Guild Wars 2

topgamer.3804:

Why does everyone hate on mounts.
1. There freaking awesome
2. It would implement features for riding them like different Swing styles/moves
3. They could make the game more fun haveing to actually spend the time riding around the world more to find stuff not just way point there after you’ve only been there once

1. No, they’re not.
2. In what context? PvP? dungeons? PvE?
3. As if people would actually do that. Their idea of “fun” would be parking their humongous mounts at strategic points in jumping puzzles making them impossible to complete; obscuring as many people as possible who have gathered together to chat (another form of trolling against RPers) amongst other things.
4. You have the broom from the gem store. There’s your mount.

You haven’t provided a single good reason for why mounts should be implemented into this game.

Is there any point to this thread at all?

No. It will be used for gear checks and nothing else. Elitists like Bartosz above have enough of a stranglehold over this game as it is. Don’t give them additional tools to lock out normal players.

I think this thread adds further credence to my opinion that there are people out there who will complain for the sake of complaining (or to draw attention to themselves).

calyx.9086:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

And that cost you how much real money? Just freaking ouch.

It’s like $30, not really that much.

Speak for yourself. It’s an obscene amount for virtual fluff.

Astral Projections.7320:

uknortherner.2670:

It reads “IOU” in New Krytan. I can’t imagine a real bank accepting IOU notes!

Isn’t a check a formalized IOU note? Maybe that’s a Krytan check.

Or it could’ve been left by a looter as a joke as he emptied out the safe.

It reads “IOU” in New Krytan. I can’t imagine a real bank accepting IOU notes!

Not just the Dry Top megaserver, but also the instanced Living Story components as well. I was getting chronic lagging this morning both in the time it took for particle effects to update properly (or even bothering to appear on-screen at all), and even key presses going unregistered no matter how many times I was trying to cast spells and dodge. These issues were in addition to server lag/server dropout issues I’ve been getting over the last couple of days.

Astral Projections.7320:

Makes me glad I’m a casual player then. I haven’t finished this Living Story update yet. I guess I chew my content more before swallowing. ^^

Same here. I have this thing called a “job” which eats up a lot of my free time, and GW2 helps me unwind after a hard day’s work. So far I’ve only done two parts of this living story update because I like to take my time doing it. People who steamroll through content because they have a lot of time on their hands shouldn’t assume that everyone else is in the same position.

I would like to see a full-on expansion at some point, but can you imagine all the moaning that would go on from the serial complainers if there were no free updates for a year whilst the team worked on it?

Eight O Eight.8257:

Saying that they CAN’T do is bullkitten. 16 years ago in UO you ran through a quest line that allowed you to “embrace your Elvish heritage” and gave you the option to change your race from Human to Elf.

They could do it.

You’ve gotta love these armchair developers who believe they know more about the game code than the devs themselves.

Hitman.5829:

Come one Anet hundreds of people have asked for duels.

Which means millions of players haven’t.

Hitman.5829:

We want duels, we want duels!

No, you and a few hundred want duels. Don’t presume to speak for the other 99.9% of the player base.

If it’s instanced, people will moan. If it’s a permanent zone, the same people will still moan. In short, moaners will moan regardless.

Not bothered about any of those things. Sorry.
I’m even less enamoured by the idea of paying to have these things implemented.

What I want to see are useful, functioning features like a proper block function that removes everything associated with a blocked user – whispers, emotes, mail, guild chat visibility and even visibility in general. Additionally, by blocking someone, they should not be able to ‘follow’ me and see where I am in-game.

Also, for RP purposes (not as though Anet actually gives a toss about RP), additional visibility toggles for other armour pieces. Since Anet decided that customisable town clothes are now out of the picture and armour transumations will now cost even more than before, there’s few options less for customising our characters except through overpriced gem store items. Then again, Anet has already said no to toggleable boots so there’s no chance on them implementing any other switches.

No, I would not pay for either of these to be implemented though.

How many more threads on this are we going to get? Just roll a new character and get on with it.

Why not just roll a new character instead?

Form your own group and ignore the elitist speedrunner/goldfarmer morons.

Adry.7512:

Hey, lets give it another shot, they have come closer and closer to perfecting their craft.

i see a bright future and no i am not a fanboy, never been. Either way, i think this game will become better than most of us expect it to become.

I haven’t left, and I have never started a flounce thread, but I am finding myself playing less and less these days. Part of it is down to the fact I now have a job, but a lot of it is down to Anet taking away the things I enjoyed about this game because of a few vocal elitists calling the shots.

Magic find as an item stat? Gone because the elistists viewed it as “leeching”.
Queensdale champ train? Gone, because casuals were making more gold (supposedly) than the elitist-controlled zerker runs in the dungeons. Elitists moaned about it, and Anet capitulated.
No gear grind? Gone because the elitists demanded extra tiers to elevate them above us “casual” players (see: Ascended gear)
Casual-friendly dungeons? You’re kidding of course. The elitists will not allow anyone near them who is not equipped to the nines in full zerker gear and a minimum of 5,000AP. Same goes for fractals and open-world “raids” – something else the elitists demanded and then complained about because they couldn’t keep ordinary players out.
RP? Forget it. Thanks to the megaservers, random encounters with RPers are now virtually impossible. The new wardrobe system was also a kick in the teeth for those of us who liked to customise our characters without paying out huge wads of cash to do so.

