Guild Wars 2

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

Crazy Idea…
… what if F5 was to swap places with the pet, or to play as the pet.

A more buffed up version of the pet, but similar to necromancer death shroud where we get independent health bars. Just a fun idea to bounce off of people. I always considered druids shape-kittenfers or being able to connect with the spirits of animals. The second options sounds like norn though so less likely.

I love this idea, and was kind of how I was hoping they’d take it.. but you’re right about the norn point you mentioned,

A big problem I see with them introducing this is that they will have completely negated the norm racial skills.

We see some common ground tbrougout the game already yes that’s true. Ranger healing spring and sylvari racials, but I can see them shying away from shape shifting because it’d the sole unique aspect ( see what I did there) of the norn s themselves.

I’ve seen some very convincing speculation, and there’s something that worries me.

What I dont want to see.

I don’t want to add aspects being something you channel, to receive boons/buffs/ect. Related to the animal.

For instance “channel bear and pulse protection and stability/Reliance to you and your allies.”

This is just another toggle skill you activate and can swap between much like the heralds utility skills..

That play style is just too. Boring to me and wouldn’t add anything interesting to the class mechanic in my opinion. I’m hoping this isn’t what we see, but from what I’ve read here and in other places, its a pretty common speculation.

Idk. I hope its more interactive. We’ll see soon hopefully

Dand.8231:

Hexalot.8194:

Rednik.3809:

Oh torch! This is surely more useful than… emm… no, bare hands are useful too… well, right, this is PIECE OF CRAP.

What… you’d prefer a dagger or pistol in your off-hand ?

LOL

I mostly certainly would

Jesus.. well done !!

I argued so hard to get people to stop qq’ing over the warhorn back when the teaser image was released.

“Lets wait till we see it”. " chrono was pretty awesome give ele a chance"

Then the actual reveal was so underwhelming for me I felt defeated.I called this along time ago. Doesn’t change the fact I’m scared kitten less

Apolo.5942:

To be honest, unless torch brings some seriously powerful gap closers which i would be able to combine with an axe, i am realy not interested. We already have conditions with warrior. They are not bad, they are simply not interesting to warrior players. When you roll a warrior you want a phisical tough and hard hitting class, conditions do not qualify.

I dint think we need gap closers.lol

I called this…..

Fred Fargone.3127:

Considering that they seem to be adding the absolute minimum amount of content possible to justify calling it an expansion (1 weapon for lucky professions, 2/5ths for less lucky, 1 ultimate each, 1 new trait line, 1 set of utility skills associated with that trait line, 1 new profession…) I wouldn’t be too surprised if it’s just 3. I’ll be rightfully disappointed tho.

I agree with what you said about the maps, but regarding the new profession and base classes, not so much.

The elite specializations I feel were something completely unexpected to ever happen. When everyone was asking for the expansion. Starting way before it was ever announced, who ever said " you know. It would be great If they made it possible to turn my base class into another class " (some argument can be made here with gw1 system of dual class.) But this really came out of no where, and although it may not seem like much, we are getting one brand new class. To make a total of nine professions. Really I dint think I want to see them ever release a tenth, it’s not necessary at this point, and with the elite spec system, any role / idea anet comes up with can easily be distributed out through the elite spec system.

So we have nine classes. One of those new to the expansion. And 1 elite spec for all 9. So… That’s nine classes nine elite specs. The elite specs have less to offer then a fully fleshed out profession, yeah I agree, but still offer every class a new way of play, a new way to build, and a new overarching theme to go along with it which can only be unlocked at lvl 80. Most of us already have lvl 80s where we want them, so it’ll just feel like something that’s added base to the game. But there meant to give the game some progressions past lvl 80, New benefits to actually hitting the cap. And I think that’s great ( shoulda waited before getting all toons to 80 tho .-. Would have been much more rewarding.)

Idk I feel like when it comes to tweaking the professions/ giving us something new, they hit the mark perfectly by giving us that last heavy armor, while filling all niches, and giving every base profession something to freshen up there game play and give us all something to look forward to while setting up a system to role out even more elite specs In the future.

My realistic dream for map # 6-8

Edit: bad grammar, had to fix.

