Guild Wars 2

the EU always get scammed by NCsoft, they just never learn from other companies.
trion and gazillion gives a bit more points to EU countries, Anet just loves to stay blind that way.

well, i am farming skill points on my yet-to-be max level thief, i love to make a sniper. (then again, why call it deadeye if it’s obviously a sniping)

Just a flesh wound.3589:

sorudo.9054:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

sorudo.9054:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Artemis Thuras.8795:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

ANet said years ago that they tried to get capes in, but apparently they clashed with Charr animations.

So you can cross that one off your list.

Just to be devil’s advocate for a moment..

We have racial exclusive armours.
Making racial exclusive backpack skins wouldn’t be outside the realm of possibility.

They could. But considering how rarely people use the guild banner below or the similar gemstore guild banner I doubt that it would be that popular now. With so many interesting backpacks in the game I doubt people care that much about capes anymore. It was more important to people when it was the only option and they were members of only one guild.

actually the fact that we have flags instead of capes has everything to do with the lack of ppl not using them, we want capes not some stupid lame banner on our back.

Whether or not people consider identification banners worn on the back to be stupid or lame depends on their culture and what they’ve learned to expect.

Sashimomo were small banners historically worn by soldiers in feudal Japan for identification during battles."

you yourself pointed out that ppl just don’t wear them and now you go and defend them?…..

I was commenting on the “stupid and lame” part of your post.

I think that they don’t wear them because
1) they have many other, more interesting choices
2) most people are members of multiple guilds, not one guild, and so guild loyalty is less, leading to fewer people wanting guild capes
3) and in addition, yes, because it’s not part of their culture to wear back banners then its not what they expect or want (which is not the same as stupid or lame).

whoever talked about guild capes, it’s just capes in general.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

sorudo.9054:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Artemis Thuras.8795:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

ANet said years ago that they tried to get capes in, but apparently they clashed with Charr animations.

So you can cross that one off your list.

Just to be devil’s advocate for a moment..

We have racial exclusive armours.
Making racial exclusive backpack skins wouldn’t be outside the realm of possibility.

They could. But considering how rarely people use the guild banner below or the similar gemstore guild banner I doubt that it would be that popular now. With so many interesting backpacks in the game I doubt people care that much about capes anymore. It was more important to people when it was the only option and they were members of only one guild.

actually the fact that we have flags instead of capes has everything to do with the lack of ppl not using them, we want capes not some stupid lame banner on our back.

Whether or not people consider identification banners worn on the back to be stupid or lame depends on their culture and what they’ve learned to expect.

Sashimomo were small banners historically worn by soldiers in feudal Japan for identification during battles."

you yourself pointed out that ppl just don’t wear them and now you go and defend them?…..

auto decline guild invite would be nice, i sometimes forget to set my guild on new characters (altaholic here) and it is really annoying when i just got out of tutoral worlds and bang, invite.

since the high tech armor i wanted to have something equal for weapons

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Artemis Thuras.8795:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

ANet said years ago that they tried to get capes in, but apparently they clashed with Charr animations.

So you can cross that one off your list.

Just to be devil’s advocate for a moment..

We have racial exclusive armours.
Making racial exclusive backpack skins wouldn’t be outside the realm of possibility.

They could. But considering how rarely people use the guild banner below or the similar gemstore guild banner I doubt that it would be that popular now. With so many interesting backpacks in the game I doubt people care that much about capes anymore. It was more important to people when it was the only option and they were members of only one guild.

actually the fact that we have flags instead of capes has everything to do with the lack of ppl not using them, we want capes not some stupid lame banner on our back.

Xenon.4537:

No one has any tolerance for learning. They want to clear it as fast as possible with as little talking as possible. They want minimum human interaction and maximum loot. Noobs get in the way of that.

speak for yourself, i love to learn but never get the chance to.
i ether get alien talk about VoS or whatever crap that means or a forced play about how i need to play their way, i killed enemies made for groups on my own because i know how to use my profession properly.

if ppl stop getting on their elitist high horse and try to at least let ppl play raids might be more fun to play, it’s one thing to have it challenging, it’s another to make it unpleasant.

when i look at the LFG pannel all i see is alien scrabble, i never raided because i can never understand them.

i don’t want steaming pile of kitten anywhere near one of my favorite game, seriously just….don’t.

i was wondering, is there something to track how many skill points a character has beside the level skill points?
i am leveling my thief to max and am hunting skill points for the new deadeye spec but i am lost on how many i already have compared to how much i can still expect to get.

