Guild Wars 2

You have a good point. On one hand, we meet Rox first after Zhaitan was killed, on the other hand, that would make the part about Tequatl a bit weird.

However, Abaddon died, that didn’t immediately kill Mallyx either.

Vayne.8563:

Okay here’s your challenge. Look at EVERY single video and article, every one. Look at everyone that mentions vertical progression. Count the amount of minutes or lines of everything Anet published or said that referenced vertical progression.

From my point of view the living/breathing world got a lot more play than the words vertical progression or no gear grind even.

What Anet spent most of the time talking about (ie most of what it was built on) was dynamic events as compared to quests, a branching personal story line, and a living breathing world.

Look at it all. Everything Anet said. You might have 15 mentions of vertical progression, but I seriously doubt it. Some of those might have been in response to direct questions.

But I don’t think it was the #1 point. I think it was one of many points. I think Anet also made a lot of other points. They made a huge deal about not being able to kill steal, or node steal. That’s still in the game. They made a big deal about the amount of voice acting they used. That’s still in the game.

They did talk about vertical progression, but I’d wager that far more people saw dynamic events, personal story and living breathing world. In fact, I can only remember one single blog post that mentioned vertical progression at all, out of dozens and dozens of blog posts.

In fact, I’ll take it further. How many times was vertical progression or gear grind mentioned on the Guild Wars 2 home page. If it was a central selling point, surely it would be mentioned there.

All that is not relevant. The no grind and no progression thing wasn’t hyped up, because it was evident, common sense. No one expected differently.
It wasn’t necessary to talk about, just like it’s not necessary to talk about whether or not it’s acceptable to murder your kids. People don’t explicitly write that into a marriage contract.

Arena.net also didn’t communicate much about Mesmers, simply because they were to be expected. Mesmers were not a big reveal and neither was the lack of gear progression. Neither was lack of sub fees much discussed. One line in the FAQ was all because that’s simply evident with a Guild Wars game.

As for a living, breathing world … ye that’s a hefty achievement. It should be hyped, and rightfully so. But lack of vertical progression is a cornerstone for the Guild Wars franchise just as much as the lack of sub fees.

Scottakastine.1495:

Marnick,

Why are you so opposed to having a raid? The game mechanics in this game don’t exist in the other games you mentioned/they havent been released yet, so it would be nice to enjoy dodging/ working together in a raid environment. It would be nice to have a chance to coordinate with a group of friends to actually get this thing down instead of having a bunch of randoms who dont know the boss mechanics.

The post was removed because mentioning other games apparently isn’t allowed.

Well .. I’m not against raids per sé, but I am against all the negatives that tend to come with raids.
The word “raid” almost invariably involves the following:
- 4 hour long dungeons with meat sponge bosses and trivial time sink trash
- weekly gated drops which have to be shared around in a guild
- tiered gear progression ad nauseam and the continuous destruction of my character
- elitism through gear checks, cookie cutter builds and other antisocial behaviour
- trinity gameplay as an illusion of teamplay because that’s the only way to meaningfully engage more than 5 people
- extremely broken PVP because of the gear ladder

Most threads about raids merely want the style of raid present in other games, which mostly focuses around all those negatives. A lot of players bought GW2 to get rid of those mechanisms.

Because of all those reasons, Arena.net decided to put this raid in the open on a boss with a 15 minute window. As such, it has all the positives from raiding, and almost none of the negatives. I personally believe that’s a good thing.
It’s a good thing, mainly because the people with jobs, families, friends and sports are still able to join in on the fun and the rewards. I’m not taking a stance against raids necessarily, but I do believe, very strongly, that having a family and a job, to take care of your body, is a positive thing.

It is very difficult to “pause” a raid of 40 people, merely because your kid needs his bottle of warm milk, or has to be refreshed. Doing instanced raids is virtually impossible if you have any responsibilities of that kind. If having a baby , or other important life choices such as passing with high grades at university, means you fall behind on a gear ladder, it’s a bad game.
I play this game, because I’m planning to have a family. Raids, by the limit of a 24 hour day, are not an option in my life anymore. That’s the primary reason I play GW2, that’s the reason I don’t want instanced raids in this game.

I firmly believe that if a game is not compatible with a healthy, social lifestyle, it’s a bad game. Arena.net claims they don’t make bad games, and this Tequatl game shows, to me, that they try to make true on that objective.

Now if all the negatives of raiding could be avoided somehow, I’d welcome them for the hardcore. But that’s not possible as far as I know without introducing ascended tier 2, without introducing trinity, without introducing elitism. I pass for all that, and I must pass for raids.

