Guild Wars 2

please remove pve POIs and maybe relocate the EB jump puzzle to the server spawn points, as they will be easily accessible then. vista’s i have been koay with, because they seem out of the way enough from a battle, you really only have to contend with NPCs or other players going for it, as well.

as kittenn as it is to be an easy way for the opposing zerg to get points/badges, it is not kittenn for the lone PvE player(s) trying to get completion.

cannot run around WvW nekkid to show my lack of wanting to battle, because i just die faster from falls and zerg players. cannot announce my intention in chat, as then i basically give myself away to players. the only way i found was to join the zerg, but i don’t do enough damage to warrant trying to help.

maybe i should have kept all of those animal potions….

Dailies + Events

where is the EB jumping puzzle? i have been scrubbing for 2 weeks exploring around for completion, and it’s tough.

no one has mentioned the line of sight/obstructed, yet?

ele auto attacks in arah story (victory or death) in the tunnel with the red rings (before harpy boss). looking right at the turret to kill to advance, says OBSTRUCTED. seriously? i am looking right at it, even standing up to it in some cases..

as for the INVULNERABLE, it is very unimpressive when it happens. i have to switch targets for about 30 seconds before i can attack my original target, again. some skelk can teleport when they are in attack range, and do some damage before reappearing. that’s okay, but i cannot park my ranger up on a hill, for tactical advantage?? harpies fly up into the air to avoid attacks (well, more like disappear, because looking up, they disappear and reappear)

would break game if zhaitan went invulnerable because he was too far away.

maybe make an option to follow party members, so you can watch the battle go on. hide the skill usage of followed players, but being able to watch the rest of the battle from other players’ perspectives would be nice.

i just walk over all the bodies and spam F until i walked over all of them.

maybe just make it so that the loot magically follows players and lands in their inventory.

alter game so that every class gets base 1,000 healing power. maybe it’s my lack of healing power, but my ele can only heal for about 4-5k every 25 seconds. by the time i waste dodges and try to stay alive, i still end up downed or dead before it recharges.

my guardian is able to heal through poison and bleeding, unlike my ele.

resurrecting is like healing too – healing players from 0 HP / gray screen of death.

if there was ever a healer class implemented, the “heal bots” could res players, and get to 80 on ressing, alone. that might be a problem.

have you tried just flat-out leaving, and recreating a guild? or is the guild all built-up with upgrades you don’t want to rebuild?

i think repetition is the key to the jumping puzzles. i have had numerous occasions of rage and frustration, and even when i go again with other players, i still have trouble. a few puzzles are easier after doing them so many times, but others can still be brutal, even with practice.

once or twice i intentionally leaped off so that i could practice the one section (only to anger myself further)

also, what character race are you using? my human ele has a decent time on some of them, but my real puzzle star is my asuran. it looks as if they have extra speed, but probably feels that way since they are the smallest of the races, so they seem like they move faster. the norn look like they might move a bit slower.

i sometimes practice jumping around the towns – if there are crates and stairways, i am always testing myself by jumping around on things, trying not to hit the floor.

this would be helpful, as i am trying to Scrub my way around WvW, and i am always encountering invisible players, which do not render until i am either downed, or dead. upon dead state to WP back, all of the sudden players around me come to life and appear.

took 6 hours last night to scrub my way around SB, and i still need ONE MORE POINT to complete this particular map.

a deer dungeon would be a great addition to the game, for some variety in the content.

please do not nerf deer…they are tyria’s saviors!!!

my lv 80 went toe to hoof with a deer … i lost. maybe in the next expansion, we can assemble a deer army to retake elona from Joko…i am sure they will survive the sulfur wastes.

maybe the next dragon is a Deer, in disguise? in that case, we’d never win.

received box of goodness inside an in-game mail today. opened it on my lunch hour, and got some items.

let me buy on the TP, or armor merchants.

