Guild Wars 2

Win8 x64 here. Works like a charm.

Game suggestions for 2013:
Please make this game World of Guildcraft.

Ain’t gonna happen. Most of your suggestions are bad ones and not implemented for a reason. Ghost form … seriously? Opposite faction? And what the puppy are epics??? Next time be a bit less obvious in your trolling.

The game you want to play already exists. Go play it.

As someone who has a pretty active RL I found that alt+f4 works pretty much instantly. If you have an SSD, booting the game doesn’t take long either.

Iehova.9518:

Here you assume that all people have a set form of “fun” with no deviation allowed. Surely I don’t need to explain how kittening kitten this statement is.

Grind is not fun. I’ve not met a single person in any game who would consider grinding a fun activity. Sure, the end result is fun, but that end result could be gotten through other activities which are inherently fun and have gold as a side effect. There is no set form of “fun”, but one thing that, by definition, is not fun is grind. Only grinders are affected by DR.

Two things yet again:
1. Irrelevance.
2. The veiled implication there’s only one “legit” way of playing the game.

There are plenty of legit ways to play the game. Grinding is not one of them, or rather it is, but it is discouraged with DR. I never claimed what you should do. I only told you what you shouldn’t do, namely repeating activities that aren’t fun after so much time that you seem to hit DR.

Yeah, no. DR is saying “we think you’ve been doing the same thing for too much time according to our skewed perception of reality, so here’s a big `kitten you` to whatever you’re doing, you get no loot, good day sir”.

Another way of saying, please take a break, you’re clearly addicted to something that isn’t fun. If only smoking had DR.

Your arguments are invalid.

Yet again: Without an explicit description of what exactly you’re enjoying while playing the game, “fun” is merely a buzzword.

Well, I never said what you should do. You’ve been fighting against a strawmen. Please respond to my actual argument instead. DR is a discouragement for grinding, which, by definition, is not fun.

The clue is to get in between the moving lazers, there’s a zone you can get into. Once learned, it’s an easy trick. Good luck.

The Dirty Dozen:
1) Would you prefer ascended gear to be the last tier implemented for the remainder of GW2?
2) Would you prefer ascended gear to be equal to exotic gear in all statistics except agony resistance?
3) Would you prefer the level cap to remain at 80 for the remainder of GW2?
4) Would you prefer if WvW was set up on an equal playing field similar to PvP?
5) Would you prefer if WvW / PvP / PvE had separate skill functionalities?
6) Would you prefer if Magic Find was removed from the game completely?
7) Would you prefer if Magic Find was divided equally amongst all party members?
8) Is GW2 too ‘Grindy?’
9) Does GW2 need less RNG?
10) Has the Trading Post [and all its users/farmers] positively impacted the economy?
11) Do you have as much faith [and/or enthusiasm] about the game [and/or company] as you did before launch?
12) Do you reasonably expect [many of] your primary concerns to be addressed in early 2013?

Straight up:
1 Yes
2 Yes
3 Yes
4 No
5 No
6 No
7 Yes
8 No
9 Yes
10 Yes
11 Yes
12 Yes

Clarification: WvW is an extension of PVE, it is NOT PVP. As such it should remain part of the PVE game as it is right now.
As far as MF goes, I would add this as a progression stat, just like AR. Add it to gear and your investment will return in the long run. It should not come cheap but it should also not replace other stats. Either this or sharing with the party.
GW2 certainly is not grindy and the TP works very well. I also know from GW1 that every company makes mistakes, yet a.net is mature enough to admit those and fix those.

Closing comment: the day they add lvl 81 is the day I stop playing.

Iehova.9518:

Erasculio.2914:

I see the game split between two sides:

Two things.

1. Fun is a buzzword unless you explicitly describe what is it you’re enjoying.
2. Holy polarity batman. What about the people who finished all the content and grind their way towards their endgame reward of choice?

The fun crowd plays towards their endgame reward of choice without grinding. You would be flabbergasted to find that most people actually aren’t affected by DR because they don’t do the same thing over and over like a lobotomized goldfish.

People who play for fun have no idea what this whole DR fuss is about. GW1 did have DR too and guess what … the best way to earn gold happened to be playing the game legit. Doing dungeons, missions and getting titles netted me thousands of plat without breaking a sweat.