Hyper.6374:

tolunart.2095:

Hyper.6374:

TLDR:- is anet manipulating the trading post that’s supposed to be player driven?

No.

Awesome and your source?

No source needed. You are making the large claim, you have to pony up the proof:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Extraordinary_claims_require_extraordinary_evidence

Occam’s razer demands that, without proof either way, the TP is not controlled by A.net, since player driven markets function best.

I’d just wager the forged one is the impressive one and the pack minis are just that … standard junk.

Devata.6589:

I will never buy any gem for money because that obviously provokes bad behavior for the financial team behind GW2 (and probably any other game). In that way cash-shops seem to be kryptonite for games.

1/ GW2 was made partly because the B2P expansion model for GW1 didn’t work on the long term
2/ GW2 was always marketed to have a cash shop, to NEED that cash shop to sustain

There’s no false advertisement.

As for the minis … ye that’s a bit sad and I don’t know why they have to leave.

But what’s really kryptonite for games is simple … no paying customers. People need to be buying gems of the game won’t exist anymore in a short while. I have absolutely no problem with that. I want to be paid too for my work.

If everyone had your attitude of never paying money … games would not exist, end of thread.
So GW2 uses the modern approach of only offering optional and cosmetic stuff. Minis are worthless additions, they don’t do anything inside the game. As such, they make for perfect mini transaction fodder because I can buy them without pay2win and support the company making an awesome game.

Crud … the miniature collector title was a loooong term goal for me. Didn’t expect the pack to retire.

Are there any other ways to create supply for these?

Ventrue.5731:

Sorry, are you that guy who finds it too hard to learn a class so he goes celestial because its easier not too learn a class? Please, tell me more about how it is to be a bad player by learning your class while leveling.

I use celestial because I don’t care, not because it’s too hard. Big difference.

Guild Wars 2 keeps same concept, if you just make a class and go straight for pvp you won’t know how skills/stats interact with the class and will have to ether fail a lot until you understand or do extensive research. I suppose gw1 only gives u 4-7 important skills to learn for your entire game, not around 40 like wow. So you don’t need to worry about how those interact.

You can stop posting now. GW1 skills were extremely complex, every skill mattered and they interacted on very deep and interesting ways. Furthermore, every character in GW1 had over 1000 skills to choose from, and it was that exact choice that mattered.

To claim that GW1 skills didn’t interact, and you only had 4-7 important skills is pure ignorance.

Seriously … if you don’t know a game, please don’t talk about it. I’d like to continue WoW and GW2 discussion with you though.

Ventrue.5731:

I am not type of player who will insult some one for playing badly in game, but I will be glad to see them fail and see my self out perform them, in that scenario I suppose I’m a huge kitten. I like to min max, I like to do better then other people, I find it more fun to think of specs then to play games. I’ve leveled bunch of characters with crafting just so I could tests some armors, when I leveled my warrior I actually only wanted to play around with healing set. I record my self hitting mobs and then analyze it frame by frame as a recount. So I could see attack speed of weapon differences, take in account dead time. I love to die, I can start figuring out why I died.

It’s pretty funny to claim that if the “competition” isn’t even trying to meet your standards. That’s like sprinting during a walking event and claiming first place. Other people simply don’t care about your “achievement”.

The things you do, I tend to do during holidays. I actually have more holidays than my wife, which means I have the luxury of 2 weeks of pure gaming adultery a year. That’s when I start min-maxing and building a single perfect character. After the holiday, the toon gets shelved again because such characters are not fun to play outside of holidays.

So again, do not place your “ideals” on every group. Only place them on people who share them. I do, two weeks a year. Outside of that, I just want to have fun. The one who has most fun, is the one who is best at the game imho.

Green Briar

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Myst Dawnbringer.9138:

Monks on strike in Thunderhead Keep! That’s your answer. Once in GW all the monks refused to do one of the hardest challenge points in the game. GW was built around 8 man instance progress points. And Thunderhead Keep way a very big progress point you had to finish that to progress to the next area and if you did not get through there you were sunk.

So one day the Monks or Healers decides they weren’t gonna take it any more and went on strike. You see they were tired of people screaming at them to learn how to heal and basically expecting that no matter what idiotic thing they did some poor monk would heal them. Also since a monk is not hitting as much as a DPS or Tank they never got a very fair share of the loot.

So Arena in this instance with infinite wisdom has made everyone equal. Everyone Hits, Everyone Heals, Everyone helps Res or they should. The Unholy trinity sucked and I for one am glad it’s gone and never want to see it again.