I have no intention of leaving, but it’s high time Anet realised there’s another 95% of the player base out there who want to play the game their own way (and not as a second job), and not the way these elitists demand they play it.

serialkicker.5274:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Superfast.5901:

Maybe that girl left to play Wildstar like all the other intelligent people.

There’s so many people on the GW2 forums that say they’ve left or hinted they left, yet still feel they care to comment in the forums. confused

Why wouldn’t they? I’m also not playing anymore (I log in sometimes to say hello to guild), but why shouldn’t I visit this hilarious forum and laugh at cheesy comments like this one of youirs and in the same time check out on the progress of a game?
I also haven’t played Mass effect for a while and I still visit bioware forum sometime… Why not?

The difference being you are taking a break from the game whereas these flouncers announce they are permanently leaving it for “better” games – games so good that they still have a lot of free time to come here and keep posting about how “better” those games are and how they are no longer playing GW2.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Superfast.5901:

Maybe that girl left to play Wildstar like all the other intelligent people.

There’s so many people on the GW2 forums that say they’ve left or hinted they left, yet still feel they care to comment in the forums. confused

They’re called “flouncers”. We used to get them a lot on the old The Sims fan forums I used to frequent: People who keep proclaiming that they’re leaving yet seemingly appearing to lack the ability to do so.

I’ve seen his er… “pick up” lines on Piken Square map chat from time to time, though it could be any server thanks to the megaservers. I just put it down to some stupid internet meme and ignored it.

Never had any whispers from it on my female characters though, or male ones for that matter.

Anet are developing GW2 and only GW2. Don’t see what Blade & Soul has to do with it? Also, like GW2’s recycled content, this thread has also been done countless times as well.

Yasha.5963:

DaShi.1368:

Maybe, check one of the other threads on this topic.

I searched for “dueling” in the gw2 forum search and came up with nothing relevant, which is why I am asking. But thanks for the great help.

Forum search has been broken for an eternity. Use Google instead: ‘site:forum-en.guildwars2.com duels’

Seeing as “Australian time” would be UTC+8 to UTC+10, I really haven’t a clue what the OP is talking about.

Yoh.8469:

I don’t know where they are trying to take this game, but I honestly don’t care anymore.

~ Kind Regards

Yoh

You cared enough to write three lengthy posts on it though, and still found room for more when the vultures swooped in.

We get it, you’re leaving and like every other flouncer before you, you felt the need to make a big deal about it.

Im Mudbone.1437:

This isn’t the SIMS, so, NO!!!!

On the other hand, it would probably be a heck of a lot cheaper than The Sims! Sigh what damage was done to that game once EA’s bean-counters got their tentacles on it…

No.

Dark Catalyst.1028:

I would like to see these two things in game. By allowing players like me use these tools, you are making it possible for us to “play how we want”. What’s wrong with being able to control the quality of player that I let into my party?

I would also like to see more instanced content.

Considering you spent months on here moaning about the game and even claiming you don’t even play it any more, why should those of us that do, pay any attention to your elitist requirements?

Traveller.7496:

It’s highly ironic how people claiming to be striving for a troll/abuse-free community have their comments so full of vitriol and gloating.

Couldn’t have put it better myself.

Anet capitulate to the vocal elitists on this forum once again.

As the devs have apparently said no in the PvP forum, I’ve all but given up on the idea. I’ll just have to continue taking a stat hit if I choose to make my ele look like an ele trainer.

Marth Aurion.6425:

TLDR: Where are guild halls, I’m frustrated because they’re not out after almost two years and am a little kitten.

You’re upset because a feature that ANet never promised to implement hasn’t been implemented yet?

I’ve logged in around three or four times over the last week. On Piken Square, my home server, I have seen precisely zero RP in Divinity’s Reach and fragmented RP in Queensdale and Rata Sum. I feel like a complete stranger on my own server: I don’t recognise the players who now inhabit DR, nor their guilds and the RP chatter that used to fill map chat and local chat in the game world has been replaced either by silence, or an assortment of different languages that I don’t understand.

I’m not an RPer. I’m not part of an RP guild (though it would appear that it would’ve made no difference if I was). I switched to PS because I wanted to be immersed by the RPing that went on around me. I miss the random encounters with RPers when I’m out exploring; I miss the RPing that went on around me in the taverns and lodges around Tyria even if I didn’t participate, but above all, I miss the familiarity of seeing certain guilds running RP events outside the main cities, something that has now been completely lost because of this change.

With the way the friends list is set up at the moment, people only have to “follow” you to be classed as a friend (it’s not reciprocal) to see where you are and I don’t think a friends-only whisper option would work because of this.