Faaris.8013:

sorudo.9054:

the thing is, ppl use allot of excuses but the fact remains that you need to play GW1 to know the history of GW2 properly.

Most book series I read had recaps or some other ways to remind people who a character is, same with TV series. You read all the books but at the 10th volume, you might not remember exactly what the character named Livia did and who she is. It’s just a courtesy of the author to remind you, and not expect you to know every detail by heart after 9 volumes or 4 years. That s missing here.

If i go to you and introduce my self as bifrost you would just assume that’s my name but if you know nordic history you’ll know bifrost isn’t just a name but a way of transport from and to asgard, it’s exactly the same thing with livia.
livia in GW2 has some notes around tyria but not so obvious, if you actually try and learn the history of tyria you would know livia allot better.
even in-game (and GW1 is still in-game) there are plenty of ways to know her, you just need to put some effort in it.

some ideas:

• a dolyak
• exalted raptor
• wyvern
• charr vehicle

Like many, I have my own concerns and excitement about GW2:PoF, some that go quite deep in yet confirmed detail.
Some of the concerns I have are:
• Mounts on masteries
• Mounts in cities
• Voice overs
• Guild halls
• The name

Mounts on masteries:
I am already not a big fan on masteries, Anet loves them but it is not shared by quite a large audience.
I wonder, they said that mounts are attached on masteries, what they did not say but did kind of hinted is that you need to level your mastery to unlock the other mounts.
This is a buzz killer, I rather have the masteries per mount so we can level each individual mount with powers.

Mounts in cities:
IMO having mounts in the cities is a horrible idea, before they even think of releasing PoF they should add a mount lock on the cities.
I love mounts, however, I really don’t see the need for mounts in cities when it’s hard enough to even find popular NPC’s without mounts.

Voice over:
Since PoF they released African themed faces and hair for humans, however, the voice over is still exactly the same.
IMO if they want to release something that different they should also put some more effort in it, ether have a choice of default and African voice or attach the voice to the faces made for it.

Guild halls:
For now the only ppl who can get a guild hall are ether ppl with a big guild or ppl with others to help them, a deal breaker for one-man guilds.
If they really want equality they could at least add a small guild hall, one that you don’t have to fight for, something like a house you buy.

The name:
No really, there are so many names this expansion could have and all they come up with is path of fire?
Not really something that lures me in, “war of elona” or “Balthazar’s wrath” would’ve at least made sense but this?

There are some other concerns but for now this is it, I might come back with more.

Squee.7829:

PS. To all the people linking to the Livia wiki page, I’m glad you’re pointing people in the right direction, but I think one of the key points of this thread is that if you have to look outside of the game to find out why a key figure of the story is important, someone failed at proper story telling. Yeah, we can all search Livia now, after the fact, but it’s kind of too late.

actually livia is in-game all the time, play GW1 and you have a whole story with her.
the thing is, ppl use allot of excuses but the fact remains that you need to play GW1 to know the history of GW2 properly.

Mogsterfortytwo.6712:

sorudo.9054:

i have arachnophobia my self, when playing skyrim i avoid spiders like the plague.
however, GW2 spiders are hardly scary, more likely cute.

I have a Skyrim mod to make them all look like goats. I recommend it, though it may make you scared of goats! Something similar could work; make them giant beetles (no new model needed).

I think the gist behind what they were saying on the post-show was more that while the existing spiders are ‘fantasy spiders’ the mount was a lot more realistic, including movement (which sets of my arachnophobia) – the movement animations we saw on the raptor were pretty detailed so assuming a similar level of work on the spider might have put it over the edge.

the animation of already in-game spiders are fine to me, no need to make new ones just for a mount.

the reason why i want a spider mount is because out of all of the mounts none have a necro feeling, maybe a bone spider or something like that to balance both views on the matter.

it was €50,- before so…..

i can answer the last question, you can use them anywhere in the game regardless, just like gliders.

i am just as hard working but with the lack of time 10K gold is never gonna be reachable.
then again, you look like the fool if you think anyone is gonna buy a mount that expensive, let alone that Anet will probably sell mounts in the GEM store for 1000 gems.

