I don’t like it much in those, either.
This is an immersive, virtual world, not a Japanese handheld game.
But it was to showcase Trahearne’s leadership capabilities, not about an epic Player Character fight with a huge monster. I’m not claiming that made the fight fun, but putting him up on the high ground to repeat the same four lines is meant to show him taking charge of the fight and organizing the troops, was my take. He pulls the Orders together and uses their combined might to push the undead back so that the story can shift from despair to hope.
This, of course, highlights how unfortunate it is that the PC is not the big hero, that for many of us we unfortunately have to let Trahearne get all the credit while we do the work, and that the Orders are, despite their bravado and brains, pretty darn juvenile in their refusal to work together until we come along and make them.
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But this was originally about the first trip to the island. I agree wholeheartedly that Talon was a bad character. I didn’t care that he died, though I did find it an amusing and failed attempt to get me to appreciate the character. He really deserved it, to be honest.
And the trebuchet bit should have just been something you interacted with, like in GW 1 missions, that didn’t need aiming. No matter how long you take or how often you miss, the situation does not get worse on the island. So just remove the mini game and make it a player-triggered mini-custscene.
This mission emphasized that killing mobs isn’t often the goal of personal story missions. I guess the idea is to not let people grind the undead for XP, but *shrug* I wasn’t really motivated to fight enemies in personal story missions anymore after the mission.
The fact that the three groups trying to save the world need the player character and the chosen one Trahearne to tell them to work together -- as normal behavior for them is to mock each other and fight/argue -- is really, really dumb.
The personal stories have a decent enough start, in my opinion, but lose their appeal once you get into the Pact territory.
This is true for all warriors. The sound is triggered at each 1/3 of the adrenaline bar. Unfortunately, when you are losing adrenaline, it also triggers. It should be ignored on adrenaline loss, or they should add a loss sound if they want a sound there. As it stands it’s just silly.
I’d say "hate" is pretty appropriate when describing the two-person presentation.
I don’t extend that feeling to the story overall. Just that presentation style.
Some vistas are ruining the game for me. Am I alone? Please heed my call.
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You must hate the jumping puzzles in a few of the zones, then.
Vistas are amazing, and most of the fun is figuring out the path. What "mouse movements" are you talking about? It’s all about running and jumping in the right direction or taking it slow when appropriate to see where the best place to stand and jump from is. Being close to a vista but trying to force your way to it using a path that’s not really a path can definitely be frustrating, too.
Would you be comfortable with giving an example of one that is making you angry/frustrated and how you’ve approached it so far?
edit: As someone who is so very happy that jumping around terrain was made into an actual game feature, I don’t want these to go away at all. But I also would love to see a person who doesn’t like them get a better hang of them and start to like them. I think that would be great if we can help in any way.
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On a lower level heavy character, I hear the mail chains when landing.
On a higher level heavy character, I hear the plating jostling a bit when landing.
Neither of these sounds is louder than other sound effects or jarring. Taking off armor and re-equipping didn’t stop this sound from occurring. Where is the bug / how can I reproduce?
To the OP: because naming a plant-based person after a plant is funny to some people, so they go with it, I assume. Same reason there are names like "Winston Charrchill" and "Charrizard", etc.
Please do something to make distant NPC shouts sound more distant (and more like shouts).
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Perhaps not quite related, but sometimes I’ll hear player lines from buffs/boons (e.g. that centaur line from a human, an asura saying, "Accelerate", etc.) as if they were right next to me when there is, in fact, no player nearby.
What I don’t get is why we have the two-person-max "cutscenes" when there are plenty of examples / instances of a more GW1-style cutscene playing out in so many of our story missions.
Just freeze my character in place so I don’t go goofin’ around when I am meant to be talking and let me and the NPCs have our talks. The meetings with the order reps in the home instance, for example, are abysmal when it cycles around to show two at a time. What is this, a Hall of Monuments trophy shelf with a max size of 2?
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In any case, now that I’ve finally gone through most of the asura stuff, I think I have to conclude for now that the worst VA work is mostly in norn areas. I am not a fan of Felicia Day, but Zojja is pretty kitten well done. They sylvari have mostly been a treat, and I really like the Charr acting overall. Those norn, though, they easily sound like the most bored, reading-from-a-script people a lot of the time -- at least the women do, that is (don’t get me wrong, there’s good work there, this is just a high-level generalization).
Female norn NPCs are so meh.
