Guild Wars 2

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

RubiBayer.8134:

AXEL.8362:

So I guess its fair to expect this event to be another rehash right? I mean, since they are clearly ignoring people asking about it. I hope they put the expensive expansion money to good use and next halloween we can have new content because last year’s was sad.

That’s not really true. On the first page of this very thread Gaile said “There will be a blog and an event page soon. You’ll have a whole bunch of details then.”

To add a note to what she said, when these details go out the way she explained, they will go out in all four languages we support. Then all of our players get the details at the same time, not just the ones who happen to speak English.

No matter what the events contain, you can decide ahead of time that the Halloween events are going to be bad and that you won’t enjoy them, but it seems like it would be more fun to join the party that only rolls around once a year and have a good time along with the rest of us.

Rubi and also by an extent Gaile… I think what MOST people have issue with is why the decision to start Halloween on the day HoT launches… I mean I KNOW that’s what TONS of people on my server are talking about how are they going to juggle time for both… Also given how SOME of the recent content has been a bit buggy we are worried about that disrupting the event.

Then of course there is this which I found a bit disheartening to see…

http://www.guildwars.com/en/events/halloween

More specifically this section-

Calendar of Events

October 18: The Halloween celebration begins at 12:00 p.m. The mood will be set with eerie decorations in Lion’s Arch, Kamadan, Droknar’s Forge, and the Tomb of the Primeval Kings. Plus, the Costume Brawl starts today! Halloween quests are available in Lion’s Arch and Kamadan. Pit your skill against the Lunatic Court, delve into the Underworld to take on Dhuum with your allies, or embark on a classic Halloween quest from holidays gone by. Speak with the Mad King’s Steward to begin your adventure!

October 31: Starting at 12:01 a.m., Mad King Thorn appears every three hours in Lion’s Arch and Kamadan. Participants in the Mad King’s games will receive holiday treats. The better you follow directions, the sweeter the treats will be!

November 2: The seasonal festivities conclude at 12:01 a.m.

Sooooo GW1 gets to start Halloween on the 18th while GW2 gets crammed into HoT launch?

Who made that decision and why?

Rest assured I ask you that with the UTMOST respect and admiration for this game that I love but most of us out here in the GW2 community just aren’t seeing the logic of it being mashed together

HoT will still be around after the Halloween events are over. You don’t have to do everything right away.

You should try a real pay to win game. I’ve played them. No fun getting stomped by much more powerful enemies with no way of competing.

Alekt.5803:

uhohhotdog.3598:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

If unranked gets less rewards than ranked, all the people there just to farm tomes/trans or whatever will go ranked…

That’s fine. They’ll be at the lower end of the leagues so the good players won’t have to deal with them.

Really now?

I don’t understand what’s confusing you.

Random Weird Guy.3528:

If unranked gets less rewards than ranked, all the people there just to farm tomes/trans or whatever will go ranked…

That’s fine. They’ll be at the lower end of the leagues so the good players won’t have to deal with them.

If you want rewards and don’t want serious competition do unranked. Unranked should also give lesser rewards.

If you want real competition and full rewards do ranked.

This is how it should be. Make it happen.

Lavexis.5360:

some people prefer that gear grind. Those people prefer killing other players that don’t have the gears to do so, because it gives them satisfaction for all the hard work they done.

You mean they like killing lesser geared players because they’re too terrible to win an even match.

Not might. It’s exactly what they meant. The reward track progress is completely separate from your rank. I don’t see what’s so hard to understand. You understand what a reward track is right? Instead of getting gear or weapons boxes you’ll get finishers.

I agree. Keep the transmute charges. Cut down on tomes of knowledge instead

I like the battleground maps in wow but that’s all the good I can say.

GW is superior because it takes no time investment in your character to be competitive. No gear grind required no leveling required. If class or spec X is strong and I don’t already have it, in wow I’m screwed. Have to spend weeks or months getting it geared up. In GW I spend 5 minutes rolling a new character setting traits and weapons etc and I’m ready to go.

I think wvw needs to be taken off the server system. Just create factions and everyone picks a faction. You’re stuck with that faction unless you pay a large gold fee (50+) to switch allegiance to reduce trolling of the other sides.

Everything else would be the same. Same maps, 3 teams, etc. This would just allow them to compact the populations into a smaller number of teams. It would be like combining servers without actually needing to combine servers.

This would also make it easier for guildies to all do wvw together since they wouldn’t need to pay for server transfer. They can all just pick the same faction.

Ayrilana.1396:

uhohhotdog.3598:

I think the mats should be reduced slightly for each type for damask. Reduce the amount of each cloth required to make damask by about 20% each.

Won’t fix one of the primary complaints that people have where light armor costs more than medium and heavy.

If you reduce the price of damask it’ll shrink the gap between them. Even though you’ll be reducing the price of medium and heavy you’ll be reducing light by more since it uses more damask.

Can someone please tell me how to get that screen up. I was told the messages on the right but nothing happens when I hit it.

nacario.9417:

uhohhotdog.3598:

Maybe you should play ranked instead of unranked.

Ranked or unranked itll be the same story at one point. We’re beating a long known dead horse only Anet can ressurect with a fix.

It matters because you won’t get skyhammer therefore people won’t quit because someone picked skyhammer and won the roll.

This really needs brought back as a raid. Pleeeeeeeeease.

Hopefully now that they’ve got the traits all done and new UI they can get to work on a template. I think the change of UI held them back from doing it earlier

Revenant, ele/necro

I really want Luxon armor

I also thought this was going to be related to Netflix and was much disappoint.