There are ascended quiver items with the fractals introduction, but yes, i would like a guild cape. the Guild weapon/shield skins that display your guild logo aren’t my style.

i find myself logging in with excitement to see other players, so i say hello in Guild chat, and then realize that non-reps cannot see that. so while there are members of the guild on, i am the only one representing, so my hellos go unanswered.

makes the guild a lonelier place, every day. at least random players SOMETIMES /wave back

Best Buy (25$/2,000)
Fry’s Electronics (25$/2,000)
Gamestop, where i live (15$/1,200)
Amazon

is this the “Error: Cannot Sell” error? i get this often, even if it’s my first sale of the night.

the ability to take them bags of silver, and throw them into the forge to get a bag of gold would be nice, too…

If Trahearne is the apparent know-it-all on all things Orr and Undead, wouldn’t he have a plan already to end the war against the dragons? oh, because he needed the plant sword with every professions’ skills imbued into it? c’mon, now. maybe it’s just coincidence, but how come Trahearne doesn’t get Risen-pulled? all the missions in Orr, they never really attacked him much when i was rollin’ through Orr. he did not need us to accompany him into the dream to get the sword at the end…

if he is the “know-it-all”, and he shows up to the enemy’s doorstep to get rid of them, wouldn’t they be gunning for him first? or the undead should have gone Terminator-style and infiltrated the Pact ranks to attempt a murder. The only thing that came close to it was the Vigil one with the mesmer mole.

still hoping for a marauder shields like expansion/rewrite.

but if he became a leading commander (with apparent experience) to take back Elona from Palawa Joko, and my ele as second in command, i can see that happening.

DAT foreshadowing in the story mode (the pale tree instance) when he gets the Great sword (in Orr) ruined it for me. i think it was the first time in a game where i said to myself and in chat “i know where this is going”, and actually predicted my character’s bump to sidekick.

he should have died, and not Apatia or Mirra/Mira (from Claw Island)

i would have been happier if the story instances were group missions, like most of the story ones (if not, all) in Guild Wars 1 + Expansions. i did not feel epic because i had nobody to join me in my story, so i zerged through it, and was left disappointed. it would have been more epic to see other characters doing the story too, cause a small group of low-armored NPCs just don’t make things epic when they are downed faster than me.

ranger or ele come to mind, but i am not really sure.

just Precision and power, no tough or vit?

then how would they solve all the armor look-a-likes? larger characters all look like space marines, and necros look like the mesmers and elementalists. with all the cosmetic armor sets, they drown out the unique ones. there is no way besides possible armor choice to differentiate players from each other.

i changed my asuran and hairstyle of my ele, so far. but some hairstyles make my character’s head look smaller.

i like the HoM idea. if you don’t really like what the HoM has to offer, there isn’t a reason to go back. i walked around to absorb the lore (it was there, it is now old ruins), though never returned.

upon finishing story for the second time, give is some kind of way to open the Xunlai chests. I left some nice gear in there from Guild Wars 1…

or implement something like Borderlands 2, with the vault keys – the higher your level, the increased chance you get something awesome – so it’s worth holding onto them for awhile until lv80. you could get multiple Xunlai keys, using skillpoints (because there’s already enough karma and gold sinks) which will open the chests. make it so that you can access the chests once a week, or something.

i have 2 sets of T3, and farmed for them, so while i am against cheapening it, don’t make it a karma-based item set. if anything, please make MORE options or ways of acquiring. like, if you HAD 120gold, that’s cool. Otherwise, you get some options, like 65k karma + 50 gold, or 150 potatoes and carrots for the NPC, because some of them need to eat! they seem so hungry.

if they fixed T3 to be better stat’d, think about all the players like myself that may already have obtained it and transmuted it to other items. though i probably should have saved the base stats, in case. worst case scenario, they will probably just make it so i have to obtain it again.

also, allow salvaging of those items. would be nice to be able to resell my runes i over-paid for back then.

this game could use more quests for regular, non-holiday times.

Thanks for the assistance! I will try that right now. I had just done the Tribulation Caverns, when exiting from the Tribulation Scaffolding puzzle.

Been looking all weekend for the two places i am missing, and i cannot seem to find the last 2 places.

1) Possible Grawl City- located under Frost Basin in Hoelbrak, in Dredgehaunt Cliffs. walking up to the cave discovered Ulukk’s Hunger, with a tunnel looking to be an access point (gw184.jpg). the entrance is frozen shut (gw181.jpg). My fire skills don’t melt it, there are no explosives around, and no killing spree of Svanir or event opens it. I would like to know how to access this content. The area is called Forsaken Halls on the wiki page, which i am using to compare maps to my own.

2) updating when i find next part

there is also a dredge mine in the charr lands, where you can play wack-a-mole with spawning dredge at the entrance, complete with shovels for “hammers”.

Sorry if i answered already. i was hoping i could add to my post if i had one, but i thought i would just make a new rely, instead.

