Guild Wars 2

Yeah it’s going to be like GW1.

Gabby.3205:

Everything about her is an illusion.
She is actually a guy. A guy that walks around naked all day long.

At least that would make her interesting…

/agree
Massive disappointment after the hype created by the way they described it in the patch notes! As said, a cinematic would have been lovely.

Katz.5143:

The money you got for the support tickets was tiny. Insignificant. Minuscule. Not a lot.

Irrelevant. Doesn’t matter how much they sold for – the people who kept lots of support tokens were rewarded with free cash, those of us who voted with all our hearts (desperately trying to claw for Evon’s victory -) ended up worse off.

I have a tonne of Evon buttons, what do I do with them? They should have been sellable too. Why they didn’t make the buttons sellable to I will never know.

Soronthar.7236:

Just wait two more weeks, and things will get back to normal.. which means the rest of the open world will remain more or less empty while Queendale and Wayfarers have a lot of people running around

Exactly what they said. ‘Empty’ zones are not a new problem. They have been around since, I dunno, maybe 3/4 months after release? I don’t remember. The Queen’s Gauntlet hasn’t made everywhere empty, it’s been empty for a long time.

Admittedly, the Deadeye gold mine depleted the amount of people dungeoneering or what not, but the good thing about dungeons is you can do them across servers. Zones aren’t, so no matter if there’s one person playing from every EU server, you’re all on your tod because you’re on your server and they’re on their’s.

Thief isn’t as easy as it was.

Kajin.5301:

Do thieves still farm him 5gambit? Which other profession can do 5gDead (aside from necro/me)?

Can’t have 5 gambits – quaggan pulls no matter what you do and he just annihilates you.

His attacks have completely changed order – so we have to pay attention a lot more. He casts his one shot spontaneously which can completely just end it.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

This has been discussed many times already. There was an exploit where players could make unlimited tickets for themselves. Basically making an alt, taking the 5 free tickets and putting it in the bank, delete alt, rinse and repeat. That’s why Anet had to change it from Account Bound to Soul Bound.

Ah I see, so it was just exploit based, fair enough!
But why not just remove giving each character 5 in the mail? Couldn’t they just remove that instead? Why not give one account 10 tickets for all their characters, then they need to play the content to get more.

Just replying to say I agree with a lot of the points that you made. Especially the part about putting a movement critical minigame in a zone with a insanely lag-infested zerg. It’s actually disgusting to look at my screen when I walk up the path to the gauntlet zone my FPS is that bad.

I also think they should have had instant respawn when you get killed in the arena. (You shouldn’t need to rely on there being someone around to res you).

One thing you haven’t mentioned that I hate is the fact that gauntlet tickets are souldbound. What? Why? I don’t understand. That would be like making fortune scraps soulbound, or support tokens soulbound.

And secondly, random drops of Sovereign weapon skins are account bound. Seriously? What were this month’s team thinking? Why would you do that? We were allowed to sell all previous weapon/armour/skin drops from the past living stories. Who said, “Oh I know, let’s make our skins account bound!”?

The only thing I feel I disagree with you is that I think you’re making it out to be harder than it is. I found all bosses (except Liadri) fairly easy to beat without outside guides. Admittedly, the later bosses required quite the many attempts, and I got help from guildies, but it wasn’t impossible. Liadri is very difficult though. I think they were designed very well for the most part, except for not noticing Deadeye’s farm-ability.

Tokens aren’t sellable though, so their collectible tab can have more than 250 slots availible.

Perma stealth does not exist.
A thief stealths, runs away, you can’t kill them. But you know what? They can’t kill you either. Neither of you win, or lose out.

Stealthing, running away and quickly jumping in and out of combat is the whole point of a thief. They are waaay to squishy to stay and fight most of the time in WvW. Take away their mobility, they can no longer survive. So what if you and 5 other team mates can’t kill a thief? Thieves cannot kill you if they are outnumbered.

TwiceDead.1963:

I’d like some in-city raids…
Such as dragons attacking lion’s arch

Yes, just NOT Lion’s Arch. ANet makes every god kitten thing happen in LA. And the result? Lag fest. My loading times into LA were bad anyway, with the Dragon Bash, people are waiting upto 2 minutes for me to load in and out of LA.

They should implement this content in other cities in the world. Places where people do not need to zone in and out of constantly.

That’s true. They could make it so the dungeon token collectible slot can take an unlimited amount (not just 250).

Hahaha! ‘Threat of the month’, very well put! XD

I do kinda agree. The story telling in GW2 is becoming very dull and flat. I never feel involved. I’m kinda sick of how most of the characters are so one dimensional, they’re either a good guy, or a bad guy, and no where in between.

They introduce these new people, and we have no time to get to know them, to learn to love them, or hate them, to learn their quirks and get suspicious. They just throw them in, a few quests later, ohemgee they’re a bad guy with an evil organisation behind them! WE MUST KILL THEM ALL. ELIMINATE THE ENEMY.