So DR is just the same as saying “you’ve been playing this game for 3 hours, please take a break”.

I would imagine that one extremely heavily guested server with overflows in virtually every area and nothing contested is superior to distributing all that to different servers. It would be like a permantent BWE#1.

Imagine flocking to the #1 PVE server to find overflows in Mount Maelstrom!
That leaves:
- home server for WvW
- Guest 1: world top PVE server
- Guest 2: <open for whatever>

I would also suggest using a low pop low rank server to do this on to save the server from what plagued WvW. No one wants overflows on their home server so lets not do this on the most active PVE server.

You have at least PDT and PST, no idea what the difference is at this time of the year.

Anyhow, 20:00 is just fine for me. I’ll be making Belgian waffles which is a boring and long grind yet has legendary results.

You gave him the right to take stuff out of the guild bank. He used that right. There is absolutely nothing you can do. Any “rules” you made are between you and him, the staff can’t and won’t help you with that.

Seriously… do you hand out the PIN code for your bank card to unknown people who happen to be in the same room as you? You should treat ingame wealth with the same prudence if you care about said wealth.

Please does anyone have a good GMT+1 time?

Imho all these times should be given in UTC. I have no clue what pacific time is, googling gives conflicting results and frankly, we shouldn’t be bothered with this. Everyone knows how to get to his own time from UTC. The difficulty is just in getting there.

Have a T-shirt with “free hugs” on it and run around with it IRL, you’d be surprised. People really, really enjoy a bit of affection from time to time.

innocens.1582:

i think the problem is that people play this game for win, and loot, and not for fun.
Like this is a job or something.
I have done dungeons in gw1 lots of times with guild people who could run any build they wanted and who could play any way they wanted, and we had a great time.
It wasnt fast, but it was fun.

i done ac once sofar, and i have never seen such a race to the end ever before in a game.
Nice if its your firsttime, and you die multiple times because everyone is in a hurry to get more more more tokens and doesnt even bother to explain anything.

i probably wont do pug dungeons ever again.

I dont realy care if something drops or not, and if it takes 1 or 2 hours.
I want to relax and have some fun after my real daytime job is done.

I fully understand. I enjoy dungeons far more if we kill the trash too, even if they don’t give that many rewards.

Level as you would play end game. That way it isn’t boring at all. After 30 you have all the tools you need to play on that level. A few things you may want to consider:
- Do 2 crafts. That nets you 20 levels while levelling.
- Focus on map completion. Even if you don’t complete the whole world, it does give you short sighted goals instead of the long “grind” to 80… which isn’t long at all, but that’s a different discussion.
- XP boosters may or may not suit your preferences. I would suggest to start using those at 30 to get to 60 asap.
- Dungeons … you don’t need to be 80 to join an explorable, especially not with a guild group. At 80 your gear is almost ready so you won’t even have a gear “grind” to follow up on your levelling.
- go into WvW if that’s your thing. Very, very good EXP.
- Do the dailies on an alt. You’ll be doing them anyways so why not profit from the free exp?

And what’s in a name … levelling takes about 1 hour per level, which is a constant over 80 levels. Doing a craft takes an hour and nets you 10 levels, obviously shorting the leveling. Fifty hours to max level is the shortest in any MMO bar none (except GW1 but that’s not an MMO).

I support this suggestion.

Eventually, almost all combinations will make it into the game. Those not in yet, I suspect they are deliberately held back so “new” gear can be implemented without breaking any stat caps.

The point is, you lose out on a stat if you go full MF. In guild groups, this is easily offset by coordination and skill. Secondly, most MF gear is covered with power/precision to make the leech even half-useful, leading to very glassy cannons. Again, in a guild group, that shouldn’t be an issue.

A PUG can only handle 1, maybe 2 glass cannons. Two PUGgers with MF will severely jeopardize the chance for success in most dungeons.

We all do it at some point or another. I wish they close it one day for PVE too but until then I don’t think it’s an exploit. It’s fairly lame though to reset agro like that.

@ragingpuma: In WvW it has been changed, not in PVE. Doesn’t make them “moron pvpers”, it makes you an idiot for not knowing it.