"I pray to the spirits, but they seldom/rarely answer." OK so apparently there are multiple actresses who deliver this line. But one of them, oh man, one of them sounds like she’s so out-of-her-mind bored, delivering this line as flat as possible. This is on top of how... odd this is as a greeting. "OK, thanks for telling me, I guess? Can I buy that salvage kit now?"
I am runnin’ around Hoelbrak now and not getting the line to trigger off an NPC, but there’s that one where she basically sounds happy and then more or less goes "Oh, it’s you, what do you need?" haha wow what a jerk
wow
So the filter is set up to try to catch people dumping spaces into swear words and phrases and making it even more needlessly complicated to post an actual post. Good times...
What’s wrong with limiting the filter to the exact words and just manually warning the few folks who go out of their way to get around it? You’ll never get a simple forum word filter to intelligently parse a word/phrase/sentence, so this just generates a lot of false positives and tosses "kitten" into weird places.
So what server do I have to be on to run into staff when playing? :o
Yeah, small interface is the best.
But the TP looks awful as a result. And just the TP. So I guess the web browser tool doesn’t scale down so well.
As I am not you and cannot accurately tell you what you’ll have fun doing, I say make one of each. Use a character slot, pick a class and race combo, play it for a few levels, bank your money, delete, try another, repeat.
Alternatively, take the character into the mist to get boosted to 80 to get a preview of the traits and skills available. I did this after I made my mesmer to see which classes I thought I might want to play the most (for example, it helped me realize I wouldn’t be able to replicate my GW 1 necro experience, so I shelved that class for the time being. Shame, as that was my first and oldest GW1 character. Spiteful Spirit is still one of my favourite skills).
No disrespect to Tybalt, as he’s a lot of fun, but I feel that Sieran and Forgal are no less well fleshed out and well done. The mentor/player relationships are quite terrific, which of course makes what happens in the story have much more of an impact. At least for me, even when I knew it was coming on alts.
While I can’t comment on end story aspects yet, I personally find it terribly jarring to build relationships with your orders’ members and your race’s Destiny’s Edge member only to have a scholar foisted upon you at Claw Island to play buddy with you for the rest.
I mean, I am glad that DE try to get together and work through things in the story modes of dungeons, but it feels like a big fork in the story with one side having all the appeal and build up and the other coming from nowhere and feeding into an NPC’s ego.
Nice
Too bad Logan’s quote is something he failed at.
not sold on the visuals in a static image
looking forward to seeing these weapons in-game and animated
Congrats, though.
down with mounts
bring back running :P
Nice pictures, all. Your asura are looking quite cute.
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Oh dear.
I hated this race in GW1. My what an overdose of cuteness can do. I even have one amongst my characters now...
I like the grinning, with respect to the near child-like innocence of the race.
But I may be embracing that aspect too readily.
Oh man
I don’t normally laugh aloud when reading things online, but hats off to that picture. That is outstanding.
I mean, if that’s a bug that’s happening to you -- and anyone else -- I sincerely hope it gets fixed.
But for now I’ll be over here, wiping a laugh-tear out of my eye.
I’ve noticed this as well, for what it’s worth, on some enemies. Rather than an enemy getting pulled back to its spawn area by the magic tether on its leash, sometimes a mob will sort of step one or two paces out of your default melee range and keep doing it if you adjust your own position. I just keep chasing them / snare them; not sure what else can be done. And it’s not like every mob of the same type will do it.
hahaha
I am with you. Last night, I dove off a cliff into water on my norn only to have her start the yell at about the water’s surface and continue screaming while I swam away and engaged some fish in combat.
But the yell is not always long; it seems like there are two version of it? Perhaps the longer one is just unnecessary.
If the vendor+1 prices are merely folks dumping inventory as they quest/explore/etc., then just stop letting us use the trading post anywhere and require us to talk to a trading post NPC. We already have to in order to claim our winnings/money.
I vendor at vendors. I only sell things that might make me a profit on the TP, and I easily carry those few items with me back to a city or outpost. I keep reading that these listings are because the TP is a free, anywhere-you-want vendor, so it seems worthwhile to just dump that feature.
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If I could force the game client to say the line about expanding my legend instead of the "New land? New land! ***" line, I’d be doing it.
Man.
My warrior is already 46, and I really want to have at least one norn, but I’m still entertaining rerolling her as a Charr.
