Guild Wars 2

let’s do a sing along:

sing this in a jingle bell tone

rushing trough the game
chasing commander zerg trains
killing all the mobs
finishing achievements in a day
running trough kessex hills
killing all the champions
all we have left to do
whining on the official forums

wintersday wintersday
all we want is loot
we dont care about the living story
just give us all your gold
wintersday wintersday
even this event
it’s full of farms
has nothing fun
let get back to guild wars 1

i do have t say that the high cost should cover the stats. i can get a full armor set at least 3X better then any T3 armor piece costs.
ether make the armors on max stats or lower the cost, the skin can only go so far.

illo.5106:

Ironvos.9014:

If noone goes on the map, it gets basically overrun by enemies and the stability rating will be low, granting no worldwide bonus to players.
Unstable maps however could grant a local bonus (like +mf, ) to everyone that is on the map, to encourage people to go there in the first place.

This way it might make people care a bit more about the world and reward people for doing more diverse content instead of farming.

You expect people to do something for somebody else – and then this could work. But those who profit from those boni are usually farmer, that are the most selfish players there are. They won’t do anything for those boni, but always complain if they don’t have them.

You can see this actually with the pre system: hardly anyone does them, but with the boss spawn lots of players out of the ground.

i know exactly what you mean XD
first i am minding my own business while it’s rare to see another player around and then BOOM, boss appears and all of a sudden around 20 players come from nowhere.

and when you were fighting the champion/veteran, what class did you use and with how many players were you fighting?

about 70% of every armor type is completely covered, it’s actually extremely hard to find some decent skimpy armor without going to the “boring” bin of armors.
the human light T3 armor is good but one of the few that actually looks the part, go just one tier lower and you’re back in the closed in armors.

Scrambles.2604:

sorudo.9054:

Scrambles.2604:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

The only reason why I don’t want dueling is because I don’t want anet to start balancing PvE for 1v1 fights.

PvP nerfs are the worst of all and I don’t want them in PvE.

Are you implying that anet hasn’t already made any balance changes to PvP that effect PvE? Have you ever played an elementalist? haha.

I hope you can rest easy now knowing that 1v1 fights already occur, without open world dueling, and Anet has already implemented pvp balance changes that also effect PvE…again without open world dueling.

then why do you complain about having no duels if you can duel?
really, all you want is PvP everywhere while not keeping in mind the other side.
you’re pretty much what the saying is all about “give someone a finger and he wants the whole hand”

i already told you, sPvP sucks (IMO). The guy in the mysts is some doppleganger of my real character and i don’t enjoy playing on him. And arena dueling is not the same as open world dueling.

Where do you get the idea i “dont keep the other side in mind?” It’s called a duel request, not a duel mandate. If you don’t want to duel then decline and all is well.

I’m not asking for open world pvp, it’s open world duels. It requires consent. The very definition entails “keeping the other side in mind.”

If you took a second a reread some of these posts you might save yourself some typing…oh who am i kidding you’re not going to read this and just say duels belong in WvW.

nor are you reading any of the so many arguments that clearly say that PvP should stay outside PvE regardless, all you want is to shove all your wishes in someone else’s face without regards of someone else’s wishes.
also, just because you don’t like sPvP duels doesn’t mean it isn’t there, you have your option, deal with it.
if duels are added in PvE places then PvE would suck, is that a good thing or a bad thing…..i bet it’s a really bad thing.

Behellagh.1468:

sorudo.9054:

lordkrall.7241:

Crovax.7854:

Oh I don’t know. How did they do it in GW1 for years?

They didn’t even have close to the same costs back then as they have now.
They have at least triple the number of employees, they have a completely different server-system that require way more and more advanced hardware.

They also had an in-game store in GW1, which people seem to forget for some reason.