some faces look as if she just di some crack but beside them i love em. (yes, Mr. negative loves something in GW2)

the new hair and face styles can be chosen from the start, you can make a completely new character and have them available.

i don’t mind the outfit so much, it actually fits my new sunspeer hunter concept.
however, the weapons look so cheap i really hope they are joking, they look like a 4 year old made them…..

some of the armors, like vabbi and profane necro armors.
the story is also quite interesting (unlike GW2), the thread of the world being destroyed really feels real with a god behind the works.

i have arachnophobia my self, when playing skyrim i avoid spiders like the plague.
however, GW2 spiders are hardly scary, more likely cute.

if i said “i told yah so” with everything i already saw coming my fingers would bleed….

that would need a complete rewrite for the GW2 engine, takes more time then money allows.

ether a new prof or a new weapon set (truly new), at least i hope….

a deep purple gaze

i actually hope A’net comes to their senses and brings them back to 1 ticket, that’s all everyone wants really.

zomgbuffalo.5276:

sorudo.9054:

so in short, ppl who don’t like to grind and can’t stand craft grinding will never ever get them.
also, in short, they’re so useless even the TP don’t want them.

I find it funny how some people think that everyone should be entitled to have everything… MMO is based on grind. If you don’t grind you get no juice. Simple as that.

no, an MMO is based on online play, nothing entales grind in MMO or do you not know what MMO stands for?

new is and has always bin 1 ticket, increasing the price doesn’t bold well at all.

frikin Anet, the game is almost 5 years and they still don’t know how to keep the server stable, seriously……

the profane armor set still has a lighter dye color then any other armor like it, even abyss dye is light gray let alone the darker colors.

please bring back the GW1 launch armor sets, i am still missing the primeval armor.

Linken.6345:

sorudo.9054:

so in short, ppl who don’t like to grind and can’t stand craft grinding will never ever get them.
also, in short, they’re so useless even the TP don’t want them.

Good for those people that gen 1 is avaliable on the tp then hu?

and that helps…who exactly?
oh yeah, not the ppl who can’t get gen 2 legendaries, that’s for sure.

without fun quests to do, what do you expect….

as long as a mordrem snipers can almost insta-kill players and some events overwhelm players while they are alone i say the difficulty is fine the way it is, if you want a higher difficulty ask for hard mode for dungeons or fractuals.

so in short, ppl who don’t like to grind and can’t stand craft grinding will never ever get them.
also, in short, they’re so useless even the TP don’t want them.

maybe a model for a rifle or pistol but not as a new weapon, i have yet to see an actual new weapon and if they finally come up with a new one i really want something really new like knuckles or a whip.

the only problem i have with this outfit is that the “feathers” don’t have any texture so any color is just plain.

looks like a normal hammer to me, GW1 has plenty of hammers kinda just like it.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Astralporing.1957:

That means several years of daily usage before you’ll get even.

Exactly which existing nodes take less than several years of usage before breaking even on costs?

all the S1 nodes that only cost laurels and 15G, they barely take a month to get even.

if we could customize our own home instance the way we want it would already be easier to do what housing does, it already exists.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Vayne.8563:

your choices do have in game consequences.

sorudo.9054:

i have yet to see any such consequences and i have plenty of characters, absolutely nothing really changes and i end up with just the same.

Take another look then. Your choices decide which allies you have with you at the end, for example.

i have taken 15 other looks, looking at it many times doesn’t change it.

Vayne.8563:

sorudo.9054:

RabbitUp.8294:

sorudo.9054:

RabbitUp.8294:

sorudo.9054:

RabbitUp.8294:

If you mean the launch-era trailers, they have nothing to do with “Living World”. The personal story is indeed affected by your choices, the ones you make at character creation and your choice of order.

yet in the end nothing affects the story, ether way the story barely to not changes whatever you choose.
i finally hat the time to get trough the 1:30 last mission (kill zaithan) and there was nothing to be found of my choices.

It affects the progression of the history, not the ending.

Expecting a personalised ending in an MMO where everyone shares the same story is quite delusional.

the personal story is instanced, there is nothing shared about that.
try again please but this time research a bit more.

You miss the point. Sharing the story doesn’t mean you play it in the same instance as someone else.