I find whispers to be annoying in general and no longer have the option enabled in any of my chat tabs. If people want to talk to me, they can use /say or mail me.

Precisely £0. I looked at the unlimited tools in the past, realised that it would cost the equivalent of £40 in gems and decided I could buy a few indie games for that price – so I did.

Scrambles.2604:

the forums are split between those that want duels and those who can’t be bothered to decline a duel request.

Ah, of course. Those of us who don’t want duels are in fact lazy and are not in fact fed up with trolls and petulant 12-year-olds who think that bunny-hopping around, whispering “duel me brah” and “u scared?” every five seconds is a perfectly mature way to conduct themselves.

I believe the mentality of the pro-duel camp on this thread is reason enough for duels to never be implemented in this game.

I’ve played since launch and my AP score? >3200.

Although I’ve said this before, it seems even more relevant now: I chose Piken Square as my home server because although I don’t RP myself, the RP by other players on the server made the world of Tyria that much more immersive. Since the Megaserver went live, that immersion has largely gone as I’m no longer placed on the same instance as the RPers, even in Divinity’s Reach. Instead, I’m now surrounded by bunny-hopping trolls, 12-year-olds who think the height of maturity is to send suggestive whispers to my female chars, which I would probably find discomforting rather than pathetic if I was actually female and morons who think casual racism and homophobia is that more more acceptable and easier to get away with because they’re hiding behind a keyboard.

Such a waste. I miss my old PS community.

Randulf.7614:

There was a dev post in the pvp forum (I think). It has been put forward by some devs, but atm the answer is there are no plans to hide boots. The gloves became hideable I think I read as it was easier to hide a bug which was causing problems.

I am happy to stand corrected if I misread that info though

It’s a shame the devs didn’t bother responding to similar threads in the PvE parts of the forum, considering there’s probably a few of us that don’t PvP (myself included, though I sometimes do EOTM which is more of a zergfest than PvP) and have no reason to even look at the PvP subforum.

I’d love to see people not necro old threads that have run their course.

Astral Projections.7320:

uknortherner.2670:

Where’s that flogged horse gif when you need it?

This message has been brought to you by a 12ft norn atop a 1ft quaggan.

Couldn’t find. Will this do?

Good enough!

Where’s that flogged horse gif when you need it?

This message has been brought to you by a 12ft norn atop a 1ft quaggan.

Vespero.6180:

Here where i live we use to say:
There’s only one thing worst than blindness, and it’s when you don’t want to open your eyes and see yourself.

Here where i play we call this person: fanboy.

Yeah, this is the moment where I stop paying any attention to what you have to say really. I could say more, but I would probably get infracted for my troubles.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Some people would complain no matter what…

I think this is the case here.

Pretty much this.

Beorn Saxon.4762:

I’m a guy and I’ve converted most of my characters to guys bc I hate getting sexual PMs from other guys that think I’m a chick IRL. -.-

I just mock them. My female characters get a lot of unwanted whisper spam (far worse now since the Megaservers) whereas my male characters don’t. At the end of the day, my characters are not representative of me but are merely puppets under my control. It’s not my problem if some hormonal teen gets turned on by pixels.

Sube Dai.8496:

Living story was a colossal failure, even in revenue terms.

Presumably you have data to back up this “fact”?

I just ended up switching off map chat. I couldn’t tell if the level of idiocy was down to the megaservers, school holidays or an influx of trolls who hung around after the free weekend, but I’d had enough.

Generally, the influx of idiocy hasn’t been reflected by the players I tend to come across in the world who are more than happy to group up, heal, take on bosses and have a laugh.

People will moan regardless of what Anet says or does. Virtually all MMOs have their army of career complainers.

JustTrogdor.7892:

uknortherner.2670:

Generally, it looks like there’s a lot of support for this suggestion so far in this thread (a rarity for the GW2 forums!).

38 now 39 posts in this thread doesn’t really equal a lot of support. LOL

LOL – I worded that badly. I meant that within this thread there were far more positive than negative responses, which is a rarity in suggestion threads where the discussion generally becomes polarised, not that there was a massive amount of support for this idea within the GW2 community!

Generally, it looks like there’s a lot of support for this suggestion so far in this thread (a rarity for the GW2 forums!). Now if only it would stay visible long enough for Anet to take notice.

Prior to the patch, playing an elementalist, even in a starter area was an exercise in frustration: Attacks felt weak, and a level 20 ele could easily be one-shotted by a level 4 bandit if you didn’t see the attack coming.

Post patch, I rolled another elementalist to see if anything had change for what I had come to consider a completely useless class. It had: Attacks felt powerful, addiing stones to armour actually felt like it made a difference, and the staff, an incredibly weak weapon before now actually felt like it had a purpose.

My current ele is only level 12 and I have yet to venture beyond Queensdale but the difference pre- and post-patch is like night and day. Stranger still, I’m finding that I’m enjoying playing an elementalist again for the first time since launch.