1. Who here, still come to forums but play the game much less?

i come to forums to see if there’s any new new items about state of game stuff, or fixes. read gem store opinions, and try to contribute to cultural forums

2. When did you start playing less?

when the bots started going away, because i think DR is still bad, or even worse now without them (can’t confirm, just making money the same way i was before is not as great anymore).

dungeons are the possible “new” endgame, and i find them too difficult for my simple mind. i play hours and hours over the weekends, but never really get good enough for higher-level things, where everyone else is playing.

i do not feel powerful enough to go and replay content @ lv80, or help more players, because i feel like i would let them down instead of being helpful. i dream of the day i can afford certain items to get me up to snuff/par with the rest of the dungeoneers, and other elite player base. still chasing that dream. my ele has what i think is good armor, but dungeons and the associated player base still scare me. i am scared to play dungeons, overall.

i do dailies now and then spend 2 hours/night looking for action to just take part in, then i go to bed. if i pull an all-nighter, i run around the zone aimlessly looking at trees and wildlife, and trying to talk with guild or people, which doesn’t usually happen much. i try to res players in lower zones, or some nights i just go anti-social and not help a soul.

3. Why / What caused the decline in time spent?

dungeon elitism, because that is the area i feel like i could have or add some more variety. but i cannot find groups because i am a dungeon noob. originally did not want to level 2 more characters, but did hoping the “variety factor” would keep me busy. it did not after both characters hit level 23 and 35. then it was a lonely leveling process through repeated content until both were lv80.

heart objectives are the same every play-through. their locations don’t vary, the NPCs are the same, and say the same things. they are auto rewarding fetch and kill quests, with zone-appropriate gear (i think appropriate). same with dynamic events. i think that after doing a few repeatedly, they just seem like they are some kind of rotation timer, which isn’t really dynamic, unless it breaks halfway or after 3 waves of enemies. even the dragon events there’s an internet timer, i heard in chat last night at jormag and blazeridge (shatterer).

time spent on ranger has been shelved unless i am in a party, because players assumed i was a bot while leveling from 35-80 a few times. i am now paranoid to play my ranger, and i am now trying to figure out how to get max armor by not using TP, and going through the world to get it. i am scared to play my ranger.

i sometimes go back to Orr, but since i have done most of the events hundreds of times already, after breaking from that area and coming, back, i lost the willpower to do anything there anymore. when doing dailies, the karma i get goes to guardian, so that maybe one day when melandru’s temple is uncontested, i might have enough karma to complete my dream set for it. then i can think about branching with my guardian some more.

i would work on achievements for my slayer titles (kill 1,000 of somethings) but i feel like it’s going to lead to problems when i start camping in spots to kill say, bats or harpies. i don’t want to be pinned for botting by agitated or otherwise profiling players who think i am encroaching on their “favorite” hot-spots out in the world just to make a buck.

i tired to enter WvW once, but it said all the portals were full, so i stopped trying (mentioned earlier in forums, somewhere). and i am the kind of player that would rather play WITH others then against them, if given the choice. but pve seems easy to solo (as it stands) with the right skill level, and the enemies are consistent enough for me to learn BASIC patterns (because i am simple-minded, after all)

oceans in Orr have constant pulls, forcing me underwater, and not allowing me to escape. it’s 5 minutes of pulls from mobs at the water’s surface, there’s no hope or chance of progress in the water.

1. When did you begin playing?

since early release (anet closed my account for no reason for 2 weeks after the 3-day headstart, not sure why, but been playing since regaining access)

2. how many hours total do you have? (/age)

779+ hours

3. What’s your most gold banked so far?

147 Gold, spent a few this morning

4. Do you have a max level character (s)?

3x level 80s

5. List 1-3 areas / zones / events / tp; where you spend most of your time for income.

Caledon for dailies, Orr for armor spec testing (hahaha, i know, right?) and where the guild wants to do a dungeon.

6. Do you mainly use MF or not?

tried it for 3 weeks, didn’t notice positive change, stopped using it. keeping 9% on weapons though (3%, 3% – dagger set and 3% backpack upgrade, just in case)

7. Have you ever got an exotic weapon from a mob? If so, how many and total?

zero. zip. nadda. zilch.