- do your dailies
- do dungeons, particularly AC
- don’t die so you don’t have to repair
- avoid waypoints. Over sPVP you can go to LA for free, then take portal to any big city and only waypoint the shortest necessary distance. Can easily save you 2 silver per WP
- don’t spend gold on stuff you can craft or gather for free. A penny saved is a penny earned
- use sell orders on the the TP for stuff you don’t need. Don’t pick up TP gold unless you need it lest you’re tempted to use it
- put all your gold except a few silvers in the bank. What you can’t see you won’t use

Gold trickles in fairly steadily. If you don’t throw it away, you’ll find you end with a few gold after every playsession.

Oglaf.1074:

Kore wa Sparta.3750:

Saw a guy with 3 Legendaries, the sword+ shield, then he switched to Dawn. Oh my word.

I pity his father’s credit card :P

Actually, if he is living with his parents, he has plenty of time to farm the gold. I can make 4-5 gold a day in my casual time after work. A jobless bum could easily make a hundred a day, simply by playing. Farm AC on 5 characters every day and you make that without breaking a sweat.

On the other hand, if he bought it with gems, you can bet on it he has a very well paid job and I support him because he clearly contributes to society and Guild Wars because of that.

I use both for different reasons. With wasd I can just play casually in pve. Most of the time a mouse is not needed and in that case I can use my right hand to take a drink, eat or whatever. In dungeons that’s even more the case since I only have to move out of red circles when I’m not actively tanking. wasd is more than enough in those cases.

Furthermore, I’m a traveler, I make about 1000 kilometers every week for work, which means I’m using a laptop without a mouse when not at home. In a hotelroom I’m usually in bed and try to do my dailies. No mouse required nor possible.

In PVP, big boss fights and jumping puzzles, the mouse is required. I don’t think any discussion is possible in these scenarios. What I mean is simple… mouse turn is faster, better and more efficient, yet there’s plenty of circumstances where wasd either suffices or is actually the only possibility.

1/ WvW is a PVE map with PVP components, or rather, a gank map. As such, completing it is a necessary part of completing PVE.

2/ a group of 5-10 people can easily hunt all vista and POI in off-time. Get yourself a guild or organize something on your server forum. Even if you’re bad in WvW, a modicum of organization trumps all. A 10 man group on teamspeak can crush a 50 man zerg without troubles. If you treat it as a hard dungeon you can complete WvW without fighting a single human.

3/ 100% completion has to be hard, and to some that means vistas, to other it means time and to others it means WvW. We can’t scrap all now can we?

Zeefa.3915:

Now not to rain on your parade, and I am not against titles as such and all. But I think the reason we do not have more titles yet is that we are to expect more content.
So more monster types, more puzzles etc.
Making some of these titles already would make adding new content… well… you know.

That’s why it has to be more tiered. KoaBD r1 could need 20 title tiers instead of max, as such it would be more expandable. As such, slayer and explorer could expand depending on new content.

Achieving titles is a goal to be respected, while it carries no in game benefits at all. I’d happily grind for that while I loath ascended.

Rising Dusk.2408:

There are very few places to acquire them:
- Extremely rarely as a loot drop
- Gems purchased with gold (expensive in-game)
- Gems purchased with RL currency (cheap in-real-life)
- As a random drop from BL chests themselves (not feasible as you need a key to maybe get a key)

If they ever re-enable Lionguard Lyns, you may be able to get them with Captain’s Commendations in Lion’s Arch, though it is uncertain whether BL keys will still be available from her when/if she is re-enabled.

Fixed that for you.

I found that about 1 in 3 chests gives you a key, so the cost per chest is actually a bit lower.

Lothirieth.3408:

I don’t begrudge people making hundreds or thousands of gold off the TP. Good for them and I’m glad they have fun. I just don’t like making exorbitant amounts of money a requirement to get anything shiny in this game. I want to earn it through game play. That’s why I went after dungeon gear. I enjoyed working for those rewards.

There should be different (and reasonable!) avenues to suit different playstyles.

You should realize that money and time are actually the same commodity. Doing three exp paths in any dungeon gives you 180 tokens, which equals a piece of exotic gear. Considering a fast dungeon you could do so in less than an hour. Would you agree?

Ok.

As per GW2Spidy, the cheapest lv80 exotic armorpiece are Galrath’s Gauntlets at 1.24g. This item does not have a rune. So in 1 hour you made the equivalent of 1.24g on top of any drops + the free rune in dungeon armor. That’s not bad actually. Penny saved penny earned.