It means that all players get to kill Zhaitain in the end. The next season starts with the prerequisite that you did in a specific manner (you united all races and Orders into a single entity, the Pact, and you marched to Orr).

It can’t work if the story would start branching out. If your choices affected the final outcome of the story, there wouldn’t be a common thread for the next stories to follow.

Like, what if you chose to kill Trehearne or not? What if you could save Eir? How does S3 then? Are they alive or dead?

what if i choose to ask the skritt to lay traps for zaithan, damaging him allot faster, or what if i found a centaur camp that wants to help take on mordrem from above the cliffs so his air advantage is turned against him.
they are all choices i make, all which are in an instance and doesn’t affect anyone.

a branching story doesn’t have to end completely different but i expect at least something that affects the way the outcome reacts, right now all the choices i made throughout the PS are pretty much like the ending of mass effect 3 but with just 1 choice.

Actually then it is a living world. Depending on which creature you choose to study for your order, a different creature ends up in the living story at the end. Other choices you make affect what living story chapters you get, for example, your conversation with the pale tree about your greatest fear.

Therefore your choices do have in game consequences.

i have yet to see any such consequences and i have plenty of characters, absolutely nothing really changes and i end up with just the same.

Zephyron.7081:

Braham is horrible! Lines and acting are atrocious! Just kill off the character and start again! Let’s grow up and have this fantasy be more like Game of Thrones than Mickey Mouse.

you mean the fantasy soap series…..no thanks…

maddoctor.2738:

ThomasC.1056:

Maybe some day, they’ll learn and code significant henchmen (or remember how they did in GW1). Maybe for GW3 ?

The henchmen in GW1 didn’t have to dodge attacks, nor did they have so many skills to use. It was just a simple 8-skill skillbar. The AI in GW1 wouldn’t work at all in GW2

actually Anet had to balance the heroes to deal with allot more skills then there are currently in GW2, it would be easier to implant then the GW1 version.
the only part they have to add is the jump and dodge part but that’s easier then every single individual skill.

if ppl don’t use alien language like ppl do now i might have sympathy but as long as that doesn’t happen, no.

RabbitUp.8294:

sorudo.9054:

RabbitUp.8294:

sorudo.9054:

RabbitUp.8294:

If you mean the launch-era trailers, they have nothing to do with “Living World”. The personal story is indeed affected by your choices, the ones you make at character creation and your choice of order.

yet in the end nothing affects the story, ether way the story barely to not changes whatever you choose.
i finally hat the time to get trough the 1:30 last mission (kill zaithan) and there was nothing to be found of my choices.

It affects the progression of the history, not the ending.

Expecting a personalised ending in an MMO where everyone shares the same story is quite delusional.

the personal story is instanced, there is nothing shared about that.
try again please but this time research a bit more.

You miss the point. Sharing the story doesn’t mean you play it in the same instance as someone else.

It means that all players get to kill Zhaitain in the end. The next season starts with the prerequisite that you did in a specific manner (you united all races and Orders into a single entity, the Pact, and you marched to Orr).

It can’t work if the story would start branching out. If your choices affected the final outcome of the story, there wouldn’t be a common thread for the next stories to follow.

Like, what if you chose to kill Trehearne or not? What if you could save Eir? How does S3 then? Are they alive or dead?

what if i choose to ask the skritt to lay traps for zaithan, damaging him allot faster, or what if i found a centaur camp that wants to help take on mordrem from above the cliffs so his air advantage is turned against him.
they are all choices i make, all which are in an instance and doesn’t affect anyone.

a branching story doesn’t have to end completely different but i expect at least something that affects the way the outcome reacts, right now all the choices i made throughout the PS are pretty much like the ending of mass effect 3 but with just 1 choice.

Djinn.9245:

sorudo.9054:

nottsgman.8206:

if you’re going for a legendary, you must do some things you might not enjoy. for some, that is wvw, for others it is map completing zones, and for some it is achievements.

if Anet removed all the things that people may not like when it comes to making a legendary, there would be nothing to do and they’d just mail you one.

they are not really legendary if anyone can craft them now is it…..

Anyone CAN craft them…

yeah, that’s what makes it NOT legendary, maybe as stat but not what it is.

something legendary is forged or enchanted uniquely, it is something you can only get by hardship and mystery.
if ppl can just craft it it becomes just another weapon of power, nothing worth putting a legendary title on.