***edit: haha, h erp de rp is wordfiltered?
I’m not a writer, so I don’t feel comfortable discussing the story and characters. In particular, there’s little value in trying to get into a debate over the story. Honestly, it’s highly subjective, and some folks like it, and some don’t.
wait what
How can "some folks like it and others not", i.e. a comment on opinion, apply when the OP is about the story failing to follow its own sequence of events correctly, i.e. a failure to align facts?
A problem for any MMO is having the single-player experience help prepare for the group play. In GW1, you always had a party, even if it was full of AI. So when real players were involved, running a dungeon became even easier. Here, you can easily handle groups of mobs in the regular world, but two or three in a dungeon against your group of five and suddenly folks are corpse-running all over the place.
Granted, you pick yourself up and dust off and give’em Hell and win, but the point I am making is that, in a general sense, there’s a steep learning curve between general PvE and dungeon PvE*.
* I’m willing to bet those with a decent chunk of their time invested in PvP fair much better, on average, their first time in dungeons.
I don’t have all of the solutions or anything, but it’s my guess this contributes to people not having fun.
Me? I view it as a challenge and have enjoyed it, both when I have died a lot and when I have had smooth sailing groups.
I’d like to add a suggestion, as I believe the issue is that whenever a vendor near a crafting station is being talked to (by anyone), they will be prompted to speak. If this speech was instanced to the player that is talking to the npc, then I believe it would be easier to live with them.
I’d like to chime in and bump this idea — making the greetings just play for the player talking to the NPC. I really enjoy the NPC chatter all over, even if I’ve heard the back-and-forths before (it really makes the NPCs more alive to see them wandering around and bickering or joking or whatever), but I hate hearing the same couple of vendor lines as people constantly barter with an NPC next to a crafting station or whatnot.
hahaha That’s terrific. I saw someone had noted that the kitten filter was "Red Dwarf aware", but I hadn’t expected to see it do that to someone’s name.
More evidence that word filters are a poor choice as a blanket "solution". (albeit amusing, at any rate)
I didn’t see Iron as a fit and felt Blood was too melee-centric for mine, so I went Ash. I’ve justified it further, to myself anyway, by making my warband’s history one of espionage and the like. But that ended up not really mattering after the tutorial mission...
Oh, the players are also mentioned in one of the novels, for that matter. Glint tells the story of how she instructed them to save the world and then they beat her within an inch of her life for no discernable reason to Destiny’s Edge.
Oh god that bonus was considered canon? I always thought it was out of place and random...
Well, it was at least an amusing nod to the mission+bonus by the author.
In any case it’s been my assumption that, for story purposes, your hero is included in a party of your friends/henchman/hero NPCs all rolled together (obviously ignoring the MMO aspect of the game for the main story). They should be able to sufficiently dance around characters’ names well enough to still give our GW1 players a nod alongside Cynn, Devona, Mhenlo, Koss, Gwen, et al.
Agreed with the above being pointed out. It wasn’t killing Abaddon that made a person a god -- it was making the choice a mortal could make to do something about the huge, tremendous outpouring of energy and knowledge.
Also it didn’t "only happen in Elona". Kormir’s priests/priestesses are just as prevalent throughout Kryta as the other gods’.
All of the six human gods got a human racial skill. I realize this is going to be a generalization, but I suspect hers and Balthy’s are the only ones that will see widespread use. But that’s just a mechanics issue.
FWIW, I like the pose. Just didn’t expect it on the supposedly strong norn.
Evennia was terrific. I was glad to see her make an appearance here and there as the post-EotN content was introduced, but I’d like to know her fate.
As plot-mechanic-y as Saidra’s death was, it was nice to get some closure with her ashes.
Make it a toggle. I’d like to know who’s advertising their commander status sometimes, but I don’t want it to be there all of the time.
Check the south-eastern area of the northern [i.e. north of the water] portion of the city. There’s a PoI right in the center, and several NPC asura are working/chatting there. You can talk to the head guy [forget if he’s got a title in front of his name] in charge of the project, and he’ll mention future gate plans (but won’t get into details with you).
I just got in the habit of holstering/sheathing it as soon as I was done killing something if I was just running around.
Rollin’ with two axes now, though, so it’s a moot point.
i just started my mesmer, but as i understand it ( i am not sure, so u have to test it urself by standing still)
confusion build is useless in PvE, but amazing in PvP,
Condition build is the oppositte, it is amazing in PvE and i dont know about PvP because the stacks are random.reason: people attack fast and confusion eats away at there lives, unless you find a smart guy that takes it away, in PvE, monsters slow and I am not sure if they take dmg from the confusion, but they mostly take dmg from your basic impact attak, but as i understand your main damage is from stacking confusion which doesnt help you in PvE. so your better off switching to another build.
