Guild Wars 2

Wish this game had the GW1 system of selectable districts instead of random overflows.

It used to be WAY easier to meet up with friends and guildies for large events.

Now it’s either camp the main server map for an hour beforehand, or try and meet up in a specific overflow and hope for the best

Cogbyrn.7283:

it would take a pretty extreme situation for that 5% to be the deciding factor.

The difference is closer to 12.6% with a full set. Personally I’ve come out of many a fight with below 10% health.

For now it’s still barely noticeable but once a significant amount of players have fully ascended sets the exotic players will really begin to feel the sting.

Epic.3950:

I find myself waiting critical .25-1 second before my skill actually responds.

lol @ .25 second “skill lag”

I’de kill for that kind of response time

If you are using HOM minis or other free-to-get minis just get a stack of 250 of them and they’ll stop going to collectibles no matter what kind of bag you store yours in.

This game having the best graphics of any MMO is one of the few things the GW2 community agrees on pretty much unanimously.

Good question.

The sale has caused a spike in the price of gems essentially cancelling the savings unless you bought gems beforehand or with cash.

Question: once you have the pass, is traveling to the terrace free?

Blanger.3162:

Been playing my Ranger the last few days while using the “quickening zephyr” (suppose to be 50% increase in speed ) signet the animation does happen but I see no increase in speed, people still just pass me by while running and actually pull ahead…weird.

Quickness doesn’t affect your movement speed.

Anet’s definition of “nearest” varies wildly for each situation. Sometimes it means the most powerful foe (i.e a champ) sometimes it is the enemy directly in front of you, not necessarily the nearest. Other times it just seems plain random. I just keep spamming the target key until whichever target I’m looking for pops up, or when all else fails, click to target. shudder

GW1 targeting system worked flawlessly i.e nearest and next target actually worked as expected.

Dailies bore the heck out of me, so any laurels I get are from monthlies that auto complete themselves. It’ll be close to a year before my main has all ascended gear, let alone my alts.

If “new” stuff means “PVE” stuff the wait can go on indefinitely IMO

Doggie.3184:

Stars.2179:

iirc it’s on the middle floor. urgh, everyone is using LA’s bank anyway, just come to LAD

I prefer Grove bank. Less lag and loads fastah and everythings right next to eachother. You have to learn the WPs though. It’s in the center of town on map (should be like 2 or 3 WPs in center) its the one off to the left~ mid section of town. Once you understand how to reach the little town square in grove it’s the most convenient place in game. If only it had a Mystic Forge.

The WP is right next to Bank, Trading Post and Crafting areas. It’s beautiful.

SShhhhh this is one of the best kept secrets in the game :P

Everything you need, bank, guild bank, trade post, merchant even crafting tables are within rock throwing range of Reckoner’s Waypoint

The Grove is much more peaceful than Lion’s Arch and, being much smaller, it loads WAY faster. IMO it’s also one of the prettiest areas in the game. The only downside is that travel there isn’t free. I have 0 Sylvari toons but I’m there all the time hehe

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bank

EDIT: oops…http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Banker

nikitnq.7143:

root.9415:

Heal Party!

Healing all party members from halfway across the map ftw. I can see why it hasn’t made it to GW2 though hehe

Hey they fixed that!

lmao did they?

Pre nerf heal party then!

Players can whip out their credit cards, buy gold, craft their toons to 80, buy all the best armor and weapons from the TP, all without ever leaving LA.

IMO this is P2W. Is it gamebreaking? Nope.

Heal Party!

Healing all party members from halfway across the map ftw. I can see why it hasn’t made it to GW2 though hehe

Jorjeis.2169:

root.9415:

You keep referring to things which have little or nothing to do with the OP.

Free transfers for T1 is NOT free transfers for all.

Didn’t realize I was dealing with the short yellow bus. I’ll spell it out for you.

Free. Transfers. For. Everyone. Included. Free. Transfers. For. Tier 1. Guilds. They. Could. Have. Spread. Out. Then. They. Didn’t.

And you conveniently ignored my second point, which is that oceanic and SEA don’t have the population to spread out anyway, and they are a big part of what drives the coverage for Tier 1. Feel free to keep trucking along with your myopic view though, which anet will thankfully keep ignoring.

So we disagree. The insults and name calling is hardly necessary.

Jorjeis.2169:

No it’s not. They had the opportunity to do that during the aforementioned period. They didn’t until Condemned stopped playing. Then the non NA guilds found that their membership atrophied because there was no competition in lower tiers, and everyone congregated around a few servers and you ended up in the same situation with people gravitating to a few servers. The server names have changed (SBI, HoD, ET, and SoS have all fallen by the wayside) but little else has.

The Oceanic and SEA populations are such that they can’t support more than a couple of servers, and those servers that get picked will always end up as the Tier 1s. If we wanted small scale battles then we’d do sPvP, but we want GvG so we concentrate our numbers so we have enough to have both allies and people to fight.

You keep referring to things which have little or nothing to do with the OP.

Free transfers for T1 is NOT free transfers for all.

I actually like this idea. I’m sure there are plenty of players that enjoy easily rolling over their opponents but i think the majority of WvW players would much prefer close matchups than a complete blowout.

I for one trust the judgement of humans far more than an RNG algorythm. Call me old fashioned.

Jorjeis.2169:

root.9415:

This is a good idea IMO but there is no way Anet will sacrifice the cash cow that are server transfers. It’s money out of thin air for them. Balance be kitten ed.

No it’s not, and it’s empirically proven to boot. During the first months of play there were free transfers for all and it did nothing for balance. In fact it was worse than the current situation because the fairweathers all went to whoever was winning.