Only time will tell how many maps we are getting.. on my thought on getting three.

It all depends really, how big are the maps, how Much content is packed into one, how is revisiting incentivized, are there map specific armor/weapons, or any map specific rewards at all that we will have the opportunity to work for, do bits and pieces of the legendaries coming with the expansion have anything to do with the maps. It’s too tough to say how I feel about only getting three

The number though, is very low, I expected to see more, 6-8 was what I was hoping for (trying really hard to be fair with those numbers, of course I’d like to see a map the size of gw2 map as is …lol..) and if we look at guild wars 1 expansions, saying we will only get three is just ridiculous. How many maps did we get there, you know? Continents lol.

What I think will happen is we will get 3 or 4 (I’m saying 4 because of the data mined rewards tracks points to four) and we will get possibly another 4 rolled out through living story throughout the year.

Gray.9041:

meeflak.9714:

style.6173:

I doubt they are doing another revenant announcement. If so, they have a horrible marketing group. It’s a bit of a groan at this point with the amount of revenant stuff lately.

I think the problem here is, no one has that attachment to the revenant, like we do our base class’s

I’m hyped for the rev. Don’t get me wrong. But with out many elite specs we have yet to go, it’s understandable to see where this is coming from

I’ll use me as an example , so I’m not to speak for everyone, but

I have 1000 hours or so on my ranger alone, over 3 thousand total in the game.

I’ve grown attached to my class! I’m so excited to see how my ranger is going to grow, much more so then to see how the new class works, simply because it doesn’t mean as much to me. I care for my ranger, what happens to the class. The mechanics, will we finally see pets fixed? Adjusted? Will some of our worries with the class be answered? That’s what I care about ! ( in terms of elite specs, hard core group content is #1 for me) but that’s what I want to see.

I’m not speaking for everyone , but I’d be very surprised if the warrior mains, engi mains, thief mains, didn’t feel the same. That’s just my take on this =)

thief main here, I totally agree with this, and find the timing to be a bit crappy, but I really don’t see how anyone can doubt that it is a revenant announcement. there’s really no room for reasonable doubt.

Oh I agree completely about it being glint. I was talking solely about the complaints of another rev. Announcement, we are on the same page!! =)

style.6173:

I doubt they are doing another revenant announcement. If so, they have a horrible marketing group. It’s a bit of a groan at this point with the amount of revenant stuff lately.

I think the problem here is, no one has that attachment to the revenant, like we do our base class’s

I’m hyped for the rev. Don’t get me wrong. But with out many elite specs we have yet to go, it’s understandable to see where this is coming from

I’ll use me as an example , so I’m not to speak for everyone, but

I have 1000 hours or so on my ranger alone, over 3 thousand total in the game.

I’ve grown attached to my class! I’m so excited to see how my ranger is going to grow, much more so then to see how the new class works, simply because it doesn’t mean as much to me. I care for my ranger, what happens to the class. The mechanics, will we finally see pets fixed? Adjusted? Will some of our worries with the class be answered? That’s what I care about ! ( in terms of elite specs, hard core group content is #1 for me) but that’s what I want to see.

I’m not speaking for everyone , but I’d be very surprised if the warrior mains, engi mains, thief mains, didn’t feel the same. That’s just my take on this =)

“None will ever hear her true name spoken properly”—-this is part of the caption from the Facebook post they made linking the same picture

What’s everyone’s take on this? Everything points to glint, but this throws me off.. glint is formerly known as glaust and has gone by no other names.. the only argument is to say they are referring to kralkatorrik. The problem with this is glint Is only a champion of
kralkatorrik, and is no way her “proper name”

So that throws me off a little. Any thoughts?

Edit:I’m still convinced it’s glint, but why do you think they included that line ?