Holy Dwayna almost forgot about Monks on strike. That alone shows why healers had to go. It wasn’t an option, but rather a broken mechanic that was still used for some stupid reason, even though it had been outdated for over a decade.

Like sticking with 32 bit Unix time. Everyone knows that’s a huge problem, but no one has the guts to force a change.

Ventrue.5731:

Those are my arguments. Scenarios arise were I just wanna ask why? If you are a guardian on a single boss fight why would u attack him with your staff? Is it for that 8k heal ability for your self? People are allowed to make mistakes in this game at great disadvantage. Their argument is – I enjoy this play style. That too is some thing I have against the developer, why punish people for going high damage route with your one shot auto attacks.

Because, obviously, zerk gear is NOT intended to be the go-to solution for all content.

Ventrue.5731:

Well, wow leveling part is more about learning you class then enjoying the gameplay, gw2 has made an amazing job being one of few games actually fun to level. WoW gameplay pretty much begins at max lvl, you do a 5 man dungeons to get gear to 10/25 man raids. In raids you do first 3-4 bosses, maybe you will wipe on boss 5 for a few weeks because you ether not use to the fight and people die, or you lack gear and time out (enrage timer). You clear the raid, you progress to next tier raid.
If you play dota or league of legends, think of it as… Laning phase first and then objective based gameplay.

How ever I do not make any valid points there I guess, my complaint is not mostly about no content, but the type of content, In my eyes the game should provide players with both casual story content and improve of how fractal difficulty progresses OR provide with dungeons after fractals.

I am sorry here, I understand that this part is very much elitist wish of what kind of content I want.

You have all the right to wish for difficult and rewarding content. I think fractals and guild missions allow you to have exactly that. If fotm40++ is tweaked to have more meaningful difficulty improvement and increasing chances at unbound fractal weapons, then maybe we’d both benefit from that.

As far as levelling goes … if you need 80 levels to learn a class, you’re a bad gamer, plain and simple. My accumulated gaming knowledge over the years means I can learn any character in a matter of minutes. It’s not like WoW invented anything new.
Levelling in MMORPGs is a time sink, a form of milk before meat. The mere levelling process forces you out of at least 4 monthly fees the fist time you do it. There’s nothing more to it. If you really need that time to learn a class … you’d be so bad that any blue geared ranger would beat your ascended zerk warrior in 1v1 by virtue of pure skill.

Ventrue.5731:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

4) Content. I play the LS for the story personally. True, its not the best story, but hopefully as the patches get larger, and they figure out more ways of presenting it to us, it will get better. I’m not huge on jumping puzzles myself, although I don’t mind the mini games. I think they LS provides enough options to appease most people, since we all like different things. For me, the LS has been slowly getting better, I have my fingers crossed that it will continue to do so.

I actually maybe should not have said anything about that one, in my entire post I sort of feel guilty about criticizing the content. Anet has beautiful graphics and the visuals they release are great, the jumping puzzles keep me very entertained are are main reason I play this game so much. I just am bum hurt that there isn’t any progress based content, but the type of content they release I understand is still content suited for a very huge majority of players.

Why then don’t you play WoW for the gear progression and GW2 for the real content? Seems like win-win.

Ventrue.5731:

Marnick, common sense in video games is “the set up does not matter, what matters is interaction”. Allow me to just talk about my play style a bit just so you would see how I play. I am a guardian, the first week of release I came up with a build I still use.

You would be surprised at how uncommon common sense actually is, and how often it betrays you. Arguments from common sense therefor are logical fallacies:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Common_sense

Bubi.7942:

What is this thread? Is this a Gw2 should like WoW, or Celestial Gear sucks thread? I am confused. Naturally I didn’t read the OP.

If it’s the latter: I also use Celestial gear. With all stat ascended accessories. Beat Liadri, done 8 orb achievment too, I win 90% of the fights in WvW.

Sup?

tl;dr of the OP: he called you stupid

It’s convenience. Alternatively, just salvage your junk or sell it on the TP. All it does is save you a trip to the merchant. If that’s worth 5€ to you, spend it. If not, don’t.

Ventrue.5731:

I am not judging people who are forced to go celestial because of drops, I am indeed judging all those who take useless stats. The ones who take power/thougness/vit I ain’t judging ether, I just am upset that the game forces them do play like that. As far as 4k dps vs 0.6, I did not say thats on celestial. Take off offensive talents and go hit a dummy in lions arch, it will be damage based only on your power from gear, you will hit around 600 with auto attacks, put on berserker gear and offensive talents and you will hit 4k’s on mobs that can be crit (btw, I get 100% crit chance so I sort of did not worry about the fact that its a chance at 4k).