That’s apples and oranges. The OP is about T1 server players having the possibility of transferring to a lower tier server for free. What you are referring to is the exact opposite.

Alcyone.8695:

In this thread, WvW players beg for a PvE-related thing.

Because it’s a purely cosmetic holiday feature that has absolutely 0 impact on actual gameplay.

+1 for wintersday siege =]

This is a good idea IMO but there is no way Anet will sacrifice the cash cow that are server transfers. It’s money out of thin air for them. Balance be kitten ed.

I play GW2 on a crappy old work laptop with low screen resolution and thought this problem was on my end. Apparently not.

I’de gladly pay $59.95 USD for an entire other planet to explore and associated content (following the same GW1 formula for expansions, Cantha anyone?)

These bimonthly LS updates may be “free” but they are temporary so as a casual player all I’ve got to show for them are a bunch of half finished metas in my history panel.

Paulytnz.7619:

Interesting stuff. How about 2.5 billion or so in a stack? Because that’s what the last game I played bank offers as well as personal inv spaces for some items like cash, runes etc. So how many bits would 2+ billion work out at, seriously I am interested lol?

32 bits = 2,147,483,647

I’ve always assumed the 250 stack limit to be a database thing. In binary the highest number you can achieve with 8 bits is 255. (this is why you’de never see an IP address with a higher number than 254)

Going past 255 requires more than 8 bits = more disk space. 16 bits have the potential for a stack of 65535 though and once you’ve crossed that bridge a stack of 256 or 65535 takes up the same amount of diskspace/computing power so there really is very little reason to charge 3 x for the upgrade.

Being in comms instantly makes you a better player.

Many years from now, with Guild Wars 3 on the horizon or nearing launch, Anet will want to draw players back to GW2 in preparation for the great event. So they will plant an NPC in Lion’s Arch which you can talk to and access all of the historical content, at will and unlimited. Then and only then will I start doing the Living Story.

Since the update I’ve gone from 0% to 168% base magic find and have noticed exactly 0 improvement in the quality of my drops or chances of T6 mats. I spend lots of time champ farming and I would have noticed an appreciable difference if there was one.

Makes you think about the MF gear crowd that used to sacrifice most of their armor stats for a MF boost that’s barely detectable, if at all.

The grenth mask has some sort of mini cloak to it that clips horribly with everything I own. So yeah, if they can’t get a half cloak right, I wouldn’t hold my breath on fully fledged cloaks.

Solstice.1097:

If they just gave ascended armor the ability to change stats OOC and maybe add some cool visual effects or even the ability to change the look of it that would be enough to make it worth grinding out as a PvE player without having to add stat bonuses.

Why do PvE players need stat bonuses? It’s not like ANY PvE content is so hard that you’ll need it.

Couldn’t have said it any better
+1

You are missing the obvious class.

WvW = Warriors vs Warriors (just look at the loading screen)

Eles and Necros also welcome in any zerg or roaming party, engineer not so much.

This will get much worse before it gets better. As long as server transfers remain easily available, people will switch servers to the winning side. I don’t see Anet changing this mechanic any time soon as server transfers (@ 1800 gems a pop) are a massive cash cow for them. They’re not even selling pixels, it’s literally money out of thin air. I wouldn’t expect any amount of forum complaints to change this.

When the bottom tier servers get empty enough they will merge and the cycle will continue. Untill Tier 1 is all that’s left.

Server: YB
League: Silver
Enjoyed Season 1: No. Well, those few times I was actually able to get in, yes.
Should we have a Season 2: Not without massive overhauls to both gameplay and server hardware.

Reasons: omg queues

Anet’s insistence introducing PVE only players to WvW succeeded wildly. The result was hour long queues throughout primetime while all the PVE junkies are getting their fix of APs. If you want to play WvW come back at 3am. If your get connection goes down and you get DC’ed from WvW you get to sit in queue again.

There’s nothing so demoralizing as when you’re losing by being outnumbered while your reinforcements wait in queue.

Sorry a t s e but no one makes 40g in 4 hours of champ farming, not unless you get ridiculously lucky and get an abyss dye drop or some kitten, Saying you made a quick 40g by trying out champ framing one time “one night you had nothing else to do” is highly doubtful.

Sometimes I see new champ train runners that can’t keep up with the speed of the train though, so they start skipping champs …and the people in map chat tear them a new one for it, feelings get hurt.

Sometimes these players feel so bad about failing to “spam 111” and make “easy risk free” gold that they try and ruin it for the other farmers.

Does this sound like anyone you know?

Gunna have to rate a big fat 1 here. The only thing wrong is the queues really, but on my crappy mexican dsl internet with bi hourly disconnects the queues are game breaking for me. And as someone who WvWs almost exclusively there really isnt much else to do while I’m waiting in queue… sometimes I go champ farming while waiting, now they’ve nerfed that too.

It’s pretty disheartening when your server is losing by vastly superior numbers while half your guild sits in queue watching the ticks go by.

The only way this can be fixed is by allowing more people into WvW.

WvW is for PVE players now. Only PvE players have the patience to sit through a 2 hour long queue (because they are PvE’in while they wait) The PvP players are off playing something else until the AP farmers gtfo of WvW. I been playing EVE Online all week.

Is no one else concerned that Anet is apparently relying on random kittens false reporting bots to issue bans instead of actually checking if a bot is being used?

I suffer from ocular migraines and frequently have to stop playing because constantly twitching my eyes from the skill bar at the bottom of the screen to the target at the very top makes my head want to explode. I’de give my left foot to be able to move the target icon UI to the bottom of the screen near the skillbar.