Dishonored is back
Lol Aug. 10th blog post on home page

MrRuin.9740:

It has seemed like the trend the last couple of years and its not hard to see why.
MMO’s as a genre are stagnant. There’s been no real innovation or changes to it.
Sure, some will argue that this or that game has changed this or that feature, but they all still follow the same stagnant paradigms.
GW2, while claimed to be an innovator, has merely taken some of the best parts of other MMOs and combined them into one. They’ve added a fresh coat of paint, but that’s all it is. The same generic MMO cliches are still at the heart.
The shift from pay to play to microtransactions has affected this as well. The developers still need to make money, so they have to walk a fine line of what to put in their cashshop (GW2 I will admit has done a far better job of this than most).
MMO’s also tend to not be enticing enough on their own for daily play. This is why most have daily log-in rewards, or daily timed items/quests to instill the mindset in the player that they must login and do dailies/get daily rewards.
Their target audience probably lends to this problem, as their target is as many people as possible, so they try be everything to everyone.

“Their target audience probably lends to this problem, as their target is as many people as possible, so they try to be everything to everyone " I couldn’t agree with that quote more.

Chaith.8256:

meeflak.9714:

Can someone please post a link to a video of this…. I was buying a house and missed it… I need to see it .-. Can’t find it anywhere

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/10124128

Cheers!

Ahh it’s not working!!! I’ll assume it’s just because I’m trying to do it from my phone atm. I’ll try again at hime after work, thank you so Much though!!!!! <3

(Didn’t play beta) but if mob difficulty is hard enough to make people QQ. GOOD! Keep it hard, make it harder! This game needs challenging, rewarding content. I love this game to death. I’ve been playing since launch, I miss getting my faced kicked in those first few weeks of running dungeons, I missed when no one stacked in a corner. Personal story used to be so much fun! Back when you could keep playing through the levels. Being level 25 working your way into a level 30 story, or higher, however high you wanted !

Dungeons are too easy, personal story is too easy, orr is too easy, leveling is too easy, most open world bosses are too easy. I’m not saying make this game hard core! I’m saying bring back a little bit of the difficulty so we have to think again, utilize our builds, and feel like our characters have some actual power.

If we get into hot and the mods are face roll easy(111111112111111161111111) like they are now. Then by the time we learn the mobs mechanics it will be right back to where we are now.

Give us some actual game play.

Can someone please post a link to a video of this…. I was buying a house and missed it… I need to see it .-. Can’t find it anywhere

EremiteAngel.9765:

I would like to say great job to OL for bringing the fight to A
But A was more concerned with capping points than fighting.

PvP is fighting right? not capping points.

whats more fun?

Player vs Player or Capping vs Capping

How about playing the game mode? You know, conquest?

What’s more fun, playing the game or running around like you have no clue what you’re doing

No way to watch it right now right? No one’s got a link of the footage or anything ? I’m dying .-.

I’m in the middle of buying a home. I have no idea what’s going on, someone please tell me who one, is winning, whatever. And if you have a link to watch it if it’s finnished please link!!!!

Help!!!

I’m pretty excited to see what China’s going to bring.

I like abjured’s comp a lot , I dint think there the best team, but I’d like to see there comp vs whatever China brings

Phil.8901:

Dunno, i think is not bad move for several reasons

1) We’ll have a legendary Backpack to do
2) They totally reworked the legendary system with a precursor journey for every legendary
3) Many of the actual legendary are really good so not really need to introduce an entire new set immediatly.

So if you don’t like the new three legendaries you can wait and in the meantime focusing on backpack or other old legendary.

I think it’s more about the lack of content we are getting. There’s arguments to be made on that of course, but with how little information we’ve gotten so far its easy to say this expansion isn’t living up to the expectations an “expansion” sets fourth.

Side note…. If one of them is ANOTHER great sword I’m driving over to there office and rioting….

This is just going to be a big disappointment I feel. That’s what it’s been so far at least….. Yeah we will get a better look at the mastery system. But is that really it? Like really? The rest of the week is pretty much dedicated to the tournament…. I’m pretty excited for the tournament my self. But I don’t think gamescon should have been aboutt the tournament…. We got some " meet the players" blog posts Wednesday. One yesterday. Today we get the mastery look. Tomorrow tournament. Sunday tournament recap……

Completely underwhelming ….

I want to be excited for this expansion, and some of the stuff coming out of it seems good. But my hype is just killed..

GuzziHero.2467:

Well, I am English so technically I would be disparaging myself, but well done on scoring your internet ego-point.

Lol!!!!! +1 my friend .