GW1 is sold 7 mill times, that’s already 2.4X more then GW2.
also, all the GW1 items are fair and unlock, GW2 items are overpriced and way to much based on just one character.
and even if we simply ignore all of that, they have, like you said, 300+ employees.
that’s at least 3X more then when they were making factions, so making an expansion would logically be made 3X faster.

Doesn’t matter how much GW1 outsold GW2 in box sales what matters is income. In the 29 quarters NCSOFT reported GW income, 2Q2005 to 2Q2012, it made in total 199,718 million KrW. GW2 brought in more than that in it’s first 7 months, 201,236 million KrW. In the next six months it brought in an additional 53,370 million KrW.

So in a little more than a year GW2 has earned 25% more income than the 7+ years of GW. I would say that the model is working. It doesn’t prevent them from doing an expansion either, but it will likely be after the China release.

uhmmm, you’re forgetting the 7 years of reputation GW1 made in order to get the number you’re talking about, without that GW2 would end up with less then half the income they currently have.

use skype, it’s free and easy to use.

lordkrall.7241:

Crovax.7854:

Oh I don’t know. How did they do it in GW1 for years?

They didn’t even have close to the same costs back then as they have now.
They have at least triple the number of employees, they have a completely different server-system that require way more and more advanced hardware.

They also had an in-game store in GW1, which people seem to forget for some reason.

GW1 is sold 7 mill times, that’s already 2.4X more then GW2.
also, all the GW1 items are fair and unlock, GW2 items are overpriced and way to much based on just one character.
and even if we simply ignore all of that, they have, like you said, 300+ employees.
that’s at least 3X more then when they were making factions, so making an expansion would logically be made 3X faster.

i just look at it this way, i play when i want and when i am in the mood, not in the mood simply means no GW2.
also, because i never liked the whole LS crap and dungeons are getting more and more filed with elitism i simply play the core game, as long as they don’t ruin the core game i am fine with it.

but now we have a turning point, since we don’t have any PvP servers we ether need to change the existing ones which adds allot of frustrations and such or make some new servers which increases the cost for new servers.

ever thought about it not being ley lines but electrical towers that eventually connect to a base in the heart of the siverpeak.

let’s do something wild, remove the gold→ gem exchange and see how much gold is worth.
no overpriced items, no gold sellers needed, no spam in your whisp. XD

Elvahaduken.3609:

sorudo.9054:

or simply remove soul bound from the game and replace it with account bound, problem solved.

This suits gw2 needs as it could be a gold sink, your suggestion accomplishes nothing

actually it does, it solves the problem this game has without a gold sink attached to it.
there is plenty of gold sink, we don’t need more gold sink just because we have super rich farmers.

a commander should earn his/her tag, not buy it.
the 100g is nothing to farmers but way to much for casuals, why should a casual who has allot of strategic experience be less then someone who has a strategy of a 4 year old but has plenty of gold?

and about the priority, as it currently is, commanders are worth less then the dung on the street.
wait in line like everybody else.

or simply remove soul bound from the game and replace it with account bound, problem solved.

let’s look at the T3 human cultural armor, if it’s maxim then you end up having a really unpopular armor barely anyone wants.
it’s a great example to show that, no matter how much you want the maxims to happen, it’s really difficult to do that without making the other gender look so horrible.
if the female version is like the male one then i would simply not see anyone wear it as a female character, if it’s the male version like the female version then i will hardly see anyone being able to stand such an armor.

maxims are fine for particular styles but it doesn’t always work, having a different style for different genders is not always a bad thing if done right.

and what if i buy 2K first and 2K after my next payday?
it’s still 4K, if that doesn’t give me the mini then you are actually buying the mini.

i would like the bonus system when buying gems with real money, something like $10=800 gem, $20=1600 gem+400 gem etc…

redhand.7168:

Patu.9827:

Two words. Hard Mode.

You can’t do hard mode in an open world game. That will de-populate the zones.