Naqaj.6219:

marnick.4305:

Mike O’Brien needs about a million dollars lying on his desk every month.

I learned from a very reliable source on the internet that he loves to bath in it at least once a day.

That’s good against Alzheimer but I’d suggest blood of virgins for immortality.

Phantax.1369:

marnick.4305:

However what you don’t seem to get is that difficulty and better gear have nothing to do with each other but rather are each others direct opposite. New and more difficult mobs, yes. New skins, yes. Higher stats, no.

Better gear leads to lower difficulty instead of higher. The higher your stats, the easier the content becomes.

Hmm.. I suggest you go try a run CoF or Arah in lvl 1 gear then tell me gear lvl has no bearing…lol
You could also look at your own comment and ask if gear lvl has nothing to do with difficulty, wht did Anet even bother to give us different tiers of gear ???

Case in point. CoF with lower gear is MORE difficult. So if you want more difficult content you should be asking for WORSE gear or harsher scaling. Asking for higher gear is asking for easier content, not harder content. Thanks for proving my point.

Thank you Arena.net. I was your biggest fan in GW1, even though I didn’t agree with all decisions made. I didn’t agree with nerfing farming with loot scaling, diminishing returns and removing hill giants. I didn’t agree with 3-hero parties. I most certainly did not agree with hard mode in the state it was at the time of its release.
That being said, most of those changes eventually became better. 7-heroes were implemented, gold became easier to get through other means and I personally became better at playing hard mode, even before the 7 hero patch. Arena.net isn’t perfect but I found they listen to the players.

In GW2 I don’t agree with all decisions either. I can be vocal about these, but they won’t make me less of a fan since a.net communicates with its player base. Sometimes trust is lost, sometimes it’s gained. Because of that I can thank Arena.net for creating a wonderful game, despite its flaws.

Phantax.1369:

To expand/progress the game eventually Anet will ‘have to’ add more difficult content. That means having to add new/better gear to enable the player to beat that content.

I totally agree that a.net should progressively increase the difficulty of new content based on the increase of average player skill.

No new gear/mobs = stagnent game = dead game !

However what you don’t seem to get is that difficulty and better gear have nothing to do with each other but rather are each others direct opposite. New and more difficult mobs, yes. New skins, yes. Higher stats, no.

Better gear leads to lower difficulty instead of higher. The higher your stats, the easier the content becomes.

AidanTaylor.3872:

marnick.4305:

… Arena.net currently has 270 employees …

Your math is slightly off as we are over 300 employees now :p

In answer to the OP, I would suggest bag slots and/or bank slots as storage is always useful

Thanks for clarifying It is case in point though, Mike O’Brien needs about a million dollars lying on his desk every month.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArenaNet => 270 as per the latest verifyable source

All the tokens in the world can’t buy you a life.

Most suggestions in this forum are, in my humble opinion, optional. The single biggest problem for this game is longevity, which prophecies didn’t have either. The solution is the same as in GW1. Titles.

Several titles need to be expanded on with tiers/ranks. New titles need to be added and a cumulative title has to be created. The current PVE titles in the game show some of the best achievements in the game, while others are strangely neglected. Golden, Dungeon Master, Master Crafter, Emperor are nice goals in the game. Some of those are more in the long term than others.

Suggestions follow:
- Spacebar: for all jumping puzzles
- Champion of Orr: for completing the story. I really expected this ancient title to appear after that Orr king granted me the honour.
- Explorer: for all areas uncovered
- Slayer: for all monsters slain 5000 times. Yes, also the giants. Split this into Risen Slayer, Karka Slayer, Centaur Slayer … with legendary slayer as the end result.
- Dragon Slayer: for all boss achievements
- Weapon Master: for mastering all weapons including focus, warhorn and shield. See Slayer for Shield Master, Sword Master, Master of Overkill …. with Legendary Weapon Master being the target.

All those would result in a Kind of a Big Deal sort of track. Next would be to make titles far more visible.

Titles are what made the GW1 world go round and considerable effort and grind was put into these completely optional goals. Focussing on an expandable title system should be the core endgame development for this game, bar none. IMHO.

A simple title would solve all.

The good thing about a game the devs are passionate about is the fact that they may be playing with you in any party you join. Sure they may prefer anonymity but rest assured, most of the devs love this game just as much as we fanboys.

