I promise that you’re not being snubbed (Tachenon, you made me both smile and wince there, with your definition of the term). Please know this thread is serving a good purpose and that is is offering the dev team valuable information. The fact is, though, there’s simply nothing new to say on the subject right now.
We know that you’d like to have some info on this subject. But until there’s something of substance to say, devs wouldn’t post in the thread due both to their generally busy schedules and to our practice of talking about matters of this sort only when we’re able to provide something of substance, within a meaningful timeframe.
Having said all that, your input is extremely valuable, and that’s why it was requested back in April. We reached out to you, and you provided a good deal of insight, and of good value, too! With subsequent changes to the game, your input shifted to address current concerns. That’s very meaningful to those team members following this thread and we thank you.
We’ve said it before, but giving details about for a suggested change is better than saying “I don’t like it.” If you can say why, and give a proposed fix, that’s very useful to the team. You are not in any way obliged to do this, you know that and I’m agreeing.
I’m just making the suggestion to put the most value on your time in posting and the devs in reading.
Thanks.
As I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again, the following is my suggested change.
Add an account wide unlock for the traits upon completing the tasks required to unlock them (whether buying them or doing the open world portion). Not a class wide unlock, I mean across all characters. For example, say a player unlocks all the traits on their Guardian. They make a Necromancer next. When they unlock the adept traits at level 36, they will have all of them already unlocked and ready for use.
I suggest this because as of right now, the trait system discourages experimentation with traits because you have to keep unlocking them, even on new characters, and makes the game significantly less fun due to this. Since I recall it being said that the trait changes originally came into place to encourage trait experimentation (which it failed to do), a simple account-bound unlock would be good enough to make that statement true.
i agree with this if grandfathered characters unlock all of them right at that time, i never bothered to ether buy or earn traits because i find the unlock part ridicules even to it’s basic sense.
it’s already annoying that i have to wait till lvl 30 till i can even get a minor trait let alone grinding my way trough the game just for one single trait and on a higher level no less, veterans are right now being kicked in the balls with this system while new players wonder why we are so kittened.
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And yet STO and PWI already do it with no apparent damage to the exchange rate.
i dont believe they operate an currency exchange in those games, i think it is just selling of gold.
anyhow i would need the details of their systems to truely understand them, i have only found limited information
it’s exactly the same, they even use bundle deals to give more credit for your buck.
oh and don’t look at STO, they have even more expensive stuff then GW2 (try to buy a max level ship, it’s gonna cost you 25 bucks) and keep in mind, STO is a freemium game so you have a F2P and a P2P part.
if you want a better comparison, look at LOTRO and RIFT.
if you want halloween pictures, you should’ve asked for ppl’s faces
you know how i feel about Anet’s decision, they are plain and simple patronizing veteran players.
i dunno about you but i would really love to see something improve for a chance, all they do is change the game to make it easier for new players but care jack for veteran players.we are asking for new skills and all we get is one single new healing skill that, for now, has never bin welcome by anyone.
we ask to improve the trait system and they completely ruin the system to oblivion, we even ask for a bit more flexibility and they just blandly limit leveling even more.
and you want to know the worst thing, all the changes are made so the chinese players can enjoy a game they like, western players are just ignored.ps. did you know that they are so busy stuffing there pockets that they even forget to extend the license of Anet, look al the way down and check the date
If they didn’t make the changes for veteran players, then there’s no way they can be patronizing veteran players.
Drytop is a new zone and certainly doesn’t patronize veteran players.
Drytops is a baby step area, not even challenging in the slightest…..
What you’re saying is changes to the early levels of starter zones is patronizing veteran players. I say you need a thicker skin.
……it’s Anet that needs a thicker skin, i have bin banished for the most non-sense reasons just because i speak out when something is a betrayal on their end.
also, you need to look at the big picture, not just at one single thing.
again, they are patronizing veteran players.
you know how i feel about Anet’s decision, they are plain and simple patronizing veteran players.
i dunno about you but i would really love to see something improve for a chance, all they do is change the game to make it easier for new players but care jack for veteran players.
we are asking for new skills and all we get is one single new healing skill that, for now, has never bin welcome by anyone.
we ask to improve the trait system and they completely ruin the system to oblivion, we even ask for a bit more flexibility and they just blandly limit leveling even more.
and you want to know the worst thing, all the changes are made so the chinese players can enjoy a game they like, western players are just ignored.
ps. did you know that they are so busy stuffing there pockets that they even forget to extend the license of Anet, look al the way down and check the date
they can easily change this in a proper way, all they need to do is making the underside as a cone so it makes some leg space.
i have done this my self to 3D models and it saves time while keeping it looking nice.