Geneticist/Bio Engineer. Does Transforms.

I want to see some class dual wield 2 handers. Or main hand off hands. Like double warhorns/torches.

Flying on the ground

I think the mats should be reduced slightly for each type for damask. Reduce the amount of each cloth required to make damask by about 20% each.

emikochan.8504:

The low level items are not unfarmable, you just buy karma items , mystic forge them and then salvage.

That’s a lot of clicking.

Maybe you should play ranked instead of unranked.

Well if you only win when you team up then maybe you’re the one that’s being carried.

As someone planning on making rev my main, I think it could use a short CD. Like 3 seconds. I think instant back to back is a bit much but a short CD keeps it closer to thief shortbow.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Trevor Boyer.6524:

I’d also like to add that when this happens, I never get wins to balance it back out. I have 48% win rate in ranked and unranked but 56% win rate in custom arenas. Total account wins are at 50%. This makes me need to ask the question: When the match making aims for 50% wins, does it read all my wins accrued concerning all current and previous match types including hotjoins and custom servers? If so, this would explain the lose streaks. Is the algorithm trying to keep my account win rate at 50% and I am being punished in ranked nowadays due to an old lingering good win rate from hotjoin/custom arenas?

Matchmaking doesn’t look at existing win rates, it only lowers your matchmaking rating if you lose and raises it if you win so that over time you should balance to a 50/50 win rate. Custom arenas, unranked, and ranked all have no influence on each other.

So tank an unranked match, then play a ranked match for better odds at winning a “meaningful” match?

How do you get that from what he said? He said they have no influence on each other. They’re separate mmr. Your win rate in one has no affect on the other.

I want to see a Boomerang weapon. Lots of possibilities with this. Don’t ask me what they are but there’s lots. So many possibilities it’ll make your head spin.

I doubt it since it’s not “kittened” out

We need some flashier warhorn skins. I never even notice mine. It’s like I don’t even have one equipped.

The district system from gw1 would be best.

PyrateSilly.4710:

Megaservers are here to stay:
http://mmo-play.com/mmo-blog/are-mmo-megaservers-necessary

That’s cool but has nothing to do with this.

I remember that screen. Didn’t like it. I want to see more than slices of the background through the “2”.

Yes. to all those saying no, you can just keep damaging them. You’re never required to use a finisher even in pvp.

Extended til noon monday? I thought that was when it usually ended?

Why not have week long betas? Give more people a chance to play it. Not everyone gets weekends off but I’m sure you’re well aware of that.

When I respawn at base why am I in combat??? This has gone on forever. Sometimes I’ll even take damage.

Honestly I’d like to see the skill revamped. I just don’t feel it’s worth using most the time. Too situational for an elite.

It doesn’t work on treb. It says no path or some such. Kinda hard to take it out when I can’t use a major skill on it.

IO still doesn’t seem to be working properly on finishes. The animation goes through but it doesn’t actually finish the person for another second after. If you move or get interupted right after the animation finishes it doesn’t go through.

Learn to dodge?

I feel this skill is a bit underwhelming. I rarely ever use it. I think it needs a new function.

You know these are trolls and not just bad players how?

I’m stuck in queue. As soon as I finished my last match it said i was in queue. I never queued up and it won’t let me leave it.

Switching characters doesn’t help.

Edit: I’m out. I guess exiting game helped.

Should have posted this on general. I don’t think many people look at this forum.

Your beta account is separate from your normal account. It’s a copy.

No these are terrible ideas. Lock people out? That’s ridiculous. Just because you don’t know how to counter people doesn’t mean others don’t. That’s part of the skill of the game.

They said they wanted to but it wouldn’t be soon. That was a year ago. Hopefully they were just waiting for the new UI and specs before they worked on it. If so then they can start soon.

I think there should be a lesser form of stealth. Camouflage. You’d see the outline of the player when they move but they’d be clear and untargetable. But completely invisible when not moving. So you could watch where they go but they still get the defensive aspects of stealth. I think it would fit better than pure stealth for professions other than thief.

Tigaseye.2047:

^ Well, you can probably copyright almost anything, but whether a court would uphold it, is another matter.

Otherwise, for example, a food company could copyright the word “sandwich” and not allow any other business to use it.

That would, obviously, be unreasonable.

Yeah, TBH, considering Rangers are now also Druids (i.e. two completely separate classes, in WoW), I find it unlikely that they would make Warlocks a separate class, when they already have Necros.

It would almost be like making a Hunter class, as well as a Ranger class.

That’s like saying why make a revenant when you have warriors and guardians.

It’s a completely different play style. It would be a combination of different existing styles plus more. It’s more like a cross between necro and ranger and elementalist.

I suppose you could make it a necro elite spec but it doesn’t really fit.

Riranor.6315:

its obviously inspired by WoW though. in other games i play Warlocks dont use demons. why does yours? It is inspired by WoW whether you intended that or not. When i think watlock i think D&D 4th edition with pacts and otherwordly things giving you powers, never do you get a demon. So your warlock is heavily similar to WoW, and WoW is the only game i personally jnow that gives Warlocks pet demons of any kind.

Look at the definition of warlock. Demons are involved bro. It’s not a wow thing.

CandyHearts.6025:

Noticing the most common issue is that no one opened the chest of goods and has the right stats. I mean. . . that’s gotta be the issue here, right?

Yep that’s likely it. it starts you with celestial armor.

Put on some zerker gear and you’ll kill in no time.

Glint goes with anything