Guild Wars 1 graphics!

Oh and then everyone would complain about the GW1 graphics actually being better than the GW2 graphics. Even my tech illiterate girlfriend clearly saw the difference and it took me quite some time to explain how 8 players vs 100 players have a big influence on graphics.

Esplen.3940:

marnick.4305:

Esplen.3940:

marnick.4305:

Personally I recommend bank space and/or character slots.

Do not listen to the people who recommend buying gems with gold … in the end, you buy gems to support a good game. That’s the main reason. I have 1400 gems I don’t do anything with atm but that’s totally fine with me.

I’ve put in over $20 in gems and have the Digital Deluxe edition (from purchase, not gems) of the game. There is, however, a problem with me continually buying gems with real money and that’s that I have to go to school and have no source of income. I also have to provide food for myself, which puts me at a very, very little amount of extra money.

I understand, but you should understand that Colin, John, Rubi, Gaile….., their partners and their kids also need to eat. As such you should support people buying gems at all times, even if you won’t buy them yourself. This game has a monthly upkeep and if it’s not paid, it can and will shut down due to lack of funds.

Make sure to finish school, don’t spend too much time in the game, especially not during finals. That way you can buy anything you want (within reason). I just made the last payment for my car today, gems are cheap in comparison

Let’s say GW2 has 500,000 players.

That means Colin, John, Rubi, Gaile, their partners and kids have gotten $30,000,000 WITHOUT including Gem sales.

My maffs:
500,000[players] * [$]60 = [$]30,000,000

Which is next to nothing. Arena.net currently has 270 employees. At a very modest average salary of $3000, which is pretty low for top talent in the industry, that’s $810,000 every month or $9,720,000 per year. Considering the game has been in development for 5 years without any income, that is $48,600,000 of costs in salary just to ship the game. A low ball which does not include server costs, rental of office space, advertisement, expo costs etc etc etc.

I understand that $30,000,000 seems like a lot to a student, but in reality it’s pocket change. If Mike O’Brien doesn’t have $810,000 lying on his desk every single month, he can’t pay his staff. If he doesn’t have $3,000,000 saved up, he can’t go to PAX or E3. Those are very real figures.

I once logged in with my character looking over the flowing hills in Gendarran Fields. It was so beautiful, I kept watching for 10 minutes, took a screenshot and only then managed to move my character.

IHatePugs.3671:

Did you really waste your time making this post?

Have a cookie There’s even a smile with it xxx

1/ gold standard is an extremely bad system because gold inherently has no value beyond jewelry. Only 12% of all gold is used in industrial appliances. Compared to copper and iron (90+%) that’s virtually nothing. As such, gold, in and of itself, is as much fiat in value as paper money.

2/ the cost of gold comes only from people trading gold because they trade gold. If you don’t like power traders in GW2, you most likely shouldn’t like a gold standard. It is very easy to see how such a market can instantly crash 90% and never recover once people lose faith in this worthless shiny metal. At least facebook shares had a source of revenue behind them which gave it a real lower limit.

3/ gold standards actually create and prolong depressions. Gold standard limits the economic output of a country. Currently the US economy has a value that’s about 3 times the entire world gold supply at current prices. It is impossible to go back to the gold standard without destroying at least 2/3rd of the US economy.

4/ People tend to forget that a very small amount of inflation, say 2% a year, is actually good for an economy! It stimulates investment and growth, creates jobs and insures that people can actually buy a house which is the best pension investment possible. Controlling this inflation is the best way to control economic output and stimulate growth. A gold standard destroys all of that while bringing virtually no positives to the table.

All that being said… the only good reason to have a gold standard, is to stimulate a young economy with growth pains. Any country that recently became independant does not have trust from the markets. As such, a gold standard for a decade or two would mean a base level of growth can be insured until the limits of the gold standard are reached. By that time, trust from investors should be enough to stimulate further growth.

TL’;DR: no economy can grow more than the total value of it’s gold reserve under a gold standard. Any country will hit that limit within half a decade given world gold supply.

Esplen.3940:

marnick.4305:

Personally I recommend bank space and/or character slots.

Do not listen to the people who recommend buying gems with gold … in the end, you buy gems to support a good game. That’s the main reason. I have 1400 gems I don’t do anything with atm but that’s totally fine with me.