Serious suggestions?
We want stuff to force ourselves playing the game because of our look – not because every-day content thats not really exists.Here is a “Serious” one:
Gem Purchase track: The more real money you spend, the more nice rewards you get. Example of total money spent rewards:
- $10 – 1BL Key
- $25 – 3Bl Key
- $50 – 5BL key + Mini pack of choice + “Black Lion Partner” title.
- $100 – Ascended weapon box OR a free weapon skin unlock of any BL kit.
- $150 – Ascended armor box OR a free armor skinpack. + “Black Lion Merchant” title.
- $200 – AN Supporter Superpack (lots of choseable goods)
- $350 – “Black Lion Trader” title.
- $500 – “Black Lion Broker” title
- $1000 – AN Supporter Gigapack (Also unlocks stuff you wouldn’t bother to get anyway, like Glorious armor skins) + “Black Lion Millionaire” title
Something like this. With these kind of heavy rewards, people will less likely to buy legendaries from third-party sites I guess.
Who is going to spend $1000 on a game, lol.
i have seen players actually dishing 1 mill for a digital space ship…true story….
puts that 1000 dollar bill to shame now does it….and i suspect he was talking about throughout your account existence, not in one go.
heh, almost forgot about the engi’s, yes you will then be able to get custom skins for your engi turrets.
we don’t want turret skins, we just want that horrible hobosack off our backs everytime we use a kit XD
fair enough, what about custom skins for your kit backpacks?
nooooooo, we just want to be able to hide the kit backpacks so we can show off our own back items that we worked hard to make XD
what about combining them, back packs on kits can use all normal backpack skins
Playing GW2 is really fun and has much joy but can sometimes get a bit boring, almost everyone has the same pet or the same summon and it makes you look like yet another pawn on the chess board.
What I would like to suggest are skins for any summon/pet/minion in the game, they would be still within the boundaries of it’s respectful category.
Pet skins
pet skins are skins for the ranger pet you normally can’t get in the open world, this can go from animals yet to be added to skins from GW1 to skins from monsters.
What if you want to have a raptor as pet, you can’t get them in the wild but with this skill system you can.
Just think of a pet skin and you can get it, just imagine walking around with a dolyak for your norn or an oakheart for your sylvari, you name it.
Summon skins
summon skins are skins for any summon on any profession that has a creature as summon, like the fire imp from the elementalist or a shadow thief from the thief.
It will now be possible to make your summons look the way you want it to look, may it be a destroyer as fire imp or a geode as earth gollem, you decide.
Minion skins
minion skins are skins for the necromancer minions, away with the boring flesh skeletons and hello wonderful skins.
Have a grenth/lich king float beside you instead of a flesh horror or take a ranger risen as bone fiend, it’s your choice how they look.
Just imagine sending risen asura at your enemy and exploding them in their faces, the joy
banner skins
banner skins changes the borders (wood part) of your banner, now you can conquer your enemies with style.
Gear up your warrior with Nordic banners or smite them with dwayna’s blessing, you make it happen…..in style.
Illusion colors
illusion colors are colors to change the color of illusions for the mesmer, all colors are possible.
Now you can have illusions matching your armor or play as one of your favorite fantasy hero/villain, the choice is yours to make.
All skins can be changed in a skin tab on your hero screen (H on default), here you can manually change and manage all skins/colors.
Skins earned in-game are character unlocks, skins from the gem store are account unlocks.
You can preview all skins before applying and changing mesmer colors already shows an illusion next to it in the change color tab to clearly see the effect before applying.
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i did some screwing around with the farcry 3 map editor and started with the dam, this is between the lighthouse and the mountain next to the tengu wall.
keep in mind that all the details are from farcry 3, i can not add my own stuff so take it with a grain of salt.
the guns are meant to be made by both charr and asura, they keep the bay save and are made for both sea and air defense.
it’s extremely alpha so no, this is not final for a second, i just wanted to show a little bit of progress.
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if u all installed the new nvida drivers sweet fx will not work anymore you have to unistal them and return previous drivers
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