Furthermore, I agree that some kind of token system would be cool, but there are already so many currencies…

What if, upon zone completion, you are then given access to gain points in that zone (yeah, I know, point/token same thing). You can save those points/token for a weapon vendor similar to a dungeon vendor. That vendor will have unique skins to that area. That way, people can choose the zone with weapons that they like the most, work in that area, and get the weapon skins. This differs from Gold/Karma because it’s exclusive to that area.

one flaw tho, if you need more then one point/token then ppl with only one character can never get all the skins.
then again, you will never get all the skins for all your characters ether, if it’s one point/token per weapon skin then yes but otherwise, no.

Zaoda.1653:

sorudo.9054:

when they do finally add it you have a good thing and a bad thing.
good: armors from GW1
bad: they are in the gem store

I wouldn’t mind them being in the gem store… as long as they stay there as permanent sales, because some of us aren’t extremely rich and people like myself need time to save up to buy them – not have them as limited sales for 1-2 weeks like most skins these days.

the reason why i am against gem store sales is because they become skins for just one character, not unlocks like the HoM armor skins, if they do become actual unlocks i would not mind it as much.

the steps Anet needs to do
step one: go to http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Main_Page
step two: click on “armor”
step tree: look to your left and click any of the professions
step four: realize what you did right in GW1 but has abandoned in GW2 for all the wrong reasons.
step five: make them for GW2
step six: add then in the game, not in the gem store
step seven: you just did something that makes about 90% of the community happy.

it’s better to add more karma rewards then adding yet another token to farm, at first we have ppl buying like mad to burn trough karma but eventually ppl will run out of karma and do just want you want.
the rewards could cost around 100K+ or so, for what i see it’s quite easy to get karma since you don’t have to use it for anything else but your convenience and the things we can buy with karma are rarely rewarding to begin with.

illo.5106:

Hell no! Ascended are “Legendarys for the poor” – of course they should have one disadvantage if it isn’t the price.

it will, the mats will turn in to overpriced mats in day’s, just you see.

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

LittleMusing.8257:

Well, spoiler but she’s part of the Pact team in one late game story mission. Can’t remember which option though.

That’s not the point. The point is the home instance should change as we do the story, step by step. That NPC appears in orr, that’s great, but I met her at level 16. Why does she disappear off the face of tyria until i’m level 80 and what is probably supposed to be months ingame. Especially if that’s where she lives.

more till you’re on the lvl 80 story, my main still has the story on lvl 73 or so but stopped caring because it’s way to much about someone else then my own character.

Scrambles.2604:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

The only reason why I don’t want dueling is because I don’t want anet to start balancing PvE for 1v1 fights.

PvP nerfs are the worst of all and I don’t want them in PvE.

Are you implying that anet hasn’t already made any balance changes to PvP that effect PvE? Have you ever played an elementalist? haha.

I hope you can rest easy now knowing that 1v1 fights already occur, without open world dueling, and Anet has already implemented pvp balance changes that also effect PvE…again without open world dueling.

then why do you complain about having no duels if you can duel?
really, all you want is PvP everywhere while not keeping in mind the other side.
you’re pretty much what the saying is all about “give someone a finger and he wants the whole hand”

Scrambles.2604:

sorudo.9054:

i do wonder, why do ppl want to ruin it for PvE players while you have WvW?
i mean, if duels are possible there then i don’t mind, it doesn’t affect me since i barely go there at all.

so instead of people dueling in vast, empty open world environments, you think it would be better for people to sit around and duel in WvW, which at least on my server, generally has a queue.