I’ve put in over $20 in gems and have the Digital Deluxe edition (from purchase, not gems) of the game. There is, however, a problem with me continually buying gems with real money and that’s that I have to go to school and have no source of income. I also have to provide food for myself, which puts me at a very, very little amount of extra money.

I understand, but you should understand that Colin, John, Rubi, Gaile….., their partners and their kids also need to eat. As such you should support people buying gems at all times, even if you won’t buy them yourself. This game has a monthly upkeep and if it’s not paid, it can and will shut down due to lack of funds.

Make sure to finish school, don’t spend too much time in the game, especially not during finals. That way you can buy anything you want (within reason). I just made the last payment for my car today, gems are cheap in comparison

Novalight.7568:

Wow, human nature, really… I never knew. Urge to buy and resell rising! Guess I missed the memo that everyone is a greedy kitten or did I sleep over the indoctrination classes that said money>anything else. Who knows.

As for benefits, yeah sure. You’re (all flippers/power traders combined) benefiting exactly less than 0 (omg, it’s negative). Tax, posting fee, your profit = how much less money other players have, it’s pretty simple. You’re not creating, just distributing from others to yourself (in nature such organisms are known as parasites I believe).

I wouldn’t call them parasites. That’s just commie propaganda. Everyone does what he can to make money, and whatever way you turn it, everyone will use his skillsets to maximize his gains. That does not necessarily mean playing the TP. Some people have a tendency to farm and will keep farming. Others like dungeons and run as many as they can to maximize gains. Some even may ..gasp.. work in real life and convert the profits into gems. And yes, you have people who play the market. That’s completely legit. I wouldn’t call someone a parasite because he found a way to maximize his income.

There’s also a group that doesn’t care so much about gains and more about fun. Stupid hippies. They just want low prices, equal distribution of money and blame others for their own lack of incentives at getting the stuff they want. If others don’t agree… they’re parasites…. That’s pretty insulting actually but also human nature. If you can’t make money, you steal from the rich. For some reason that’s an acceptable point of view for most people.

Not that I personally play the TP.. I play like a hippie and supplement my lack of gold income with gems I get from real life. I won’t complain about people smarter than me playing the market. That’s the difference between you and me.

As far as creating value goes … TP players invest time. EG they clear buy orders and set sell orders. Due to this, both seller and buyer get their gold faster due to the investment of the TP player. The TP player invests the time normally required by both other players. TP players also buy low value items, upgrade them to high value items, as such they create a supply for high demand items and demand for high supply items. That’s good for casual players.
In the end, all they do is balance out the market. Every single flip lowers margins for that particular flip. The TP would actually be more imbalanced without TP players. As time goes on, it becomes ever less likely for casual players to make dumb sales on the TP because all margins will be zero. As a casual player, I welcome that, and yes, they are allowed to earn money for their time…

Usually I remember absolutely everything in a game. In other games my brother called me the wiki because I usually know every single drop and recipe I encountered. Not so in GW2 There’s so many puzzles and the solutions are too complex to remember them all. I do remember the most difficult ones though but what’s easy in this game used to be insanely hard in previous MMOs so the bar has been raised considerably =)

Another suggestion: When you buy your EL gathering kits, they are ori quality. Every 100 uses they degrade to mithril > darksteel > … up until copper at which point they remain useable for copper and copper only. They never cease functioning. At this point you can repair them to ori quality again for 4s a tool. These kits cost 10g ea to buy.

Urthona.3198:

Yeah, “noob” and “newbie” have completely different connotations to me. “Noob” is an insult or self-deprecating term, while “newbie” is polite and neutral.

I make it a form of etiquette to never call someone “noob’”. I also try to avoid newbie, much rather I say “he’s new to this part of the game”.

CoRtex.2157:

marnick.4305:

Apart from UW, which I sincerely miss, you should realize that GW1 was a fundamentaly boring game at launch. Sure you had 2 weeks to finish the story, a month to get all elites/runes and a few more months to get obby. But apart from that …. there was absolutely nothing to do.
Now don’t get me wrong, I loved the game, but in prophecies I had two 4-month breaks. It was only with factions that the game became “full” in your words.

Nah man,, prophecies was all about running and farming trolls & totem axes. I remember the days i used to run full groups 2K each to droknar with my silly warrior using healing hands and Holy veil :p It felt like doing speedclears. It was awesommmme. But yeah, Factions made the game so much better.

