Guild – Duels of the Planeswalkers [MtG] & Ghosts of the Past [GotP] (1-man guild)

JubeiTM.5763:

You may be right, only an official poll would sttle the score. In the mean time I keep in mind that 80% of all Guild Wars 2 Lands are completely empty. I played other mmo’s where mounts were a big hit. Even those who initially opposed them fount them cool later on.

Another thing to keep in mind is that 92% of all statistics are made up.

Mounts wouldn’t really change this though. Since you can already go easily to every single area in the game that you have already visited by using Waypoints.