SharpenedBlade.6803:

So no chance of us seeing any new elite specs this Gamescom? I yearn to see my precious druid specialisation in action.

The only thing they say we are going to get is a better look at the progression system…

Lol.

So not this week…. Thus. Gamescon is pretty Much going to be tournament coverage..

Diovid.9506:

meeflak.9714:

And if you look at the out Line they posted . It doesn’t really look like they have a whole lot planned for hot information at all…… Very tournament based…

We know there will be at least two announcements made on saturday; one that has to do with PvP and one that has to do with masteries.

There will also be a PoI on legendaries on friday.

Where did you hear about the legendary poi? Im at work Idk what’s going on in the world

And if you look at the out Line they posted . It doesn’t really look like they have a whole lot planned for hot information at all…… Very tournament based…

Did we really get nothing from today’s stream? I’m at work. So Idk what’s going on. But it doesn’t seem like any news has came out. Is this true so far?… Besides they plan to release in 2015….

Linfang.1087:

“When it’s ready, 2015”

+1 lololol

Lol… Agree… To be fair though, gamescon Is in a few days, I bet a lot of the team has already flown out for the show. We will get some info this week. Just gotta wait and see.

penelopehannibal.8947:

meeflak.9714:

We don’t need yet ANOTHER melee weapon. I hope we get rifle, as cool as melee staff sounds on thief, is as someone above Me said, redundant…

There are equal Melee weapons are there are ranged. When it comes to weapon skills, there are actually already more ranged skills than melee when it comes to weapon skills.

This doesn’t invalidate what I said. Another melee weapon would be redundant.

We have no good ranged option. Still holds true. I’ll direct you to my forum topic on the subject “my take on rifle vs staff” I’ve had this argument 3.5 to many times

Dagrin the Ethereal.8371:

They have stated in the past that they will not be including more dungeons on HOT. They want to focus more on open world events like Triple Threat and Tequatl. For good or worse, that is the word I have seen.

Where/ when did they say that? No news at all has came in relation to the challenging content coming with hot. It could very well be dungeons/raids/open world encounters/guild only events.

We literally don’t know.

Look at the fractals revamp. It could even be fair to say we will see a revamp of the original dungeons as well. We dint know yet

Raujin.5872:

Shapeshifting kits pretty please

No no no this is for druid (; please omg please

meeflak.9714:

snow.8097:

that could be possible
i cannot imagine that they just introduce one legendary back u can only get when u do fractals, which is currently not so popular
it would be cool and fair to let pvp and wvw have own legendary backpacks
so u can see with one look who is an expert in that pillar of the game

I just wanted to reply to you. Because our rangers seem to have very similar names (;

On another note though. I don’t see them ever making a legendary specific to any game mode, a net doesn’t like to separate the community like that .

When you say PvP /wvw exclusive, are you saying only obtainable though those game modes? Or only useable in those game modes
(Also) fractals is not the only way of obtaining this backpack ( unless I’m horribly mistaken. Although I dint think I am)

Edit: including link to the wiki page for ascended trinkets, to show acquisition is not fotm specific

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_ascended_trinkets

A net has also stated on reddit that fotm will not be the only place to get the ascended salvage kits. The only thing left in question is “Ad Infinitum” which we don’t really know anything about. As long as that doesn’t require running fotm over and over. Then there’a nothing making this backpiece fotm exclusive

snow.8097:

that could be possible
i cannot imagine that they just introduce one legendary back u can only get when u do fractals, which is currently not so popular
it would be cool and fair to let pvp and wvw have own legendary backpacks
so u can see with one look who is an expert in that pillar of the game

I just wanted to reply to you. Because our rangers seem to have very similar names (;

On another note though. I don’t see them ever making a legendary specific to any game mode, a net doesn’t like to separate the community like that .

When you say PvP /wvw exclusive, are you saying only obtainable though those game modes? Or only useable in those game modes
(Also) fractals is not the only way of obtaining this backpack ( unless I’m horribly mistaken. Although I dint think I am)

Literally just finished my lvl 80 engi last night just for this elite spec. Idk why I just have high hopes for arena net to do something amazing with this. Class. It’s the most versatile in my opinion, this and the ele at least. So I’m excited to see what they can do

We don’t need yet ANOTHER melee weapon. I hope we get rifle, as cool as melee staff sounds on thief, is as someone above Me said, redundant…

They are working on one of my three biggest complaints.