Totem axe was implemented somewhere between factions and nightfall. Most likely you meant tribal axes.

Sylv.5324:

marnick.4305:

30 is when you get a job and wife, lose your virginity and get kids. Because of all the work with your wife, kids and colleagues, there’s no time anymore to play videogames.

And yet, 30 year olds are one of the biggest gamer and MMO demographics. It’s easy for a gamer to game a few hours after the kids are in bed— at least a few times a week. GW2 was designed so that those folks actually can do that.

I’m in my late 30s, no kids, have clocked 1600+hours so far.

Anyway, people who give up everything for work and children tend to be very unhappy people and are not really the majority of folks anyway. Everyone has hobbies.

I was very much joking I am 25 myself. GW2 is the third most important thing in my life (after gf and work) and my primary hobby.

Gathering tools are infinite gold regardless. Even farming copper with orichalcum picks nets profit. So in fact picks aren’t a gold sink but rather an upfront cost to create gold. Such a system doesn’t work as a gold sink.

I see the picks as an arbitrary way of lowering net profit, while I’d much rather have my bruto profit be the same as my net profit. So imho just cross out the costs vs part of the profit and be done with it. That shouldn’t be too difficult?

Storm of the Ages.9076:

A year is a VERY reasonable promise no new tier. Especially considering that is more that double the time that the game has come out. Think of how much you have done, and how much progression you have made on one of all of your characters. By the time 2014 comes everyone will be ready for some new stuff.

My main only got full exotic yesterday. My second character is lvl 49. I will be ready for new content, but not new tiers.

But surely every jobless person will have full ascended by December 2014 so I understand your position. Unfortunately I do not have the luxury of playing 10 hours a day. Even getting 1 ascended piece is a big deal since I can only do a single fractal a week. Imagine when I DC two weeks in a row … Real life obligations you know … some people have them. These obligations are exactly the reason we play GW2, a game that was promised to have horizontal progression, not this vertical nonsense.

Nuka Cola.8520:

marnick.4305:

Why fix what ain’t broken?

What do you mean? Almost everyone on this forum wants much more skills, swappable weapons skills, useful elites and more/better utilities. The only people that are fine with the tiny amount available haven’t played the game enough so to them its still ‘fresh’. I was thinking they were to add a new weapon for every class at the end of this month and they haven’t even mentioned anything for the whole year? w t f! I dunno how its even possible to spam same skills/builds for the next 12 months lol its like a torture not giving us choice of builds. Its like every single warrior spams 100b (always with GS equiped), every guardian spam GS as well, every mesmer spams sword/pistol, every ele spams d/d in spvp and staff in pve and so on. Plain boring if you ask me.

These are all things concerning expanding the combat system. The OP wanted to improve it, which is not necessary. With improvements I understand an overhaul of the underlying mechanics which are actually fine as they are. OK more skills and more options are fun but that’s expanding on a good system, not improving one.

But if intelligently chooosing when to cast the same 20 skills for months is a big deal to you, I strongly recommend going to any other mmo. You would find that either spamming 1 skill or adhering to an extremely strict rotation is much more rewarding /sarcasm.

I don’t want to be a doomthinker here but really … a year doesn’t mean anything to me. A year is merely 600 hours played. Does anyone expect to get full ascended in that timeframe?

Rabiez.9178:

i had playing GW1 that “full” feeling, I also feel like there’s nothing to work towards, don’t get me wrong we can do world exploration and crafting and all that great stuff but it doesn’t have the underworld farming solo builds you had to make and really awesome mat drops where you where all like “Jackpot im gonna make a killing off these ectos”

Apart from UW, which I sincerely miss, you should realize that GW1 was a fundamentaly boring game at launch. Sure you had 2 weeks to finish the story, a month to get all elites/runes and a few more months to get obby. But apart from that …. there was absolutely nothing to do.
Now don’t get me wrong, I loved the game, but in prophecies I had two 4-month breaks. It was only with factions that the game became “full” in your words.

That’s the same feeling I have with GW2. An extremely good foundation yet the game in total indeed doesn’t feel “full”. That’s normal with MMOs in release year. I"m sitting this out, I know what’s on the horizon. I’m hoping I can post this exact same text in 10 years when we talk about GW3 and how “full” GW2 felt.