That is beside the point though, because dueling will not “ruin it for PvE players.” However, your suggestion would actually ruin it for WvW players.

and how would it ruin it for WvW players ey?
if it holds a spot so what, it’s the same exact thing in PvE.
when around 100 players are in one area (let’s say queensdale) you’re holding s spot on the server, the rest has to move in the overflow server.
in WvW you expect PvP, that’s why you go there.
in PvE you expect a story in an open world with monsters and NPC enemies, that’s why you go there.

ps. it’s not a fast empty in PvE where i am, maybe you’re in a general PvP server but i am in quite a full PvE server.

do what i do, ignore all LS’s and simply play the base game.
if Anet finds out the updates they add are so bad ppl simply don’t play them they might stop and think things trough.

i really rather see them unlocking parts of tyria like they said they would then dealing with all the LS crap, the crystal deserd without anything to do is more fun then the LS we have now.

i dunno about you but an elite like flesh golem is nether situational nor “oh snap”, it’s a minion for the heavy lifting a necro is simply to weak to do.
while my golem fights, i attach the enemy with all kinds of marks and wells.
if i am in a pickle i simply charge my minion trough it, if the enemy can’t be KD then it does massive damage.

however, like said before it’s not for under water, most elites are quite good but something like a flesh golem can only be used on the ground making it a powerful elite with a massive weakness.

they should’ve done it at least something like that your sister is wounded at a point and you find her in a wheelchair in your home instance, if i rescue someone while she has bin their for more then a month or so i don’t expect her to be in good shape anytime soon.

Arcuss.6457:

sorudo.9054:

ok, ill give a choice:
1.) duel arena’s
2.) duels possible in WvW
3.) no duels at all
4.) a duel is teleported to an arena
which one is it gonna be, open world duels in PvE is a bad idea, period, so it’s up to you to accept alternatives.

I pretty sure it’s not up to you to give choices. Open world dueling is most likely going to happen whether you want it to or not.

i give choices that are best for both sides, both sides get what they wand and none of them interfere with ether sides.
whether you want it or not, the choices i give out is not to decide for you, it’s to keep in mind both your wants and my wants.
open world duels will and always has bin a thorn in any PvE-player’s side, if you don’t want to see that then fine but don’t complain when the comprises are more likely to happen then the thing that creates more problems then it’s worth.

lordkrall.7241:

The problem here is that if they change stuff, people will complain that they removed stuff from last year.
If they don’t change stuff people will complain that they are lazy and didn’t add anything new.
So no matter how they do it there will always be people that are complaining.

why remove anything, they don’t have to remove anything, just add stuff and leave the things from last year alone.

one thing you have to keep in mind, when i look at the medium armors most of them are coats but even the female ones are more made for a male body.
that is simply not ok, having the same design in a sense is good but making it pretty much only for one gender so it doesn’t fit the other is not my idea of a good design.
this is the pirate female armor:
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/image241.png
this is the male pirate armor:
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/image583.png
as you can see, it looks quite good on a male but is simply way to big and chunky for a female.

it’s good to have equality within design but you need to keep the female and male body shape in mind.

the problem is that karma is easier to come by then gold since you need gold all the time but karma is just sitting there, even if it was 10.000 karma per silver i just know there are players out there that drown with karma and can simply make a huge profit from it.
that, and karma becomes yet another currency players farm for, i would rather see some stuff like cultural armor and such have a way to buy trough karma so you always have an alternative for such things.

if they would at least make more elites possible under water we would not have such problems to deal with, a necro only has 1 single elite to use and not really one that fit’s everyone’s build.

ok, ill give a choice:
1.) duel arena’s
2.) duels possible in WvW
3.) no duels at all
4.) a duel is teleported to an arena
which one is it gonna be, open world duels in PvE is a bad idea, period, so it’s up to you to accept alternatives.

when they do finally add it you have a good thing and a bad thing.
good: armors from GW1
bad: they are in the gem store

nah, farmers will still get their trolling drive running, just make it so that after 3X decline it’s die player die with damaged armor parts.
if they don’t want to listen, they should feel it.

and what part of “duels ruin the immersion of PvE” is considered?
i don’t know how many games you have played but i have played to many games to count and every time there are open duels it always ends up with annoyance, not just from a PvE aspect but also from a PvP despise aspect.

i enjoy playing in a PvE environment where we battle grand monsters, go out on an adventure and solve great mysteries.
i don’t enjoy seeing others fight each others, being bothered with duel invites and having all kinds of insults being trowed at me.

as it is now is fine the way it is, adding duels adds problems even with an auto decline option.

mmm, i get a tesla coil vibe from it.
let’s see how my tesla handles it.