More character depth please!

This is getting silly. ‘Deposit collectible’ has been greyed out for months. It can’t be hard to just make them collectibles in an update. My bank is clogged with dungeon tokens, and I do not want to buy yet another bank tab.

This also goes for other tokens (guild commendations) and other items like philospher stones. Why do mystic coins get a collectible slot but mystic forge stones don’t?

Can we have templates and fees?
I’d just like to save the template so I don’t have to click 20 times in a trait and accidentally do 21 and have to pay again.

It should cost to switch trait templates.

Second this! A very obvious change that needs to be made. I think it’s something they missed when developing the game.

I don’t think current dungeons should be made to be able to be done solo.
But I would like to see some, at least one, solo ‘dungeon’ in the future.

I personally don’t want to always play as a group, I don’t want to find other people to play with, I just want to play. Obviously, I can do PvE alone, or even WvW, but I would love to be able to just go and do a dungeon alone.

It would obviously have to have a different reward system. You can’t be allowed to have the option to ONLY play alone in order to get the things you can get from playing as team. But it would be nice to have something worth getting.

The Southsun Cove ‘solo dungeon’ was not a dungeon. It’s actually laughable that they called it that. I want a real dungeon.

GvG PvP battles – OK
Guilds fighting Guilds for land, ranks – Not OK.

What many people don’t seem to realise, because they don’t know the lore, is that the GUILD WARS ended many, MANY years ago. Way before the setting of even GW1. Guilds do not fight guilds anymore because there are bigger things to be worrying about.

But implementing Guild Halls and GvG is something I think should be considered, but it should by no means be on the top of the to-do list. GvG was terrible in GW1. Nobody played it. Guild Halls were a lot more useful, but still should not be top priority. GvG battles could be awesome, but first ANet need to fix WvW and sPvP before they even consider making a completely new mode.

That’s not a bad idea! Kinda cute. c:
Could get cluttered though. Maybe it could be like the HoM mini display was in GW1, where you choose 5 or so (maybe more) minis to be displayed.

Couldn’t disagree more. The thief is built around this mechanic. What you’re asking is for everyone who plays thief to go back to square one. It’s not going to happen, and it shouldn’t happen.

I’m 99% sure transmuting a legendary keeps it’s purple name. And as exotic weapons have identical stat numbers, that doesn’t matter either. But I agree with your idea – it would be nice. Transmute crystals get pricey!

Yeah I totally agree. I tried searching for ‘Meteorlogicus’ but supposidly no forum post ever mentions it! I ended up just googling, ‘Meteorlogicus gw2 forum’ and got all the results I needed. It needs to be fixed!

It would be nice to be able to preview main hand and off-hand at once, so you can see how two weapons look together, rather than just alone.

Also, it would also be nice to be able to shuffle the dyes around when you have them previewed. Say if you have white in slot 1 and ash in slot 2, you should be able to drag them to swap which slot they’re previewing it.

This is my thief’s WvW set. C:

9/10
It’s a unique face, that either doesn’t get selected often, or you really adjusted the sliders. She’s more adult looking than a lot of female humans you see, and those eyes are very sexy. c;

Zoid.2568:

They are much better made than most missions in the personal story and i don’t really like the old “head to head” cinematics, i enjoyed the in-game cinematic much much more.

Tell me about it! Much love for your post. They said in an blog post (about the new F&F quests) that they’re moving from the ‘talking heads’ to the cinematic format. It gives SUCH a better feel to it, like it was in GW1. I feel so much more involved in them. During my personal story – which may I add I’m yet to complete even at level 80 – I’d often tab out, drift off or whatever during the cutscenes because they were so… not immersive? That made no sense but you get my drift.

It’s a shame they can’t (and more importantly won’t) overhaul the Personal Story completely, and turn it into something more enjoyable and worthwhile, but at least missions we’ll get in the future should be like they have been in Rox and Braham’s quests. Here’s to hoping we get this format entirely in the first big expansion!

This is my level 80 thief, Lithia Blazess. She’s my pride and joy.

Armour: Assassin’s Mask, Svanir Shoulderguards, Svanir Chestguard, Noble Gloves, Inquest Legguards, Prowler Boots.
Weapons: Moonshank, Seraph Dagger.

I’m an officier in Sinister Twilight [SIN]. I can totally empathise with you about not feeling important in a guild. I felt this through the majority of my time in GW1. I never felt useful or needed in my guild, I just felt like another member.

In [SIN], it feels different. I feel like the people care about what I have to say and are happy to see me online.

We’re a growing guild, currently on 144 members, based on the Far Shiverpeaks. We’re English speaking, but there’s people from all European nationalities in our guild. We avidly do PvE (big events and general roaming), dungeon runs (farms, exp, story), FotM (ranging through all levels), WvW and Guild Missions. If you’re interested in sPvP, I’m currently looking to expand our sPvP community! The GC is usually very active and there’s usually someone online to answer your questions (some hours of the day are a little empty, like very early mornings).