Continuing with the judging…

Can I give you a few tips since your zerk friends stopped playing …

Get in a speedrun guild. There’s plenty. No need to play with me. We’ll both be happier for it.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

What’s a talent? Is that like being able to play a recognizable tune on the instruments they sell in the Gem Store?

It’s an ancient roman coin made from about 30kg of pure gold.

Ventrue.5731:

Ok, what you said before was sort of understandable, but now you say some thing like that? Oh wow, thats just amazing. Let me get this straight.

I assume you see how a warrior can benefit from stats like power, precision, critical damage as well as the fact they are multipliers. Precision increases the effectiveness of power by 150%, adding crit damage lets you further multiply you power damage, then you can also add about 30% damage from talents that say do 10% damage while —-. This isn’t even hard to comprehend, with celestial you get over all more stats but those same stats are less valuable. 3 × 3 × 3 = 27 but 2 × 2 × 2 x 2 =16, even though you have more stats they interact at lesser capacity. Not to mention, that healing or condition damage might be a 100% pointless stat for you.

1/ you assume I’m even remotely interested in the exact workings of the stats. Common sense in videogames says: more is better. Celestial has the most stats, I don’t care further. I simply don’t.
2/ you assume I’m interested in warriors. To be frank, it’s the only profession I didn’t roll yet. Don’t even know whether I’ll ever make one. So all those calculations and ideas about 100b … sorry falls on deaf ears.
3/ Healing, condition damage are useful stats to my character, and in the vein of more is better, celestial at the very least isn’t a bad set. It doesn’t excel but again, that’s not my point in videogames.

I’m not trying to belittle your playstyle, please let me get that straight. But your original post belittles my playstyle. You explicitly called me stupid. I’m only trying to tell you people have different goals and you shouldn’t call people stupid for wanting different things.

PS: Maybe my argument isn’t too coherent but neither is yours.

Ventrue.5731:

marnick.4305:

.. snip…

No one is judging that sort of activity. Your a casual player who doesn’t do any content were people have to depend on your performance to succeed, so you don’t hurt any one. The first paragraph of my post mostly talks about how 1 person in a group does 4k dps while another 600, if your not in a group then your not part of the problem anyways. And I did say that a stupid person would PICK celestial, there are as I mention people who are forced to use it since they got it as a drop. The bottom line is that you are just giving up a hole bunch of useful stats for stats that give you almost 0 benefit.

I never, ever, join speedrun, gearcheck or zerk only groups. That leaves the relaxed pugs that have the same objective as me … to have a fun and enjoyable experience. I don’t force anyone to play optimally and they don’t usually force me. Heck … most of the time I’m not even using consumables. If my party members have a problem with that, they should say so and we can work it out. Usually they don’t.

As for celestial stats … I’m an engi so all stats do at least something. I’m rather happy with the vit and toughness because I’m not the floor all the time. It’s funny to see zerk warriors dead from shots that hardly tickle my toon. A dead zerker does no dps at all and in fun/non-speedrun groups they tend to be a liability.

But frankly what are you trying to say? People with sub optimal stats don’t usually try to join speedrun groups and you shouldn’t join fun groups because they annoy you. Seems counter-intuitive. I don’t want to play with you, you don’t want to play with me. Your entire post is based on the assumption that you and me somehow want to play together. That’s not true and therefor your entire argument falls apart.

ilr.9675:

Probably HALF of the Armor I saw people wearing towards the end of Gw1’s life, was MicroTransaction armor only…. not one single new set beyond the expansions themselves. And that’s probably how it will keep working here… no new Armor Sets at all. Maybe a couple of weird festival pieces like that clockwork shoulder thing I still haven’t seen anyone wearing yet…

..the dragon helm and shatter wings I actually wear sometimes…

But yeah…. don’t be surprised if there’s not one single new set of Dungeon or WvW earned Armor/style. …atleast not for a long time. Get a second job :p …b/c there’s no point in putting 20+ hours into “working” in this game for a $7 dollar suit you could earn pushing shopping carts for 1 hour

1/ if you need a second job for a 7 dollar microtransaction, you need a primary job first and foremost.

2/ it worked in GW1. If the weapons are PVE and the armor gemstore, that’d actually push a.net to create compelling armor sets, because apparently that’s quite difficult.

Ventrue.5731:

I could talk ages about the ALL STAT combination items, but I don’t think thats a problem in this game, no one is stupid enough to use those items or forced too (though if u get an ascended drop with all stats, too bad).