8. Have you ever got an exotic weapon from a chest? If so, how many and total?

during Karka battle, got the energizer and eir’s longbow, which are the only 2 i got…. ever

9. What’s the most number of rare weapons you have looted in one day or 8hrs time?

11 from penitent path in early October, before major possible nerfs in November

10. How many rare or exotic weapons do you “expect” to loot in one hour of time?

at least one would make me happy . perfect world maybe 2-3…or 10

11. How many lodestones have you looted total so far? (all types)

like dungeon tokens? 500-something CoF tokens, 180 AC tokens, which i spent on some ranger armor. 10 dredge tokens, and 15 fractal ones

12. Do you craft? If so, do you have a 400 crafter? if so, how many?

level 0 in all professions.

13. Do you sell your looted crafting mats? (specify optional)

every chance i get / all the time

14. Do you feel your return, (in terms of items, completion, income, etc) for your time, has been worth it?

no, because i think that DR is still out there or even worse now, i have 2 more characters to “max” yet it seems to be taking much, MUCH longer than when i maxxed my elementalist. guess you have to get it while the gettin’s good in order to get anywhere.

15. In ONE word, what needs improved most; from your perspective?

the “variety”

i find caledon forest pretty fun and quick. make a circular path around the zone, and for the 5/5 events, there’s those “turn you into a crab/moa/etc to do battle”, and i think there are 5 of those on the same side of the map. plenty of nodes are in there, as well. if the battle events aren’t your thing, there’s the mosquito/firefly essence ones just outside of the grove, around the trading post NPCs there.

kill anything that can be attacked and you can rack up 60 kills in a few minutes or less being lv80 (2-5 shotting things is quick)

getting the variety kills might be tougher, though. i have had no problems though

nunchucks for melee and slingshots for ranged classes.

asurans + nunchucks = scary enemies.

i gave a player 50 silver once, because we were trying to coordinate a dungeon meet up location, and they must’ve spent loads traveling around because of poor miscommunication.

i also gave a player that ressed me at Penitent 2 silver for res, during the days when there were bots there. sometimes if players res me multiple times in a row, i give them something for their commitment and risk-taking.

now, if only there were homeless characters in the HUBs, that might be a bit much.

my ele hit a tree for lolz, and died once using ride the lightning. i like the escape use for it, but if it auto targets something else, it defeats the purpose, a bit.

no..add a Bag of Exotic-ness – for super hard to find items and loot.

i also thought the bag of gems was for the gem store. maybe doing iot this way will pul players back

i sense that the golem workshop will be some kind of asuran-themed wintersday dungeon, in the air. maybe players will have to retake the workshop from the grentches, or something, saving wintersday.

i can’t bring myself to promote this game to friends. then again, i really don’t have any friends besides the ones in my guild that take me into dungeons every night

i tried to get my brother to play more, but after 5 hours, i think he’s given up, because he cannot join stormbluff, and has not been able to for 2 weeks. i really doubt he is trying, anyways, but small stuff like that kind of breaks it for me. “hey come join me in this awesome game, but we can only chat with each other because i am on another server, and you have to wait for it to free up spots to attempt to join me. see you when your 80…maybe.” can’t really go help him either, because i don’t want to risk losing my spot on the server after i change.

i found a small niche of players i like to hang out with in game, so i guess all the people i want to play with are alreakitteneping me happy. until they leave. they are nice people, and are cool with my noobishness.

Orr seems to have been drained of most life besides DE farming, so i cannot get my guardian to Melandru’s temple to get my next piece of exotic armor there. i tried to solo it, but i just can’t do it. every time i try i lose a bit of motivation to play, so i avoid that area mostly now, and focus on dailies to keep me invested every day, hoping the temple will become uncontested long enough for me to get what i need. and maybe by then i will have enough karma.

my guild friends want to do fractals, so i welcome the challenge it will bring.

used two of the makeover packs, and felt bad cause i only changed my character’s hair and accent colors. so i should have just gotten the stylist packs, instead.

my asuran looks nicer now, because i was able to choose options i always wanted, instead of just using the defaults.

some game stores sell gem cards, which you can buy instead if the online transactions are unable to complete. i usually call my bank and talk with them over the phone about it while making purchases. they seem really nice about it.

HERO.2057:

Pale Tree is not strong enough to defeat the other 5 dragons so she is using us when we finally defeat the dragons she will rise as the most strong powerfull dragon ever.