RainbowSyrup.4130:

nuff said.

/15char

…..wow, i love that design.
Anet, make them NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just don’t get something, you want duels, ppl give you options and you simply ignore all of them.
we suggested an arena, you ignore it, we suggest it only be done in WvW, you see it as a horrible idea.
however, the moment we say that open world dueling in a PvE place is a bad idea you come up with all kind of excuses that make no sense, you have no idea how many problems dueling adds in the game.
i rather have them not add something to prevent problems then add something that will only cause problems, even potential profit loss due players leaving.

you don’t have an issue with duel trolls because you your self enjoy duels, ppl who simply can’t stand it are plagued with all kinds of annoyances and it does effect the gameplay, even to a point of no return.

and now for part 2 of my list:

Npc movements
One of the most immersive breaking things is when an NPC talks but never moves their lips, some random blabbering is only fixing it a little bit, actually moving correctly according to the dialog makes it allot better.
The tec is there, we use it every time a dialog starts, having this everywhere revives the game to a more “real” experience.

Bump mapping
Now before i begin to talk about bump mapping, i first need to explain it for ppl who don’t know what it is.
Basically, it’s a way to make 2D textures look 3D, so even while you think the brick in the wall is 3D it’s actually a 2D picture with a layer of bump mapping behind it.
If you want a more accurate explaination, see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_mapping

So yeah, bump mapping.
I am personally surprised Anet didn’t ad it yet, it’s the next best thing to an actual 3D wall and it makes the game look so much better. (if done right ofcouse)
I agree that you should be able to disable it if desired but i can tell you this, the moment you have this effect on it’s really hard to go back.
It improves the immersion so much and makes the game look so much better, not to mention how much easier it is to immerse your self in the environment.

that’s it for now, i hope Anet sees this.

IMO i find having a coat a good thing, they did to much of the same but still the option to have one is good.
however, the coats are made to much for a male character, female characters simply drown in the coats we have now.
http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/219001-220000/219330/522_max.jpg
that’s the max i would like to see, simple yet useful.

a skin is what you put on the armor, what you’re talking about are models.
so yes, they are not reskins, they are totally different models with different skins.

yep, love to have some black corruption coming from my shoulder pads.

for how i look at it, when a jumping puzzle is something i need to rush (clock tower for instance) i don’t call it a jumping puzzle because it’s more a race then a puzzle.
when a jumping puzzle is full of enemies then i simply don’t bother, i am playing jumping puzzles for the puzzle, not for the fights.
when a jumping puzzle has some complex puzzling but no rushing, i simply love it.

the hardest i tried is…..uhmmmm, dunno.
i really like the one in asford and the pirate one in LA but the hardest?

1/10
the only single thing i care about is the part that i can see the rarity of the items with the inventory boarders, the rest is completely useless to me and otherwise ruins some parts of the game.

Bad Wolf.1879:

Most of these “mean people” were/are picked on in there real life. The Internet and gaming allows them to live out there superiority fantasys from a place of anonymity, without the consequences they would face in real life if they acted that way. Feel good that you still have some real life self worth and don’t have to act like those gamers.

sorry but i take offense on that, i have bin picked on my whole life yet i am among the most friendly player around.
if someone dies i rather revive the player then care for the gold reward, if someone is about to die i join in and help the person.
i even had a time in SW:ToR where i was just killing low level champions for fun and gave the high end rewards away to low levels just so they have something to ether use or sell, if that’s not nice then i don’t know.

necro here, i always play with a support build, i need to in order to make my build work on the most effective way.
i wish ppl stop underestimating my build, i can do more on my own then most can do in a group of 3.