So I’m stupid then … not only that, but I was happy to get my celestial ring as a drop. Saved me 10 daily runs. Guess I could report you for calling me stupid.

Lets talk last thing, the community, I don’t mean to insult the average player, but over all our look at this game is pretty bad. Like I mentioned, too many people are defending bad players because “its ok to have fun and not be elitist”, I suppose gw2 is a casual game at that regard but just don’t go with it, try and play more risky to get better experience, it will be more fun.

Sorry mate but I work my kitten of for 10 hours a day. When I get home and boot GW2, I want to relax. I gear up celestial because I can do that relatively braindead (cause my job requires a lot of thinking) and still do reasonable damage.

That’s my idea of fun. Not putting in any effort and stay within easy zones such as Queensdale and particular bosses (Maw, Fire Elemental, Shatterer, certain dungeons). Your idea of fun might differ, but don’t judge me for relaxing after work. I don’t judge you for risky play either. I have respect for people who manage to do fotm48 and SAB tribulation mode but I also demand respect for having a job and contributing to society. Thank you very much.

Ventrue.5731:

I will use world of warcraft as an example here and people hate it, but this is a good example. In wow you won’t get in to a good raiding guild if your stats are incorrect, and that means things like haste softcap, prioritizing correct stat on gear selection, maybe you class needs 700 crit and above 800 would be a waste. If it would do things like gw2, it would be ok for dps to stack a hole bunch of stamina so they would survive longer. I’ve mentioned that in gw2 some dps do almost 10 times less, and thats not over exaduration when my warriors auto attacks with axe can be like 4k were some one hits 600 with a slow weapon.

I am simply not interested in that nonsense. Celestial allows me to not do calculations. I’m doing plenty of those during the day. Come on … if you spend your day fixing complicated stuff from customers, calculating integrals and 3D models by hand to find the error … do you have any idea how tired your brain becomes by doing tgat … do you really expect me to waste even more of that energy and intelligence on a videogame? Isn’t that a bit far fetched.

I do not want to be in a raiding guild. I do not want to play WoW. Maybe, just maybe, that’s exactly why I play GW2 … in celestial gear.

That’s not to say I don’t like more difficult games in my free time, but that’s more in the realms of chess and triathlon. Those demand far greater concentration and endurance than ever necessary in WoW or GW2. So again, why would I waste that energy when there’s superior ways to stimulate my brain. To me, videogames are just that … videogames.

Baoz.4735:

I really wants to have all 5 races as my toons, but level up is so boring ….. _ _|||||

Crafting. With a lvl 20 booster and some 30g you can make every character into the seventies in less than an hour. Completing Queensdale takes about 30 minutes which should take you to 80 in no time.

My only problem with fractal frequenter is that fractals somehow isn’t a dungeon …

If the monthly would merely ask for 10 dungeon paths, with a single fractal counting a one path … same for story modes. Would make all the difference.

Sylentir.8913:

Fernling.1729:

If the difference is so trivial, why did they add them at all?

A) Another means of players getting agony resistance.
B) Marginal improvements are still improvements that players can work towards.
C) *People like having something to work for. WoW constantly releases new levels of gear; the players are always working to better themselves. It may not always be enjoyable, but it certainly draws people. *
D) If the difference was bigger, the small kittenstorm would have been massive. Instead, its restricted to people who don’t have a concept of scale, and the people who don’t know the numbers and are hearing the people who don’t have a concept of scale.
E) It gives them additional stuff they can add to existing bosses to make going back into the world more attractive.

Can we please stopping making this game into a WoW clone.
A) Not all people want an endless threadmill
B) wanting something to work for is why I have a job. In a videogame I primarily want to have fun without having to work for something.
C) I bought GW2 because I do not want to work for gear. That’s the #1 reason I bought this game instead of subbing to WoW.

So please … whatever WoW does right for WoW players is why people play GW2 because GW2 doesn’t do that type of content. Do not go down this slippery slope further.

While I do agree that a hard counter should not exist in this game, truth being that stealth is already a hard counter to practically everything. In WvW 1v1 against a roaming thief, the best you can go for is a draw. Killing a good thief is impossible. That’s not acceptable.

To put in a hard counter against roaming thieves is a bad solution to an equally bad problem.

In my opinion, the superior solution would have been to make the thief shimmer, leave footsteps … Something to keep him visible, but only to people who pay proper attention to small details. Another option would be to make stealth break on particular effects such as blasts, fire, roots … something that allows a good player to place a skillshot aoe. Currently there’s absolutely nothing to outplay an invisible thief.