After 56 levels of playing a mesmer so far, I don’t feel I have any problems with PvE enemies failing to kill themselves thanks to my confusion. It only got better as I got more traits to make confusion pop on them virtually endlessly.
The two-characters-talking style of cutscene is really bad, imo, but I’m guessing there’s not much that could be done, if anyone was even willing on the team, about that at this point.
I’d like to see more variety in emotes. I know, real high priority, right? ha. I am assuming more are coming, based on how some I’ve tried don’t tell me "unknown command" at the moment. But it would be nice to have more than one dance per race. An MMO that does this "right", in my opinion, is Star Trek Online. There are several available, and you are free to perform any of them.
OK real stuff now.
Let us move more of the interface around. While I never felt the need to customize the UI with addons like in other games, part of that was due to GW1 letting me resize and reposition virtually everything. Being able to size and move the chat and map/compass is a nice start to this.
I mean, in general I do like the UI layout, but it would be nice to know I could alter it if I preferred.
Per-character hotkeys could be great, too.
The Trading Post UI really needs visual work. The font is terrible, things can’t be resized, and there’s no means to preview items. Functionally it does what I’d expect, though.
I beleive it’s in the options no? I have all NPCS off and firends/enemies on.
I’m thinking the OP wants a means to press a button and toggle it that doesn’t require going into the menu. A hotkey could be pressed on the fly, while in combat, etc.
In Lion’s Arch, I’ve seen these big bear people but I’m not sure what the name of their race is. I think those guys are pretty cool.
Kodan
There are a quite a few of them in the Shiverpeaks, and you can learn about their philosophy and lifestyle by talking with them.
Quaggan hopes all of the quaggan die. OooOoo.
The moment I see a Mursaat in GW 2 I will probably be glad I live alone thanks to the girlish screams of excitement that I will utter.
Yup. the city is definitely capable of handling gates to another expansion or two’s cities. And the Orders [Priory, Vigil, Whispers] seem to have gates at their HQs that aren’t usable yet. My current guess is for linking headquarters in different continents.
also, for anyone who wants to know, this is the map of southeastern Kessex Hills. as you can see, there are 2 options for which Waypoint to use. if you go with the one i used, there are ogres most of the way ’til the water, and in the section of water you land in, there’s a Veteran Sea Scorpion (i think that’s the right name), so be either quick or strong.
I’ve wanted to go out into that floating castle ever since the first time I walked out there in GW 1 [probably one of the times when I was killing Verata] and took a few screenshots.
It was nice to head out there in this game and see it there again, taunting me with its inaccessibility.
How do you not have money? If I didn’t purchase crafting recipe items I’d probably have even more.
A full set of gear around your level is maybe a few silver, cultural armor tier 1 not counted.
I don’t know if I should be amused or sad that a Google search for "guild wars 2 report botting" returns both threads like this and sites where bots are discussed and distributed. Hopefully that can be used to help block them, but for now I’ll content myself with reporting folks like the ranger bot teleporting/farming in the Shiverpeaks this morning.
Prior to game launch, I didn’t really have any interest in Sylvari.
But it’s characters like Killeen, mentioned above, and Caithe and other NPCs that more or less wear their innocence and their feelings on their sleeves that really make them interesting to me.
I worry that sentiments behind posts like the OP are from being too rooted in one viewpoint. If sylvari are "too" homosexual [skipping over whether or not that’s an appropriate label], then isn’t the human storyline too heterosexual?
I say, "No" to both, for what it’s worth, just making a hamfisted point.
Yeah, I was a little disappointed at first when my norn warrior held a greatsword the same way the smaller humans and sylvari do. And I also don’t understand why the regular attack [skill 1] has her swinging in upward arcs in the animations. Norn are tall; why would I swing above my targets?
So far, I’ve seen no evidence for this having any affect on anything. I’ll keep my eyes open, though, I guess.
My Elementalist can turn into Grenth but I picked Balthazar for my god.
That’s just a human elite. human racials
I’m a mesmer. I don’t really need to lift the sword so much as magically use it.
I’m not sure I’m sold on my squeaking, though. I thought it was part of the spell sound effect until I ran across some warrior ladies doing it as well.