The Pale Tree was the most powerfull evil creature ever, all the gods banded together and created 5 mystical creatures that as long as they lived the Pale Tree would not be able to powerfull enough to create any damage.

The Pale Tree saw in tyrian creatures the perfect ally to try to destroy the dragons and unleash her, so she pretends to be nice all along, after we destroy all the dragons she will reveal herself and destroy anything that does not bound to her power and will.

Tyrians will learn the horryfing truth that the dragons weren’t trying to destroy tyria, they were trying to destroy the Pale Tree all along and since we allied with her, they took us for enemies, this is all a big misunderstood.

We now are at the edge of the cliff, and when things are about to end for humanity, the six return and give us for a brief moment all the magic we could ever ask for and together we shall destroy the imprison the Pale Tree, then the six remove our powers and we move one.

So it is like the first AC game with altair and his mentor….?

many snowball fights.

i wanna be on that Golem Blimp/Zeppelin.

also, why does it always have to be in lion’s arch? all the hubs are as easily accessible. maybe have it in all city hubs, so that players can move around and not clog up LA.

is that what that is? i thought my monitor was broken around the edges all this time. i spent 700$ testing monitors

Twomix.5384:

Whoever thought of saturating Orr with mobs would provide more challenge gotta go back to game design school. More is not merrier in this case.

Also, the idea that “to make bosses harder and more difficult, multiply their toughness and HP pools, leaving their simple attack patterns in tact. the bigger the red bar, the harder it is.”

orr could be better if the Risen did not pull. you can evade the chills, and kind of deal with cripple, and the chompy thing is annoying to listen to, but the pulls are stupid and lazy. i got chased to the top of a hill, and the pull axe came up and over the hill to grab me. the risen did not have correct line of sight, but can pull me still. i take my ranger to a higher, tactical advantage to pick off risen, and they turn invulnerable/no line of sight/obstructed, then pull me down from my perch and proceed to own me.

the risen can turn tail and run with godly regen, but i cannot do the same off a bad pull/kite? not fun.

there is definitely a pacing issue, somewhere. i guess i play more often the the others in my guild, so i can traverse some areas with relative ease, while they get stuck behind. with the quick respawn rates, i try to clear a path for them to navigate, or retake the bridge so they can cross, only to find they get side-tracked, and i lose my patience waiting and clearing until they come around again.

sometimes, i join players asking for help, only to find once i get there, they already finished and moved on. so the content might be easier, so there really isn’t much of a need to party, especially in lower areas. but if you like partying with players, the cursed shores players are always looking to group, even if its for 4 minutes at a time.

if the main attraction to GW2 is promoted as “Play Your Way”, then i will definitely take that option, since zerging doesn’t require any partying, whatsoever – you just show up and follow the herd.

add reindeer and a chance for a santa in the sky sighting in the norn areas.

make santa like a dragon boss (HUGE, with sleigh), also explodes into candy upon death. make it so that instead of equipped weapons, make players use snowballs to attack santa-dragon hybrid. he could throw presents at players, but the presents players would keep. he would have an AoE-style present, which drops onto groups of players (damaging them), but then explodes into goodies for players to recover and pick up. freeze rays galore could be a special asuran gun, or something.

flip side, make a scrooge-like dragon, as well. this one would also be a hybrid dragon, with similar attacks to Bubbles the Sparkfly(?) dragon – the one with the name i cannot pronounce correctly. players would combat him by throwing coals and rocks at it. various special weapons can be like a coal gun that shoots coal like a shotgun, or something, or more seige weapons at the site with larger boulders.

since these will probably be one-time events, GIVE EVERYONE LIKE 100K Karma, 12 gold 24 silver 12 copper (easter egg!), and Exotics for participating, to offset the possible culling/lag/disconnect issues that will surely arise (Christmas is all bout awesome gifts, right?). also make it so that it does not take place in Lion’s arch or other cultural hubs, and make it an instanced event, so players get teleported to a private group instance, and not pick up late to the party people (so you have had to be there to start with everyone else). adjust events so that all my be able to participate eventually and frequently on alts. also since its a separate instance, it should be repeatable multiple times/day.

also, will drop insane amounts of karma and good cheer upon players. would also like to see ghosts of ascalon past (such as heroes from the first games) showing up and giving out great USEFUL/WORTHWHILE items, without the need for fetch questing.

everyone just post your chests on the TP, and help also by not buying them on the TP. a mass flood of un-bought black lion chests might send a message.