Is the sniffing a good solution? No … I agree. But stealth is a broken mechanic as it is currently. One hard counter on one specific pet for one profession is hardly a nerf.

veasna.3675:

Meglobob.8620:

What title …when you’re fully ascended?

Master Grinder
Mindless Farmer
No life Gamer
All my ‘friends’ are virtual
So what now?

Are a few that come to mind…lol

Glad to know people with “lots of lives” are bitter about all of this.

I’ve only got one life and try to make the most of it. Threadmill gaming is one of the worst ways to waste the one life you have because it’s not fun. Why is it called a game in that case? Games should be about having fun and wasting little bits of time here and there, not spending frustrated hours grinding for something that’ll be replaced soon.

Vayne.8563:

darkace.8925:

Vayne.8563:

If you had to take a guess, what percentage of the players even know what vertical progression means?

What percentage of people who bought the game did so because of ideas like “everyone should have best in stat gear by the time they hit the level cap” or “we don’t make grindy games” or “our measure of success is ‘is it fun’”?

I’d wager it’s a far lower percentage than you think. FAR lower.

You’re wrong Vayne … this was the #1 selling point for the game. You know it so don’t try to deny it. Doublethink is an ugly thing.

That wager … you’re bound to lose it.

That said … ascended does give a good form of progression, but it’s not ascended I’m scared of … it’s what comes next. I’ve got plenty of laurels/pristine relics/commendations currently to deck out any alt in the ascended crap I want, but that’s not the issue I have. It’s that they did a very stupid move with the worst communication possible.

While I support Arena.net in most things they did to the game, ascended is still an icky thing. It was a bludgeoning hit in the face, even though it turned out to be moderately good on the longer term.

That said, Arena.net has a track record of doing stupid things, both in GW1 and GW2, but also managed to make good on most of them. Just a shortlist: 3 hero teams, loot scaling, smiter’s boon, IWAY, DR … yes that’s GW1’s DR which was HARSH. The GW2 DR is not an issue. It simply doesn’t exist in comparison unless for bots an no-lifers. In the end, most of those turned out okay. That’s gives me a bit of faith concerning ascended.

This is a suggestion post but does anyone have an idea yet how to track Scarlet’s invasions through the API? Is there already a rough guess on the cooldown so we’re at least able to know when to log in or not start a dungeon?

Warobaz.9543:

Samhaim.8956:

There is no pre-event for Tequalt, it’ll be announced the same way clockwork invasions were, so everyone will have the same chance to get there.

That makes me think there should be some log or window in game that lets us know the current status of these world events when we log in. I haven’t been able to fight scarlet since the end of clockwork chaos.

Did it twice plus another two times I decided to skip it. I hope the dragon timers catch up soon.

Account.9832:

Shpongle.6025:

press alt+tab and play in windowed mode, you don’t have to leave the game, you just switch windows

Alt+tab works fine in fullscreen mode, at least on my system.

On my main system, I have three monitors. No alt+tabbing needed.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Technically they are the same thing, though in practice someone who says ‘djinn’ is likely to picture something entirely different than someone who says ‘genie’. (thank you, Disney!) Zommoros is a djinn, but some people call him genie because Tyria has a similar cultural disconnect to Elona as Europe and the Middle East/Anet decided the Mystic Forge worked more like a “genie” than a “djinn” and reflected that in-game.

That’s like saying there’s a difference between soldiers and servicemen because in German it’s translated as Krieger (thank you Saving Private Ryan).

Or water and dihydrogen-monoxide being different things (thank you Penn and Teller).

Genies and Djinn are the same thing. Synonyms.

Sindex.9520:

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Sindex.9520:

Supposedly A-net made this canon somewhere. In which they separate the two into different entities, and WP will not believe anyone unless it’s a developer that say’s different.

Why is it that whenever WP is mentioned on this forum it turns into this sort of warped game of telephone? He never said that, anywhere, neither in the comments or the video itself. Please, if you are going to cast aspersions upon a personage, do try to be accurate.

Really now? Then I would direct you to watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAaOKy1PoCg

From this time 2:42 to 3:55. Tell me what he said?

He was wrong. Plain and simple. He’s made other mistakes too, some in very common lore. I’ve seen him not know stuff mentioned in presearing. Not that it’s a problem … WP is a decent guy and does his very best to make a compelling show. But he does qualify that all is speculation. And that’s how you should watch his show … pure speculation.

Durian.5419:

I think they did a behind-the-scenes server upgrade. Impressive that they could do that with the game running, distributed servers for the win.