My IGN is Lithia Blazess/Lithia Kale/Lithia Riyze.
If you’re interested in joining or you have any questions, please reply to this, or send me a message on the forums or in game.

This is a survivability thief S/D build with switch of SB. Based around soldier armour and runes. Not my own build, I got it from the forum thread that’s collected all the thief builds. It’s main use was stated to be WvW. I’m currently putting it together for my thief.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/thief/?7.4|c.1c.h1e.8.1c.h8|5.1c.h1e|1c.9c.1c.9c.1c.9c.1c.9c.1c.9c.1c.9c|1c.64.1c.64.1c.64.1c.64.1c.64.1c.64|a3.u1ab.u46b.0.0|54.7|59.5b.5a.5h.0|e

Well, to start, I like the “Living Story”.

I like the idea that there are things happening in Tyria that I will experience, and that new players will never experience. It really is like you’re living as your character, like it is a growing world.

I hope that the outcomes of Frost and Flame remain permanent in the world, that things are left that you will see and think, that’s from Frost and Flame, and newcomers will have no clue.

It’s like we’re building history.

However, I agree that this feels odd. The rate at which we receive this content (monthly) feels odd. It doesn’t feel like we’re being hastily attacked by the Dredge and Flame Legion alliances, it feels like we’re just waiting for the next part.

I also agree that the SAB content should NOT be leaving the game on the 30th of April. When are we going to get the new zones and worlds? Next April? SAB content should stay, and it should be updated very soon. Moto, for lore’s sake, should be shown developing this content. He mentions he thinks people should have SAB’s in their homes. Why doesn’t it expand to all the major cities? This is a great way of having it half one-time content and half permanent content.

The people who join GW2 later on may get to play SAB all the way through from any of the major cities without realising it was once just a little portal owned by Moto in Rata Sum. But it’s still there, for them to play. For all of us to play. But we had the pleasure of seeing it rise from what it is now all the way to the top, which new players won’t get.

The story of Flame and Frost is one I’d like to see start and end. For emersion’s sake. The Flame Alliance will rise, I want to defeat it, and I want it to be gone forever (unless they rise again). If I can just go do the content again, why did we defeat them? That’s not how a living world works.

But to make this content ‘permanent’, perhaps they could use the Hall of Monuments or a similar idea? New players can visit this place to watch and relive history. They can take part in instanced parts of Flame and Frost, and have the opportunity to get some of the achievements that they would be unable to get otherwise.

But, I don’t know. I loved Mad King’s Clocktower. But do I really want it to come back permanently? Do I really want infinite tries to complete it? Or is it better for it to remain as content that defeated me? That will come back next year for me to have another go? It’s debatable.

During the Armaments quest, the Priory represtative’s speech at one point doesn’t match the text that’s written on the screen. Not a major bug or anything, just something I thought I’d point out if anyone from Anet sees this and wants to fix it.

My computer has been freezing and/or crashing whilst playing GW2. It has become more irritating and noticable whilst trying to complete Fractals. I’m not sure if it’s my computer overheating or what.
My GW2 folder is full of corrupt reports.
Any help?

I’ve loved every minute of the Halloween content, it’s been amazing! You guys have done a wonderful job, can’t wait for Act 4. c:

Griim.5142:

Try using the repair tool (https://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8981/~/the-guild-wars-2-client).

YES! That worked! Than you ever so much for your help! <3

Griim.5142:

When you click “Show Details,” what information is provided?

Thanks for your response. The details are rather long winded but I attatched a text file showing what it says. I’ve googled for error c0000005, and I found the following information:

• Uploaded installation path screenshots, client screenshots, Arenanet error logs, Game advisor report to Arenanet customer service – 30th Aug
• Updated graphics drivers as per request and attached ‘crash.dmp’ file, Arenanet acknowledge Snowden Drifts as area with numerous crashes. Attempting to fix.
• Character working after last client update

And there were no red errors in the event viewer thingy.

Mursaat are terrifing! One of the scariest mobs in GW1 for me. ._.

Quite a while ago now (possibly even a month ago) my Norn character got stuck on the Snowden Drifts loading screen. It wasn’t when I went in the zone for the first time, I did part of my personal story there. But when I’ve tried to log into my character since, it never loads past the loading screen, and closing the game gives me an error report. I did post this as a support ticket, and they did get back to me, but I’m a bit worried to do what they suggested. It seemed like a lot of uninstalling to fix it…

From support ticket: "The intent here is to allow Driver Fusion to scan your PC for left over drivers from previous installations. These left over files can often cause issues with rendering 3D applications, even if you have installed the most recent drivers revision. "

Is this a general suggestion they give to anyone with technical difficulties or is this tailored to my situation?

Anyone else had this issue? Will I ever get my Norn back?