1. End game progression ( not content. Character progression)
Masteries and elite specializations are working on this. Thank
You a net.

2. Game difficulty /catering to casual players/ new players to
Heavily.
Hopefully being fixed with the up and coming “challenging”
Group content.

Dungeons, open world bosses, personal story, everything
Really is far too easy.

3. The meta (80 zerk experienced only link gear 5k AP)
This isn’t just anti elitist, it’s about the lack of incentive to
Play anything except dps specs. I really hope challenging
Content kills to birds with one stone Here.

P.S. wanting something new other then the meta doesn’t mean I want a hard trinity.

A net confirmed on reddit there will be other vendors for the ascended salvage kits to get the mats

Didn’t the post say purchased from the vendor. I’m fotm? Then doesn’t that mean all you have to do is .. you know.. go into the fractal? Not play it but just enter the fractal? It doesn’t say anything about requiring fractal relics

This was amazing… Like omg… Yes … Please… Thank you.

As excited I am about elite specializations. This post coming out of no where got me so hyped!!!! Thank you a net ! Looking forward to the higher level fractal!!!

I’m hoping to hear about the challenging group content. What better place to talk about it right?=)

Sadly enough. I feel there will be no new animals in hot. I wouldn’t even be surprised If there where no juveniles in the New maps at all.

I doubt they’ll make any ranger pets exclusive to hot areas, that gates the community. Unless the new pets are druid exclusive I dint think it’ll happen.

I don’t think arena net will make pets for the base game ranger that only hot players have access to. Which really Is a shame. I’d love some new pets

Please arenanet. Tell us of challenging content. Then all this breaking in elite specs will be fully worth it for me. ( for me guys I said for me.. don’t yell at Me)

So. We didn’t get any news this week. Next week Is gamescon so we should definitely expect News there… Please, please don’t let that be wrong. I don’t think we will see elite specializations though.

They do there whole teaser Monday, blog posts Thursday , live stream Friday thing. Gamescon starts on Wednesday and goes still Sunday , I dint think there going to slot a time Friday just for an elite spec reveal. Unless they have a small team hanging out here in good ol Bellevue for the week and the plan on releasing whatever info they have throughout the weekend and the elite spec reveal on top of it on the side. That would be beautiful.

Idk though. I expect it to be something like e-3 . Full pause on everything to talk about something ( not complaining I love how they handled there e3 week.)

I just want to see druid…

I’m practically asleep right now writing this. Probably way to long for what it was.

In summary . Don’t expect to see any elite specs next week. Expect a full dedication to whatever big content they have to talk about (challenging group content hopefully)

UNLESS they do one elite spec a day. And dedicate a seperete week to revenant. Highly unlikely but just a thought…

So much ranger hate …

#blametheranger

Kicker.8203:

If you want to shoot ppl go ranger.

As you can see I’m main ranger.

I hope you read my full post my friend

No news this week. Instead we’d like to give you a new game build..

Filled with bugs

Bugs on everything

#karkaround2

….. This was a bad day .

Seabreeze.8437:

Serious Thought.5394:

I WOULD LOVE IT IF RIFLE PLAYED LIKE NOVA IN HEROES OF THE STORM!!!!! I mean, I would just auto delete everyone on my account and just…play Nova. I’d buy a rename, I’d look for the armor, I’d PAY ANET SO MUCH! TAKE MY MONEY ANET! LEMME BE NOVA! Sorry…ahem. You didn’t see that.

Nova’s in a weird place in HotS right now though, and a playstyle like that sounds like it would be absolutely broken as hell in this game. I mean, with all the disengage options the thief has access to (shadowsteps, stealth, among others), thieves would be literally impossible to catch at 1200 range.

Speaking of Heroes… I’ve seen people suggesting a bard-type elite spec suggesting the use of an axe guitar (not for thieves obviously), and I can’t help but think of E.T.C. and how much I would love that (yeah, E.T.C. is my fav).

We can count on a net to balance it!!! Right? Am I right ?=)