Guild Wars 1 had a total off time of 24 hours in 7 years, compared to the 8 hours a week needed for maintenance in other games. Guild Wars 2’s track record is a bit more flawed, but overall total down time has been very, very low. Most patches don’t even force you to log off immediately. You get a timely warning and patch on your leisure. How many games offer you that luxury?

ilr.9675:

What I’m gettin’ at here… and I hope I don’t have to elaborate on (I prefer brevity b/c most people dont read walls of text or they only skim over it and then shove words in your mouth just so they can Forum-PVP over something incredibly dumb) … is that the impetus behind this “Disequilibrium” in the first place, was some ridiculously short term Impulse-buy spree on couple T7 mats but meanwhile if you look at the sheer volume of Bots running around Cursed Shores, it’s pretty clear the Gem trade still isn’t going in the direction the rest of the casual hoped for.

I’m not sure what direction you’re hinting at, because, as a casual, I want gems to be as expensive as possible. It allows me to use my real world income to supplement the low gold income due to my casual time schedule.

TL:DR; casuals want gems to be expensive. You agree?

My guess:
oktober / 500 jewelcrafting
oktober / 500 cooking
november / 500 armorsmithing/tailoring/leatherwork
november / new legendary weapons
november / new fractals
december/ precursor hunt

DigitalKirin.9714:

Let’s just say the Average player has put in about 1,000 hours of play. That’s 2 hrs on the weekdays and 4 on weekends. Let’s also say they earn more than 2g/hr, and earn more like 4g/hr. At 4,000 gold earned over the course of just “playing the game”, Sunrise would equate to 38% of a person’s monetary budget, and well within the means of an average player to acquire if they have the focus to just save 4 gold out of every 10 that they make.

I’m not convinced the average player has played for 1,000 hours already. Average players should be estimated to play 4 days out of 7, of which only 1 weekend day.

By keeping the same hours, over a year, this makes a grand total of 520 hours played. Given some LFG in town, TP time and other semi-afk … to estimate 2g per hour would be quite high. At barely 1000 gold grand total in a full year of average play … it’s evident that Twilight is simply out of reach for average people. Let’s be frank though … isn’t that to be expected. It is a prestige item after all.

With music references

“The best is yet to come”

“Some people think I’m bonkers”

“Crazy, over the rainbow”

“The way you made them suffer, your exquisite wife and mother”

“fills me with the urge to defecate”

Yea … I’ve got an opinion about Ascended.

TheJokester.4672:

@ Stain…. Ehem it’s called internet not english class. I would figure you would have enough of a brain to actually pause and not read it all in one go. You know that common sense thing that this generation seems to be lacking… my apologies if I have insulted you.

You’re wrong. That dreadful post can’t be read by humans, and especially not on the internet. You clearly seems to be lacking the English skills necessary to hold a written conversation. People don’t just pause while reading a text, that’s the exact function of punctuation. If you don’t have the brainpower to write properly, how could you expect an intelligent being to read your junk?
My apologies if I insulted you but wall-of-text posts are not appreciated for good reason.

“This generation”…. you’re talking like someone who’s 50 years old. But that can’t be true:

on topic(with gramar this time -.-) around 2k achiev and holding a legendary I smell a ban comming that way. I mean that’s almost dead blatant of buying gold seeing that anet nerfed dungeon running for gold. I myself only have a little more than 6k ap and have twilight and honestly ap means nothing. I’ve seen 9k ap players that have about as much clue about what to do in the game as my 8 year old brother. some people achievment hog every living story which actually nets a good amount of ap.

How old are you actually? Your 8 years old brother implies you can’t be older than 18, which is also evident from your lack of English skills and social intelligence. Before talking about other generations … please consider you might be insulting people who are twice your age. I’ve played more hours of videogames than you have lived in total. Take a pause and structure your posts. Pull it through word’s spelling check to fix the most glaring mistakes. Can’t expect people to read garbage. I don’t want to insult you, this is advice you want to be accepted in real life and the internet alike.

That said .. you’re mostly right in this second paragraph.

Talk like a Pirate Day was something popular IRL back then, and doesn’t have much cultural meaning in the present day. I don’t think it’s coming back. I’m pretty sure other pop culture memes will be implemented some day.

But honestly … it was never a GW1 thing. It was pop culture and they rolled with it.

Quote inversion ahead:

Trahearne is a supporting character, I don’t see how people cant understand this.

And yet Trahearne is the supreme leader and Marshall of the pact, who appoints you as his second-in-command. That’s not a joke, he does so explicitly when the pact is formed.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

I can’t agree with this. Trahearne is the leader of the Pact, so he is responsible for strategically planning the Pact’s movements, nothing more, and personal story does a great job of conveying this. Trahearne lays out the options, the PLAYER selects

That’s not someone worthy of the title Marshall and supreme leader of the armed forces of the Pact. Such a person should be a mere advisor to the player. The marshal should make the choices or he’s not worthy of that title.

Julius Caesar, Alexandros the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte … these are well known leaders because of their own tactical insight plus they fought on the front lines, unlike that shoddy Trahearne on both counts. If he had the title Advisor, which is exactly what he does, people would have a different impression.

deSade.9437:

This forum is full of seers. Will I ever get married?

Yes. To the man of your dreams.

aspirine.6852:

Halloween underworld run. Oh wait

I dont know I was not playing gw2 at the time.

You’ll be in for a good surprise. A lot of good content came from that holiday:
- a realm of the gods area
- awesome jumping puzzle
- scavenger hunt
- 2 interesting pvp modes
- awesome mini dungeon

Tribunal.1390:

What is the most challenging jumping puzzle ?

During Holidays that must be the Mad King’s Clocktower. Outside, either Obsidian Sanctum (in WvW) or Skipping Stones (in Southsun). If you can beat those, you can beat them all.

Obsidian Sanctum is easier jump-wise because it has a lot of save points, but has PVP (no complaining allowed :p) Skipping Stones … if you fail, you have to start over.

THERE IS NO OPTIMIZATION MOVE ALONG CITIZEN

more seriously … I’ve been noticing steady improvements over the last year, but it isn’t always as noticeable. Especially F&F came with some under-the-hood tweaks. However PVE culling destroyed the capability of my poor laptop to play the game. On the other hand, this is probably forcing the optimization team to step up their game.

Distinction in Vertical Progression.

Second tier will give Honors in Vertical Progression.

Compare to certain skins from all level and rarity brackets leading to Distinction in Horizontal Progression.

If you learn to stop worrying and love your exotics, alting is just easy.

Isn’t that the whole point of alts. Lvl 80 isn’t the goal, nor is BiS gear. Rather, it’s the journey that defines an altoholic.

Amadan.9451:

marnick.4305:

Trinity is like playing soccer. One player plays by different rules (can use hand) and therefor the entire team hinges around his ability to protect. If a goal comes through, it’s almost always the goalkeeper’s fault. Such unbalanced rules lead to problems like hooliganism, extremely stale gameplay (one goal in 90 minutes is enough) and an overall appeal to the masses. It does make soccer a popular sport but it sure isn’t the best.

Next, compare to cycling or basketball. Everyone plays by the same rules which actually forces proper teamplay. Once you get into the strategy of these sports, it’s crazy how deep the rabbit hole goes on a meta level. However this forces deep understanding of the game mechanics and a bit more active intelligence to enjoy the game properly. It also leads to active and compelling gameplay throughout the game.

Guild Wars 2 does have team play, but it’s not as obvious to the naked eye. The whack-a-mole healing in trinity gameplay is like the goalkeeper. He plays a different game entirely and frankly doesn’t matter in the actual game.

i think you completely underestimate soccer which is not 10 man trying 1 goal and a keeper trying to prevent it…
there are roles and rules that apply to everybody same as baseball… but better in my opinion.

I do understand soccer, but the teamplay is not nearly what it is with baseball for 2 reasons:
- the goalie plays by different rules. That’s just stupid game design. (IMHO!!!) Unnecessary burden is played on one person without really encouraging teamplay. In the lower brackets this means goalie//healer is a liability and first to blame, in higher brackets finding a good healer//goalie is nigh impossible. By design, switching roles is not possible.

- the italian tactics in soccer seriously imply you only need one goal to win which leads to extremely boring 1-0 games dragging on for 90 minutes. This can be equated with trinity based gameplay in that once you beat the boss by having the right gear, which is the only defining factor to win, all the rest is just a boring dps race. Compare to basketball, cycling or GW2 which remains undecided until the game is finished completely. Bash all you want on GW2’s dps combat, but it’s 100 times more interesting than the trinity gear checks.

One shouldn’t just look at the legendary. Some kids are wearing a legendary but have about 2000 achievement points. Clearly shows they have absolutely no clue and just farmed COF1 all day. Others wear either GWAMM² or Dungeon Master as a title or own over 8k achievements, which is almost impossible without group play.

² While GWAMM doesn’t prove GW2 skill directly, it does show an above average skill level for gaming in general. GW1 had 10 times the GW2 difficulty, even in presearing.

Jade Sea. /thread